Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-29
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF
FORESTERS

Frost, physicians; j. Dorward, G. r.
Mrs. f. Gillingham. " c. r.; F. w. Bus
well. r. s.; G. 8. De Line. F. s.; j.
Noodle, treasurer. Miss Francis Jones,
orator; VIII Dorward. organist; Thomas
LaValle, S. W.; Miss j. Monte, ]. W.;
w. w. Parker, S. B.; Harry Ireland,
]. b.; W. H. Shaw. w. H. Leeds, trus-
tees; R. c. Jones, C. N. Ireland, financial
Z committed
The degree team is to report for action
at the first meeting in January. Applica-
tions for this court are coming in at
every meeting, so the team will be kept
busy exemplifying the journey through
the forest of life The work as put on by
the team will teach the neophytes the
beautiful lessons to be learned from a
study of the trip from the cradle to the
grave. While the road may be rough and
rugged full of ups and downs, difficult
ties and dangers. and trials and tribula-
tions, yet the beauty and grandeur that
awaits the traveller at the journeys end
Is a fitting reward for all the adversely
encountered along the way. Therefore the
candidate having figuratively taken the
journey through the forest cannot fail to
be impressed with the beautiful teachings
Of our order and brought to a realization
of the fact that the reward at the end
of a successful lifes journey fully repaye
for all the trials and tribulations endured
during the trip.
s.
Arrangements are under way for a Van
entine's dance to be given February II.
This will be q grand event and should
be largely attended.
So
Court Temple will give an entertain
ment to members and their friends next
Tuesday night CNew Years eve). There
will be a Christmas tree with presents
for the little ones and Santa Claus to dis
tribute the same. One of the leading
features of the entertainment will be a
mock initiation. which will furnish fun
for all. both old and young. We will not
divulge the secrets of the order, but we
want our friends to come and see the
mock affair and then join us and get the
real goods and see II there is any SINH
larity.
Court Los Angeles held another debate
Thursday night. which was interesting.
educating and amusing. 1t would appear
that two or three of our members have
been living on diet of parliamentary
rules. regulations and counter debates
for some time past, and the way they
acquit themselves will soon give rise to
the belief that they are authority on all
weighty matters. And no doubt the next
high councillor viii be selected from this
court; and we have hopes of supplying a
candidate for supreme councillor, for truly
the earmarks of judicial and executive
ability are plainly visible on some Of our
members
The high court officers and supreme
deputies together with the board of depp-
ties. went to Rivera last night and initiat-
ed a class of twenty into Court Rivera.
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other hall, where entertainment and re-
freshments were enjoyed. The Rivera
brethren are royal entertainers. and last
evening was no exception to the rule, but
was a crowning glory to the successful
work of a successful court of success
full order. Well DONE brethren OF Rivera.
Your efforts during the year have heen
highly satisfactory, and every class of
candidates secured during the year show
that you have been aggressive and dis
crete, for your classes have been of good
numerical proportions and OF a character
becoming The dignity of your court and
this great order.
We wish you a happy and prosperous
New Year, duplicate of or better than
1907.
Brethren. the year 1907 will soon belong
to the past; 1903 will be before us. Let us
start the New Year not with a resolution,
for we always have resolutions galore
but with a firm determination to make
1908 record year for our great order.
We know it will require an effort for the
record of our noble order in the past
has been, to say the least. remarkable;
therefore to beat good record requires
something more than a resolution, but
the honor, the pride and satisfaction of
having beaten an excellent record will re-
and in addition there is always the pleas
ure and valor of the encounter in any
campaign that encourages and lightens
any little sacrifice we may make.
Know ye not that he who waits and
watches is bearing heavier load than
he who goes forth and does? The soldier
boy that goes forth to fight and to con-
quer or die suffers and endures less than
the mother or wife who sees him go, but
must stay and wait and watch. Activity
quickens. stimulates, Strengthens de-
lights and prolongs; inactivity dwarfs,
rusts. deadens and extermtnates. These
two classes the active and inactive are
like the poor-always with us In which
company will we find you during 1905?
Will you speak word to your friends,
telling them of the great l. o. r. to
which you belong. the order that pays
all the desired benefits that charges only
NA1OAAoSAC
pays in life as well as death, that gives
an absolute promise to pay in full and
backs that promise with a surplus of
nearly $12.000,OOO? Do this and we will
do the rest. and you viii receive your
reward both here and hereafter. Think
should that fellow worker of yours be
called to the unknown land and leave his
dependents well provided for with an
/. o. F. policy, who otherwise would have
been penniless. and you could say: II
was the means of getting him to make
such a wise provision" Surely the
thought of having done your duty would
reward you for any little trouble or in
convenience you may have been put to.
God forbid that the result be the reverse
and that his dependents be left unpro-i
vided for and you have to acknowledge
you never exerted an effort to get him
TO do his duty. May you never experience
regret or remorse in this respect.
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G. A. McElfresh, past high chief ranger,
will install the officers OF Court La
Fiesta NO $50 on Wednesday night. Jam
uary 1. Brother McEIfresh VIII be assist
ed by the guards Of honor from Com