The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-27
MUSIC AND SPEECH
ODD FELLOWS CELEBRATED THEIR
r1GHTY-sECOND ANNIVERSARY.
MANY WERE TURNED AWAY.
rur ADDRESS ON ODD FELLOWSHIP
BY w. b. STUBS, ESQ.


Lotions We're Fine and the Man
s,Iin Club Was EncOred-Mr. Nc
uveeu's Comic Recitation Made a
Needed Hit-Address on the Rebe-
kah Degree by Mrs. Lula j. Cum
hen of Ruth LOdge-After the Ex-
erctSes Came Dancing.
rha odd Fellows of Savannah celebrated
.rs eighty-second anniversary of the order
iast night at Odd Fellows Hall. The hall
,ouId not accommodate those who desired
70 attend the exercises and many were
.,rned away An interesting programme
If songs. recitation and music had been
arranged and the celebration was sue
cass in every way. After the exercises the
Aoor was cleared for dancing.
The musical numbers were well render
sd and the opening anniversary ode and
closing anniversary hymn were sung by
the audience. selection by the Apollo
Mandolin Club was cleverly played, and
there we're several encores, The boat
song by Miss Defour, Mrs. Teasdale, Mr..
spring and Mr.. Teasdale was enjoyed, as
was the vocal solo by Mr.. Teasdale. A
selection by Miss before, Miss Beckett.
Miss Morgan and Mrs. Teasdale proved
one of the most enjoyable features of the
musical exercises. THE Journey is Long
and Thou Art Like Lovely Flower
were charmingly sung by Mrs. Teasdale.
The Deacon's First and Last Visit to
the Theater," a recitation by Mr.. j. r.
McIlveen, was laughable in the extreme.
Af
Rule Lodge No. u, was to have deliv-
cred the prayer. but his absence from the
city prevented. Mr.. C. Fl. Carson of
DeKalb Lodge No. g. carried out this
part of the programme.
Secretary W. S. Coburn of Acorn Lodge
No 0S read the anniversary proclama-
tions by the Sovereign Grand Lodge, and
the Grand Lodge of Georgia.
ODD Fellowship is represented in Sa-
yannah by Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1; Live
Oak Lodge No. 3, DeKalb Lodeg No.. 8.
Golden Rule Lodge No. II, Concord Lodge
No II, Haupt Lodge No. So, Acorn Lodge
No 1903, Magnolia Encampment No. l,
Savannah Eucampment No. %, and Ruin
Rebekah Lodge No. 8.
An able address on the Rebekah de-
gree was delivered by Mrs. Lula j.
Cumbea of Ruth Lodge. Mrs. Cumbea
said that the Rebekah degree is the
CrOKnlnS StOfy OF Qua Fellowship. 1t IS
the capstan of the structure and adds 10
its beauty. As the keystone adds strength
to the arch so the Rebekah degree adds
strength to Odd Fellowship. The Odd Eel
lows need the presence of the Rebekah
it, executing the great command of the
order.
Mrs. Cumbea said when you educate
the orphans who can. give such helpful
advice as they, when you provide for tine
widows need who knows the widows
need so well as they? The Rebekahs are
a powerful auxiliary to that vast and
mighty order whose mystic links have en-
circled the globe. They are the sunshine
OF the order, the inspiration many times
to men that cause them to live better
lives In and out of the lodge room.
Its lessons of wisdom improve the mind
cultivate the intellect, train the virtues
and qualifications of every true woman,
teaching her to live with aspirations akin
to the superior. Especially is it valuable
When the dark clouds of sorrow gather
around us misfortune and trouble crush
ing our proud spirit. Then comes the
faithful sister, like a ministering Angel
and wipes from sorrows bleeding eye, the
tear Of woe"
The address on odd Fellowship was
delivered by Mr.. w. b. Stubs of DeKalb
Lodge In part Mr.. Stubs said:
We meet this evening for a twofold
purpose; To give thanks to God for His
rove and mercy, and to fittingly comment
crate the eighty-second anniversary of
American Oddfellowship.
review of the past. summary of
the present and prospectus of the fu-
lure all enter into a proper consideration
Vi such an occasion. What we have
peeh and how we have grown has been
olIeHly reviewed in the exercises which
nave preceded what we are and what we
are DONG you may learn from the pub
IsIeu reports of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge which are accessible to all.
NUMBERS is an insignificant part of
uue greatness and usefulness, and we do
iol come to boast of the things we have
Uone' nor the members we have enrolled
Hdl we are and what we hope to be
iOulu De the chief concern of every true
'oG Fellow upon an occasion like this.
rHst' l desire to say we are not a
f.Noious organization, to keep men away
lam S,i nome and kill time in useless self
Hluulsence or qualification of appetite. We
r. qua tellows-fellows in the sense
Ia we are associated together for a COM
t t.o" purpose. and that purpose is odd in
me sense that it is peculiar
NaNnes often originate in jest or ridi-
'u.T, ana probably ours is no exception.
Nhen IN the great city of London a
vi the stone masons who doubtless
SaIceiy earned enough to keep want
I'm their homes, banded together and
aslue penny each time they met to
~ uSed IN relieving distress, caring for
wy SICK and providing for the widow and
Olpnan-they were dubbed odd" by
ttU iellows. Was it not an expressive
,.5 ana Is 1t any less expressive to-day?
put You say, you are a secret order
49,. IL YOU are only aiming to do good
20 should you be secret? I'll tell you.
I'M "S'' because secrecy is a law OF ma
So ana OF afe; there is a measure of
soty about all good things. Nature
onl. t her best things from man and
her, ne VINO painfully tolls to enter into
Co, ecle els ever knows her chief joys.
OH una silver and gold and diamonds
bln. ','Ha IN her secret places. But TO
s mat Knocks in sincerity she opens
o'Iy to such an one.
~ "'l Individual, and what family. and
rrs, BUSINESS man. but has each the Sc
h,,. when none may know and none
%. right to know.
is ' so we are secret only so far as
AL 'eSsary to protect from imposition
49, enable one true Oddfellow to know
vs'I ana assist him whenever and
lever occasion demands
. Ihmily and business meetings are
Inc. 'hd so are yours; so are the meet
sl w every well-rcgulated CORPORATION.
IAN 'n congress has its secret sessions.
am out proceedings, except our private
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