The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-12-26
ENCAMPMENT
ORGANIZED

| friday, December 10, was a red let
ter day in the history of Odd Fellow
ship in Oroville. or rather the night of
that day came in for the lurid letter.
oh that date was organized and insti-
| tuted Centennial Encampment No.
81 |. 0. o. F., and in the personnel
ol the organization neighboring towns
were almost as well represented as
the local lodge.
Inc ceremonies of the institution
were in the hands of Grand Patriarch
}. +. .Wautz and Grand Scribe George
IChamberlain, of Vancouver. Wash,
assisted by Patriarchs Sincock. Gibbs.
Whited and Farver, oflTonasket. and
Cobb, Riste and Hollants. of Oroville
and VIM. Patterson, of Riverside. All
three or the degrees, the Patriarch the
Golden Rule and the Royal Purple
were conferred upon very large
class i'll one night, and as banouet
was served at the Crescent Cafe at
midnight it was well along into Satur-
day morning before the work of or
ganization was completed The Camp
will hold regular meetings in Odd
Fellows hall the first ana third Thurs.
day nights Of each month.
THE securing of the enc9 0ment
here was somewhat of fluke and
largely due to the courtesy of the To-
nasket Odd Fellows AT the district
meeting applications for the encamp-
ment were presented to-the grand Of
ficers from both Tonasket and Oro-
vile and the number of names on the
two petitions were tie At that To-
nasket generously withdrew and fav-
ored placing the Encampment at Ori-
vile. This is the second Encampment
in the county, the other one being at
Okanogan and it will accommodate
all Odd Fellow lodges in the north
part if the county, and from which (
has already drawn membership Cf
constantly added until it will become
one of the largest Encamnments in
eastern Washington outside Of the lar
ger cities. The new Camp started life
under very auspicious conditions and
the local Odd Fellows are to be con-
graduated upon the bright beginning
of this important branch of the order.
The following is a list of the new
officers of the Encampment, the char
ter members and the initiates
Elective Officers7zG. P. j. s.. SIM
cock; II. p, Chas Gibbs; S. W., A. w.
Cobb: r. Scribe, l.. e. Phillips; f.
Scribe, E. S. Taylor; Treas, Percy
Eastman j. w.. Claude Davis; Guide,
J. w. Carrel; 1st Watch, Geo. Higgin-
bottom; End Watch, r. C. Whited; 3rd
Watch, Harry Bowerman; 4th Watch,
Floyd Wickersham; 1st G. of r., l.. S.
Farver; End G. of r., f. r. Hoose
Charter Members:-A. w. Cobb, E.
Riste, S. J. Sincock, Chas. Gibbs, r. c.
Whited, L. S. Farver, w. II. Hollants
j. p. Friis.
Initiates: Claude Davis, Guy Fruit,
r. f. McCog, j. f. Samson, w. w. Nc
Laughlin, w. Wentworth, F ID. Willi-
ms, G. NJ. Rayburn. Don Mooney, p. O.
Peterson, John Sherling, Gust Ganas,
Eugene Taylor, VIM. Almquist,. A. L.
Kitching, w. II. Thayer, L. e. Hendrix
ID. S. Williams, Silas Fritz, w. l.. Bis
sell, r. D. Harding, Percy Eastman,
C. l.. Diamond, r. J. Morrow, r. p.
Hoskyn, Fred Dimmitt, F. G. Hart. A.
j. Jackson, II. r. Schmidt, l.. e. Phil
lips. J. w. Carrel, Ben A. Fielding,
David Mayberry, Floyd Wickersham
j. NJ. r. Williams, J. f. Wehe, c. l..
Hollants, C. A. Powell, John Hugh, w.
E. Grant, Frank Reeder, r. b, Vail,
II. e. Silvernail, Geo. Higginbottom,
James A. Biles, II. A. Bowerman. E.
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