Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-21
ODD FELLOWS
IN CONVENTION
: :
Five Thousand Delegates and Wis
ting Members Assemble
For Annual Session.
WOULD REDUCE AGE LIMIT
Keen Contest for Deputy Grand Sire
Memberships 100000 AMI Or
der Still Growing.

Denver. Sept. 81 Fully 5000 dele.
gates and visiting members of the
order are in the city to attend the
geightyfourth annual session Of the
Sovereign Grand lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows The conven-
ton began its deliberations this
morning in the Auditorium and Will
conclude Saturday morning. Coinci-
/ dent with the Odd Fellows meeting
are the informal meetings Of the Re-
bekahs which are being held in Ell
Jebel temple.
( Politics will engage the attention of
the sovereign grand lodge delegates
Ito some little extent, although there
lis but one office to be filled by vote,
all the other vacancies being provided
for by custom and succession. the,
one office to be filled. and over which
there is likely to be some campaign
ling is that of deputy grand sire. The
office Of grand sire is the highest in.
the gift of the order. 1t has been
the custom for years that,,the man AN.
who serves as deputy. grand sire for
a year succeeds at the end of his
term to that Of grand sire. The con-
test for deputy grand sire is made all
the more keen! by reason of the fact
1t is the only prize in the way Of an
meeting.
There are, seven candidates already
in the list. They are w. l.. Kuyken-
dali Of Wyoming; A.. c. Keller of
Texas: Robert T. Daniel of Georgia;
John b. Cochrum Of Indiana; j.. s..
IIoagland. of Nebraska: Massena
| l3ullard of Montana, and r. Hill
| Meyers Of Winnipeg, Man.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
One amendment to the constitution
! will come up for consideration. 1t is
| to make the age limit for admission
4 Is wears instead of 81 as at present.
! This matter has been before the grand
1 lodge sessions before. and has
| always been voted down.
For prizes to the best drilled
| teams Of the Patriarchs militant there
has been appropriated $4,000. Com
/ petition for the various prizes Is mos,
| Keen and some of the best drilled
| organizations In the United States are
| hpresent to compete.
| The delegates to the annual session
I OF the sovereign grand lodge We're es-
corted this morning by the miiitary5or-
/ ganizations of the order from the
Il Crown Palace hotel to- the Auditorium
WHARF an ppensmeeting was held. "
behalf of the. state and city addresses
/ of welcome were made by GOV: Butch
,litel. Mayor Robert W. Speer. Grand
| master Joseph hewitt and other OF
| ficers OF the Colorado department of
I, Odd Fellows. Grand Sire e. >. Con-
| way OF Illinois. responded for the Or
| der. @
Following these preliminary exer-
| scises the sovereign grand lodge ad-
journed to Ell ,Jebel Temple where the
| executive sessions will be held for the
| order.
MEMBERSHIP OF ORDER
"This is the strongest fraternal or
der on the continent" said 6 Grand In1,
1 Sire Conway today. ut has l,SO0,Ooo
| members and has not stopped grow
ing. has a. homes for the aged and
INDECENT and homes and schoois Tor
dependent children.
1.-THE order has an annual income OF
/! sic, ooo, 900 Of w.ich s6.O0O,oOo is spent
| in relief, and similar sum for lodge
i expenses. This leaves a balance each
wear of s3,U0O,000 which is added to a
reserve fund that now amounts to SOU
900, 900. j,
| This convention, the larger states nay
| ing four and the smaller ones from two
to three" -
| Who will succeed e. S. Conway as
! erand sire is citizen of Nashville,
] Tenn. He is 56 years old and has
I been a. member of the order since ne
| avs 81. III 1883. he was elected grand
master of Tennessee and two years
later became a member OF the sovef-
cign lodge.