Missouri Valley times., 1899-04-06

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Odd Fellows.
Last year 6S4 members we're dropped
in Iowa jurisdictions and but 236 rein
stated.
Lillian Rebeksh lodge meets tonight
and the members are all expecting the
usual good time.
Frank Brown of Magnolia was in
structed in the first degree of Odd Fe!-
lowshtp, last Wednesday evening.
Odd Fellowship gathers under its
banner men Of divers talents and in.
clinations and cements them together
In one strong bond of brotherhood.
About twenty or twenty-five Odd
Fellows Of this city go to Onawa to-
night to witness the degree work given
by q Sioux City lodge. on about 30 can
didates. A royal good time is expect
ed.
In the early English Odd Fellow
lodges incidental expenses we're met
and the brothers relieved when sick or
in distress by each member and visitor
paying to the secretary penny upon
entering the lodge.
What fine time some of our officers
would have if the grand master we're
to send instructions to every deputy to
lock up all rituals for the rest of the
term! And yet all are supposed to know
it before they can be installed, saws
Odd Fellow Siftings.
A new ritual was adopted for the
Patriarchs Militant degree at the last
session of the sovereign grand lodge,
held at boston, and the same will be is-
sued to all cantons returning the ones
now in use of the issue of 1896 and
1897, free of all expense.
The members of Red Cloud Encamp-
ment are earnestly requested to be pre-
sent next Saturday evening as there is
work to be conferred on several candi.
dates in the Patriarchal degree. Wis.,
iting Patriarchs are always welcome
at any of our meetings which occur on
the second and fourth Saturday even
ings of each month.
If a lodge wishes continued success,
one of the best steps to take is to break
open the locked closets, take down the
folded and wrinkled robes, burnish up
the tarnished swords and helmets and
once more buckle on the armor and
don the kingly robes and proudly
march forth into the lodgeroom and
go through the work of the degrees in
proper shape.
To commemorate the 8Oth anniver.
sary of the origin of Odd Fellowship
which occurs April 26, Red Cloud En-
campment and Missouri Valley Lodge
No. 10, I. o. o. r., will give an enter
tsinment in their lodge rooms in this
city, on that date. They have extend
ed an invitation to Blair Patriarchs,
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs to Join
with the local lodge and assist in max
ing the event one long to remembered
This month eighty years ago saw the
Qrigination of the great fraternity of
American Odd Fellows John Wildey
and several other English Odd Fellows
came together and organized q lodge
which applied to the Manchester
Grand Lodge for charter, which they
obtained, but owing to some differenc,
es of opinion, the two branches OF the
order have never been united. The
growth of the order in this country has
ever been upward and onward, until
now there is not city in the United
States, but has one OF more lodges, and
in other countries the lodge has gained
firm hold where the progress is
equally rapid.
The order consists of three branches
Inc SuOOrdlnate lodge, which consists
of three degrees, and is the working
part of the order; the Rebekahs, the
ladies auxiliary; and the Encampment
which is the cap sheaf of the entire or
ganization, and contains the most
beautiful work of any order. There is
another branch called the Patriarchs
Militant; this is the military part Of
the order, and is organized into Can
tons. 1t is to be hoped that the breth
rem of this city will be enabled to or
game Canton here in The near fu.
ture.
Masonic.
Boston Lafayette Lodge of Perfec
tion, Scottish Rite, has total mem
bership of 1886.
At present the fraternity has So
lodges in Missouri, members $1,000