Arizona republican., 1915-03-28

gracefully, that lodge cannot help but be a good and prosperous one" Judging from the reports and his talk, this grand master is one of the most enthusiastic workers the Texas grand lodge had at the lead in many years, man WnO has the orders welfare at heart. During his term of office 1914, 42 new lodges were issued charters in the state of fTexas record breaker and the hard times at that. what say ye to l this AriZOnians l. o. O.. F., you think we could match that?
 While at Fort Worth J also visited the K. P. Lodges. They gave me most welcome reception, they don't | wait until recess to greet the visi-
 tors, but they come one by one dur
 ing the beginning of the session and shake your hand most cordially ard
 make you feel it comes from the heart, their membership consists of the wealthiest class in that city, they
 own their own hall (building) three story brick on a prominent corner on Main street. Queen City lodge
 meets on Tuesday and Red Cross
 on Friday evening"
 l Sunday March 18th, left Fort Worth with the Odd Fellows on
 their special train for San Antonio | where the 18th annual session grand lodge I. O. O. F. was scheduled for
 a four day session. On our arrival | in San Antonio we found most
 beautiful sight, all the business huoses and streets were decorated
 with flags and the colors of the
 order, near every window you could | see a sign saying Welcome l. O. o. F." I never saw so many Odd Fellows at one time in one city in
 my life the reports showed over
 six thousand delegates, Odd Fellows and Rebekahs together. on Tuesday
 morning a monster parade took place.
 every odd Fellow was compelled to participate in the parade unless ex- cused by the Grand Master. Clin-. ton G. Brown, mayor, gave the ad- dress of welcome m behalf of the city of San Antonio, and turned over the key to the visitors for tbe four days session. I had the pleas lure of witnessing some beautiful de- gree work, contest and competitive drills during the session. The Texas odd Fellows believe in publicity. they issued post cards in sets of four
 with the emblem of the order and the picture of the Alamo on them; some read like this: The Grand Lodge of Texas, I. o. o. F. Greets Ton in Friendship, Love and Truth.
 San Antonio, March, 1915. But what
 surprised me most in Texas was
 the way the daily press treats all the conventions in such a courteous
 and foremost manner. they give them
 the right of way on the front pages
 which is mystery to me thus far.
 San Antonio lodge. No. II. I. O. O..
 F. is the richest lodge in the south
 west and is the sole owner of that
 beautiful six story Cricket hotel.
 It is a modern, uptO date hotel,
 located within a hundred yards of
 the historic Alamo and the plaza,
 the top floor is the hall and home
 of San Antonio lodge, No. II. I
 have never been in a more beautiful
 hall inF America and I have visited
 nearly all the states: the furniture
 consists of the finest Mahogany.
 The presiding officers chairs would be a fitting throne for any crown head of Europe. This lodge main some shrewd investments about 25 years ago and made money while others slept; it's strange that there isn't more lodges following their ex ample This visit to Texas has in- spired me more than ever to work for the upbuilding of Odd Fellowship in Arizona. Can we count on you brother?