The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-08
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AT the Sovereign grand lodge at
Lookout mountain, Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, September II to %, the follow
ing officers were elected: Grand sire,
John w. Strebbins, of New York; dep
uty grand sire, Fred. Carleton, of Tex
as; secretary, Theo. A. Ross, of New
Jersey; treasurer, Isaac A. Shepard,
of Pennsylvania.
At the same session the grand lodge
resolved to meet at Atlanta City, N j.,
next September.
The question of fixing the minimum
amount of benefits and dues was post
poned for another year. A new code of
laws for Rebekahs was adopted, and
hereafter ladies upon reaching the age
of is years are eligible for member
ship, whether their male relatives are
Odd Fellows or not.
The grand lodge, in it's deliberat tons
on the new code of law for Rebekah
lodges, declares the object and purpose
of the Rebekah to be:
First-Aid in the establishment and
maintenance Of homes for aged and in
digent Odd Fellows and their wives or
widows and homes for the care, edu-
cation and support of orphans of de-
ceased Odd Fellows.
Second-To visit the sick, relieve the
distressed, and in every way to assist
subordinate and sister Rebekah lodges
in kindly ministrations to the families
of Odd Fellows who are in trouble or
want.
Third-To cultivate and extend the
social and fraternal relations of life
among lodges and the families of Odd
Fellows.
The grand lodge then took up the re-
port of the committee, who recommends
ed the appointment of a commission to
locate and erect a suitable building for
the headquarters of the order in Bal
timore. After discussion, the report was
Indefinitely postponed.
The law requiring a Canton tax was
repealed.
The, report of the committee on the
Patriarchs Militant was taken up. Rep
resentative Rixey, of Missouri, thought
to amend the report by making all
members of the Scarlet degree eligible
for admission into the Patriarchs Mill
tant, but the proposition was defeat
ed.
The special committee on the report
ed misrepresentation of funds in Fargo
Oak, reported that the Fargo local
committee had received $4,000, and
disbursed to the brethren $4,000; and
that the disbursement was not to suf-
ferers by fire, but to those who were
their lodge to be used in payment of
mortgages on lodge property. The act
ual relief expended was only about
$4,000, and the balance was used as
above. The committee found that the
action of the Fargo brethren was CEN
surable in the highest degree, and or
dered the grand lodge of North Dako-
ia to at once see that all money not
given to relieve actual distress-the
original purpose of the call-be at once
returned to the donors.
The Sovereign grand lodge reported
adverse to giving lodge the rigN to
deduct any and all Indebtedness of a
brother from his funeral benefits" The
resolution to do away with regalia and
wear in lieu thereof badge was de-
feated.
A uniform plan of action on memoir
ial services to be followed by all SUBJ
ordinate bodies on Memorial Day was
adopted. The attempt to change the
date of the annual Memorial Day was
defeated.
THE committee reported; adversely
to providing for a life membership
fund.
The grand sire was instructed to
secure such assistance as he desired
and prepare a new digest of the laws
of the order.
Service for a regular term as chap
lain was made eligible for election to
the office of vice grand.
The territory of Alaska was attached
to the grand jurisdiction of Washing
ton.
The grand lodge of Kansas was sus-
tanned in the De Boisseun Orphans
Home tax.
LOCAL.
The lodges of this city have had good
meetings throughout the week just
closed. Journal lodge No. was called
upon to bury one Of its Oldest mem
bers, Brother Alex Bergman, who died
on Thursday last, after an illness of
many months.
Oquirrh Encampment received a
most 1attering report from its scribe,
B. w. E. Jennens, of the transactions
of the term just ended.