The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-25
ODD FELLOWS TO CELEBRATE.
THE sEvENTY-EIGHTH ANNIyER-
sARY OF THE AMERICAN ORDER.

The Savannah Lodges Programme
for Tomorrow Night-J. f. b.
Beckwith, Esq, to Deliver the An
nfversary Address-The Orders
Growth in Savannah-seven Lodges
with n Membership of Over 1000.
The Oldest Odd Fellow.
Tomorrow the Seventy-eighth anniver-
sary of Odd Fellowship will be celebrated
in every part Of the world. The Odd Fell
lows Of Savannah are not behind their
brethren elsewhere, and have arranged an
interesting programme. The celebration
will be held at Odd Fellows hall at $50 p
m, and will be public:
The programme is as follows:
Opening Ode-Witn Orcnestra-AIr
Hahn.
Prayer-Rev. w. c. Schaeffer.
Reading Anniversary Proclamation-A.
N. Manucy, P. G. M.
Overture-"Gay New York" Boettjen.
Solo-CVocal selection)-Mrs. N. H. Fin
ME.
a-"Trovatorie, air Tobani.
Anniversary Address-Hon. ]. F. B.
Beckwith.
Substantially Slavery" air Boyer.
Solo-"spirito Gentil," la Favorita,'
Donzetti r. Cuyler Gordon.
Overture Light Cavelry." Suppe.
Vocal Selection-Mrs N. H. Finnie.
March-"Knights Loyal" by Geo. Bar.
Recitation-"The Leper," Bro L. D..
Strulton.
Overture-"Fairy Tales" Somner.
Solo-"Marguerite," Boadman. r. Cuyler
Gordon.
Observation-Disclosures.
Miss Emma Coburn will preside at the
plano.
c. H. Dorset, p. G., of DeKalb Lodge,
No 9, as chairman of the jointNTsM mittee.
will preside at the meeting ~
The address of Hon. J. f. p. BeckWith
will be the leading feature. Mr.. Beckwith' 8
| reputation as a speaker is well known.
The order in Savannah is in prosperous
condition. There are seven lodges with a
membership of about 1000. Oglethorpe, No.
l, w. P. Spaulding, N. G. and w. c. Ira
Wis secretary; Live Oak, No. 3, B. Free
man, N. G., and Lee Butler, secretary;
DeKalb, No. 8, Percy Sugden. N. G., and
John w. Smith, secretary; Golden Rule,
No. u, S. S. Furse, Jr., N. c., and John S.
| Tyson, secretary; Concord, No. II, r. p
)
| Haupt, No. So, Isadore Silverberg, N. G.,
and A. N. Manucy, secretary, and Acorn,
No, 1oS, T. P. Wright, N. G., and 1. Row
land secretary.
The first lodge In this country was in
! stituted in Baltimore April 26, 1919, by
| Thomas Wildey. The founder was born
| in London Jan. Is, 1872. He arrived in
Baltimore in 1877 Being a stranger and a
member of the Manchester Unity of Odd
| Fellows his first thought was to establish
an Odd Fellows lodge in Baltimore. His
| object was probably more to meet congen-
| lal friends and to institute lodge after
the convivial style of England, but when
| the order was started 1t grew so far be-
| yond his expectations that it was recon-
structed on a very different basis from the
merry loges of Manchester.
For over two years the Baltimore lodge,
Washington No. l, was the sole exponent
| of the rites of the order In America. Then
the order began to grow and spread over
| the country until to-day there are nearly
1900 lodges, with a membership Of over
100000. Lodges are found in everey part
| of the world, and few are the communi-
| ties which have not been benefited by
| their moral influences. During the past
year nearly 100000 were distributed by
| the order for the relief of its distressed
members, the burial of its dead, and the
| education of it's orphans.