The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-16
VETERAN ODD FELLOWS
MEETING OF THE
 STATE LODGE AT W0ODMONT.

| STATE LODGE AT WOODMONT. William Bristol of Ansonia Presided | Speeches by Grand Master filling, Mayor | Hendrick and others-Many Ladies | Present--Too Many at Dinner-List of l Those Present.
 The Veteran Odd Bellows association | of Connecticut held their annual sum
 mer outing and semi-annual meeting at
 Sanford's in Woodmont yesterday. More
 members of the order were present than
 is usual on this occasion, and about 100
 were in attendance.
 l The party met at the corner of
 Church and Chapel streets at 11:S0,
 and was taken to Woodmont In spec l ial cars.
 Dinner was served at Sanford's hotel
 and ninety-flve sat down at the tables.
 Many ladies were present in the party
 and enjoyed the outing immensely. | Short speeches were made after the
 dinner by Mayor Hendrick. Vice Chief l William Bristol of Ansonia, who pre- l sided Past Grand Master Comfy of | Bridgeport, Past Grand Master A. w. l Phelps of New Haven, Past Grand Mas
 tAr B. s. Keith of Norwich and Grand | Master of the State D. R. Alling of New
 Haven; also by Grand Herald Robert Sizer of New Haven.
 | lA xryth1 | MT. Sanford to have the Odd Fellows | dinner at 1:30, but after these arrange ments were made MT. Sanford arrang ] ed to prepare dinner for the past mas l ters of Masons of New Haven county, at about the same hour, so that when | the Odd Fellows came to sit down to | dinner fifteen or twenty Masons were at the same table, while about twenty | odd Fellows and ladies were compelled | to wait about an hour before they could l be served. Perhaps one reason for this was because MT. Sanford only expected l seventy five Odd Fellows and ninety five were present instead of the ex- pected number, while of the Masons there were fifty-seven instead of thir- | ty-five, as he expected.
 | About twenty of the Masons and their friends were served at an extra 1 table set in the parlors of the hotel. The rest, about forty, had to wait 1 until about o'clock before their ap | petites could be appeased.
 l They spent the interval in a social i way and in looking at the young bear 1 and there was some talk of having a l little bear steak for a lunch before din- l ner.
 l Among those present at the Odd Fel- lows dinner table were: Mayor Hen- | drick, William B. Judd and wife of Waterbury, Past Grand Master Leo
 pold de Leeuw of Hartford, Grand 1 Patriarch w. H. Tyler of Meriden, l MT. and Mrs. H. H. Foote of New ! Haven, MT. and Mrs. Norris Mix of l Hamden, MT. and Mrs George A. | Nettleton, MT. and Mrs. Gilbert, Mir. and Mrs Bunce, MT. and Mrs. Boards 1 ley, Mir. and Mrs. Paul Well, and daugh- | ter, MT and Mrs. Charles H. Merwin, ! Mir and Mrs. George Moses and daugh- | ter, Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Judson, Miss l TIungerford, Chaplain Ward Nichols, Elizur H. Sperry, John B. Clemmons, | Francis Lawrence George N. French, J. R. Hurlburt, w. A. Curtis, w. S. l Redfeld, F. V. Woodbridge, Henry c, l Goodwin, J. N. Chapin, William w. I White E. W. Baldwin, Henry Smith, l all of New Haven; J. Ralph Emmer- 1 son of Ansonia, Roy Iverson of Bridge l port, Horace H. Fields of West Cheshire, l Sheriff Peck of West Haven, Deacon | Hanson of New Haven, MT. Larkins, l the builder, of New Haven; o. J. Whit I ing of New Haven, MT. and Mrs. E. c. | Coe of Wallingford, also the following l from New Haven: George P Merwin, ] the builder; J. Edward Northrop, Will 1 liam Judd, the venerable Charles A. | Nettleton, ex-chief engineer of the old l Veteran Volunteer Fire department, | and wife, Henry H. Bromley, Edward | M Armstrong, the carriage manufac- l turer; H. M. Bishop, the druggist, and | member of the state pharmacy commis- sion; the venerable ex-Alderman Bena- l jah H. Douglass, Deacon Bryden.
 | The social and business meetings were presided over by Vice Veteran | William Bristol of Ansonia, who took l the chair in place of Chief Thomas c. Hollis, recently deceased. MT. Hollis l successor will be elected at the annual meeting to be held in February next After the dinner and speeches the re- mainder of the afternoon was spent in | 5:30, when two special cars brought the party to New Haven.
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