The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-13

gatherings. 1nree evenings nave VIII
messed, as it were. a massing together
of about all the members of the order
in the city, while the other three even
! ings the sessions of the lodges have
been we'll attended To the constant
visitor it seemed as though an effort
was being made by the members to
outshine themselves, and make the
foremost happenings of the week do
duty as red-letter days in their cal
endar or else to celebrate in their own
"odd'' fashion the new epoch in the
Kalends Of Utah. The new year has
certainly opened with events that
augur we'll for a year of prosperity and
another era of progress in the states
jurisdiction of Americas great frater-
nal organization. When the grand mas
ter officially announced on Thursday
night that within a few days all the
grand lodge officers would visit Manti,
% and within a few weeks send special
deputies to far away Vernal and I'M
furl the banner of the order at that
M, Ill il. U4 Ii. .ldti,'t / o.ito.. . n
the lodge room that will find an echo
in every lodge in the state.
Installations.-Distri Deputy Grand
Patriarch William WatrOus, in COM
pany with the grand encampment Off
GERS. regular and appointed, consisting
of G. II. P. Ed W. LOder; 6. $. W.,
L. S. Nielsen; G. J. W., w. II. Beecher;
G. Scbribe, w. ]. Moore and G. Treas
urer l.. l.. Baumgarten made an official
visit to Oquirrh Encampment No. l.
on Tuesday last and formally installed
their officers for the current term. The
encampment had prior to the ceremony
held a lengthy business session and
wound up the business of the past
term, one of nine months duration.
On Thursday evening The worthy
grand master of the Utah Jurisdiction
of the order, together with the retinue
of grand lodge officers consisting of
D. G. NJ, John T. Buckle; G. w, w. o.
Carbis; Acting S. Sec, B. ". E. Jen-
mems; Acting G. Treasurer, ll. D. IIoge,
and G. G., j. C. Harvey, officially Wis
tied Utah lodge No 1 which had as
sembled together in her hall in joint
session Salt Lake lodge No. 2, Jordan
lodge No. 8, Fidelity lodge No. II, and
Mystic lodge No. %, and then, in am
pie form installed into office the many
officers of the several lodges.
The hall of Enterprise lodge No. Is
was thrown open to the public on
Wednesday evening, and throng of
Odd Fellows and friends of the order
soon filed the lodge room to the doors.
1t was a public installation of officers
of No. Is, together with a general en-
tertainment under the management
of a special committee of whom we
met Brothers Blackmarr, Watrous and
Holman, the latter named being master
of ceremonies. D. D. G. NJ, John H.
Latey took charge Of the installation
poruUn on tne prUceeoinGs.
came in between parts and 2 of the
committee programme. Every part was
we'll arranged and went off like clock
work The district deputy was sup
ported by D. c.. NJ, John T. Buckle;
G. w, w. o. Carbis; Grand Secretary
w. j. Moore; Grand Marshal ]. M
Breeze, and G. G., ]. C. Harvey, while
several P. G. L. officers were interested
onlookers- The programme was as
follows:
Music-Berkhoeps No. %. Orchestra
Address. j. ]. Thomas, P. G. M. G. R.
Address" Rebekah Odd Fellow
ship. Mrs. c. j. Higson
Installation Ceremony.
Song-"The Two Roses" 49,. Quartette
<-,.,uatiCA. ........... MIS- Ar
Song. Observation-Disclosures. Miss Berkhall
Address. NJ. Breeze, P. S.
Song. Swinger Brothers
'-atifn Slastct g.
Song 'Trinklied'' ........... Quartette
Remarks. William H. Culmer P G.
Piano Solo,. Miss Mack
song-"The Night" ........ Quartette
..-Tery part o. Iaa programme vas V6-
ciferously applauded. the Swinger
brothers bebg recalled while Mrs.
Higson received we'll earned tributes
of praise for her effort in being re-
quested to repeat her speech at Satur-
days Rebekah meeting which she felt
compelled TO decline. We therefore
with a copy.
MRS. HIGSON'S ADDRESS.
Grand Master Friends, Odd Fellows:
1t was with some trepidation, at the
same time pleasure. that L received the
request to address this magnificent au-
dience upon odd Fellowship and
more particular upon its great sister
hood, the Rebekah branch.
The order, in its great aim, for all
to do good to all, made it's first degree
that of friendship, the first link in the
chain that ties man to fellow man, and
progresses to that end than binds man
kind to his creator. therefore, love be-
comes the second link in our fraternal
emblem for God is love, and in welding
these links together strangers hereto
fore are made friends brothers. From
these two virtues, truth is the natural
outgrowth and crowning virtue, fifty
completing our we'll known badge, the
three links of Odd Fellowship.
With these principles as its ground
work combined with it's stated duty of
mnistering to the distressed and car
ing for those who are fatherless and
widowed our order has advanced and
is constantly in the van of other organ
izations whose object has been the fur
therance of civilization.
In conformity with it's attributes Of
adapting its workings TO the age and
country in which it lives and thor
oughly approaching the fact that the
gentle hand and comfortable words of
women were needed in the homes Of
their distressed and sorrow-strickesa
brothers, the sovereign grand lodge
body adopted a ladies' degree, combining
it strictly to the wives and widows of
members. This movement was made in {
the year 1851
1t may be we'll to mention here some |
contemporaneous history parallel with
the inception of the Rebekah degree: |
In that same year the first fruits Of !
the Victorian era were heralded to the I
world. The first great international |
meeting or gathering Of the nations of I
the earth was witnessed in London. /
peacefully and tremendously viewing /
beneath the domes of the crystal palace /
an exhibition of the best all countries I
could produce in art, science and man I
ufacture-the harbinger of that peace
and fraternity our order so constant !
ly teaches.
1t was at this fitting time that the
Odd Fellows of America. by proclama
ton of the grand sire sent out the invi-
tation to their matrons to join them in I
their great work, and reiegated the
task of formulating the Rebe5ah de-
gree to the committee, the credit Of
whose work was given to our late