The Washington herald., 1916-02-06
Doings OF the Odd Fellows.

business, LaugUOn, No. y, degree.
Tuesday-WaShington No. g. business; Golden
RUle No. = degree; Amity. No. 2. business.
Wsdnesday- Eastern No. :, degree: Harmony, No
>. business; Friendship No. z, business; Federal
City No. 90 dcgree
Thursday columbia No 10, Covenant. No. l3, EI-
celsi0r. No. Il. and salem. No. 2. business.
FrIday-Central. No |, degree: Metropolis, No.
49, business; Phoenix. No :. degree.
ENCAMPMENTS.
Tuesday-Fred d Stuart, No. I, degree.
Wednesday Columbian No. l. degree
PATRIARCHS MILITANT.
Saturdly-Ddu and social.
Grand Master w. ]. Hope announces
the following dates upon which he. in
company with the Grand Lodge officers
will visit the subordinate lodges: Har-
mony, No 9, February %; Beacon, No.
| Is, February .; Amity, No. q, March. I;
Excelsior, No. Il. March 9: Friendship
| No. l., March Is; Golden Rule, No. p.
! March 2I; Covenant, No. 13, March 23
Columbia, No 100 March 30; MounI
Pleasant. No. %, April 4; Federal City,
| No. 20. April 12; Metropolis, No. 16, April
! Il; Union, No. II, April "a.
| The first visitation will be to Harmony
Lodge, No. 9. and in accordance with the
usual custom the Grand Lodge officers
will enter the lodge room promptly at
IS:3O p. m. The noble and vice grands
according to the Grand Lodge rules and
regulations, must be examined in the
work of the degrees, and such other Of
! ficers as the grand master may desire
At each of the visitatiOns an address
will be made b. one of the Grand Lodge
officers or some member chosen by the
grand master.
The initiatory degree Of Golden Rule
! Lodge, No. q, will be conferred next
| Tuesday evening.
At the last meeting Of Columbia Lodge,
No. 10, Noble Grand Ernest A. Schwlngle
appointed what he designated as a rus
tling committee, stating that the degree
team was anxious to have work at each
meeting, and that all members who de-
sired to present the application OF their
friends should do so at an early rate
Grand Patriarch P. H. Leary requests
all members of the several subordinate
| encampments and the officers of the
| grand enCampment to meet with him in
| the encampment room of I. o. o. F. Hall.
| on Wednesday evening, February 10.
| Grand Patriarch Leary announces the
| following dates for the official visltations
! to the several subordinate encamp-
] ments: Magenenu, No. 4, February IS;
Mount Nebo, No. G. March l; Columbia,
No. l. March %; Fred D. Stuart, No. 7,
April II.
Fred D. Stuart Encampment, No. Z,
| will confer the golden rule degree upon
several candidates on Tuesday evening.
Grand Master William J. Hope an
nounces the following additional COM
mittees Grand lodge committee on
Rebekah Lodges, William F. Dement,,
chairman; W. c. W. Burgess and L. H.
Windsor; printing committee, Charles
GarreIls, chairman; Otto F. Smith and
F. D. Seinfert.
Odd Fellows Home Association will
purchase the property at $3.50 N
| street northwest as its new home.
/ At the last meeting of Phoenix
Lodge, No. 20, the degree team, under
the direction of Degree Director R. r.
Gibbs, conferred the initiatory degree
upon three candidates.
Excelsior Lodge, No. II, met in reg
ular session on Thursday evening.
| Noble Grand NJ H. Friedman was in
stalled noble grand for the third term.
J The first degree in Eastern Lodge,
No. Z, will be conferred on a large
class OF candidates Wednesday even
ing. Degree Director Lawson reports