Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-28
ODD FELLOWS
At CELEBRATION
Jamesburg Holds Anniversary
Event Tuesday Night -
Members Hear Address.
tBy Evening News Correspondent

tBy Evening News Correspondent.l
JAMESBURG. April 2S:-Fidclity
Lodge No. 141, Independent Order of
odd Fellows. of Jamesburg. made
merry Tuesday night at a big rally
in the Sta theatre when they OBJ
served the fifty-tirst anniversary of
their institution and also the 1O2nd
of the order of odd Fellowship.
Dignitaries of the order were pres
ent. The Rev. Is. c. Lippincott, past
| grand chaplain of the order, deliver
ed a finished Grafton on Brother
hood" and Harry S. Pine, the pres
ent grand secretary of the order,
was also present and spoke in a gem
eral way of the benevolence as prac-
ticed by odd Fellows. William Ii.
Brooks, of town, the only surviving
member of the Fidelity lodges orig
inal members. the late William H..
Courier, delivered an address remi-
niscent of the orders history. Inter
spersing the flow of oratory was
singing of patriotic songs and prayer
of thanksgiving.
The stage was prettily decorated
with floral growth; a handsomely ar
ranged banner denoting the birth of
Odd Fellowship n hundred and
two years ago and the fiftieth of
Fidelity lodge, the work of Albert
LanSe, a member of long standing.
Bunn's orchestra supplied a program
of musical numbers.
Representatives of lodges were
present from Cranbury, New Bruins
wick, Spotswood and South Amboy,
headed by District Deputy Grand
Master Frank Baldwin of No. 6.
William II. Brooks presided at the
meeting as chairman and introduced
the speakers of the evening.
Singing of America" opened the
exercises.
William II. Brooks was the first
speaker of the evening and he read
a history of the Fidelity Lodge of
his composition that was in part as
follows:
On the seventeenth day of Febru-
airy, 1870, William II. Courier, past
grand of Middlesex Lodge No. 30,
of Cranbury; Isaac S. Buckelew, past
grand of Monmouth Lodge No. 20,
of Freehold; John II. Heath. past
grand of General Morgan Lodge of
South Amboy, n. j., and William j.
Courier, Charles Il. Climer, Charles
+. Wooley and Charles r.. Lining, all
of General Morgan Lodge, united III
a petition to the most worthy grand
master of the State of New Jersey
for a chatter for a lodge to be locat-
ed at J~ameSburg.
On the 24th of February, 1870,
they recci ID notice that their re-
quest had been granted n it was
in July that they were ready to be
instituted. On July 6, 1870, John
S. .1tratford, NJ. w. grand master,
with a delegation of twenty from
General Morgan Lodge, sixteen from
Middlesex Lodge, six from Windsor
Lodge, HightstoWn, and brothers
from Nos. 3, "a, SIS and GO, of Penn
sylvania, assembled for the purpose
of %instituting the lodge.
The following were the first Off
GERS: Noble grand. William H..
Courier; vice grand, Charles p.
Clymer; secretary, Charles f. Linn
ing; treasurer, Isaac S. Buckelew;
warden, John H. Heath; guardian.
William j. Courier.
At the end of the fourth year the
lodge had a membership of eighty.
OF the charter members, Brother
Charles p. Clymer alone survives,
having reached the 6 of eighty
three. OF the men who were initial
ed on the opening night, who still
retain their membership, Brother
Charles G.. Cox. of Jamesburg, alone
survives.
The lodge has never left the old
home, having been organized in a
room on the second floor of the First
National Bank building. Several
times the room a enlarged, h
last time in 1887 when the entire
second floor was taken over. Several
times the proposition of purchasing
land and erecting a hall was consid-
cred but was not carried.
Three hundred and three members
have been initiated since institution,
thirty-nine since the beginning of the
present year thousands of dollars
wisely and helpfully ~disbursed.
The address of the Rev. Mr.. Lip
pincott on brotherhood" was work.
ed around the theme of Friendship,
Love, Truth" Interspersed were
humorous experiences of the speak
er's acquaintance in this section for
the past quarter century or more
that brought laughter to all.
The talk of Grand Secretary Pine
was of the benefits to be derived
from membership.
Twenty-Five candidates from Fidel-
ity Lodge will go to Camden on
Saturday to receive final degree at a
demonstration when 1000 will be
obligated at the Camden armory.
Any members desiring to go commu-
nicate with c. NJ. Dawson.
The committee in charge were c.
NJ. Dawson, f. H. Pownall and ID. III.
Smith.