Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-06
OTTUMW1ANS TO GO.
ANNUAL ENcAMPMENT OF PATRl-
ARcHs MILITANT TO BE HELD
IN WATERLOO.
Seneca cornell, Colonel of Second
Regiment, First Brigade Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows at Mason City
News Of the Lodges.

From Thursdays Daily.
Seneca Cornell of this city, colonel
OF the Second Regiment. First Brigade,
Patriarchs Militant, will attend the an
nual encampment of the organization
to be held at Waterloo next week.
Other members of Ottumwa Canton
No. 5, who will go to the meeting are
r. T. Cameron and John Fullmer.
The encampment OF the Patriarchs
Militant, the military degree of, the
Odd Fellows, will be held on the
grounds Of the Country club near
Waterloo. The tents are now being
erected for the accommodation of the
visitors and it is expected tina. the an
nual event will be a most enjoyable
one this year There will be fifty tents,
10 by -, for the accomm odation of
from two to four persons, one dining
tent % by Al, one cooking tent Ia by 20
and one tent IA by IA for the colonePs
headquarters.
Grand Lodge Odd Fellows.
Ottumwa will be well represented at
the meeting of the grand lodge of Odd
Fellows to be held in Mason City Octob-
er 16 to "a. It will also be the meet
ing of the state assembly of Rebekahs
and the grand encampment of the Pa
triarchs Militant. The program COM
mittee has arranged the outline for
the meeting
The public meetings will be held in
the Wilson theatre and the day meet
ings of the grand lodge of the Odd
Fellows. The headquarters of the
grand lodge and grand encampment
will be at the Anderson hotel and of
the state assembly at the Wilson hotel.
Sunday the grand officers and dele
gates will be escorted to the various
churches by local committees, and Mon
day will be given over to reception and
assignment of delegates Monday even.
ing there will be reception of mem.
bers of the order at the Odd Fellows
Home, which is located there. Tues.
day morning at 8 O'Clock begins the
sessions of the various bodies, and the
business of the bodies will continue
in morning sessions during the week.
Tuesday evening there will be Rebekah
degree staff work by the independent
degree staff of Des Moines, consisting
of thirty members and ten members OF
the Sioux City staff.
Patriarchs Militant Ball.
The Patriarchs Militant will give
their annual ball and degree staff
will exemplify. Wednesday morning
the grand lodge proper will open, and
Wednesday afternoon there will a
grand parade of the order followed by
a public reception and a trolley ride tc
Clear Lake with supper at one of the
large summer hotels. Wednesday
evening will be devoted to the memor
ial exercises in honor of the dead
Past Grand Master j. Norwood Clark
of Iowa City and Grand Representative
Newman of Des Moines being among
the most noted to have passed away
during the year. Thursday will be de
voted to business sessions of the grand
lodge and other bodies, and in the
evening exemplification Of subordinate
lodge degree work for cup offered by
Mason City lodge The Rebekahs will
also install their grand officers. Fri
day the grand lodge will close it's ses
sion and install its officers. The at
tendance is certain to be unusually
large this year. as the Odd Fellows
Home will be the lodestone to attrac
the members of the craft. There are
$4,000 subordinate Odd Fellows in the
state and $4,000 Rebekahs, making 80,
900 who are interested in the home
Mason City people will throw oper
their homes, as they did for the Grand
Army, and everybody is sure to BIZ
well housed and entertained.
Knights Of Pythias Grand Lodge.
The meeting of the grand lodge o
Knights of Pythias to be held at Water
loo this year is expected to prove al
unusually interesting one. w. w. Epp