The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-05-21
SALEM LODGES SEMI-CENTENNIAL.
Letter from the Grand Master Who InSti-
tuted 1t and a Response.

On Monday evening last, at the meeting of
Salem Lodge ofthe Independent Order of Odd
Fellows of this city. DIR. j. w. Herring who
is a Past Grand of the lodge, read letter
from Mr.. B. F. Zimmerman, of Baltimore
city, in regard to the recent semi centennial
celebration of the Lodge, which occurred on
the evening of the 18th inst Mr.. thinner
man, as will be seen from the correspondence,
was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
Maryland at the time Salem Lodge was insti
tuted, fifty years ago, and oifciated on the
occasion. The letter and the response will
be read with interest.
BALTIMORE. Nd, May 18th, 1898.
Bro. j. w. Herring, P. G.:-I congratulate
you on your 50th anniversary. If | had
known that YOU intended to have celebration
[ should have been there, although in my
seventy ninth year, yet the boys here term me
the youngest Odd Fellow in the state. As
You know, had the honor to institute Salem
Lodge, and am the only one left who partici
pated in the ceremony.
God bless Odd Fellowship. Give my best
wishes to the members of the Lodge and ac-
cept them for yourself. | remain, Your Bro,
B. F. ZIMMERMAN,
Past Grand Master.
SALEM LODGE, No. 60, |. o. o. F.,
WESTMINSTER, Md, May 10th, 1898.
To Past Grand Master B. f. Zimmerman,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Honored and Beloved Brother We have
heard with great satisfaction the kind ex-
pressions contained in your letter to Past
Grand j. W. Herring, in reference to our
recent semi centennial celebration, and which
were read to the lodge at its present session,
and beg to convey to you our warm apprecia-
ton for your continued interest in our lodge
nd +Io ri; ol, how
given us.
We recall the fact, disclosed by our min
utes, that on the 18th of May, 1s48, as Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows of Maryland, you
personally visited Westminster, and with
three other officials of the Grand Lodge, in
stituted Salem Lodge No. 60, with which, at
the present time, we have the honor to be as
ISOLATED. AS the only survivor Of those who
accompanied you on that occasion, and as one
of the oldest and most honorod members of
our beloved order in Maryland, we desire to
express to you our earnest wishes for your
continued good health and happiness, and
that you may long be spared to bless the order
whose interests have always been so dear to
you, and which you have done so much to
promote.
We are happy to inform you that the lodge
which you brought into official life on the oc.
casion referred to has done noble work
in this community; has never failed from
that time to regularly conduct its meetings,
and has done much during the period of its
existence to relieve the distressed and to lend
the helping hand to those i'll need. We are
also most pleased to say that at the present
time the lodge is in vigorous condition and
enthusiastically doing the work of disseminat-
ing the principles for which Odd Fellowship
is distinguished.
We sincerely trust that the blessings and
comforts of serene evening of life may be
yours.
BY order of the Lodge.
J. H. CUNNINGHAM, Noble Grand.
GEO. \. MILLER, Recording Secretary.