Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-25
Work Will Begin On the Handsome
Structure As Soon As the
Contract Can Be Let
ARCHITECTR R. {. LEE HAS
THE MATTER in HAND
And the Building win BE Erected
with View to Adding New Wings
When They Are Needed story
Printd Exclusively by Daily News.

The Odd Fellows Home is an as
sured fact as stated, exclusively, in
Sunday mornings S issue Of the Daily
News and as soon as Architect Robert
E. Lee has finished the plans on which
he is now engaged, and they have been
accepted, work win begin on the build
ing.
1t Is more than probable that the
/ Home will be built on Hardy street.
\ear the street ctr line. OH the TWEEN
acre tract of lend SO generously do
ed by Messrs. Camp and Montague
their associates, The bnilding will
uilt of stone and brick. two stories
eight and Of such a STYLE OF arch
ne as to allow wings TO be added
time to tipe, each wing contrib
ito the beauty of the whole !
proposed 70 hay the flrs. floor
d to the administrative Offices,
on rooms. parlor, dining nall
tchen while the upper Fl ,or will
the separate sleeping apart.
and the dormitory, with the
baths. toilets and other neces-
hartments.
building Of home for the Wild
orphans of Odd Fellows has
gen under consideration for years,
but did not crystalize until the con-
vention in Jackson in 1906 when the
\ following board of trustees was ap-
pointed: W. Menger. OF vicksburg..
>r. o. B Quin, of McComb City: J..
Stewart OF Moss Point; Simon
cid. of starkville and w. s. p.
ty, Grenada.
This Committee has now In hand
eQ00 with which the Home will be
bowed as soon as completed and this
sum will be increased right along.
At the same convention the follow
ing building committee was appointed
to take up the matter of building a
home on a site selected by its mem
: ,bers after a careful consideration Of
advantages offered by competing
pts: j. ]. Coman, of Jackson; c. C..
ONE, OF Natchez; Joseph Hirsch;
Il A. Aaron. OF Hattiesburg, and w.
?, Doty, of Grenada.
t the convention held in Hatties-
g, during May of this year. an Of
Of a site then offered by Hatties-
g was referred to committee and
Ing this the Hattiesburg contin-
got busy Immediately after the
lrnment of the convention and a
committee on site and subscrip-
was appointed and that com
Ee was as follows:
Katz. chairman; W. f.. Griffin, R.
aauenstein, A. t. Powe and George
fairfield.
This committee soon had $4,000 and
twenty-acre tract subscribed and
this offer was made to the building
committee at its meeting last Saturday
In Jackson, throughMr. J. G. Pannell.
Of this city who acted for the commit
tee and took the offer to Jackson.
This is the offer that has been ac-
cepted and the final action has been
taken and Hattiesburg has the Home.
During the balance of the year
Messrs Hirsch and Pannell will tour
the state in the interest Of the Home
and take up subscriptions for the
building fund to raise the difference
between the $4,000 offered by Hat
tiesburg and the $4,000 needed to
complete the Home,
3 The local lodge deserves lot Of
praise for the enterprise and energy it
has displayed In endeavcring TO secure
A-the Home for Hattiesburg. It is the
banner lodge of the state, having 175
active members, a splendid building of
its own and is only ten years old
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