The Republican journal., 1903-01-29
SECRET SOCIETIES.

The officers of Enterprise Lodge, A. 0. q.
W.. will be installed Thursday evening, Feb.
10Th, by Freeman NJ. Wood. D. D.: G. NJ. W.
Aurora Rebekah Lodge, l. 0. o. F., will
begin series of assemblies in Odd Fellows
Hall next Wednesday evening, Feb. 4th.
The forthcoming report of Russell G.
Dyer, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge
of Maine, l. 0. o. F., will show net gain
in the State of 525 during the year. Island
Lodge of Bar Harbor and Gardiner Lodge
of Gardiner stand at the head with 40 each.
Efforts are being made among the Re
bekahs to hold a series of assemblies SINH
lar to those held several years ago. Papers
are now being circulated for the signature
of those who wish to attend, and it is prob
able that in a short time the course of
dances will be begun.
Members of the A. 0. L. ". in California
have written to members in Belfast that the
order is having an unusual growth in Los
Angeles county One lodge recently issued
800 beneficiary certificates in one evening,
with public exercises at which the mayor
presided. Other lodges have taken in from
100 to 200 new members at a meeting
Waldo Lodge, l. o. O. F., had an unusual
ly interesting meeting Friday evening, Jan.
23d Grand Master Leon IL. Higgins of
Brewer installed the officers, assisted by
Samuel Adams as Grand Marshal, 4. X.
BrAIey and VIM. X. heene as Grand Secre-
taries, and B. B. Greenlaw as Grand Treas
urer Following are the officers installed: j:
n. G., Chas. NJ. Perkins: v g., Ezra L. Tai
bot; R. S., John S. Davidson IT,, Ralph Ii.
Howes F. s., Chas. H. Sargent; Mar, Chas.
E. Sherman; Con, \. G. Pettingill; r. S. \.
G., Judson p. Jewett; L. S. n. g., John a,
Briggs; r. 5. s., Melville c. Hill L. S. S,
Melvin A. Stephenson; r. S. V. G., Henry
d. Clough L. S. V. G., John McTaggart :;
Chap, Chas. f. Davis l. G., John G. Aborn ;
0. G., Everett f. Pillsbury Three candi-
dates received the third degree. Remarks
were made by Grand Master Higgins, retir-
ing Noble Grand f. S. Pitcher, and others.
An oyster supper was served
The officers of Aurora Rebekah Lodge, |.
O. O. F., were installed in Odd Fellows
Hall Tuesday evening, Jan. 27th, in the
presence of large company of Rebekahs
and Odd Fellows and a few invited guests.
Supper was served at 6 o'clock, Mrs. Belle
j. Palmer of Monroe, District Deputy Presi-
dent, officiated at the installation, assisted
by Mrs. Annie Clement of Monroe, Grand
Marshal: Mrs. Florence Clough, Acting
Grand Warden; Miss Bertha l. Bird as
Grand Secretary and Miss Carrie Gilmore
as Grand Treasurer. The officers installed
were as follows: \. g., Fannie Simpson !;
V. G., Aurilla Webber; Sec, Harriet L.
Furbish F. S. Hattie NJ. Black IT,, Van
ME Cunningham: War, Emma Brier; Con,
Annie Chaples r. S. \. g., Grace f. Wal
ton; L. S. \. g., Lillian Ryan; r. S. v g.,
Nina Greenlaw, L. S Y. g., Eliza knowl-
ton; Chap, Jennie Stephenson |. g., Flora
Heath; 0. g., Dayton +, Stephenson. Ad-
dresses were made after the installation By
the visiting grand officers. An entertain
ment was given with the following program:
Trombone solo. Largo" Handel
II. A. Drinkwater.
Alto solo, ''Cradle song
Miss Adah Cunningham.
Reading "Elkanah b. Atkinson,
II. T. Day
Samuel Adams.
soprano solo. "My Nightingale" Dekoven
Miss Helen Bird
Selection,
Master and the Misses I.ittletield
Refreshments and Il social followed and
the affair." closed with a dance, with music
by George Barry of Stockton Springs and
Mrs. Alice Hill of SearSport