Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-23
GRAND LODGE To
MEET IN ATLANTA;
NOT IN AMER|CUS

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The annual meeting of the Georgia
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which
was to have been held this year in
Americas on May 22-2S-24, has been
transferred to Atlanta by order of
Grand Master Homer r. McClatchey.
who issued a proclamation at the close
OF conference held on Saturday in
Atlanta by the grand officers and rep
lresentatives from several lodges
throughout the state.
The change in the place of meeting
was ordered by the Grand Master, on
account of the fact that the unsettled
conditions throughout the country at
present make it inadvisable and inn
practical for any community to go to
the expense of arranging an elaborate
program of entertainment for the Odd
Fellows in their state convention.
f. G. Oliver, of this city, was In at
tendance at the conference in At
lanta on Saturday and as the repre-
sentative of Sumter Lodge, No. 264,
presented the local situation to the
Grand Lodge officers.
The convention in Atlanta will occur
on the same dates as before fixed, May
22-23-24, but the gathering will be
plain business meeting, with no en-
tertainment features whatever, the
Grand officers STIMULATING that the At
lanta lodge was to go to no expense
in consideration of the strenuous sit
uation in which the country finds it
self on account of war conditions.
Grand Master McClatchey's procla-
nation is as follows:
To the Officers and Members of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows:
1t appearing that unforeseen condi-
tions caused by the state of war now
existing having arisen which did not
exist at the time the invitation of the
city of Americas to meet at that place
was extended and accepted. and the
officers OF the Grand Lodge in cabinet
assembled, having unanimously rec
commended that the place for the meet
ing of the session of 1917 be changed;
therefore,
| l, Homer R. McClatchey. grand mas
ter of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellow in the Jurisdiction of Georgia,
| by virtue of the power and authority
in me vested by the constitution and
laws of the Grand Lodge of Georgia.
do issue this, my proclamation, chang
ing the place Of meeting of the Grand
Lodge or Georgia for the session Of
1917, May 1924, from the city of
Americas to the city of Atlanta
Done in the city of Rome, county or
Floyd, state of Georgia, this 21st day
of April, 1917, and of our order the
ninety-eighth year.
HOMER K MCLATCHEY,
Grand Master.
| Attest: T. H. ROBERTSON,
! Grand Secretary.
! The executive committee of Sum
ter Lodge, No. 264, l. o. o. F., of this
city, has issued formal statement re-
garding the changing of the place of
meeting of the Grand Lodge, as fol-
lows:
Conditions over which we have no
control force use to announce that the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Geor-
! gia, scheduled to meet in Americas on
May 22-23-24, inclusive, has been di-
verified to Atlanta.
I'VE wish to express our most sin
icere thanks to those who have contrib
utel for the entertainment of the
Grand Lodge in Americas under the
present conditions, and we hope to
have the pleasure of entertaining the
Grand Lodge at some future date
when conditions are more favorable"
4 F. G. OLIVER.
J.H. CLARK.
! A. w. BUCHANAN.
G. ]. WITT.
I S. H. EDGE,
Executive Committee.
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