The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-14
AMONG SECRET SOCIETIES
State Officers of Knights and Ladies
of Honor Visit Grenada.
WOODMEN UNvEL TWO MONUMENTS.
Odd Fellows Again Honor Walter S.
p. Doty-Goat Hairs From
Lodge Room Floors.

The state officers Of the Knights
and Ladies of Honor held a business
meeting at Grenada Hotel in this city
Tuesday afternoon, reviewing the work
accomplished during the past year,
and planning for the future. Those
in attendance were V. p. Still, grand
protector, of Bentonia; j. @. William
son, past grand protector, of De Soto;
ThoS. J. Wood, grand secretary of
Starkville, and w. G. Sykes, state or
ganizer, of Aberdeen.
The work of the past twelvemonth
has been most gratifying to the state
officers, the order now having mem
bership of over $500 in Mississippi,
an increase of over 1,50O during the
year. The total membership of the
Knights and Ladies of Honor, which
is a fraternal beneficiary organization
open to all acceptable white persons
between the ages of eighteen and fifty
years, is over $4,000, an increase of
Is, 900 within a year. Since the in
stitutiOn was founded in 1877, twenty
millions Of dollars have been paid in
| benefits.
The state officers convened with the
local lodge in the evening, and inter-
| est in the work was stimulated by ad-
dresses by them, and other members
Of the order.
MONUMENTS UNVEILED.
Twenty-Five members of III. T. Had
dick Camp, No. Is, w. 0. W., left
Grenada Sunday morning at O'Clock
for the Cox graveyard, in the county
where they unveiled monument
erected by the order to the memory of
the late A. Allison, the ritualiStic
ceremony being employed for the pur-
pose. A number of members of Val
ley Camp, of Payne, and Cascilla Camp,
of Cascilla, assisted the members of
Haddick camp, besides whom nearly
two hundred persons were present.
After this ceremony the WOodmen
returned to Pea Ridge cemetery, where
a monument erected over the grave of
the late j. f. ThomaSon was unveiled
with like ceremony, in the presence of
there hundred persons from that
neighborhOod. W. b. Harris acted
as master Of ceremonies, and was as
sisted by H. L. Dubard, council cCm-
mander of Haddick camp. After din
ner, which was spread in grove at
Pea Ridge, the Woodmen dispersed.
MEMORIAL DAY PROCLAMATION.
In obedience to the proclamation Of
John B. Goodwin, Grand Sire of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge, l. o. o. F,
and in accordance with the laws and
customs of the order, Grand Master
w. o. Menger of the Mississippi juriS-
diction, through Secretary Doty, has
issued a proclamation requesting all
subordinate lodges within his juriS-
diction that have suffered loss of men,
ship by death, to assemble on June IA
(or on such other day as may be more
conveniently and engage in appropriate
services in memory of their deceased
| members.
Grenada lodge, No. 6, will comply
with the request. and will hold SER
vice in memory of r. w. McAfee, who
departed this life or June %, 1908,
more complete particulars of which
service will be given later.
MIR. DOTY AGAIN HONORED.
The Grand Lodge, [. o. O. F., Of
Mississippi in session at GulfpOrt last
week again honored Mr.. Walter S. p.
Doty of Grenada by unanimously elect
ing him grand secretary for the twelfth
consecutive term. And in so doing
the three-linked gentlemen made no
mistake, for Grand Secretary Doty
has proved himself not only an efficient
official, but one whose heart is in the
work, and one who has contributed no
inconSiderable to the substantial pro-
greSS of the order in this Jurisdiction.