The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-15
ODD FELLOWS COMING.
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composed of past noble grands The
Odd Fellows orchestra will furnish
music and refreshments will be served.
Tomorrow will mark the 9th annual
Patrlarchs Militant. The session viii be
IN charge of Col. r.. A. Spear of Bur
iington, department commander, and will
open at 8 o'clock. At 1l30 there VIII
be ii school of instruction. parade
OF the First Regiment Patriarchs Mill
tant of Vermont will take place at 30
O'Clock, all resident and visiting Odd
Fellows being requested to join in the
parade, which will form on Main street.
The line of march will take them through
Linden, Chaplin, Oak, Whipple Green,
School, Elliot, Elm, Canal and Main
streets and Putney road to the common
At 80 O'Clock the dress parade and
drill will take place on the common
The Ladies Auxiliary L. NJ. degree will
be conferred at 4 o'clock by Charles E.
Sturges association, No. >, of Brattle-
boro, at the temple. All members of the
association and all chevaliers are quali-
fed for admission to that session. A
public gathering will be held in Festival
hall at 80 O'Clock, when the comforting
of the Decoration of Chivalry will take
place, followed at o'clock by the grand
march and Patriarchs Militant bali.
On Wednesday the sd annual session
OF the Grand Encampment will open at
Odd Fellows temple at $50 O'Clock with
h. Il. Campbell of Waterbury, grand
patriarch, in charge. At > O'Clock the
annual business meeting of the Past
Grand Officers association will be held
at the temple and at $50 o clock the
same association will have a reception
and banquet, II. G. Farrar of Rutland,
Z. q. NJ. and L. g. p, president, presid-
ing. Several grand officers from other
Jurisdictions will be present.
The 18th annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge, III. \. Morse of Bellows Falls.
grand master, will open at the temple at
. O'Clock Thursday morning. At $50
there will be an automobile ride for the
visiting ladies. The Rebekah reception
will take place at the temple at 3 O'Clock
in the afternoon and at 7.45 o'clock
Columbian lodge of Springfield will exem-
plify the Rebekah degree in Festival hall.
\ regular meeting of Oasis encampment
Will be held at the temple at 7.30
o'clock.
On Friday, the last day of the SEES
sions, the 37th annual meeting of the
Rebekah assembly will be held at the
temple at 9 O'Clock in the morning Mrs.
Adele Il. Wallis of Waitsfield, president,
presiding. Open house and entertain
ment, to which all visiting members and
friends are invited, will be held at ;
o'clock in the evening and those festivi-
ties will close the program.
\ significant fact in connection with
Odd Fellowship so far as it affects Brat
tleboro is that Wantastiquet lodge, No
,, Oasis encampment, No. ), and Dennis
Rebekah lodge, No. /, were instituted
before the grand lodge was instituted, all
three bodies being authorized by dispen
sation from the Sovereign Grand Lodge
They also were among the lodges peti
tiOning for a charter for the seyera
grand bodies.
Wantastiquet lodge was instituted
Aug. ,, 1916, more than year before
the grand lodge was instituted Dec. 20
1917.
Oasis encampment was instituted
April ., 1868, more than three years b."
tore the grand eneampment Wa insti
tuted June p, 1871.
Dennis Rebekah lodge. which was tn,