Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-05-08
GRAND LODGE 1. o. o.
Over Five Hundred Delegates Ex-
pected to Attend.

KAH ASSEMBLY ALSO MEET IN
LYNCHBURG NEXT WEEK
SOME OF THOSE WHO WILL
ATTEND FROM THIS
CITY AND COUNTY
Speaking Of the big Odd Fellows
meeting in Lynchburg next week the
News of that city says: The annual ses-
sion of the Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows of Virginia will begin in this city
on Tuesday, May II, and at the same
time the Rebekah Assembly will meet,
while on Monday, May 18th, the Grand
Encampment of the order will transact
its business for the year. 1t is consid-
cred likely that for the three first days
of that week there will be 500 visiting
Odd Fellows in Lynchburg, and, as
some Of them report that they had to
walk the streets all night the last time
the Grand Lodge met here, on account
of lack of accommodations, the local
members of the order earnestly request
all who can entertain visitors to make
their terms, ETC., known in a way that
all who desire board and lodging can
readily find it, Apart from the stigma
cast on the city by the inadequate ac-
commodations it is the one great desire
of all local Odd Fellows to have the
Grand Lodge settle upon Lynchburg as
their permanent headquarters.
The Orphanage and Old Folks Home
are located here, the city is centrally
located and should the Grand Lodge
decide to meet here annually it will
mean the erection of suitable build
ing either by that body or by the To-
cal lodges. The Order now has mem
bership of nearly $4,000 in the State,
and is probably the strongest and rich
est of all similar organizations.
The program has not yet been COM
pleted, but it is known that the Grand
Lodge will meet Tuesday morning in
Assembly Hall, where speeches of
welcome will be presented and re-
sponses made, after which Colonel G.
G. Vaughan, of Franklin, the Grand
Master, will call the Grand Lodge to
order, and the regular business of the
session will begin. The Rebekahs will
meet in Odd Fellows Hall, and will be
presided over by Mrs. G. w. Whitmore,
of this city, the Grand Master of the
assembly.
During the meeting of the Grand
Lodge, probably on Wednesday, May
18TH all visiting Odd Fellows will go
by special train to Winners, to visit
the Odd Fellows Orphan Home, which
now has ninety children there, and has
only room for about fifteen more, which
means that arrangements will proba-
bly, be made for again charging the
building. The Home for Old Folks,
which is located on the property, is
also to be dedicated, and Mr.. Hill
Montague, the president of the board of
trustees, has invited Grand Sire, Mr..
e. S. Conway, Chicago, to be present
and deliver the dedication address.
Among those who will attend the
meetings from this city and county are
the following: Past Grand Patriarch,
H. H. Harlow; Grand Senior Warden,
A. s. Woodhouse; Past Patriarch, r.
J. Kennedy; w. A. Kidd, J. w. Black,
A. B. Rohr, and Messrs. w. P. Davis
and w. w. Brown; J. E. Rohrer and
r. S. Smith of Churchville, A. B.
Hemp, J. Frank Rosen and Ernest
Wiseman of Middlebrook; G. V. Par
kins, N. l.. Shreckhise and r. n.
CARRIER of Mt. Sidney; DR.. S.
H. Burton of Parnassus; J.
Gardner Bare of Fordwici, and
quite number of others from the coun-
ty, whose names we have been unable
to get.
Among the ladies who will attend
the Rebekah Assembly are Mrs. r. J.
Kennedy, Mrs. S. E. Dull, Miss Lucy
Harlow.