Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-09-22
|ODD FELLOWS At DETROIT.
Sovereign Grand Lodge Welcomed
to the City by the Mayor
and Governor.
ITS DIAMOND JUBILEE ANNIVERSARY.
Membership In the Subordinate Lodges
Aggregate S3O,961 and There are $780,
0O7 Enrolled In the Rebekah Lodges
The Money for Relief Spent During the
Year Reached S3,442,9S6.

Detroit, Mich, Sept. 19.-The dia
mond jubilee anniversary of odd fell
lowship began in this city to-day when
the sovereign grand lodge was called
to order in the Detroit opera house.
Gov. Pingree and Mayor Maybury
delivered addresses of welcome.
Tuesdays feature Will be the re-
union of the past grand representa-
tives and members of the sovereign
grand lodge. Wednesday, the grand
parade will be held. Thursday will be
given over to the prize drills with a
Rebekah cohcert in the evening. Fri
day and Saturday will be spent in
sightseeing and other pleasures
Albert S. Pinkerton, grand sire, in
his annual address said:
December 81 last, our subordinate lodge mem
bership was $50 961 and the number OF sisters
enrolled in the Rebekah lodges numbered 100, :
O07. These figures enable US for the first time
to honestly claim frsternal Affiliations with over
i,0O0, 600 persons.
The great source OF our financial life is the in
come derived from the sale OF supplies 1t has
never been our policy to accumulate money.
neither has Intentional extravaganza been in
dulged. Still as rule, our expenditures ex-
coed our revenues. A continuance of such con-
dition have but result I do not be-
lieve that biennial sessions OF the sovereign
grand lodge or fixed place of meeting will solve
the problem The seeming remedy is a reduc-
ton in the paid for mileage
The grand secretary, j. Frank Grant,
reported encouraging increases for the
year, in both the subordinate and Re-
bekah branches, that of the former
having been greater than in any year
since 1892. A small decrease was re-
ported in the encampment branch.
much smaller, however, than in any
other of several years past. He said
further:
Another evidence of progress during the year
is found in the unusually long list of warrants
issued. In Haw ali, Newfoun dland, the Neither
for. Favorable reports are coming in from
Cuba and new lodge is to be instituted at
BuenoS AyFeS- The number of foreign grand
lodge representatives is increased to 1879.
The secretary gave the following
summary of the condition of the order
December 81, 1898:
Sovereign grand lodges, Independent grand
lodges australasia, Denmark. Germany, Swe-
den and Switzerland) and subordinate grand
lodges, Is; subordinate grand encampmentS, So;
subordinate lodges, II, 1876; subordinate en-
campments, 2,641; lodge members, 859, 929; en-
campment members, 128, a67; Rebeizah lodges,
SOIL; members of Rebei1ah lodges, SI3, 1e3
The whole increase in all branches of the
der for the year was 3O,225. The report showed
the relief expenditures by lodges to be So, 1885,,
ESQ; relief by encampmentS. S249. 1885, and by Re-
beah lodges, s47 149, making total of So 422 $50.
The total expenses of subordinate lodges fig
lodges amounted to S7,752, 262i subordinate en-
campments, 500 762; Rebel6ah lodges, S4i3, 3iS:
total. S., ?66. $685. The total invested funds ag-
gregate, S27 1S5. 241.