The San Francisco call., 1905-05-10
ODD FELLOW
CIR and LODGE
Representatives of Thirty
Seven Thousand Men
Meet in Annual Session
MONEY PAID TO CHARITY
Grand Body Expresses. Sym
pathy for Secretary Shaw
in the Hour Of Deep Sorrow

At the f1fty-third annual session of
the Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, which was
opened in Native Sons Hall yesterday
morning. there were present more rep
resentatives than ever before met in a
Grand Lodge session in this State. The
number was 721, which, together with
twenty grand officers and number of
past grands, made the number entitled
to seats in the body TAO. The session
was opened by Grand Master J. w.
Linscott. The following grand officers
were present:
deputy grand master: Theodore A. Bell. grand
warden: George t. Shaw. grand secretary;
Shaw and C. W. Baker. % grand rep, representative:
=. u. Burton. John Glasson and j. f. Nichols,
grand trustees; John Morton John Thompson.
j. =. morrison. w. w. Watson and II. c. How
ard, trustees of Odd Fellows Home: Rev b.
~ Nayior. grand chaplain, Henry Jacks. grand
marshal; F. L. Turpin. grand conductor; c. A.
herald
After the Grand Lodge degree had
been conferred on a number of such as
were entitled to it the reports of the
grand officers were presented. That of
the grand master was read and those
Of the other officers were then, with
that OF the grand master, referred to
the committee on distribution in order
that the various features could be
passed upon by the subcommittee for
recommendation to adopt or reject
The reports presented showed the
membership of the order in the State
at the close of the year was sc, ,561. Dur
ing the year there were initiated 2461
strangers, and admitted by card, etc.,
90. The loss during the year was 1861,
leaving net gain of ITS. The total
membership is distributed in 369 lodges.
Five new lodges were instituted The
amount paid for relief and charity was
S29S,398, and that paid for current ex-
penses was S264,799. OF the above
relief of brothers, $11Ss for the relief of
sisters, $S6S7 for the relief of widowed
families, $41,S02 for burying the dead
and $33,029 for charity and the Odd Eel
lows Home. The total receipts during
the year amounted to s723,5Ss by subor-
dinate lodges and SCI, ,008 by the Re-
bekah lodges. The excess Of receipts
over disbursements is S100S74.
The grand master in closing his re-
port says that he found the lodges
with a very few exceptions in a pros
porous condition. He also recommends
an up-to-date digest of the laws of the
order
There were but seven cases appealed,
and the report of the committee on ap-
peals In each case was approved.
During the morning session the an
nouncement was made that within a
week the wife of Grand Secretary Shaw
had passed away, and the entire body,
to manifest it's sympathy for the grand
secretary in his sorrow, rose and stood
in silence for several minutes.
The report of the trustees of the Odd
Fellows Home at Thermalito an elab-
crate one, was presented in print and
will be considered during the session.
. This evening Odin Lodge will confer
the initiatory work in the Swedish
language before the Grand Lodge, and
subsequently Porter Lodge of Oakland
will confer the third degree in the Eng
lish language.