The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-04-13
COLOUED LODGE
" Odd Fellows Throughout the State
VIII Meet Here July II,
~, 10 and II.

| District Grand Lodge NO. ~ OF the
lGrand United Order of Odd Fellows IN
kentucky, will meet in this city July
II, u, 10 and H.
At the annual session of this body
ned at Paris last July the Maysville
Star Lodge and Household of Ruth,
through their representatives, Hon. r
W. Lane. Prof. w. II. Humphrey and
| Miss Sadie Bell, asked that the session
Of 1916 be held at Maysville. This re-
quest was supported by strong letters
Of invitation from our County Judge,
Hon. W. II. Rice, and our City Mayor
Hon. ]. Wesley Lee, which made a
strong impression on the delegates as
sembled, and Maysville was successful
over Paducah and Darlington.
The two lodges met and named a
committee of eighteen to make all
necessary arrangements for the en-
tertainment of the Grand Lodge in this
city
That committee is composed of the
| following persons, who stand among
| our best colored citizens for frugality,
progress and race enterprise:
| Maysville STAR. II. Upton, II. J
/ Fields. h. w. Chambers, John Yates,
W. II. Humphrey. Robert Sykes, Ben
jamin Chambers and Isaac Badly.
Household of Ruth-lda Jackson,
Anna Rell, Alice Lane, Pearl John
son. Sadie Bell, Bette Hays, Anna p.
Perkins and r. Thomas.
! The above committee unanimously
elected Hon. +. w Lane as chairman
Of the Joint committee and unanimous
/ IL elected Mrs H. L. Anderson as sec
rotary
This committee is now planning for
/ this gathering of high-class set OF
| men and women who will make up the
delegates from the nearly 200 lodges
i'm this state and their hundreds of
friends who always attend these gath
erings.
The Patriarchy exhibition and COM
petitivc drills while in camp here by
this branch of the Odd Fellows order,
in itself is worth seeing. Plumes and
feathers. dashing and striking uni
forms, presenting splendid type OF
the brave knights of old" This will
come to our people like breath from
new world. All of Maysvlle and
surrounding country will have this
rich opportunity at their own door to
see one of the greatest spectacular and
uniform display ever witnessed in
northern Kentucky by cOlored drill
companies.
These delegates and uniformed COM
panies. eighteen in number, pay their |
own way while in the city and that
means a goodly sum to be spent among
our business enterprises in the city |
They will have to be provided for and
that means an outlay of money by our
people in order to make money, hence
we will all share in benefits and prof
it's gained by this gathering.
This will also mean an outlay of
money by the two lodges here for ad-
vertising, for printing and mailing, for
a band of music and such expenses, as
always goes with an undertaking OF
this nature.
Every member Of the two lodges has
been taxed to help defray some of the
expense. AS our colored people here
have not advantages so much enjoyed
by the same people in other parts of
the state in the way of factory emf
ployment that employs them the year
around and other pursuits in life that
enables them TO contribute to this UNI
as they would so mucn IKE
and at the same time these Odd Eel
lows of Maysyille have been struggling
TO meet their obligations in the pay
ment ON their new hall on Sutton
street, they are looking forward to
this gathering in July OF delegates and
crowds that follow up these sessions
as being a means to that end.
They need your encouragement in
this indeed laudable undertaking and
they are calling upon every friend and
well wlsher, ever merchant, barber
farmer and laborer. to help them by
a liberal contribution 10 their
solicitors when they call upon you.
These dollars come back TO you, the
butcher, the grocer, the dry goods
man, the merchant, banker, painter
paperhanger, druggist, in fact all reap
something from all good and big in
and business gatherings
brought TO Maysyille and this will be
the first time the Odd Fellows Grand
Lodge has ever metin northern Ken
iueLV al ua ehoW than Wa can faka