Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-01
Organized at theTOWn
of AumSYille Sat-
urday
The Salem Degree Staff Con-
ferred the Work on
Twenty>three
Candidates

AT Aumsville, Or Saturday evening,
a new Odd Fellows lodge was insti.
tuted, with some Of the best people
of that section as it's charter mem.
bers. Seven men who had previously
belonged to other lodges, principally
at Turner, were the petitioners for the
new charter, and after the lodge had
been organized, 2S applicants were ini.
tiated into the order and given all
the degrees, giving the new lodge
good start with 80 members, a roll
that would do credit to many an old
lodge situated in larger places than
is Aumsville.
The new organization will be known
as Crescent Lodge No. 176, and the
members holding cards from other
lodges, and who petitioned for the
charter, were: John e. Lewis, c. e.
VanNuys c. l. McAllister, Frank L.
Pound, H. w. Smith, A. P. Speer and
William f. Garbe.
Deputy Grand Master j. A. Mills,
of this city, instituted the lodge, as.
sisted by Past Grand Master G.. H.
Burnett and Past Grands w. j. CulveE
and Charles Lembcke, both Of Salem.
This work was done during the af.
ternoon OF Saturday, and the new Off.
GERS OF the lodge were installed as
follows; c. e. vanNuys, noble grand;
VIM. f.. Cargo, vicegrand; f. l..
Pound, secretary; A. p. Speer, treas
urer.
After this work was done, a recess
was taken to o'clock in the evening,
when the joint degree team Of Che
meketa lodge No. 1, and Olive lodge
No. 1S, of Salem, appeared to confer
the degrees on % applicants These
had been previously elected and were
ready to ride the Odd Fellows goat,
as brought out by the Salem team.
The initiates upon whom the four de.
grees were conferred were: A. G.
Baker, r. Claxton, George F.. Judd, II.
II. Craig, L. A. Dickinson, r. w.
Speer, Dan w. Smith, ID. F. Eastburn,
Ed Gilbert, j. A. Smith, l.. w. Condit,
J. b. Craig, Abner Lewis, II. A. Keene,
Sherman Swank, l.. II. Butler, VIM. II.
How'd John Darby, f. A. Garbe, c. p.
Smith, C. b. Cummings, Geo. II. Spen-
Ger, Geo. T. Allen.
The team did excellent service, and
the many visitors from the neighbor.
ing lodges enjoyed the presentation OF
the work by the well-trained aggrega,
ton of Odd Fellows to the full After
the 23 men had been given half the
work, midnight was drawing near,
and a recess Of a half hour was taken
for refreshments. These were served
in the Modern Woodmen hall, across
the street from the one in which the
work of the evening was being done.
Here a splendid banquet had been
spread by Mrs. Speer and several
wives OF Odd Fellows, and the la
dies had evidently ransacked the
entire neighborhood for the good
things Of life with which TO regale the
hungry Odd Fellows and the hen
roosts of that section will be some
what slim, and show many vacancies
for some time TO come. SeYenty-sev-
en- hungry men sat down to the groan.
ing board. and all did full justice to
the magnificent banquet prepared for
them.
After the supper hour the team
again resumed the work, and com
pleted comforting the degrees, wind.
Ing up shortly before a. m. Sunday
The new lodge appreciated the efforts
of the visitors, and a rising vote of
thanks was rendered the team for IT'S
excellent work, when the lodge ad-
journed to meet again next Saturday
night 10 take up the regular work OF
the order.
The new lodge starts up with the
best class Of membership, and II
would be dihicult to hnd "a lodge of
any order anywhere, in any town,
that has a more desirable class Of
in its membership It was
the finest class OF candidates ever In
itiated by the Salem team since it's
organization 12 years ago. and the
Of the degree stan are proud
Of the fact hat they were permitted
10 confer the work on the class in the
new lodge.
Quite a number Of lodges were rep
among the visitors and In
cluded I'm the list were the following
from the Salem lodges:
j. A. Mills, Geo. II. Burnett w. J.
Culver M. p. Baldwin. J. W. Young