The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-01
MONTGOMERY ODD FELLOWS
 CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
Successful Musical Program, Refreshments and Ad- dresses by MeSsrS. Goodwin, Pepperman, ROQue-
 more, Crawford and Miss Griffin.

In commemoration of the eighty-fourth anniversary of the Independent Order Odd Fellows. about 250 persons assembled in the Odd Fellows Hall at the first gomery last night and were addressed by prominent members and officers of the three Montgomery lodges.
 The joint celebration was participated Lomsx Lodge. No. i5s. and Montgomery v, psi Lodge, No. 200. and each of these branches of the order was well represent ed.
 augmented by the presence of a large number of women. wives of the Odd Eel lows and members of Rebekah Lodge.
 At S:S0 o'clock the assembly was called gomery Lodge, No. 200. who presided.
 The opening ode of the Odd Fellows was sung by the entire audience which was followed by an. earnest invocation land Presbyterian Church.
 A musical selection was rendered by Davidson's Orchestra and Mir Thomas hs os 9n Gsnita H yler ty eooowy NO
 MT. Goodwin spoke on Odd Fellow. ship; the Supreme Grand Jurisdiction" He said that the five minutes restriction was no doubt pleasing to the audience but that little could be said along his torical lines of an order which had made such achievements.
 "One can hardly realize" said Mir. Goodwin, that with the magnitude of the order it is still in its infancy
 He spoke of the birth of the order in as J.. wildey of Manchester. England, with four associates, organized the Inde- pendent Order Odd Fellows in Balti- more. Alabama was admitted into the Goodwin, and since that time the growth of the order in Alabama had been mark ed.
 Mir. Goodwin told of the struggles of ton, disruption and dissension, progress ed and flourished. He spoke of the benev- olent traits of the order in it's early his tory. declared Mir. Goodwin, and now 1t stretches it's branches into all parts of the world
 He compared the membership of the Odd Fellows, which is 100000 to 516.00o of the Knights of Pythias, 30O.Oo0 Of the Red Men and 900,009 of the Masons, which he said was a fact in which every Odd
 MT Goodwin said that in 1902 $4.4oo,O~ was dispensed by the I. O. O. F. for charitable and benevolent purposes and he likened the order to a temple founded on human sacrifice. He spoke of the fu- ture which he declared meant better things for the order.
 He alluded to the standing of the or der in Germany, Canada ana III otner Ior- eign countries and said Odd Fellows throughout the world worship at one shrine.
 MT. Goodwin paid tribute to the degree of Rebekah, which he said so inspired and influenced the Odd Fellows that they could carry on the work of benevolence. He said Miss Frances Griffin of Mont gomery, who was to address the order, was one of the most devoted Rebekans Tn Alabama.
 MT. Goodwin was roundly applauded and after a musical selection by the orchestra, MT. Thomas presented c. H. Lodge, to speak on odd Fellowship; the Grand Jurisdiction of Alabama"
 MT. Roquemore made a practical sta tisticai address on the order as it exists in AIabama. and of the institution of the first lodges in the State. The first Ala bama lodge, he said. was founded in Mo- bile in 1887, and was called Alabama Lodge, No. i, which still exists,