Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-28
ODD FELLOWS
 FACE 4 PROBLEM Accommodations For Dele gates to Grand Lodge Session Here Are
 Short.
1,5000 ARE COMM G
Committee Anxious For Residents to Take Delegates, Who Will Pay
 For Room and POard.

arrangements for ne meet ng Of the Grand Ledge of Odd Felows and sub ordinate lodges to be held hare Oc- t3ba' T to A, is fac ng the prablcm of housing the ,5o0 delegates and wis tors who will come to Pine Bluff for the big affa r. Major W. ]. Parkes, chairman of the committee, said yesterday that as ye quar,u.s have been secured for only 500 of the delegates.
 When the Pine Bluff delega ion ob- taine> the S ate meeting it was un- derstt cd that the new hoe now un- der construct .cn at Fifth avenue and Man street would be completed, thus giving ample room fer all who might attend. The fact tha the hotel will not be completed mas caused the members of the committee cons derable wcrrN and they will be forced 10 appeal to ind .vdual Pine Bluffians to throw open their homes to the visitors.
 We have already made one canvass of the homes in the ety. said Major Parkes yesterday. but the accommo- dations are yet totally inadequate to house he coming host and this prop 1 osltion is the hardest With wh oh the 1 committee Will have to contend. We will again call on the cit zans to help us put of our predicament and I am quite sure they will respond.
 Major Parkes said the delegates eXper ses are pa l by the lodges they represent and no one will be asked to enterta n without remuneration. But the citizens must come to the rescue and provide sleeping and eating ar rangemen.s or P ne Bluffs reputation for Hospitality will be injured.
 Blank cards have been printed giving the name of the resident, the house number, the number of people that can be accommodated and the rate to be charged and these will be f He'd out by these who care to assist n entertaining the big convention Upon the arrival of the delegates they will be met at the Union Station and gwen card which has full direc- tions as to ..he location of the homo and facilitate the placing of the visl- tors.
 Elaborate Decorations
 Tae city streets will be elaboratell 1 decorated in the colors of the order i and the committee will offer $2. l prize for the business house or indi v.dual who has the most, attractivel, decorated place. T. A. Hill has beer awarded contract for the stree1 deco:at ons as follows: On Mail street, from Barraque street to Eightl avenue; On Second avenue, from Statc to Walnut street; On Barraqut street, from State to Pine; On PiIt stree, From Barraque to Third ave. nue; On Fourth avenue. from the Union Station to Man stree;; Or Third avenue, from the Arlingtcn Ho 1 tel to Ma Il street.
 May Use New Temple. The program of the sessions in l cludes the welcome exercises Monda, night, Oc,ober 21. Welcome addresses W Il be made by county, city ant local lodge officials. On Tuesda. morning at 9 o'clock the Grand Ledge and the State Assembly W Il begir the business session which will ex- tend through Wednesday. The ses S ons will in all probability be hel( at the rev Shr ners Temple at Eightf avenue and Main stree, if the build ing IS completed by that date, whlcl is very likely. The large amount O business to be transacted W Il allow very little time for amusement bu the committee will en ertain the del 1 egate:. at one of ',he theatres. The Pat- archs Mil tant and uniform branch of the order, will probabl. | give an exhibition drill.
 1 Grand Master George w. Pardee, c Little Rock. will preside over the 1 meeting of the grand lodge which 1 will te the siXty-seventh annual ses sion; w. s. Grove, an Argent banker is grand patriarch of the Grand En' canlpnent, the thirty-e ghth session and Mrs. Adelaide D. Horton, of Fort Sm.ta, will preside over the twenty Bf1rss annual session of the Rebekah ] State Assembly.