The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-27
ODD FELLOWS BIG DAY
TOMORROW Is THE EIGHTY-sEC-
OND ANNIVERSARY OF ORDERS
ESTABLISHMENT
GOOD PROGRAMME PREPARED
Celebration Takes Place In Grand
Opera House, and the Grand
Officers VIII Par
ticipate.

The Ode Fellows OF this city will ccle-
'ratt the eight secord Anniversary Of
the Introduction OF the order In America,
with exercises appropriate to the occa-
SION, at the Grand opera house tomorrow
afternoon. Members of the respective
lodges will assemble at their lodge rooms
and march to the opera house, while
members of the ladies' branch and friends
of the order will go direct to the place Of
meeting The grand officers and past
grand officers will assemble at Central
hall. West Sixth and West Seventh
streets. from whence they will be escort
ed to the place of meeting by cantons- of
the patriarchs militant branch Of the Or
der in uniform. in which the cantons Of
Minneapolis will take part. The exer-
cises at the opera house will begin at
2:30 p. m, with the following programme:
Music-Stars and Stripes Orchestra
Address@'odd Fellowship
Hon. E. A. Jaggard
Metropolitan Quartette
Address 'Rebekah Department.
Mrs. Eunice Melville Secretary
flano SOLO ......s.........M MISS Vera KOSt
Selection-'The Lost Chord
Metropolitan Quartette
Address" Advanced Lessons in Odd
Fellowship Hon. w. G. Nye. G. r.
IN order to comfortably seat all who
attend members Of the subordinate and
Rebekah lodges are required to wear
either regalia or badge, and members of
the family and friends must be provided
with tickets which have been distributed
to the various lodges.
The first lodge of Odd Fellows in this
country was instituted at Baltimore, on
April 26 1919, by Thomas Widely who
had been member of the order in Eng
land prior to emigrating to America.
The lodge was seif-organized with five
members, and from that beginning has
grown on organization comprising today
II, 969 subordinate lodges and 5347 Re-
bekah lodges, with a combined member
ship of 1,O93,S99
ORDER WORLDWIDE.
The operations of the order extend to
all portions of the civilized world It's
lessons are taught in eight different Ian
Suages, and its members profess ALE
glance to eighteen different flags. Dur
ing its existence the order has disbursed
for the relief of distress 800 600. 600. and if
has invested funds Of $4,000, 0O0 Homes
Tor the care of orphans and aged mem
hers have been established in the United
states and Canada and also in Germany.
In Minnesota there are 254 subordinate
lodges, with 15527 members and 1S2 Re
Dekah lodges, with nearly 1000 members,
and the value CT property owned by them
is $933,757.05 The Odd Fellows home, at.
Nerthfield, is a splendid property, worth
$4,000 Add to the above the funds Of
the various subordinate branches and
the assets Of the order in Minnesota will
exceed $1G00,00O.
The lodges of Minneapolis last Friday
evening held exercises similar to those
at St. Paul, the Lyceum theater being
used for the occasion. Addresses were
de!ivered by Rey. Brown, Frank Nye and
Mrs. E1unice Melville
On Friday evening last Canton Apollo,
OF the patriarchs militant, gave ball at
Odd F.elioWs. nall and on the same date
Home lodge had a card party
The three German lodges of the city
celebrated the anniversary with grand
ball at Mozart hall on Saturday night