The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-12-16
J.S.KEMP'S MEMORY
IS HONORED
COVENANT LODGE OF ODD Eel
LOWS PASSES RESOLUTION
LAMENTING LOSS.

If any class Of people knew better
than another the true worth of the late
j. s. Kemp il was the membership of
the odd Fellows. Mr.. Kemp was long
d member Of the order, for years was
prominent in its affairs and in its
councils. For these reasons the reso-
buttons adopted last evening by Cove
nant lodge No. 8, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. have unusual meaning.
The following tribute, presented by
special committee appointed by the
lodge, was unanimously adopted:
We the officers and members of
Covenant lodge No. s, |. o. q. f., deep
iy lament the loss of our beloved and
reyered brother, James S. Kemp. whose
death occurred November 2s, 1909.
James S. Kemp was born at Brund
ish Mill, Suffolk, England. November
-. 1871. He came 10 America in his
youth. locating in Ontario, Canada, in
1853. In 1886 he left Canada and cane
To Montana. taking UP his residence in
Missoula on November II of that year,
from which time until his death Mis-
soula continued to be his home. He
was twice elected a trustee for his
the six years Immediately preceding
his death. He won and kept the con-
fidence Of his fellow citizens OF all
creeds and classes. To know him was
To love and trust him. In the very
, dawn of his manhood he became an
odd Fellow, and throughout the re-
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thought, with untiring industry and
energy. to the promotion of the prin-
ciples and interests of the great fra
ternity of Odd Fellowship. With credit
to himself and blessing to the
/ order, he filled the various offices and
places of responsibility in the subordi-
nate and grand bodies of Montana,
passing through the principal chairs of
his lodge and encampment, and be-
coming grand master of his grand
lodge and grand patriarch of his grand
encampment, He was also elected to
represent his jurisdiction in the SOW
ereign grand lodge. The intelligence,
zeal and ability with which he per-
formed the many important and ardu-
Gus duties of the various offices gave
him wide acquaintance among the
! odd Fellows of the state. He was
prominent and distinguished among his
co-laborers throughout and beyond the
boundaries of Montana. He was large
ly instrumental and influential in pro-
noting the establishment of the Mon
| tana odd Fellows home, ad for many
| years. as member and president OF
| the board of directors of the home, as
/ sisted in shaping the legislation and
! fixing the policy to be pursued in be-
! half of that institution.
| Brother Kemp was preeminently
! modest and at the same time pre-
eminently fearless in his advocacy o.
! any cause to which he give his rec
| ognition and support
Brother James s. Kemp was In the
! highest and best sense a good citizen.
IA devoted husband and father, a true
odd Fellow and an honest man. Though
/ dead. he yet speaks. and the world Is
and will continue to be a better world
because he lived in II.
We tender to the wife and children
of our deceased brother our sincere
sympathy In their bereavement, and
direct that copy of this memorial be
transmitted to them.
1t Is also directed that the charter
| and hall be draped with emblems of
mourning i'm honor of our deceased
| brother.
ANDREW LOGAN,
| f. c. WEBSTER,
]. r. WARD.