The morning news., 1894-08-19
ODD FELLOWS BACK HOME.
Grand Lodge Representatives Return
From Augusta.

Some Of the Things the Grand Lodge
Accomplishments Orphanage will
Not Be Built for Awhile Yet, and
the Money Subscribed to Be Returned
to the Donors-A New Basis of Rep
resentatiOn - Odd Fellowship in
Georgia on Better Footing Than It
Has Ever Been.
The recent meeting Of the grand lodge
Of Odd Fellows at Augusta was one of
the largest gatherings of the members of
the order ever neld in the state
Eleven years ago the grand lodge net
in Augusta, and since that time pretty
nearly every section of the state has been
visited. According to the reports of the
grand master and grand secretary at that
time there were in Georgia 80 lodges,
with a mem bership of l,S46 The total
receipts for the year ending June 30,
1888, were S1,sl0.4O.
The reports for the year ending June
30, 1894 show that there are in Georgia
1O5 lodges with mem bership of :, ,131, and
that the receipts of the grand lodge for
the year ending the same date amounted
to S4, ,427. SO, a very substantial and fat
tering growth for the past eleven years.
The brethren of Augusta, in anticipa-
tion of the coming of the grand lodge, had
made every preparation for the care and
entertainment of the visitors Wednes.
day morning the members of Washington
lodge No Z, Miller No. 10. Woodlawn No.
81 and Richmond No. l0l escorted the
grand lodge to the Odd Fellows hall,
where the opening exercises were held
l.ao H. n fAfx al j.
The exercises were. of a highly interest
ing character and the addresses were
eloquent and felicitoQs, but necessarily
brief, owing to the crowded hall aud the
extreme heat. At 10 O'Clock the grand
lodge went into regular session.
THE GRAND LODGES FINANCES.
The reports of the rand officers
show that despite the general I
financial depression throughout the
country, Odd Fellowship in Georgia has
been progressive. There were five new
lodges instituted during the past year,
as follows: Paramount, No l19; Bell
mont, No. 120; Beech Greek, No. 12I;
Temple, No. 1872; Macon, No. l23
The grand master, in hisreport, returns
thanks to the several sister jurisdictions
who responded so nobly to the call for
assistance from the afflicted and dis
tressed Odd Fellows of the city
of Brunswick during the yellow fever
epidemic of last fall The amounts con-
tributed were as follows: Georgia, S423 :;
Maine, S557 81; North Carolina, S52l :;
Virginia, S4S3,47; Florida, S25l.10; Ten
nessee. S165: North Dakota, Sl0S.50; /;
Connecticut, 500; Wyoming, S25 Canada,
SOS; Nebraska. S23; Mississippi, s. ;
Delaware, 50; Pennsylvania, $3.50; total,
g, 697. .0S.
---T The brethren Of Brunswick through the
Associated Press had to telegraph that
further aid was unnecessary.
The following are the otticers-elect and
appointed for the ensuing year:
Grand Master-A. G. Ward, Charleston.
Deputy Grand Master-A N. Manucy
Savannah
Grand Warden-A. L. Kontz, Atlanta.
Grand Secretary-John G. Deitz, Ma
con.
Grand Treasurer-John S. Tyson, Sa-
vannah.
Grand tive-John B. Good
win, Atlanta.
Grand Marshal-C. L. Elliot Pruns-
wick.
Grand Conductor C. N. Brand,
Lawrenceville.
Grand Chaplain-L. C. Vass, Savannah.
Grand Guardian-B. r. Coleman,
Swainsboro.
Grand Herald-F. R Cobb, Carrollton.
The grand lodge appropriated 5000 for
grand master during the year.
REPRESENTATION IN LODGES.
Among the most important legislation
was the defeat of the proposed amend
ment reducing the representation of the
subordinate lodges. If the amendment
had been adopted the Savannah lodges,
according to present membership. would
have had but seven representatives,
whereas they now have fourteen.
1he change to permit no lodge to paid
representation with less than thirty
memb bers was also defeated. On the roll
call of lodges it was shown that
there were but fourteen orphans in
the state that would enter the proposed
orphans home, and it was also shown
that these could and would be cared for
in their respective homes by the local
lodges. The necessity, then, for an
orphans home not appearing, and owing
TO the great depression in financial cir
cles, it was deemed best for the g present to
abolish the idea of tho home and pay
back to the lodges the money So gener-
ouslysubscribed
There were two amendments submitted
10 change the time of holding the
session of the grand lodge. One
was to meet on the third Wednesday in
May, the other TO meet on the first
Wednesday in October Under the rules
these amendments will come up for con-
sideration at the next session.
THE GRAND LODGE AT BARBECUE.
Wednesday afternoon the mem bers of
the grand lodge and their lady friends
accepted an invitation to take trip up
the canal The feet of six boats, with
Senator G. A. Robbie as admiral, and Jas
L. Cow Of the Evening News as com
modore, crowded with living freight,
embarked upon the raging
canawl" to the locks, where an
old-fashioned Georgia barbecue was
served The afternoon and evening
were very pleasantly spentfn dancing and
sparkling by the young folks and mapping
and eating by the older ones The party
returned TO the city before midnight,
thoroughly charmed with the hospitali-
ties and courtesies showered upon them
by the good people of Augusta
The session was brought to a close
thursday evening, and ad journed sine die,
10 meet in Griffin next August