The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-02
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The subordinate lodges of the odd
Fellows have had a very good week,
considering the other matters business
and political that have occupied atten-
lion elsewhere. Degree work in two of
The lodges and the receipt of applfca-
tons for membership in several has
been an encouragement for good at
tendance and is d harbfnger of what
viii come in the near future, and each
body is looking forward to an increased
membership during the winter months.
Death has assailed one of the lodges
Salt Lake No. 2-placing in the tomb
the body Of one of its oldest members,
Brother Tfderman, of Stockton, pass
ing away at the age of &c. The funeral
occurred on Friday last.
Jordan Lodge No. j and Fidelity
Lodge No. II were well attended lodges
on Thursday and Friday evenings,
members being advanced to the second
and third degrees.
Salt Lake Lodge No. and Enterprise
Lodge No. IL received applications
from candidates. while Jordan No.
is reported as having several persons
knocking at the outer dor.
Rebekah Odd Fellowship.
There is no meeting of Rebekah
lodges on the fifth Saturdays of the
months, so the ladies devote those
nights to entertainments and conviv-
iality. On Saturday night a pro-
gramme, musical and literary, had
been prepared, followed by a collation.
the ladies know so well how to serve.
I'm bidding something over "a hundred
and fifty guests welcome. the noble
grand of Naomi made a capital speech,
and the audience, after being seated,
were delighted in listening to a selec-
Tion of exercises, in which Mr. and
Mrs. Mack were heard in pianofOrte
solos and duets; Miss Margie Mulvey,
Miss Lucille Penrose. Miss l.. Quinlan,
Miss Brown and Mr.. S. w. Darke in
readings ana rotations, and Miss
Jessie Crawford, Miss Dunlap, Miss
Corinne Harris and Miss Emma Mack
sang several choice pieces. 1t was a
splendid party and fitting conclusion
to the summer months
The Orders American Origin.
The earliest records of human history
furnish proofs of secret associations
among nearly all the nations of the
earth They have everywhere accom-
panied, Il they have not advanced, civ
ilization and been the conservators, if
not the promoters, of religious, scien-
tific and political truth. As time has
passed and educational facilities in
creased, benevolent and fraternal or
uers have advanced, step by step, until
they today are acknowledged the world
over Of havinS their place in the great
work Of the century-the promotion of
human welfare.
About the year 1909 the more intelli-
gent members of Victory lodge, in
Manchester, England, saw the neces-
eity of reforming many Of the peculiar
habits of the Odd Fellows and making
mutual relief and charity the main OBJ
jects of their order. But il was not
until 1913 that the agitation for i'm
proved methods bore fruit In that
year a convention Of friends of reform
was held in Manchester, when several
lodges seeded in due form from the
Union order and constituted the indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. This is
the first time We hear OF the order
under that title.
From the writings of a reverend bro
ther q member of the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania, IN the second quarter Of
The present century, and whose history
was endorsed by Past Grand Sire
Thomas Wildey and many members of
the G. L. Of the u. S. in 1852, we learn
that many attempts had been early
made to establish Odd Fellowship on
this continent, but from various causes
all successfully failed. The early
mode was Self-inStltutlon. Any num-
her of ODD Fellows uniting and form
ing a lodge, received a charter from a
neiehboring lodge. John Duncan, OF
Washington Lodge No. l, Baltimore,
claimed to have been initiated in that
city in 1892. Shakespeare Lodge No. ],
of New York. was in existence from
1906 to 1911, and again in 1913 to 1878.
prince Regent lodge was instituted in
New York by Englishmen in 1916, but
an odor of nationality surrounding it
prevented its success. Then came
lodges Washington No. l. Baltimore,
1919: Franklin No. 2, Baltimore, 1919;
Massachusetts No. i, Boston, 1920;
Franklin No. 2, New York, 1921: Penn
syiNania No. 1, Philadelphia, 1921; Co
luIlbia No /, New York, 1922: Wash
ington No. 8, New York, 1922; Columbia
NO A. New York. 1922 all formed by
self-institution, and as late as 1928
some Of them believed themselves to
be the only lodge in the United States.
But the earliest successful institution