The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-25
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Odd Fellowship is labor of love. an
amending, persistent struggle against
vice, an instrument to aid the aspira-
ton Of the soul for a better and nohler
life, an aid in the development of the
moral, but too often dormant faculties,
that lift man ABOVE the brute creation.
In this work OF humanity there can be
no evidence of labor without loss. no
shrinkaEe from duty without punish-
ment, but to the faithful, energetic Ia
borar in this great moral vineyard the
rewards are certain and immediate, as
well as prospective. He breathes the
stirring air of liberty; he walks in the
light OF truths. whilst loves scatters
flowers aIonS the paths he travels to-
wards serener attitudes. The labor is an
exercise that strengthens and develops
mans higher nature.
The history Of odd Fellowship, the
three-link fraternity, is the official his
tory of the order.
Past Grand sire stebbins was paid
$500 for his services in revising the al
Gest.
The lodge is not a being that can be
Identified as body separate and indie
pendent of the membership. 4 lodge
does What the membership directs and
makes it The lodge has d legal ex-
istence, While all the effective, active
forces are embodied in the member
ship.
One of the most important lessons to
learn in Odd Fellowship, as in all other
relations of life, is 20 realize how more
blessed it is to give than to receive. :"
The largest measure of usefulness and
the MODEST achievements are gained by
what we do for the world, and not by
what the world does for us.
Grand encampment l. o. O. f will
hold its tenth annual session in Salt
Lake City on Nov. 90. The following
are the nominations: Theo. Whitley.
Oquirrh No. l, grand patriarch; James
w. Schofield Wasatch No. 3, grand high
priest; w. s. FleweIlins. Uinta No. 5.
grand senior warden William j.. Moore.
/ Oquirrh No. 1. grand Junior warden;
ed. w. Loder Oquirrh NO. /, grand
scribe; Charles J. Harvey, Oquirrh NO.
J, grand treasurer; W. II. Butcher, F.
w Lewis and A Hollander. candidates
for the office of grand representative.
The present grand scribe, w. ]. Moore,
is busy getting the reports of officers
printed for the session next month.
Grand Representative Butcher has not
yet returned from the east, but is ex-
pected in few days.
Local Lodges.-Mystic lodge No %, on
last Monday conferred the degree of
Truth in q most impressive manner.
The lodge room was filed with atten-
tive Odd Fellows, representing every
lodge in the city and several from other
towns who knew that what No. % at
tempted to do it did well. All were,
however, surprised at the exceptional
I perfection of the floor work, the perfec-
ton of tone in which the charges were
delivered, and the reconstructed orches-
ira of eight musicians playing was
something worth listening TO. Never
was the degree SO well given in Salt
Lake as on this occasion. Tonight there
will be practice in degree work, and
I members of the staff should be prompt
at their post.
| Ridgely No. 8 and Enterprise No. Ii
/ held their regular sessions on Wednes-
! day, and as we are not called upon to
| chronicle any special business of i'm
portaace we-win pass on to other
| lodges
Utah No. and Jordan No. 9 met
! Thursday night and as invitations had
| been sent to all the lodges to visit
! No. 1 this night, No. adjourned
! quickly and went into the hall of No
| l, when Goodly array of brothers were
met who had come to listen to Grand
| Representatives Thomas and Whitley
give an account of what they saw and
what they did at Springfield, Ills, on
| the occasion of the meeting of the
sovereign grand lodge. The recitation
! of business transacted by the grand
! representatives was most interesting
and worthy of attention. Their report
| was an exhaustive one and covered ali
| the additions and changes of laws and
proposed new laws and notifications OF
/ existing laws. If brothers would turn
| out more freely to hear these reports
they would be able to more fully I'M
! derstand what the sovereign grand
! body does for the order
Salt Lake lodge No. 2 and Fidelity
( No. II. after diSposing of necessary
work, united for the purpose of con-
! ferring the Initiation degree on can
didate for No. 2. Rather. should it bt
( said that No. II adjourned to visit No
2 and unite the two degree stats. The
staff did their work we'll and there is
no doubt about the candidate remem-
| bering the lessons taught him.
Next Friday Fidelity No IL will con.
fer the degree of Friendship and a week
later the initiation degree on a candi-
date of their own.
Friendship lodge No. q, at Sugar
! Ward. on last Tuesday gave an enter
/ tainment that crowded their hall will
an enthusiastic and appreciatiYe audi
ence of Odd Fellows. Rebekahs anC
their friends. Esther Rebekah lodge No
went down to Twelfth South in
body, as did many members of tht
| subordinate city lodges. The pro
| gramme as rendered was as follows:
Esther Mandolin club.
/ Recitation. Little Hannah CIawsoI
/ Pantomime. 49,. ........ Ella Ermey
! MonolOgue Lulu RyaI
Recitation Saseha StaiI
Solo ..............,Ma Marguerite HarIei
Recitation .............J eSsamine Row,
Recitation Lucy Williams
Monologue -. ......E ella Ermey
, Recitation ......-..,.., Martha McClail
Esther Mandolin club.
Dialogue .........J. Rowe L. William
The whole entertainment was pleas
ingly rendered, mostly by pupils o
Miss Ermey. who showed to advantage
her attachments as an elocutionist anC
trainer.
The funeral of Brother Archibald
Frame of Ridgely lodge took plac
| Sunday morning from the Odd Fellow
temple. All the members of No. wht
are in the city were present. as also
large turnout of members from tn
other lodges. The services of Messrs
Goodsell, Eaton and James, who 81
kindly sang at the services, are ap