The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23
ODD FELLOWS MEMORIAL
Impressive Services of Caledonia
Ledge Sunday with Address by
Guy w. Hill

of Olive Barnch Rebekah Lodge No.
A were invited. A large number OF
Odd Fellows met at their hall on
Railroad street at 2.30 p. M, and
with the Rebekahs marched to Mount
Pleasant cemetery, where others were
waiting. Harry H. Somers acted as
chairman of the committee. The SER
vices were impressively conducted by
the Noble Grand, Guy ID. Hawley and
Chaplain Henry Donohue, acting in
the place of the regular Chaplain,
Rev. A. S. Woodwork who is i'll.
Carlton Felch, one Of the oldest
members of Caledonia Lodge No. 6,
|. o. 0. f., marched from the hall to
the cemetery and was well up in tho
ranks when going up Maple street.
Abel Babcock father of Roscoe c. A.
Babcock also attended the services.
The members of Caledonia Lodge,
No. 6, l. O. O. f., who have passed
away since the last Memorial services
are as follows: Arthur, Burt, George
B. Clement, Ulysses G. Goss, Murdo
j, Mcdonald, John A. Grady, NAL
colin K. Mcleod, George P. Moore,
Walter Rapp and A. w. Simpson.
The brief but forcible and eloquent
address delivered by Lawyer Guy w.
Hill we are permitted to give in full.
I Lawyer Hill spoke as follows:
We are met here today on this
hallowed ground in memory of, and
to pay tribute to our departed broth
ers. 1t is highly befitting that one
day each year should be consecrated
and set apart by this noble order of
Odd Fellows that it may be brought
to the minds Of the living that regard
less of station in life, by the dark
Angel of Death all men are reduced
to the same level. ] honestly believe
that no lodge, no order, excels the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows in
it's endeavor to teach men, while liv-
ing that regardless of position, re-
gardlesS of wealth, regardless of
power all men are at the most but
small creatures of the same God, and
that by death, each and every one
is placed in the same file and the
same rank.
History teaches US, the Germans
admit it, and l believe it to be true
that Vermont furnished some of the
best soldiers, during the Civil War
and the War with Germany that ever
shouldered a rife. But the honor of
those victories-I hope tina t the war
with Germany has terminated in a
victory, lasting and completes due,
not alone to the men and boys, but
also to the sweethearts the sisters and
the mothers who remained in the lone
ly households and at night knelt by
their bedsides and poured forth ar
dent prayers to Almighty God.
The Independent Order of Odd
Fellows has been in existence since
April 26 1919, and therefore to a day
is SO years my senior. Not long ago
/ heard two men talking and in the
course Of their conversation, one ask
cd the other where he met the most
Odd Fellows, and the reply was,
"When you are away from home"
And that is true that you find the
greatest number of Odd Fellows when
Brother Odd Fellow stands in the
greatest need of them.
During the past year nine members
of Caledonia Lodge No. have passed
into the Great Unknown. Some pass
ed away surrounded by their friends
at home and others in foreign lands,
but no one Of them has passed away
without leaving behind him, noble ex-
amples of Christian manhood.
1t is my humble belief that re-
CARELESS of where we may depart
from this earth, that those OF US
who have been born in America have
been especially fortunate, because i'll
this pare of the world great men
cmerge-not from the palaces and
the gorgeous structures of the
wealthy-but from the humble homes
Of the common people. The early
education, unexcitable surroundings
and plenty Of hard farm work of the
Vermont boy and girl, has, in the
past, produced men and women quail
flied to go forth into larger fields of
action and there compete sue
cessfully with the worlds greatest
productions.
Days and occasions like these i'm
pei those who are living to rise up
to the height of a generation of men
worthy of this noble institution and a
free government, and proclaim to the
dear ones of those who have passed
on that their lives have not been
lived in vain.
And l believe it to be the duty of
the members of this order, to remem-
Der that they are all the children of
one father and of one mother, and to
fight for common cause, the adj
vancement and improvement of our
order, our birthplace and our native
land.
That all American citizens may
have equal privileges in the race of
life, with all it's desirable human as
pirations, that labor and capital may
be organized for the welfare of the |
American people and that this gov
eminent of the people, by the people
and for the people, may forever re-
main the protector of the oppressed,
the insignia of liberty and unity and
a model for the mighty kingdoms of |