The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-05-19
LOCAL |. 0. 0. F.
MAKE GREAT HIT
Most Successiul Semi-Annual Meeting
Of the District Organization Ever
Held In the County.

Saturday was red letter day in
the history of the local Odd Fellows
lodge. and one that will not soon be
forgotten by the big delegation OF the
Knights of the Three Links so fOrtu.
nate as to be present. 1t was tne
occasion of the semi-annual meeting
Of the district organization, that en-
braces all of the lodges of OkanOgan
county, and not only. was every lodge
in the county represented. but some
40 members OF the order were present
from Penticton and Is from Princeton.
B. c. 1t is conservatively estimated
that fully 250 Odd Fellows were in at.
tendance. There were several present
who have held high places in the
counsels of the order, among them
Past Grand Master Glass of the British
Columbia jurisdiction Present Granl
Marshal Fisher, of British Columbia;
Past Grand Patriarch Wantz, If
Omak; Past Grand Master Graham, Of
Okan0gan.
The afternoon session was largely
devoted to the selection of officers Of
the district organization. f. J. BOwn,
Of ConcOnully. was elected president;
Percy Eastman, of Loomis lodge, vice.
president; Harry Bowerman, of Oro-
Vile, was reelected secretary; NJ. ID.
Smith, of Brewster. treasurer.
In the evening there were no COM
petative degree team contests, as has
marked other sessions, but there was
an exemplification Of the first degree
by the team from Oroville lodge, and
the work was pronounced as near per-
feet as anything of like kind that has
ever been witnessed by those in at
tendance. Two individual prizes were
awarded during the evening. The first
prize was won by A. l.. Kitching fOf
his finished dramatic work in the first
degree, and Sylvan Thomas was pre-
sented with the second prize for his
excellent rendition of the unwritten
work In the initatory degree. In ad
ditiOn to the floor work number Of
interesting, instructive and entertain
Ing addresses upon the object and
aims of hte order were given by a num-
ber Of the visiting members. Other
features that kept the large audience
in happy humor were selections by
the Kitchen band, and musical num-
bers by the Hawaiian orchestra COM
posed Of AL. Kitching and Miles Virgo,
both gentlemen proving to be inimit-
able entertainers.
A collation. was served to the visit
ors by the Rebekahs in the store room
OF the Odd Fellows building at mid
night, which was SO profuse and elab-
crate in the quantity and quality Of
the viands provided that the spread
could be designated as banquet with
out exaggeration. Some 24O people
were fed at the first table.
: Before adjournment the convention
designated Brewster as the place for
the next meeting of the organization,
which will be held in November, when
the new Odd Fellows hall in that place
will be officially dedicated. This No
vember session will be in the nature
OF joint meeting of Odd Fellows ana
Rebekahs, and the Brewster people
will certainly make it an occasion so
replete in attractions that no Odd
Fellow in the county will want to miss
1t.
1t was the concensus Of opinion OF
many visitors whom we met that the
meeting Saturday was the most sue
cessful In point of attendance and the
entertainment provided by the local
lodge that has been held in the county
since the perfection Of the district or
ganization. The streets were crowded
with automobiles and the sidewalks
thronged with strangers wearing the
badge of the order. The response in
the way Of visitors from the neighbor-
Ing towns of Penticton and Princeton
was highly appreciated both by the
members OF the local lodge and visit
Ing members from the county. Not
only did the British Columbia towns
contribute to the success of the meet
ing IN the way Of numbers, but sew
eral Of the gentlemen from across the
line were fluent and entertaining
speakers. The Oroville Odd Fellows
are to be congratulated upon the man
ner In which the convention was con-
quoted, every detail being carried out
smoothly and pleasantly. The visitors
carried away with them a most pleas
ant Impression of Oroville in general
ana OF Oroville lodge Of Odd Fellows
in particular.