Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
)DD FELLOWS IN
STATE SESSION
Handsome New State Home at
Elkins to Be Turned Over.
HON. H. G. DAVIS TO MAKE
FORMAL PRESENTATION

the Nail City During the Session
and Possibly the Largest Gathering
of Odd Fellows in History of State.
Wheeling, Nov 16.-Tbis week will
see the largest gathering of West Vir-
GINA Odd Fellows in the history of
the Mountain State, when fully 1900
delegates and members of that great
fraternal organization will assemble
within the walls of this city in annual
grand lodge session. Odd Fellows
/ from lodges from the most southern
borders of the state, where the line
lays between West Virginia, Kentucky
and "Old Virginia. to where the Pan
handle extends along the Keystone
State; from the line of division be-
tween this state and Maryland TO the
banks of the placid Ohio river.
The annual meeting here promises
to be the largest and most enthusiast
tic ever held during the forty-four
years of existence of The Odd Fellows
of the Mountain State.
As is the custom the Grand En-
campment always precedes the Grand
lodge meeting for one day. The
Grand encampment will open at the
Odd Fellows hall, Twelfth street, on
Tusday morning at 10 o'clock with an
executive session, when business OF
great Importance to members of the
encampment, will be transacted. 1t is
expected that there will be at least
125 to 200 delegates ard alternates
present representing 125 state subor-
dinate encamp-nents. present at the
meeting. The subordinate encamp-
ment is in degrees the highest body
in the state organization of Odd Eel
lows and which has the power to ad-
minister the highest degree in the or
ganization.
The encampment executive session
will probably last until o'clock on
Tuesday afternoon, the session OF
which will be followed at 7.45 o'clock
in the evening by an open meeting as
ordered by Grand Patriarch. ]. c..
Mansbarger. The meeting promises
as speakers of statewide reputation
will make brief addresses, while the
principal address will be delivered by
the Rev. w. l. Canter, who is with
out doubt one of the most eloquent
speakers for such an occasion in this
section of the country.
Grand Lodge Opening.
On Wednesday morning at $50
O'Clock the Grand lodge will convene
at the First Baptist church, Twelfth
and Byron streets. The meeting will
be opened with prayer by the Rev. s.
B. Hart, who is a past grand of Lin
coin lodge No. 40. The address OF well
come in behalf of the city will be de-
livered by Mayor Charles Schmidt and
will be responded to by J. d. Marstil-
ler grand master of West Virginia.
The Hon. Henry G. Davis, Of Elkins,
VIII formally and officially turn over
the beautiful s150000' Odd Fellows
home at Elkins. H. F. Woody, of Lin
coin lodge No. 49, will distribute neat
bronze souvenir medals.
The Grand lodge will go into secret
session, when a set of rules governing
the new home win be passed and a
report read giving the rooms that
have already been engaged at the
institution, among which Wheeling
lodg No. has taken a room on the
main floor and will furnish ii, while
hoc al No oil
tives of the late Henry Baer, who
was a prominent Odd Fellow Rooms
viii also be taken by the other local
lodges of the Odd Fellows. During
the tcrnoon the delegates and many
visitors viii V sit the penitentiary
On Thursday the day win be de-
voted to business of the lodge, which
will be convened in the Odd Fellows
hall at 10 O'Clock in the morning. The
election and appointment of state of
ficers fo1 the ensuing year win be
made and the meeting place next year
VIII be decided upon. Friday also
will be devoted to business meet
ing, bringing the sess' on to close.
John A Book, of Pennington; Sep
timius Hall, of Kew Martins ille, and
o. s. Mckinney, of Fairmont, the
principal members of the committee
having charge Of the construction of
the Odd Fellows home viii make
their final report to the grand lodge,
as their duties are practically COM
pleted.
Prominent Odd Fellows.
Among the prominent Odd Fellows
of the state who will be present on