The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-11
General oddfelIow Notes.

Next SATURDAY night MlIldul tNe-
hekah lodge, No. 5, will be visited by
G. r.. j. j. Thomas, who. it is ex-
pected will officially report many
items of interest and fully exemplify
the work of the degree.
The Utah ODD Fellow reaches US this
month with well-flled columns and
the portraits of G. p, f. w Lewis,
H P, L. z. Hubbard and G.. Scribe,
w. j. Moore. P. G. p, w. H. Butcher
has a lengthy letter that all Odd Eel
lows should read and be guided by.
William (. Gladstone has become an
honorary member of the locab lodge of
odd Fellows, at Hawarden, his county
seat in Cheshire, England.
In Cuba there are four subordinate
lodges. with a total membership of
something over 200 membe The war
IS injuring the order on that island
as a proclamation has been issued
prohibiting the meetings of secret So
cieties.
The following is a good letter from
a former Utah member of the order
clipped from the latest issue of the
Utah Odd Fellow:
Irwin. Colo, Sept. %. 1895.
To the officers and Members OF Provo
Lodge No. IA, 1. o. o. F., Utah:
AS l sit in my cabin, at an elevation
"Wednesday evening, my mind wan
ders back to the many pleasant hours
! have spent within the walls of your
brightest of lodge rooms, and gazed
into the eyes of the many brothers of
our beloved order. which all seemed
full of fraternity, and 1 feel prompted
TO impose a few lines on you, under
Ehe GOOD of the Order"
Irwin is a. dilapidated mining camp,
Evl1iph "a ono time , 30 a r1On111a tiO11 nf
over 1000 souls, but today contains
EumbIe-down buildings by the score
and the smoke-stacks of numerous
hoisting works that three years ago
ceased to belch forth their obnoxious
Emoke to dim the clear sky.
The present population consists of
mine ladies, sixteen men, ten children,
fourteen dogs, three hogs and eight
burros; and the whole town lies
nestled at the foot Of Mt. Owen, whose
summit rears its majestic peak to an
elevation of 1880 feet. But here as
elsewhere I find the brothers of the
fhree links, who travel eight miles on
Saturday nights to visit their lodge.
Odd Fellowship has a firm hold on the
state Of Colorado, having within the
state 124 lodges, and everywhere your
brother has visited he has been re-
ceived with that hand that is always
open to an Odd Fellow. My experience
in Colorado alone has fully repaid me
for all that / have ever paid into the
order, and tonight l urge upon all
brothers of the order who are within
sound of the readers voice that have
become careless or Indifferent or
know of any brothers who are allow
ing themselves to drift carelessly along
with the currenf towards the rapids
known as suspended for non-payment
of dues to arouse themselves and
square up with their lodge, get their
pass and visit not only their own lodge
and renew old fraternal feelings at
home, but visit abroad. Do not, oh do
mot! allow yourselves to lose one par
ticle of that enthusiasm you once had
sn your order, so soon, and one thing
in particular l would say to all the
members, when you have visitor.
no matter from whence he comes, al
WAYS take him and see that he is in
troduced to all present make his isit
: pleasant occasion and if he should
wer be passing that way again he