The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21
T. O. o. F. GRAND ENcAMpMENT

Opening Session Was Held in Bridge port Yesterday-New Officers Elect cd.
 The Grand Encampment, I. O. O. F., held its sixty-frst annual session yes terday at Pequonnock hall, in Franklin block, Bridgeport, about 260 delegates attending.
 The session was opened at 10 a. nl., Grand Patriarch Reynolds presiding. In his annual report he called attention to the fact that the gain in member ship during the year has been the larg- est during the past ten years.
 On July 1, 1902, the subordinate en- campments reported total member ship of 3,65S; July 1, 1903, member ship of S,S1S, making a net gain of 155. One new encampment, G. Fred Barnes Encampment of Hartford, was insti- tuted. A list of the official acts and the visitations of the grand patriarch follows in detail:
 The grand patriarch recommended that new regalia be purchased for the grand officers; that district number five of the order be divided; that every encampment hold at least one public meeting in the year: that all work not in harmony with the principles of the encampment be eliminated from the de- gree work and that the larger en- campemnts invite the smaller ones oc- casionally to witness the degree work. | The report closes with a congratula- l tory message to the members of the order. ,..,.,...g. ..s[.-r ... Grand Scribe Frederick Botsford re- ported as follows: ...,.. ... 5-..-.. Number of enoampments last report, 32; added 1, total 3S. Loss 1, Wolf Den merged with Unity, leaving total S2. Total membership last report, 3,65S; increase, BPS; admitted by card, SS; re- instatements, 10; total, 376; grand total, 4,034; from which deduct: Suspended, 112; withdrawn, 49; died, S9; expelled, h; total loss, 221; leaving total member ship July 1, 1903, S,s13, net gain of 155. .... ., ...s s,. . The total funds of subordinate en- campments 1902 was $45,SS5.31; receipts for fiscal year, $15,67S.2s; total. $61.- | 55S.9o. From which deduct: Expenses, l $s.665.2s; relief, $5,295.40; total expenses, $19, ,91O.6S; leaving total funds July l.
 1903, $47,64S.22; net gain in funds s1,- l 762.6f. l The total receipts of the Grand lodge to October 1, 1903, was s1,1S0.S5. \ The delegates reconvened at 2 o'clock
 in the afternoon and the main interets Icentered in the election of officers
 which resulted as follows: Grand rep
 resentatiyes, Daniel M. Davis, Water
 port; grand patriarch, N. J. Bailey
 Derby; grand high priest, Walter
 Pond, New Haven; grand senior war. den, Eugene F. Weston, Hartford
 grand scribe, Frederick Botsford
 New Haven; grand treasurer, William
 J. Berges, Stamford; grand junior
 warden, Nestor F. Wedge, Bridgeport
 grand marshal, Marshall I. Smith
 Hartford; grand outside sentinel, Joe U. Hungerford, New Haven.
 I Bridgeport was selected as the meet ing place next year. It was voted that
 New Haven be chosen, but an amend ment naming Bridgeport was made and carried. The newly elected officers were i installed by Past Grand Patriarch Mar GUS L. Reynolds, after which the session l closed. ..4z.s.. J Grand Patriarch Marcus l.. Reynolds
 of the Grand Encampment, I. o. o. F. I of Connecticut, was rendered a recep. !, tion at the armory, Bridgeport, Monday I night.
 I The reception was planned by strat- I field and Bridgeport Encampments. Ar
 exhibition drill was executed by the I thirty members of Canton Chapin. Al the close the company formed In a
 semi-circle about Mr. Reynolds, box I Chevalier William Gray of Springfield then presented to stratfeld Encamp. ment of Bridgeport, a portrait, nearly
 life size, of Grand Patriarcha Reynolds I The portrait handsomely framed
 hung on the wall behind the grand of
 ficers. Chief Patriarch Henry c. Ste
 venson of Stratfield Encampment ac- Icepted 1t In behalf of the lodge.
 Dancing was then begun and contin- | ued until a late hour.
 The grand officers from New Haver present were: Grand Senior Warden
 Walter Pond, Grand Scribe Frederick Botsford, Grand Outside Sentinel Joe I l.. Hungerford. Other prominent Ode ] Fellows noted were: Philip Pond, 2d
 grand marshal; William H. Cox, Past
 Grand Masters George N. Moses and
 David R. filling.
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