The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-07
PULLMAN SELECTED FOR CONVENTION OF
 GRAND LODGE LOOP.
Successful Meeting Closed With Installation of Off, cers-Rebekahs Confer
 Degrees and Adjourn

What is said to be the most enthusi- astic annual state convention of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows ever held in Birmingham, closed yesterday. The Rebekah state assembly conferred the Rebekah degree upon s5 candidates at it's meeting last night.
 The convention next year will be held at Cullman in spite of the fact that a fight was made for it to be held in this city.
 The recommendation of Past Grand Master Palmer Daugette to make Bir- mingham the permanent headquarters for the secretary's office was voted down.
 The greater part of the day was taken up with the installation of officers in both the Grand Lodge and the Rebekah assembly, reports of the committees and the adoption of a resolution by the Grand Lodge to endow the state home with sfo0 GOO which will be raised in ten years bv the '.penny-a-week' scheme inaugu- rated by Past Grand Master Palmer Daugette.
 Bv means of the penny week scheme Grand Master Daugette managed to pay off the debt of S6o0o which had been hanging over the home for sev- eral years and through the same means the order now proposes to endow the home with $100,0o0. It is proposed that each member in the state contribute one penny each week to the upkeep of the home By this means soc is given by each member of the order during the year and 1t is estimated that the s100,o0o can be raised within period of ten years.
 Grand Master Daugette was elected representative of the grand lodge to the ar nual convention of the sovereign grand lodge at Baltimore, September l5. The names of the officers and commit. tee installed in the grand lodge yester- day follow:
 | Elliott G. Rickerby, Mobile, grand
 master; L. H. Buell., Cullman. deput, | grand master; c. o. Jacobs, Woodlawn grand warden; H. c. Pollard Hunts vile, grand secretary; ]. C. Bowie. Tal- ladega, grand treasurer; W. L. McCor
 mick, grand marshal; J. C. Grimes. ton, grand guardian; ". l.. CohaH. Mo
 bile. grand chaplain Jas. Mclaughlin
 Avondale, grand herald.
 | Committees Credential: H c. Pollard
 Huntsville; Chas. w. Caps Birmingham
 A. M. Schmitt, Tuscaloosa Finance W. w. Haskell. PrattvilIe: J. ]. Goode l Bessemer R. s. Butler. Selma. Home
 William Ellis, Vivian: Geo. Huddleston
 Birmingham; George Stiefelmeyer. Gull
 man Petitions and Appeals: Geo. M 1 Edmunds. Birmingham: J. A. Howlem Eclectic; R. c. Rogers. Ardmore. Work
 Charles L. Phillips. Birmingham: J. l.
 Mackey Birmingham s. W. Foster Birmingham.
 The officers elected and installed b,
 the Rebekah Assembly follow: 1 Mrs. Katie Havnie Barnett Mont gom
 cry. president; Mrs Victoria Hinkle i Woodlawn. vice president; Mrs. Emms
 Jackson, Mobile. warden: Mrs. May D l Rrunson. Mobile, secretary. (re-elected Mrs. Emma Shropshire, Birmingham treasurer. Home Board: Mrs Addit Woodrow. Birmn ehar: Mrs. McNabb
 Cullman; Mrs. Belle Bernsinger. Alaba ma City.
 Many of the delegates to the conven
 ton left the city early yesterday after
 noon for their homes. The grand Tod 2,
 adjourned about 3:30 o'clock yesterla,
 afternoon. The Rebekah assembly d:t not complete it's business until after tn. conferring of the Rebekah degree upol
 the 25 candidates last night by the Wood lawn degree team.