The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1905-1908, 1906-07-19
THEIR ANNIVERSARY
ODD FELLOWS OF LOWNDES
COUNTY MEET AT LAKE
PARK AND CELEBRATE
LAST WEDNESDAY.
Large Crowd Present. Fine Exercises.
Eloquent Address and Good
Dinner Served to- Make the
Occasion Enjoyable.

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der was celebrated. and IL was done
with a beautiful ceremonial. which
was followed by a bounteous dinner
and barbecue. The place selected for
the exercises was at Lake Park. on
the end of the car line. and despite
the threatening weather OF the early
morning, which kept many away. es-
pecially the people of the county who
expected 10 drive TO the scene.
royal time was enjoyed by the large
number of people who did attend.
Early Wednesday morning rain be
throughout the city and county who
expected TO go out TO the celebration
to abandon their plans Along to-
wards the hour of the exercises, how
ever, car after ear came loaded down
with the members of the order. their
families and friends, and at II
o'clock when the celebration was be-
gun, the immense pavilion was filled
with people.
The procession formed at the ball
grounds of the park, and TO the
music played by Taylors band aud
under command of Mr.. Jim Cook. as
grand marshal, the march TO the
pavilion began. There were over a
hundred Odd Fellows in line besides
the large number engaged in the
committee work. At the rear OF the
procession came the officers of Union
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whose auspices the celebration was
given, Mr. Warren NJ. Cox. noble
grand, and Mr.. j. T. Gunter. vice
grand, who escorted the orator Of
the occasion, Hon. Harden III. Brooks,
to the platform. The massed choir
under the leadership OF Mr.. Howard
Teasdale, with voices selected from
every church in the city, and whose
kindness in singing for this occasion
all Odd Fellows sincerely appreciate,
was located on one side of the plat
form, and prominent members of the
order in this city and county, includ-
ing Hon. b. G.. Semmelman, grand
chief patriarch of the encampment Of
the State, who came over from West
Point for the celebration, occupied
the remaining space on the r.,srrum-
The anniversary exercises followed
upon the arrival of the lodge in the
pavilion. They We're begun by the
singing of Praise God, From whom
All Blessings Flow" which was fol
lowed by prayer, led by Mr.. George
F. McCown, chaplain of Union lodge
The anniversary hymn was then sung
and the ritualistic exercises were
read by Mr.. w. NJ. Cox. noble grand.
Mr.. J. T. Gunter, vice grand: Mr.. 4.
E. Love, secretary, and Mr.. .. =.
Brown, chaplain. This was followed
by the singing of Calvary" ex-
quisitely rendered by Mrs. n. +.
Dashiell, and Mr.. Warren VI. Cox
gracefully presented the orator Of the
occasion, Hon. Harden n. Brooks. Of
Macon. Mr.. Brooks spoke without
notes and said:
Il am unable to express my graft
tude to my friend for his sincere
words of commendation and apprO-
val. Coming as ] do today from an
county to address this gal
axy of gallant and chivalrous men
and noble and beautiful women.
fully concur with my friend that
while / may appear 10 you as
stranger in fraternal circles 10 some
extent, / do not admit for one mo-
nent that am a stranger to LOwndcs
county and her citizenship. / have
always looked upon Lowndes county
With the same spirit and reverence
hat wandering Kentuckian away
rom home looked upon the State OF
lis birth. When a sorrOwing widow
rom Kentucky applied to tomb
tone sculptor upon one occasion to
'lace upon her husbands shaft the
inscription, Gone to "A Better Land.
he sculptor replied. Madam. r can
lot do that. If your husband was q
<entuckian and died upon his native
eath, and / were 10 inscribe those
lords upon his monument. / would
e handling veraeity too careleSzlv.
have the same regard for the assoc
iations around Columbus and
.owndes county as the loyal sculptor
ad for his native State. Nv peonla
ave been their people: my grand
arents were born and raised and
we'd the best part of their manhood
nd womanhood in this county. and