Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-08
/. 0. 0. F. rs IN SESSION.
H. Hartman of Appleton Is Likely
to be the Orders Next
Grand Master.

cial 1.-The grand lodge Of the l. 0. 0. f.
| of Wisconsin convened in annual session
| in this city at 10 o'clock, and it promises
to be one of the best attended and most
| enthusiastic sessions yet held in the
! state. There are about 400 delegates
present and altogether, it is expected,
| there will be 1000 members here during
| the session. which will last two days.
| Many prominent members of the 0rde'
will reach the city on the afternoon ana
evening trains and this evening grand
| public reception will be rendered all
members. at which an address OF wei
| come will be made by the mayor OF the
city and remarks will be made by
number of the most prominent members
| of the order in the state.
Hartman for Grand Master.
| The indications at present point to the
| unanimous election of III. Hartman OF
| Appleton, son Of Judge Hartman Of
that place. to the position of grand mas
ter of the order, the highest office in the
| state.
The secret session convened shortly
| after 10 o'clock, and the first order OF
| business was the comforting OF the de-
grees upon past officers.
Tomorrow, in addition to the work of
| the grand lodge. the annual meeting OF
the Wisconsin Odd Fellows, Life lnsur-
| ance associa ton will be held, at which
| the usual business will be transacted
| and officers elected for the ensuing year.
! This is the life insurance department OF
| Odd Fellowship, and although not con-
| fined exclusively to the insurance OF
members of the order, is largely repre-
scented in it's membership by members
| of the main order.
Grand Masters Report.
L. III. Mead, the grand master of the
| order in Wisconsin states in his annual
] report that while the gain in member
! ship had not been as large as in some
previous years, still the order showed
| a steady growth that was highly en-
couraging. During the year he granted
! dispensations for new charters as fol-
| lows:
oSubordinate lodges-77W oodford lodge, No
| 1872, America lodge No. 1876, Amery lodge
| No 301, Butternut lodge No. 312, Boyina
Rebekah lodges Fountain City lodge No.
| lib, Home lodge No.. 1876, Cataract lodge
No 1877 Evening Star lodge No ao as9; Dorcas
Marie lodge No 142, Stoughton lodge No.
143. Silver Link lodge No. IA, Silver Star
l46. Mineral Point lodge No. 147, Surprise
! lodge No. 14S Modena lodge No. $40; Cora
lodge No. $50, Prosperous, lodge No 13l.
! Brintola lodge No. lo2 The Golden Link
! No. 153.
The work of the Odd Fellows home
is highly commended by the grand mas
ter. Of the Rebekah branch, he says:
/ cit is here to stay; 1t is no longer an
experiment. This body is doing a work
| that the subordinate branch of the order
would not have thought it possible to
have done, and which we now admit only
| good and true women can do in eXempli-
| flying the true principles of Odd Fellow
ship"
Among the recommendations made is
one asking for the appointment of a
! grand lecturer to visit the subordinate
/ LODI ON DIV Thorn instruction in the
work of the order. This duty now de-
wolves upon the grand master and it
| has become so great that he is unable
to give it the attention it deserves.
w. G. Thwaites, the grand warden,
makes an itemized report of his stew
ardship of Menomonee Falls lodge No.
227, which went under the latter part
of 1896 The affairs have been straight
! ened out and there is hope that new
lodge may be instituted there before
long.
Reports of Secretary and Treasurer.
r. Hoe, the grand secretary, gives in
detail the progress of the order during
the year, telling of the new lodges in
stituted, their officers, prospects, ETC. The
| Phillips, which had suffered by reason
Of the fire which wiped out that city,
met with ready response from the lodges
of the state, and the secretary was able
to report total of $4,000 available for
! that lodge.
The report of David Adler, the grand
treasurer shows that there was a bal
ance on hand of $3293.92 May !, 1895.
/ The receipts from various lodges during
/ the year brought the total up to S16,
1921 The disbursements were $13,
| O05.96, leaving a balance on hand May
1, 1896, of $3786.22.
The Odd Fellows Home.
The annual reports of the officers and
directors of the Odd Fellows home,
which is located in Green Bay, show
that the invested fund of the home has
been increased during the past year from
$1,000 and $500, a gain of $500. The
total expenditures for the past fiscal
year, ending April 30, 1896, amounted
| to $611676, which covers wages and
subsistence, fuel, lights, etc. There were
at the close of the fiscal year total of
the home. They are aged members or
widows Of Odd Fellows, or the orphans
Of members who were not able to make
provision for them. But one death oc
Cured at the home during the year. The
sum of $1,000, left the home by the late
Jessie Stoutenburg of La Crosse, has
/ been received by the trustees and IN
vested in real estate for the benefit of
the institution. The treasurer's report
/ shows a total on hand of %5S15.70 ar
the close of the year, making in all the
sum Of $11 ,932.46 in receipts for the
year.
Stevens Point, Wis, June 4.-The
Grand lodge, I. o. 0. f., goes to Mil
waukee for it's next annual convention.
The choice was made on the first ballot,
Milwaukees only opponent being Mari
! nette. The former received 243 votes
and the latter 145, while Ii were scat
tering The attendance at the Grand
lodge and Rebekah conventions yester-
day aggregated over 1000 persons, be-
sides the families and friends Of many
of the delegates. 1t is the largest num-
Der of persons ever in attendance at
any annual meeting in this state. AT
today's session the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
Grand Master-F. w. Hartman Apple.
| ton.
Deputy Grand William G..
| Thwaits, Milwaukee,
Secretary-Richard Hoe, Milwaukee.
/ Treasurer-Dayid Adler, Milwaukee.
Chaplain-The Rev w. j. Fisher, Horl-
/ con.
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