The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-22
.REBEKAHS HOLD
DISTRICT MEET
KenOsha Lily of the Valley
Lodge Hostess to Three
Hundred Delegates.
AT ODD FELLOWS HALL

The members of the Lily-of- the-Val-
ley lodge of the Rebekahs were hostess
es to three hundred delegates to the
district convention held at Odd Fellows
temple Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Milwaukee sent the largest representa-
ton, 100 members, who made the trip
ina specially chartered car. Racine,
Burlington and Lake Geneva delegates
motored to Kenosha.
The convention opened at $3.50 o'clock
with conference reports and talks. Mrs.
Elsie Lautenbach, director of q Mil
waukee chapter, presented existing con-
ditions at the Odd Fellows home for
old people and children in Green Bay,
Wis. She declared that there have
been such numbers of applications for
admittance within the past few months
that the present quarters have been
found inadequate and Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs will work now to remedy the
situation.
The conference discussions were fol-
lowed by initiatory exercises at 400
o'clock in which the Kenosha lodge adj
Serve Four Hundred at Supper.
At $3.50 an elaborate supper was
served to the visiting delegates. Guam
titles of garden flowers were used in
the table appointments. 1t is estimated
that the local lodge served 400 people,
one of the largest supper parties ever
assembled in the local Odd Fellows
quarters.
After supper the Rebekahs from 9TH
er cities were left to visit with each
other while the Kenoshans conducted a
short business session. mmediately
following the meeting of the local
chapter, an entertaining program was
presented for Rebekahs and Odd Fell
lows. The program presented three
vocalists, who were most enthusiastic
ally received: Walter Berquist, Miss
Minnie Ericsson and Orla Likes. Little
Misses Violet Bogwilo and Helen Lamb
scored success, the former in a recita-
tive number and the latter in a novelty
dance. Mrs. Gertrude Kohlman of
Fond du Lac, warden of the Rebekah
assembly, entertained with a recitation
while members of the local chapter
kept the assembly in continued round
of laughter when they danced the Vir-
ginia reel. Half of the group wore
dresses of grandmother's day, while the
"gallants" were attired in overalls and
rakish straw hats. Those who took part
in the reel we're the Mines. Lulu Stew
art, Wayne Clemens, Mary Eifler, Car
RE Graves, Margaret Morehouse, Nora
Woodson, Alberta Weppler, Maude o.
Conner, Florence Likes, Eunice Sandin.
Catherine Ellis and Anna Jacobsen.
Observe 10th Anniversary.
The program was in observance Of
the SEVENTEEN anniversary Of the
founding of the Rebekahs and serious
note was introduced by Mrs. Gracia
Morrison of Oshkosh, president of the
state Rebekah assembly, who reviewed
the Rebekah history from pioneer days.
Wisconsin entered the Rebekah ranks
in the early days Of the order while
Kenosha's chapter has been organized
for the past twenty years.
A. Werner Of Milwaukee was the sec
ond speaker for the evening. He is one
of the most active of the Milwaukee
Odd Fellows and he described the eff
forts which Milwaukee lodges are max
ing to aid unemployed Odd Fellows.
He declared that with $4,000 unem-
ployed in Milwaukee the Odd Fellows
had determined to do their share by
the formation of an unemployment
board which is daily doing much to
ease conditions for Odd Fellows.
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Jacobsen, Carolyn DeBruin, Carrie
Graves and Eunice Sandin comprised
the members of the Kenosha lodge who
had charge Of arrangements for the
district meet.