The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-22
REDMEN COMING
TO BIRMINGHAM
Great Council of Alabama Meets
Here tuesday
INTERESTING PROGRAMME
INTERESTING PROGRAMME
Great Ineohonee Cherry viii Deliver
Address at Tuesdays Meeting.
Outing at East Lake and
Trolley Ride.

The Great Council of Alabama of the
Improved Order of Red Men will hold
its annual meeting in Birmingham on
Tuesday and Wednesday, and the indi-
cations are that it will be the largest
attended meeting in the history of the
organization in this state
The general committee. made up from
lodges in Birmingham and the district,
at a meeting held yesterday afternoon,
heard from all of the subordinate com
mittees, who reported everything in redi-
ness for the meeting. The reception COM
mittee of sixty. headed by Capt. j s.
Johnson, will meet all of the trains
irving in the city, commencing today
and the delegates and visitors Will be
assigned to their hotels. The Florence
hotel has been selected the general
headquarters.
The sessions will be held IN the Ma
tional armory at the city hall, commence
ing Tuesday morning at $50 o'clock.
General Chairman NJ d. Friedman will
make a few opening remarks, and the
Rev. Luman S. Handley, d. D, MEM
Der of the order will offer prayer AL
derman John c. Forney, who Is Red
man, will make an address of welcome in
behalf of the Mayor and Aldermen of
Birmingham. and he will be followed by
william e. Ford. Great 1ncohonee John
w. Cherry of Norfolk Will then deliver
an address.
outing at East Lake.
Tuesday afternoon there will be an
outing picnic at East Lake. There will
be music and dancing, and refreshments
will be served during the afternoon. The
East Lake management has given two
hundred tickets to each of the amuse-
ments to be distributed among the visi-
tors The Bijou theatre will entertain the
visitors Tuesday night at a theatre par
ty, Billie (single) Clifford, being the at
traction.
At the business meeting Wednesday
morning officers will be elected and 9TH
er business transacted In the afternoon
there will be a trolley ride over the lines
of the Birmingham Railway. Light and
Power company.
An effort will be made at the council to
have Birmingham designated as the per-
manent meeting place. The matter of
organizing Great Council of Pocohontas,
the ladies' auxiliary, will also come up.
A number of merchants of Eirming-
ham have agreed to decorate their places
of business with red, white and blue
bunting these being the colors OF the or
der.
Badges Are Unique.
The badges which will be distributed
are unique. They are of metal and will
be worn as a watch charm. The badges
are in five sections. The first shows a
coal mine opening, the second til, Hotel
Hillman, the third the city hall, he fourth
the Sloss city furnaces the fifth being
medal, which is Inscribed, Birmingham,
Ala. May % and "a, 1905. Great Council
OF Alabama. Improved Order of Red
Men"
reverse sides of the four sections of the
badges: Colossal Stores of Iron and
Coal" "A City of Comfort as Well as
Enterprise, "A Great City Forging
Ahead" "Sixty-fve Cents Assemblies Ma
terial for Ton of Pig Iron
p. ]. Coyle. H Nj. Franz and G. T.
Young constitute the committee on badges.
Great Council Officers.
The following are the present officers
of the great council in Alabama:
Great sachem, John w. Pierson of Avon
dale.
Great senior sycamore, e. D. corker of
Eufaula.
Great Junior sycamore, John Il. Jones
of Montgomery.
Great prophet, C. c. Heard of Lang
dale.
Great chief of records, William Smiley
Smith of Montgomery.
Great keeper of wampum, Charles Chap
pei of Pratt City.
Great sannap, George H. Todd, Jr., of
Montgomery.
Great mishinewa, Robert II. Allison OF
Birmingham
Great guard of wigwam, Henry Engel-
hardt of Montgomery.
Great guard of the forest, w. A. Free
man of Tallassee.
Chairman committee on law, william H.
Fort of Birmingham
Chairman committee on finance X. n.
l.. Neil of Selma.
Board of appeal, A. I. Klein of Bir-
minsham, A. L. Arnold of Ensley, ). ~
Ter Goodwin of Montgomery.
NJ M. Marsh, member of the hnance
committee; II. e. Clarke Blanche 70. Bar
lowe Miss Leila Smith, Mrs. May Ban
croft of Mobile, and G. p. Walls OF Pratt
Vile were among the arrivals last night.
Mr.. Barlowe is a prominent eandldate
for great junior sycamore.
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