Evening star., 1912-11-24

Having made a memorable success of
the grand joint rally of the three juris-
dictons of Maryland Virginia and the
District of Columbia, at the New Willard
Hotel last Tuesday evening, the Odd Fell
lows of the District are now putting
their shoulders to the Wheel in a figura-
tive sense to make the forthcoming rally
of the Rebekah lodges in the District an
event of which the women of their fami-
lies may well be proud.
The Rebekah rally will take place in
the auditorium Of Odd Fellows Hail. on
9TH street northwest. the evening of De-
cember IL. In addition to a general COM
| mittee. a large number of subordinate
committees have been named and are al
ready busily at their work. In every Re
| bekah lodge in the District the rally
| is the slogan and members whose inter
est has been more or less dormant for
some time, it is said are thoroughly
| aroused and lending their efforts to the
work.
| The big Odd Fellows rally, it is said
| has shown the Rebekahs what can be ac-
| complished by united. energetic work,
and their leaders are now ''up in arms,
so to speak, to accomplish still greater re-
suits. The women shun publicity, but
| many of them are outspoken in their
| opinions, which they are willing to have
| quoted One of the chief movers in the
| forthcoming rally said TO Star reporter
| yesterday: I'VE are going to show our
| husbands fathers and brothers that we
| are better men than they are in this
| matter. We know what women can do
| when they get together and get busy.
| and we are together, and the results will
show just how busy We have been"
In every Rebekah lodge in the District
1t is SAID, the movement is spreading, and
| those who know predict the Naomis. the
Ruths, the Martha Washingtons. the Dor
| cases. the Esthers and the Miriams are
going to give splendid account of them
selves. The influx of applications al
ready. 1t is said. indicates an exception
| ally large class for initiation The degree
staff of the Maryland Rebekah Assembly
| Will confer the degree at the rally
Ruth Rebekah Lodge, No ., will hold
its first meeting in December in the east
| lodgerOom. at Odd Fellows Hail. on 7th
street northwest which will be it's per-
| manent meeting place thereafter To suit
| the change, the meeting night of the
lodge has been shifted from the first
and third Wednesdays to the first and
| third Mondays of the month.
| Columbian Encampment No. l. will re-
ceive the last of the 1912 series of en-
campment grand visitations Wednesday
evening, when Grand Patriarch w. w
MILAN and his Grand Encampment Off
GERS are likely to be given an unusual
welcome. All members of the encamp-
ment branch of the order have been in
| vited to be present.
| Grand Secretary William f. Clapp re-
ports that the certificates received by
| him on the night of the grand rally,
| show that one or more candidates We're
present from fourteen of the seventeen
lodges located in this jurisdiction, and
| that the following Virginia lodges, also
had candidates Sarepta. No. Al: Poto-
mac. No. 3S; Falls Church. No. IL;
| Prince William. No. o11, and Crescent,
| No. 3'. Maryland had candidates from
Brookville Lodge. No. G1; Boyds. No 147;
Towson, No. -: Highland. No. %;
Metropolis. No. II; Elk Ridge. No. 20;
West River. No. rs; Oriole. No. Al; Olive
| Leaf, No. 146 and Oak Grove, No. 80.
| The largest class for degree work was
furnished by Oak GroSe Lodge No. $50.
| OF Washington Grove. Md. which had