The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-10-27
Odd Fellows at Bangor.

At the annual Rebekah Assembly, [. o
+ O. f., which convened IN city hall. Ban
gor, Tuesday, OFT. IS h, about 270 del
egates were Ia attendance from all parts
OF the State. The president, Mrs. Celia
II. Sturtevant, and nearly all OF the
grand officers were 10 their chairs.
Late in the afternoon. officers were
elected rs follows: President, Minnie f
Spencer, Berwick; vice president, Aune
| K. Adams, Belfast; warden, N.llie A.
s 'evens. Westbrook; secretary, Grace
| K. Wilton, Belfast; treasurer, Carrie K.
Pierce, Oldtown; marshal, Sarah o.
Cook, Brunswick; conductor, Josephine
s. Miller, Auburn; chaplain, Abbie V.
Sargent, Berwick; inside guardian,
Alice N. Parlin, North Berwick outside
guardian, Lois McKelver, Bath. The
assembly degree WAS worked on 50
candidates.
The returns from the Rebekah lodges
are f4ttering. The net gain for the
year Ia 976 small decrease from the
gain OF the previous year. The assets
are nearly s15 900, Il substantial gain for
the year.
| The annual session of the grand lodge
OF Maine, Independent Order Of Odd FEEL
! lows convened Ia the same place Wednes-
day, the 19.h, the opening session COM
mencipg at 9 O'Clock, Grand Master Will
liam d. Littlefeld of North Berwick
! presiding.
Grand Secretary Russell G. Dyer re-
ported that at the close Of last year they
numbered % 206 members, which Is 8
gain of 523 for the year. The aggregate
assets are S809, 04S 81, a gain OF S2l 900
| The real work Of the order 10 better ex'
pressed In the number of limitations
which, for the year amounted to 1,l06
with other admissions OF SIX. This IL
thu best record ins.a single year since
1892 The suspensions for non-payment
Of dues were 1873, against 281 for the
year previous. A net gain In member
ship of l $50 in two years, and this with
out the Institution OF lodge, must bt
considered satisfactory In a jurisdiction
50 conservative as Is Maine.
Grand officers were elected as follows
Grand Master, Leon S. Merrill, OF
Solon; deputy grand master, Albert f
Smith, OF Bangor; grand warden, Charles
H. Merrill, Newport; grand secretary
Russell g. Dyer, Portland; grand treas
urer, William E. Plummer, Portland
grand representative, William b, Little
field of North Berwick. All were unsn
imously cleo ed.
At the annual meeting of the Crane
Encampment:
Grand patriarch Charles D. Page OF
Bangor presided and made his annua
report. Reports OF grand scribe, Ben
jamin c. Stone, and grand treasurer
Albro E. Chase OF Portland, also Of tn,
district deputy grand patriarchs an
Grand Representatives were submitted
The grand scribe reported the tota
number OF camps 81, with a total Eem
bership OF 4,779. The number of patri
archs relieved WAS 443; buried, 81
The number of weeks sick benefits pait
WAS 5,57S, amounting to Sl0,952. Tn
total receipts were a22 All, current ex
penses separate from benefits and char
tiles, $9,975; invested funds, $71 ,207
real estate and hall property, S7l7.
Officers were elected as follows: Grant
patriarch, Herbert w. Sears, Portland
grand high priest, Eugene R. Bowler
Rockand; grand senior warden, Will
A. Bailey, Skowhegan; grand scribe
Benjamin C. Stone, Portland; CRANE
treasurer, Albro E. Chase, Portland
grand junior warden, John NJ. Ward
Bangor; grand marshal, O. N. Bate
man, Portland; grand sentinel. Melvin
Buker, Richmond; deputy grand senti
mel, Alfred D. Weeks, Augusta; gran,
representative for two years, Charles d
Page, Bangor.
/, The next session will be held In Port
band on the third Wednesday in October
1905.