The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
ODD FELLOWS MEET
 AT SELMA TUESDAY
Several Matters of Importance
 on Programme
WORK ON NEW PLAN I
Tredegar Mining Company Will Be Ready for Mining Silica in Few Weeks-TroIley Record from
 Anniston to Jacksonville.

Anniston, May s-(special IA number | of Annstonians are making preparations 1 to attend the grand lodge of Alabama 1 Odd Fellows, which convenes in Selma i next Tuesday. Among the representa- ] tives who will go from here will. be the l following from the respective lodges: l Mountain Oak, 35-Joseph King and W. ! D. New.
 i Blue Mountain, sew. D. Newman.
 Royal Oak, 1Oe-E. L. Field, Warner Richey and T. c. Yancey i Calhoun, 2OS-w. F. Mccartney. Onward, 254, will also send representa- tive
 l Past Grand Master John Ellis, chair man of the board of trustees of the | Widows and Orphans Home, will also | go from Anniston. ! Several matters of importance will come before the grand lodge One is a pro- 1 posal to change the method of repre- sentation At the Montgomery session last year there were 59S votes cast, and J 1t is probable that there will be even more this year. The body Is growing unwieldly and for some time past efforts have been made to reduce the number of delegates, both on account of the size of the body and the financial cost of a meeting the pay roll at the last session amounting to about $11 OOO. A proposition | laid over from last year is that each lodge have two votes for 80 members, and one additional vote for each additional 1 50 members; but that each lodge shall send but one delegate, whose term shall 1 be for two years. the odd-numbered 1 lodges to elect in the odd-numbered years 1 and the even-numbered lodges in the even-numbered years. There seems to be considerable sentiment in favor of 1 this solution. and it may be adopted at the present session. Another matter of more general inter est is the question of providing for clear | ing off a debt from the new orphans 1 home, which has been completed at Gull man. There are several thousand dollars | still due for material, and the grand lodge will provide for this, either by | levying a special tax or by funding the l debt
 ] For the first time in many years the order will show a decrease in member 1 ship in Alabama, some 200 less than l year ago being reported in membership. 1 This is due to the depression partially, ! but more particularly to the miners trou- ble last year, many hundreds of mem bers having moved out of the state. Grand Master Urquhart will preside over the sessions. At the close of the session the following officers, elected last October will be installed:
 Grand Master-J. F. Blackwood of Gadsden.
 Deputy Grand Master-M. T. Ormond of 1 Tuscaloosa.
 Grand Warden-The Rev. George J. Jen- | kins of Tuscaloosa.
 Grand Secretary-H. C. Pollard of Huntsville.
 Grand Treasurer-J. c. Bowie of Talla- dega.
 | Grand Representative-Georg Huddles- ton of Birmingham.
 1 The Rev. MT. Jenkins was formerly pastor of the First Methodist church in | Anniston, and Messrs. Bowie and Black | wood are well known here.
 The Tredegar Plant. I Work is progressing on the s5O,OOO plant 1 of the Tredagar Mining company at Tred- egar, north of this city, which is being erected for the washing and grinding of sica which will be shipped In large quantities. There is an inexhaustible property, as well as large quantities of kaolin, which is used In the manufac- ture of porcelain and chinaware. Much of the latter will be shipped to East | Liverpool, O., and Trenton, N. J., Whfc1 are the principal earthenware manufact- uring centers.
 The main building holds vats for wash ing the clay. There is also a large ma- chinery hall, which holds two grinding 1 machines
 R. B. Goodwin of Tennessee, the gen. eral manager of the plant, who is living in Jacksonville, is rushing the work on the buildings and expects to have the plant in running order soon It will employ a large force of men.
 Good Trotting.
 Collins Clark, Steve Hunter and Lamar Jeffres trotted afoot to Jacksonville from Anniston, distance of 12 miles, last I night in one hour and 42 minutes. | Henry Noble and Richard Stickney made the trip in two hours and 15 min | utes
 The quintet left Anniston last night at 1 9:3S o'clock and Clark, Hunter and Jef- l fries reached Jacksonville at 11:20.
 As stated above the distance to Jack i sonvile is 12 miles, and these gentlemen 1 broke the record for that distance
 They were in fine shape when they reached the former metropolis of Cal houn and were good for several miles more.
 They returned to the city this morning i in private conveyance. 1 If you want to clean things,