The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-14
ODD FELLOWS WILL MEET THIS MORNING Grand Lodge Will Assemble at
 Decatur DELEGATES ARE ARRIVING Everything Is Quiet at Louisville and Nashville Shops at New Decatur,
 Where Thirty Machinists
 Were Discharged.
DELEGATES ARE ARRIVING

Decatur, May 13.-(Speeial)-The De- caturs are in holiday attire today pre-
 paratory to the meeting of the grand
 lodge of Independent Order of Odd Eel
 lows tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
 Bank street, Decatur, and Second ave- nue, New Decatur, and many of the pri-
 vate homes of both the Decaturs, are
 decorated with profusion of flags, bunt-
 ing and banners of welcome to the grand lodge.
 On the corner of Bank and Lafayette
 streets hangs a mammoth silken flag,
 which Is attracting much attention and
 which is the center of admiration on
 account of the past history connected
 with the flag. This flag was presented to Company E, Alabama volunteers, dur ing the Spanish American war. Company l E was made up of men from the De-
 caturs and this flag was a gift from the l laies, being presented to the company ! by Mrs. William E. Wallace and other l ladies of the Decaturs when that com pany was encamped at Mobile at the 1 commencement of the Spanish American l war.
 A number of delegates arrived here to- da:- on the various trains Several hun dred others are expected to arrive to- 1 night and tomorrow morning. Among the
 most prominent members of the grand l lodge who arrived today are the follow l ing: Grandmaster w. M Crawford of l Montgomery, Grand Secretary H. c. | Weaver of Huntsville The other grand l officers and the grand officers elect will
 arrive tonight and tomorrow morning. 1 The auditorium of the Decatur public I school building where the sessions of
 the grand lodge will be held, is beautl- 1 fully decorated with flags, bunting and
 banners as is also the 1. O. o. r. hall, l on Bank street.
 The l. O. O. F. hall on Second ave l nue in New Decatur is likewise beau- | tifully decorated with flags and bunt- I ing both inside and out for the meeting | of the Alabama State Association of l Daughters of Rebekahs, which meeting will be held in this hall on Wednesday,
 May 10.
 At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning the
 grand lodge will be called to order by l Grandmaster Walter M. Crawford, and
 the entire morning session will be de- voted to public exercises. Mayor Henry l A. Skeggs of Decatur and Mayor Samuel l Blackwell of New Decatur, will welcome l the grand lodge on behalf of the Twin l Cities. and the Rev. George l.. Jenkins l pastor of the Central Methodist church. l New Decatur, and conductor of the grand | louge, will welcome the visitors on be- l half of the Odd Fellows of the Decaturs l Grandmaster Walter M. Crawford will
 respond and then the grand lodge will l get down to the transaction of the much l important business.
 After tomorrow morning the day ses-
 sions will be private business sessions l of the lodge and the sessions held on l Tuesday, Wednesday and perhaps Thurs | day nights, will be public sessions. | There is nothing new today in the 1 situation of the machinists trouble in the 1 Louisville and Nashville railroad shops l in New Decatur. The address delivered l by J. D. Buckalew, third vice president ] of the Association of Machinists, to more 1 than a thousand men at the Payne thea 1 tre yesterday, Is the subject of consd- l erable comment today Almost everyone
 agreed that his talk was fair one an'
 1t seems to have met with general ap-
 proval with a majority of the citizens
 of the Decaturs who heard it. The men who are employed in the
 shops are taking the matter quietly and 1 there is no excitement. What the out l come will be or Just what action, If any, l the International Association of Machin- 1 ists will take in the matter no one knows. l Should a strike occur In the New De- catur shops, however, 1t is understood that | the men would be ordered out all over l the Louisville and Nashville system. This shop in New Decatur employs | something like 25Go men all told. For a | number of years it has been known as 1 an "open shop and the railroad com l pany has been endeavoring to keep it so. l Grandmaster Walter M Crawford has 1 appointed his committees and the-s com mittees are already at work. The com l mittees follow:
 Finance-H. c. Roquemore, o. F. War | ner A Durger
 l Credentials-H c. Weaver, Herman
 vogt. j. T. Miller.
 Judiciary-O. J. Sims, Page Turner Legisative-Jacob Pepperman, Guy G. | Ponder
 l State of the Order-L. H. Brasell, P. b. 1 Cunningham
 | Petitions and Appeals-George Huddles- l ton F. T. Perkins | Constitution and By-laws-Frank F. 1 Conway, F. T. Perkins.
 | Necrological-W. A. Kirk. w M. Cole man.
 Press Reporter-I. F. Watson. Distribution-W. c. Wheeler, c. G.. | Wheeler C. G. Ward.
 | J. NJ Tubb has been appointed custo- | dian of the secret work and H. c. Pol l lard assistant secretary.