The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-25
TO DEDICATE THEIR HOME
Many Odd Fellows Preparing
for the Great Event at
OrOViIle.
ALL LODGES TO PARTICIPATE
Excellent Provision for INDECENT
Members, Their Widows and
Orphans.

At least 100 Odd Fellows will start for
Oroville from this city tomorrow after
noon at o'clock. They go to participate
in the dedication of the "home" for aged
and INDECENT Odd Fellows, their wives,
widows and orphans, which has just been
finished at that town.
The ceremonies are to take place on Fri
day. April 26 That is known as Odd Eel
lows day and marks the seventy-sixth
anniversary of the founding of the order.
Great preparation have been made for a
fitting celebration and representatives are
expected to be present from every lodge in
the State.
By the purchase and gift of additional
lands the Odd Fellows have In their home
a property now worth $4,000. For thi
they have to thank the Thermalito Colony,
the citizens of Oroville and various lodges
from which subscriptions of cash amount.
ing to SIS, 900 have been received, although
as yet only about third of the lodges of
the State have answered the appeal sent
| the m.
The building is of wood, but of the mos
substantial character. The interior is yet
unfinished, but ready for the plaster ers
| AS now divided it contains sixty roo ms,
but some slight changes in the interior
will be made, which will increase this nu M
Der somewhat, making it conform to the
wants of home. In addition to this, fiji
! teen or twenty more excellent rooms may
| be made in the upper part of the front of
| the building at any time when desired.
| It stands on the west bank of and eighty
| feet above the Feather River, just opposit e
the city of Oroville; is south and near tn e
! foot of the famed Table Mountains, whic h
rise abruptly a thousand feet above it at
| ha frnY n n % win 6S
! in winter, and is surrounded by orange
groves, whose products come into market
! four to six weeks earlier than those Of the
great orange belts of the south.
The excursionists from San Francisco
will reach Oroville at II o'clock tonight.
| They will be met by the local lodge and
entertained. The programme for Friday
is a varied one.
1t includes a grand parade of the mill
tary organizations and civil societies of
Butte County, the dedicatory exercises,
drills, dancing, games and races. The
days sport will conclude with ball.
Senator A. J. Jones of Butte is to be the
president of the day. The Grafton is to be
| delivered by Hon. Charles n. Fox, P. G.
| M, formerly of the Supreme Bench and
now the president of the Board of Trus-
tees of Oroville. George H. Stout is to be
! the poet, and Colonel Frank Mclaughlin
the grand marshal of the occasion.
! There are to be celebrations in many
other parts of the State. William H
Barnes, P. G. NJ, is to be orator at Forest
Hill, Placer County; Santa Ana is to be
| Joined by the lodges and encampments of
| Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San
Diego counties in fifty observing the day;
Iowa Hill is to have ball; st. Helena Odd
Fellows give a picnic; Elwood Bruner
| speaks at San Leandro, where union
meeting is to be held; a new hall is also
to be dedicated at Fort Jones, while the
Odd Fellows of Vallejo give an excursion
| to Ell Campo.