Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-11
STATE |. 0. OF. SESSION
STARTS HERE TUESDAY
to Attend Eighty-Sccond Annual
Meeting.
OBSERVE CENTENNIAL TO-DAY
Mayor AinsIic to Deliver Address of
Welcome at Jefferson Auditorium.
Grand Sire and Other National
Officers to BE Present.

Eight hundred delegates are expected
to be present at tho eighty second
session of the Grand Lodge Of Nir-
ginia Odd Fellows which Will convene
In Richmond next Tuesday and whose
meetings will last through the sue
cecding day. The general entertain
mcnt committee. composed OF Thomas
H. Morton. chairman: l.. l.. Pcnzcr Sec
urcr. mas arranged an elaborate enter
tainment Headquarters will be at
the Jefferson Hotel! The Grand Lodge
VIII meet at the jefferson Hotel audi
forum the grand cnCampmcnt at the
Odd Fellows Hall and other branches
OF inc order will gather at these places.
Lodge at o'clock Tuesday morning
the address OF welcome will be dcliv-
session Of tho Rcbekah Assembly viii
be at 1890 o'clock Tuesday morning.
ana the banquet 10 the grand sire at
$500 G.ocR mat evening The closing
session OF the PatriarChS Militant Will
he held at S:3O i. NJ.
Grand Sire Coming.
The session OF the Grand Lodge here
VIII be honorcd by a visit from tho
Sovereign Grand Lode. the general
commanding the I'atrlarchs Militant
: ana their s,sn officers and ladies.
lures Of the program.
preliminary TO the opening Of the
,irand Lodge, the Department Council
a.
$50 \. ". and AN evening session at
t:30 +. NJ. The Grand i:ncampInent on
INC same day Will meet at $3.50 y. NJ:
r. NJ Tonight at the Jefferson audi
forum the decoration Of Chiyalry will
be conferred on six sister Rcbekahs bv
General W. Z. Gurney, commanding the
patrtarchs Militant Army OF the
World.
Celebrate Centennial.
odd Fellows Of Richmond will ccle-
n bf TIT T.
afternoon at 3 o'clock. The fourteen
lodges and affiliated divisions will as
sembic in the auditorium Of the Jcffcr-
son Hotel. and there fellow gu, an
Interesting program John +. Good
secretary of the Sovereign Grand
lie VIII be presented by Judge II. G.
RICHARDSON. OF the lIustinrs Court,
toI Those * who o. Will occupy The plat.
officers and past officers of the Grand
Lodge Of Virginia. the Grand Encamp-
and Iatrarchs Militant. as well as tho
presiding officers Of those lodges. To-
Gated in and around Richmond.
Many Representatives.
These different branches VIII be rep
Q. l.. Mason. grand master. Grand
co G1IonsI charies rghls ,denar'men,
Harry T.. Mccoy. grand patriarch OF
Grand Encampment.
" G. Wright. noble grand, Union
Ed, r. Poseman, noble grand High
land Springs Lodge No. rs
r. II: Hazard. noble grand. Unity
F, V. Williams. noble grand. Fitz-
hugh Lodge. No %
G. X FawlkeS. noble grand Hcndcr-
son Lodge. No. l05
Allen creech,, noble. grand. Patrick
Henry Lodge. No. ll6
4 shenfcih, noble grand, Schiller
" l. .chiIdress, noble grand. Stuart
Lodge. No. lil.
W r.. Stutz. noble grand. Abou Ben
Adhem Lodge. No. 20.
politan Lodge. No 22S
W. +. Cassidy chief patriarch. Neil
son Encampmcnt. No =.
Mrs. j. j Hancock, noble grand.
Dove Rcbekah. No. 6.
Miss Mamie Brown. noble grand,
Friendship Rebekah. No. II.
Miss Ruth Adams noble grand. Pro-
gressive Rcbekah. No. %
Mrs. Daisy Scnstrom. noble grand,
Highland Springs, Rebekah. No. so