Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-05-22
ODDFELLOWS
MEET In
PORTLAND
Grand Lodge Session Begins
Tonight With RebekahS,
MuScOvites and Grand
Enczmpment
Last nights Telegram SAYS:

Last nights Telegram says:
What promises to be the biggest ses.
sion of Oddfellows ever held here be.
gins in Portland tomorrow night at s
o'clock, and adjourns Thursday night
at-well, nobody knows what time it
will adjourn, because the closing cere-
monies come under the jurisdiction of
the Muscovites, or the Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine of Good Fellowship,
who aren't very particular how late
they sit up on occasions like this.
1t will not only be the biggest session
in point of numbers; it will also be
unique. There will be plenty of excite
ment and amusement between the bust
ness sessions of the grand encampment
and the grand lodge and the Museo
vites to keep the delegates in good
spirits and perfect humor, but this
year they will not have the elaborate
entertainments and costly excursions
of former occasions. Nobody is better
qualified to tell why than W. H. Hob
son, grand master of the grand lodge.
"We just couldn't this year." he
said, "when our brothers in San Fran.
cisco have lost everything they had. 1t
would hardly seem right, and then
again-we haven't the money.
"Oh, no, the Oddfellows aren't bank.
rupt, becauses they are members of the
most prosperous order in this prosper.
Gus state of Oregon in the prosperous
year of 1906. 1t g another reason al.
together. We sent all the spare cash
we had on hand for the aid of those
in San Francisco.
"When the lodge members in Oregon
heard how destitute thoses in California
were, and how they had to stand in line
for hours at a time just TO get little
piece of bread, it touched them. They
opened their treasures and sent every
available cent down there. They "a do
1t again under the same conditions. I
don't remember how much we for.
warded, but 1t was we'll up in the
thousands, and it certainly helped down
there. The consequence is, we can u
very we'll entertain this year and have
the expensive excursions we used
have"
A ouadruple Affair.
-Four separate bodies will be repre-.
sented in this convention. which is
really quaruple affair. They are
the grand encampment, the grand
lodge, the Rebekah assembly and the
Muscovites, Tomorrow night the grand
encampment. composed Of the pa.
triarchs of Oregon, will respond to the
call of thir grand patriarch Claude
Catch, of Salem, and will initiate pro.
ceedings. They assemble in Artisans ,
hall, in the Arlington building. The
session of the grand encampment lasts
but one night; then comes the grand
lodge.
The grand lodge is really the first
legislative body of Oddfellows in Ore.
gon, and through it all business Is
transacted. This year the grand lodge
has not many important things to at.
tend to, so II will be in session only
two nights, Wednesday and Thursday.
-
however, will be TO appropriate money
for big addition to the oddfellows'
home on East Thirty-second street
which is overerowded.
There is not the slightest doubt that
the grand lodge viii appropriate
$4,000 for this annex. II plans to
make the home known everywhere for
the way it cares for Old oddfellows