Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-11-02
ODD FELLOWS
ENJOY TIME
IN BARABO0
:. A. Nehs, BarabCO Receives
Veterans Jewel In Honor OF
Being Member Is Years


Valley Association District No. %,
/. 0. o. F., was brought to a close
Wednesday night with one of the
finest gatherings Of men and women
that ever was assembled in Baraboo.
, To the strans of Home Sweet Home
at midnight, delegates from Mansion,
klbourn, Portage, Poynette, Rich
land Center, Briggsville, Pardeeville,
Fall River and Baraboo danced the
last waltz with light hearts and feel
ing of a day well spent in the inter
ests Of Odd Fellowship.
Over three hundred delegates at
tended the combined Rebecca 'and
Odd Fellows convention of this dis
trict. The sessions opened at 1000
O'Clock in the morning at the Armory
for the Odd Fellows, and concluded
at 600 in the evening. The Rebecca
convention consisted only of an after
noon session at the Odd Fellows
hall. Degree work was put on and
matters of general interest to the
order were discussed. Everyone who
attended proclaimed it the finest dis
trict convention that was ever held
in this district.
Grand Chaplain Talks
Grand Chaplain, j. F. earle, of the
Grand Lodge of the State of Wiscon-
sin, |. o. o. F., was the principal
speaker at the evening program.
: Sprinkled with wholesome wit and
humor, and pathos and emotion, his
address drove home into the heart of
everyone present He told of the
$2,000,000 that is spent every year
for the relief of suffering, distress
and want and for the care of the
aged and orphaned, and the conso-
lation of the widows in the hour Of
their greatest need. He spoke of the
erection of the new home at Green Bay
which will have so rooms for the &C
Icommodation of orphans and old
folks.
The speaking program also includ-
ed short addresses by C. F. Blaas, Of
Mauston, retiring district president
IL. o. o. F.. a response and outline for
next years work by William Men
necke, Portage, newly elected district
president, and by Mrs. Walker CT
Portage, president of the Rebecca
district association.
z. c, r. Meier presides
The meeting was presided over by
E. c. F. Meier, who was chairman of
the local committee in charge Of the
convention. The newly elected Off
GERS for the coming year for the dis
Itrict association, are William Men.
IBecke Portage, president; w. r.
Schulz, BaraboO, vice president; E
lC. f. Meier Baraboo, secretary; E
l.. Grau, Kilbourn, treasurer; Cleve
Tomlinson, Poynette, warden. The
newly elected president appointed
E. c.. +. Meier and W. r. Schulz as
the executive committee of the dis
trict association. Arrangements for
the convention were completed by the
local lodge, Baraboo Lodge, No. 81
and 1he committee consisted of z. C.
F. Meier, Chairman, William OFT
Harley Wickus, Fred Nehs, William
Stortz. w. r. Schulz and F. E. Tryun
The program as prepared by the
committee for the session went
through without a hitch.
Confer Jewei
The outstanding feature of the
evening entertainment was the con
fering of a veterans jewel upon Fred
Nehs. This jewel was conferred on
Mr.. Nehs by the Grand Chaplain and
was awarded 10 him in recognition OF
having been a member of the /. o. O.
F. for over twenty-five years and
having always been in good standing
Mr.. Nehs responded TO the presen-
tation in an expression of apprec1a-
ton of what Odd Fellowship meant
TO him and what good that he had re
cefved out of it in the long years OF
his membership.
After the speaking program was
over the delegates and their wives
and husbands joined in general Joill-
fication as one big family. They
mingled with each other, dancing old
fashioned two steps and waltzes, and
twice the floor vas crowded with six
sets of ouadrille. The Rebeccas had
baked the cake for those there and
assisted in the serving Of ice cream
and cake to th= guests during the
dance.
The convention was as harmonious
and beautiful an affair as could pos
sibly have been hoped for. The Odd
Fellow Lodge expressed its appre-
citation in the cooperation and kind
ness extended to them and the visit
ing lodge members by the hotels and
restaurants in the splendid service
that they rendered the convention
guests and expressed themselves as
indebted to the druggists for the
pretty souvenirs, to Scheible "a
Dyrud for the furnishing of special
furniture and TO Ernest T. Ross for