The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1905-02-09
Grand Master Addresses
Letter TO Order Com
cerning Years Work
4 GOOD INCREASE SHOWN
A Number Of New Lodges have Been
-
Established in the State g1ACng
5st Year and others W.
Soon be Chartered. q


The goAcl lodge OF od9 Follows
RSye received the following &tter from
John W Bennett, grand NJ er Of the
/ Q, o. f., ~Georgiasass.l u has been
sent out to al, - State lodges:
AS We haya seen the close Of the
year 1904 ami the end OF the first
,Gonth Of the year 1905 / desire as
your presiding officer to let the order
il this jurisdiction know what has
been done and what is being done at
TINS time While The order is pro-
crossing very nicely, feel that we
have not done all that We can do and
ought to do. Since my term OF Office
Logan the first Of last June. there has
bcen instituted sixteen new lodges
With membership Of 614. It seems
70 me that We ought TO have had at
least twenty-five or thirty new lodges
by this time with a membership OF
from twelve or fifteen hundred but on
account OF serious illness OF the wife
Of Rev. w. T. Thompson. the state or
Ganizer. he has been unable to do any
work during the last three montns.
Tic informs nae thai now hi- wife is
Eiuch improved. and he wil be a9ie.
10 set actively in the field, ana hopes
20 make good showing before the
L,cetng OF the next grand lodge.
desire to call upon all of the Iods
as 10 gel to olk earnestly and wtln
new determination to organize some
new lodges in your respective sections
as well as improve those already in ex
1-fence. We ought 70 have at least
twenty-five or more new LODGES by the
I me the grand lodge meets in May.
Il ind in 2oing over the records
with our gran secretary that the re
lort5 from the old lodges at the end
Of rhe last term show an approximate
g9in in membership Of 1913 This is
a very small cain, bat IL is due largely
to the fact that the suspensions have
tCcn extremely heavy am sorry TO
state Chat some Of lie lodges have
al least rs per cent Of their
rcmberships Our Increase ought to
have been nuch larger and would
rave been but for the great number
suspended and in This connection Il
cesire 70 remind Inc financial secro
taries Of the various lodges that mem
ters ere Otter suspended for lack Of
! roper Performance OF duty on the
rart Of the secretaries. and ! ask that
these officers be vigilant IN the per
lormance OF u cir duties ana suggest
that you get a list Of the suspended
members OF your lodge, go and see
ten and try to get them TO De re.
ins'ated. When you study the popu-
latlon Of Georgia as compared with
other states IN connection with our
noble order, we ought to have from
~ 900 70 10000 Odd Fellows In sood
standing and with tie proper work
and energy on the part Of those inter
Csted in this order, il Wlil only be a |
few years when we VIII nave a nom.
tership oi That number / 1nd upon
examination Of the records chat on
Tcccmber 81 1903, the total member
ship was 17l23. Increase for FIRST
torn Of 1904 was 2.077 approximate in
q ease for the second term OF 1904, |
! 372 making q total membership on
Doc. 31 1904 Of 20572 and an increase
toe the year 1904 Of 3,4l9 AS ! say
mis- increase would be much larger but
for the fact that there have been 50
n any suspensions ! give these Gg
ures 70 the various lodges because we
have no official arsan IN this state at
this time by which The members can
Keep up with what the order Is doing
"Now, in conclusion, brothers, let
us get TO work IN the interest Of the
oder and work earnestly and try to
riabe the year 1908 the banner year OF
Odd Fellowship IN Georgia aud en-
ctagor to increase our membership toI
a least 25000 We represent p noble
Older and one that is doing q great
deal for its membership,
with kind yebards and best wishes
/ am yours ffaternally
John w. Bennett,
Grand Master,
attest. ] S Tieon. GRIND Secretary