The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-23
Independent Order Of Odd Fellows.

| Grand Master Gosbey is still visiting lodges
! He will visit Iowa Hill tomorrow, Forest Hill
Wednesday, Michigan Bluff on Thursday New
castle on Friday and Roseville on Saturday.
| Grand Patriarch Roesch will visit Paso
Robes on the 18th and will be with North Stal
| Encampment No. "a OF Bieber on the 5th o.
| October.
| Miss Fannie Benjamin, State president of the
| Rebekah degree, on her return to her home in
Los Angeles, after hundred days in the north
travelling by stage and rail to visit lodge after
| lodge and work for the good of the order wa,
| rendered reception by Columbia Rebekah
Lodge and well she deserved the compliment
| for it is doubtful ii any other woman in the
order ever undertook such rough journey in
| the fulfllment of duty imposed upon her.
The new encampment soon to be instituted
| in Los Angeles will have very large charter
roll, over l40 names being already affixed to it.
| Grand Lodge, which met in Atlantic City, il
| appears that during the year there was gain
OF l grand lodge, 279 subordinate lodges, 335
| Rebekah lodges and lO,803 members of subor-
| dinate lodges. There are now 1925 subordi-
| nate lodges, 2,610 encampments, 1927 Re-
| bekah lodges and membership of 100, 795 in
| subordinate lodges, 225, 1s9 in the Rebekah
total relief paid during the year was $50, 1925, :
| 81 90. Total relief to date, $67, 1893 $40 Az
Invitations have been extended to the mem
| bers of the order and to the Veteran Odd Eel
| lows to meet Unity lodge tomorrow night on
| the occasion of Past Grand Master W. HI.
Barnes celebrating the sixty-frst anniversary
of his birth, the fort1eth OF his connection with
Odd Fellowship. He will address the meeting
and will tell of some of the men he has met
The New Age gives the following important
information in relation to the home at Their
| malito:
Notwithstanding the reports and pamphlets
which have been sent out to lodges and the reports
printed in the last proceedings OF the Grand Lodge,
some nisappTehension yet exists as to who are
anti tlad IN ahr oiGSiA in
idea that IL they have sick member who Is old on
their sick list he can be sent to the home This is
incorrect. No member who Is drawing sick bene-
fits is entitled to be sent there. The home is not
intended for sick members, but for the aged and
INDECENT. A brother who may be so old that he Is
incapable from feebeness etc, Of earning liveli-
hood and to whom the lodge Is donating benefits,
etc. Is entitled but II same brother by Illness was
little was receiving regular sick Dement'S, he would
not be entitled.
The home is for the aged and INDECENT brother,
his wife, widow, or orphan. Not for the now sick
brother, etc. After inmates are received in the
home and they become sick, Of course they will be
cared for properly but they are not entitled to be
received If sick when application is made.
Widows and orphans II aged or INDECENT, are
eligible, but they must be widows, etc., of members
who belonged to California lodges. This item is
given because at the meeting an application was
received from widow and orphans of brother who
died here. but who belonged TO lodge of another
Jurisdiction
The Sovereign Grand Lodge has amended the
constitution so as to render ineligible to MEM
DeIsllp SdiOOukeeptIS ullu unIAcCpcTn.
Farnsworth Lodge will be instituted on the
28th inst.
Among the applicants recently admitted to
the home was the aged wife of member, who
is now, unfortunately, an inmate of one of the
asylums of the State for the insane. She was
helpless and the order was taking care of her.
Now she is provided with good home.
Faschian, French cook, Is in charge of the
kitchen and he sees that the food for the In
mates is carefully and properly prepared.
The trustees have practically decided to adj
Tn1l hnvx1 tn
the payment of $1,000. These will live at the
home in the same manner as do the people at
the Old Peoples Home in this City.
| Ned T. Batturs, an old pioneer OF San Fran