The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-09-23
ODD FELLOWS MEETING.

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Sovereign Grand IaHlge.
Detroit, Mich, Sept. 2o.-The soser-
ign grand officers, grand lodge and
grand encampment officials and vu1i,
BUS functionaries OF the Independents
Order of Odd Fellows walked to the
opening session of the seventy-tiftli
annual meeting of the order today,
through a drenching rain. They were
escorted from headquarters, the Hotel
Cadillac, to the Detroit opera house,
where public reception exercises were
held by the military environments OF
the order present in the city.
The proceedings opened with or
chestral music. On the stage were the
sovereign grand sire and grand offi-
GERS and those who were; to voice the
welcomes. Greetings we're extended
by Colonel o. A. Junes, chairman of
the general local committee; Mayor
MayburS, for the city and state: Gol-
onel +. I'll. Sellers, grand master. rep
resenting the Michigan grand lodge:
Robert Donovan, grand patriarch of
the Michigan grand encampment:
Brigadier c. S. Martin, department
commander of Michigan Patriarchs
Militant. and Mrs. Emma Haven,
president of the Rebekali assembly.
Governor Pingree was unable to
appear, owing to illness, and Mayor
Maybury welcomed the visitors in be-
half of the city and state. Of Odd Eel
lowsfip, the mayor said: 1T was one
of the first, indeed, the first, society to
make men brothers, and to make my
neighbor the man who needs me and
is deserving OF my help
Hon. Alfred S. P%inkerton, grand
sire, responded to the welcomes, after
which the sovereign grand lodge rep
resentatives proceeded to Harmonic
hail, where the first business session
was held.
Grand sire's Address.
In his address Grand Sire Pinkerton
said:
THE evidence of the work of the ag-
gressive force of Odd Fellowship is a
refutation of the false assertion that
the present citizens of the world are
not as good as were their fathers. Let
lis welcome every agency that lends a
helping hand to those who need it.
December 81 last our subordinate
lodge membership was saO,961 and the
number of sisters enrolled in the Re
bekah lodges numbered 190,007. These
figures enable us for the first time to
honestly claim Ifraternal affiliations
with over a million persons"
Referring to the finances of the or
der, MIR. Pinkerton said:
1.-THE great source of our financial
life is the income derived from the sale
of supplies. 1t has never been our pol
icy to accumulate money, neither has
intentional extravaganza been in
dulged. Still, as a rule, our eNpendi-
lures exceed our revenues and a con
%tiruance of such Il condition can have
but one result. l do not believe that
biennial sessions of the sovereign
grand lodge or a fixed place of meeting
will solve the problem. The seeming
remedy is a reduction in the sum paid
for mileage"
The grand sire gave an epitome his
tory of the order and its growth, re-
ferring to the relation existing be-
tween the American order and those of
foreign countries. He reported that
the affairs OF the diversely situated
and widely separated brotherhood
We're generally in a prosperous condi-
ton. Appended to the report were re-
ports on the condition of the order in
Europe, Japan, Hawaii, South Amer
lea. Alaska and northwest Canada.
s~ecretary's Report.
The secretary reported an encourag-
ing increase for the year, in both the
subordinate and Rebekah branches,
that of the former having been greater
than in any year since 1892. a small
decrease was reported in the encalnp-
ment branch, much smaller, however,
than in any other of several years past.
Another evidence Of progress dur
ing the year." said the secretary, .'is
found in t~heunusually long list of war
rants issued. In Hawaii. Newfound-
land, the Netherlands and Alaska, new
charters have been asked for. Favor
able reports are coming i'll from Cuba,
and II new lodge is to he instituted at
Buenos Ayres.
The number of foreign grand lodge
representatives is increased TO $780,"
The secretary gave the following
summary of the condition of the order
December 81, 1898. Sovereign grand
lodges, i; independents grand lodges,
Australia, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
and Switzerland; subordinate grand
lodges. 65; subordinate grand encamp-
ments. SIS; subordinate lodges. II, 70D;
subordinate encampments, 2,641; lodge
members, $4,000; encampment mem
bers. 12s,267; Rebekah lodges, 5,O71;
members of Rebekah lodges, 313,163.
The whole increase, in all branches
of the order for the year was 3O.225.
The report showed the relief expendi-
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by encampments, $249,7S6 and by Re
beknh lodges, SAT, 149, making a total
of $3,422, $50. The total expenses OF
subordinate lodges figure $4,159,72s.
The revenue Of subordinate lodges
amounted to S7,752,2s2; subordinate
encampnents, S570.762; Rebekah
lodges. S443,34s; total, S. ,766, a93. The
o:al invested funds aggregates S27,:
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