The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-19
ODD FELLOWS OPEN
ANNUAL CONVENTION
HATTiEscRURG WELL REPRE-
sENTED AT JACKSON MEET
ING OF FRATERNITY.
Special to The lFel1s.

representing every part of MississiI
pi, in attendan ce. including a numDe
of Hattiesburg ians, the annual NEE
ing of the Grand Lodge of Mississippi
encampment OF Independent Order @
Odd Fellows, AND the RebeKah brancl
of the order, opened here today.
Preliminary meetings were he'll,
yesterday aft ernoon and last might
but the real encampment began toda!
when Mayor s. J. Taylor delivered al
address of welcome on behalf of the
city, and Sively Rhodes, on behalf o
the Young Mems Business Club, wei
coined the visitors.
The officers of the Ruth Rebekat
Assembly are:
President, Mrs. Mamie Stanley
Meridian.
Vice President, Mrs. Pauline Klein
Meridian.
Secretary. Mrs. Daisy Moore, Jack.
son.
Treasurer Mrs. Alice P Fridge, Ell,
lisvilIe.
Marshal, Miss Laura Penn, Brook
\ haven.
Conductor, Miss Helen Smith, En-
terprise.
Chaplain, Mrs. Helen Schnell, Vicks-
burg.
Inside Guardian, Mrs. w. J. Force,
Hattiesburg.
Outside Guardian, Mrs. Ruth Penn,
Brookhaven.
Judiciary Committee, DR.. w. ]. Nc
Nair, Quitman; Mrs. V. NJ. Moore, Me-
ridian; Mrs. Emma Marley, Jackson.
Finance Committee, w. E. Stanley,
Meridian; Mrs. Grace Hemingway,
Jackson; Mrs. w. J. York, Hatties-
burg.
Orphans Home Fund, Mrs. Hilda C.
Smith, Enterprise; Mrs Hattie
Adams, Vicksburg; Miss Minnie Mag
non. Vicksburg.
The present officers of the grand
encampment are:
Grand Patriarch, w. ]. Force, Hat
tiesburg.
Grand High Priest, B. v. Wright,
Vicksburg.
Senior Warden, N. G. Mcknight,
Meridian.
Junior Warden, j. A. Colson, West
Point.
Grand Scribe, o. L. Mckay, Me-
ridian.
Grand Treasurer, F. E. Carlton, Ma
con.
Grand Marshall, Joe A. Wright, Pas
cagoula.
Grand Sentinel, S. S. Wright, Hat
tiesburg.
Finance Committee L. NJ. Williams,
Hattiesburg; C. H. Barr Meridian;
w. H. Baker Water Valley.
Judiciary Committee, B. S. Sem
mellman. West Point; E. A. Scudder. |
Vincent Ross, Pascagoula.
The grand lodge officers are as fol-
lows:
Grand Master, B. F. Fridge. Ellis.
Vile.
Deputy Grand Master, B. S. Sem.
mellman, West Point
Grand Warden, o. U. Addison, Lau-
rel
Grand Secretary, w. S. P. Doty,
Grenada.
Grand Treasurer, Herman Katz,
Grand Chaplain, w. S. Glenn, Ellis
Vile.
Grand Marshal, S. H. Bugge, Pasca-
goula.
Grand Conductor, j. d. Williamson,
Pontotoc.
Grand Herald, Morris Bluthcnthal.
Holly Springs.
Grand Guardian, Chas, Buchanan,
Ellisville.
Judiciary Committee, William Hem
ngway. Jackson; C. H. Barr, Meridi-
IN; Chas. Buchanan, Ellisville. l.
Finance Committee, L. M. Williams.
iattiesburg; c. S. Wright, Tyler {
own; L. c. Devall, Ellisville. |,
Trustees Orphans Home Fund. B.
{. Fridge, Ellisville; w. S. P. Doty. {
irenada; c. L. Lincoln, Columbus: S
William Hemingway, Jackson: o. In
icllay, Meridian. Ii
One vacancy has taken place in the
list of grand lodge officers since lastI
Meeting, Chas. Buchanan, of Ellis
lille, having been named as GrandI
Guardian to succeed Samuel French. u
eceased, of Vicksburg, who at the ]
ime of his death, was the Oldest c
'dd Fellow in Mississippi, having s
cen a member of the fraternity for b
lxth-one years. b
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