The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1921-03-26
ODD FELLOWS At
A SHAD SUPPER
LAST EVENING
GRANTHAM POSTMASTER
0AN<A1N IA<ANN IOA0 WAS EN
Addresses by Messrs. Walter
Baker, J. L. Bartlett, Calvin
Woodard, Sam Harrell, John
E. Woodland, Geo. w. Tatum
and 'thers. Children from
Goldsboro Were Present.

Several enthusiastic and loyal
members of Enterprise Lodge. I. o.
o. F. on last evening, Friday, March
25th. were hosts at a banquet or
shad supper, in the Lodge Rooms of
Enterprise Lodge, at which all the
members of the Lodge and visiting
brothers from other lodges, certain
distinguished citizens of the County.
who are to become members of the
Order, Mr.. C. o. Baird, Superintend-
ant of the Odd Fellows Home in
Goldsboro, and some eighteen young
ladies and gentlemen from the Home
were guests.
Mr.. w. C. Pearson, Noble Grand
of the Lodge, as chairman of tho
Committee of arrangements, assisted
by Mr.. Needham Herring, Mr.. Geo.
Tatum and Mr. H. S. Shepard, other
members of the Committee, were
given a rising vote of thanks for
their excellent work in preparing
and arranging the banquet, which
was declared to be one of the most
enjoyable banquets ever given in the
county.
/ Shortly after seven Mr.. r. j.
Grantham, toastmaster for the even
Rev. Morrison Bethea, Rector of ST
Timothy's Episcopal church, to give
THANKS. This Mr.. Bethea did earnestly
and eloquently.
After a session of enjoyable feast
ing the toast master arose and stat
ed that it was a great pleasure tc
welcome the several hundred guests
present. He said that he considered
it fitting on such an occasion that
some of the great principles and
work of the order should be discuss
ed by several of the loyal and en-
ithusiastic members of the order and
Walter Baker to speak upon the In
iatory Degree. Responding to thi.
invitation Mr.. Baker spoke feeling
ly and entertainingly of the truth.
|
iatory Degree of Odd Fellowship. He
was followed by Brother L. L. Bar
lett, who p1easnig1y addressed the
gathering on the First Degree of Ode
Fellowship and the value of the ap.
, plicatfon of it's principles to the
lives of men.
!, At the conclusion of Mr.. Barlett's
, address Mr.. Grantham called upon
Mr. Calvin Woodard, one of the
high officers in Odd Fellowship, and
Past Grand Master of the Order in
the state, to speak from his heart
upon whatever subject he wished
Mr.. Woodard, called about him &
: number of the children from tfN
Home at Goldsboro, who were among
the guests, and in the words of the
? famous Roman matron, declared thai
these were the jewels of the order
, He then spoke upon the subject o.
the value of little things showing
how frequently the little things il
life eventually became the grea
J things. He congratulated the Ordel
upon itsSopportunity of giving {
e home, training and education tt
these children and preparing then
for useful and valuable places in th'
e generation to come.
: Upon the conclusion of Mr.. Wood
e ards strong speech BretherSamHar
rell was called upon to speak upol
e the Second Degree in Odd Fellowship
d Speaking with deep earnestness b
: aptly and ably put before his audi
ence the work and purpose of thi
great deree.
Mr.. Grantham then introduce
< Hon. John E. Woodard, as a cels
brated lawyer, leading citizen,
,r famous scholar and Nestor of Cd
D. Fellowship, and asked him to spea
al upon the history of Enterprise Lodg
IS This Mr.. woodardl did in his finishe
i-land scholarly style, He told of no
u-!the lodge antedatedN the county. b
ing founded in 1852 when what