The Washington herald., 1918-05-19
Odd Fellows.

Monday No Is. first dsgrcs; Uuion.
No. II, and Langdon. No. %. business.
MISREPRESENTATION. No. 8; Golden Rule.
No. q. and Amity. No. 2. degree; Mt Pleas
ant. No. .. business
wednesday-EAstern. No. I; Harmony. No. .
degree.
Thursday-CoIumbia, No 10; Covenant, No II.
and Salem, No. .. degree: EXCELSIOR, No. IL,
gnd Phoenix. No. q. business
Friday-Central, No. ], degree; Metropolis, No
ls. business; Federal City. No. %. buJinesa
Beacon Lodge, No. Is, will hold its
regular meeting tomorrow evening and
will hereafter meet regularly on Mon
day evening OF each week. Easter
Lodge, No. 7, degree team under the
direction of Degree Director w. E.
Lawson. will confer the first degree
on a class of ten candidates for Bea-
con Lodge and it is expected that sew
eral other lodges will have candidates
present to receive the degree. Bea-
con. Lodge opened its first meeting
in the new temple with degree work
and it is the intention Of the members
to continue degree work at every
meeting Of the present term. Past
Grand w. S. PLACER. the architect who
designed the temple. and Past Grand
Master E. W. Bradford, chairman OF
the building committee under whose
direction the temple was erected, are
both active members of Beacon Lodge.
Every member Is requested to be
present at the meeting tomorrow night,
as reports from several committee will
be received and acted upon. The final
report OF the ninety-ninth anniversary
committee is expected. Final arrange
ments will be made for comforting the
second and third degrees.
At the last meeting the noble grand
appointed Wilton Harvey as q repre-
sentative on the excursion for the !.
o. o. F. Home and w. H. Cooper
representative on Memorial Fidelity
i Rebekah Lodge. No. Z, urging every
member of that branch OF the order
to be present at the meeting of May
Il, at which time Mrs. F. o. Schwing-
er, the new president of the assem-
bly,. will be officially introduced to
her home lodge. The use of Lang
don Lodge Hall was given to Fidel-
ity Rebekah Lodge, No. Z. for the
eT Tening of May ., at which time
they will give = Heart Social for
the benefit of the REQ Cross. Every
Odd Fellow and RCbekah is urged
to attend. F. E. Rapp, grand secre-
tary. was present for the first time
! in many months and gave a very
interesting talk on the condition of
the order. Another one of our boys,
II. NJ. Hilldoup. P. c., has gone to
war. He left Thursday for a training
lamp in the South.
Grand Master Humphreys fs con-
valescing very slowly and has been
ordered to the seashore for several
months to recuperate.
All members Of the fraternity are
requested to do active work in the
Red Cross campaign May 30 to q and
advise Deputy Grand Master Victor
p. Hammer of funds they contribute.
forwarding all such contributions to
Samuel E. Boyce, Odd Fellows
Temple. 4l9 Seventh street northwest.
Get busy.
Next Thursday night Salemn will
confer the third degree. At the last
meeting night the second degree was
conferred. and the war saving stamp
committee reported the sale Of $, ,2o4. 50.
Harmony Lodge. No. 9. will! confer
the first degree at its meeting on
Wednesday. May q. on two candi-
dates. Degree Director ]. !. LaSalle
announced his cast for the degree at
the last meeting and has arranged
FOR rehearsal. so that each .charac-
ter will have his part perfect. The
Doble grand. DR.. Gates, hopes to have
the lodge service flag read for pre-
sentation at the next meeting. Har-
mony has between twenty and thirty
members in the service and DR.. GateJ
proposes to unfurl a flag that will do
them honor and be a credit to the
lodge. The new lodge room, which
Is In the I. o. o. F. Temple on Sew.
enth street northwest, IL found to DE
more comfortable than the old one,
and the lodge is having better al.
tendance than II has had durint:
the past year. Degree work Is sched-
uled for every meeting for the rest Of
the term.