Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-25
ODD FELLOWS.

Uncas lodge, No. II, of the I. o. O F., held their regular meeting Mon- day evening and it proved to be a banner one. Noble Grand Louis Ort- man presided and the usual routine business came up before the lodge. Il was the night for comforting the sec ond degree on class Of eighteen can. didates and a crowd of over two hum drdd witnessed the proceedings There, were four lodges which had can didates to take the degree. The Un- cas had six, Shetucket i've, Reliance of Jewett City four and Protection o1 Central Village three. The work was done by the Uncas degree team in g highly cOrnmendable manner under the leadership of Frank M. Green.
 During the meeting Past Grand Frank E.F Green was elected associate corporator Of the Odd Fellows home for period of one year.
 Following the meeting tempting re- treatments were served and an hour of good Fellowship reisned supreme.
 There were Odd Fellows present from Boston. Worcestsr, New Lon- don. Jewett City, Plainfield, Waure- gan, Central Village, Montville and ner one for the local Odd Fellows and one of which they may well be proud
 Planning for Third Degree. :.
 The, regular meeting Of Shetucket lodge, No. 27, I. o. O. F.. was held in Odd Fellows hall Tuesday evening with a good attendance In the ab- sence of Noble Grand George B. Up- ton, who is sick, Past Brands A. A. Guile and John J. Parsons presided. Brother Charles F. Martin of Provi- denee on last Saturday. There is an unusual amount of sickness at this time and the local lodge is caring for four brothers bllonging to out of town lodges. Three applications for mem bership received Tuesday night prom ise work for the coming month. Rou- tine business was transacted as speed fly as possible, and following the bus mess session the degree team practiced the third degree in preparation for next Tuesday nights exercises, when the third degree will be worked in full form on class of five candidates.
 Veterans Association.
 Several past grands/ of the local lodge went ito New Haven Wednesday to take the veterans degree, having been members of the order for 25 con- secutive years. The association has about ITO members. 42 having joined one year ago and several Wednesday. Over 100 were present. An Odd Fel- low must have been in the order for 25 years successively to be eligible to IAtIuDcTSnup. uc youngest IucIubST IS 46 years of age, and the oldest, mem Der present was Jacob F. Morrow of New Haven, now in his 89th year, who has been 8 member of the order 55 years. One of the older members present was E. w. Boyd of Derby. 84 years old, a member of the order since 1S4S. It was the largest meeting that the order has yet held. There were IA deaths during the year. The mem bership is now BIO.
 Eneampment and Canton.
 The regular meeting of Palmyra en- campment, No. 3, I. o. O. F.. was call ed to order by Chief Patriot Frank L. sTuttle Thursday evening with a gratifying attendance present. Two new applications were received and acted upon. They wf1 be worked out at the next regular meeting which oc- CUTS the second Thursday in March.
 On March the local canton is go- ing to New London to install the of- ficers of a new canton in that city. There will be about 30 members of the rejuvenated branch of the Odd Eel 16ws.