Smyrna times., 1930-11-26
v. A. MARRS HEAD GRAND
LODGE OF ODD FELLOWS
w. HENRY ENNIS, CLAYTON,
ADDRESSES 9TH SESSION

New Grand Master and Other Of
ficers Installed at Ceremony
in Wilmington Last Week
Officers were elected and INSTALL
ed at the 9th annual meeting of
the Grand Lodge of Delaware 1. o.
0. F. last Wednesday at the Odd
Fellows Building, Tenth and King
streets, Wilmington. w. A. Marrs
Of Oriental Lodge, No. II, Newark,
was elected grand master. He with
other officers was installed by Past
Grand Master Thomas M. Jeffeson,
of the Maryland jurisdiction. Re
ports of the various officers were
submitted at the morning session.
The reports showed the order to
be in excellent condition though
there was slight decrease in
membership in evidence. This was
attributed to the present economic
conditions. Past Grand Master w.
Henry Ennis in his address of well
come said, 1--WE gather here to re-
view the work accomplished dur
ing the year and to present such
legislation as will tend to increase
prosperity and fraternalism in our
order-the greatest of them ALL :"
He reported that most of the lodg-
es working under the jurisdiction
of Delaware are in excellent condi-
tion and the majority of them are
growing steadily. This indication
was wrought from the reports sub
mitted by Deputy Grand Master
William A. Marrs, and District
Grand Masters Burton Wainwright
and w. L. Davis: Thirty-six mem
bers of lodges in New Castle Coun-
ty have died during the past year.
They were: Delaware Lodge, No. z
Maurice C. Rowe, Jesse A. Nc
Coy and Walter P. Goff.; Jeffer-
son Lodge, No. Phillip C. Lind
and James Sayers; Fairfax Lodge,
No. 8-Elmer E. Solomon, w. r.
Mamman, Charles L. Wilkins,
George w. Green, Sr., and Rudolf
Dean; Brandywine Lodge, No. IS
james Elliott, Victor d. Brown
and ]. K. Cheney; Hope Lodge,
No. 21-Harry B. tradley, William
w. Cooper, Harry Colman, Charles
0. Carton, Thomas j. Hume and
Edward G. Fraim; Asylum Lodge,
No. 23-Charles P. Maroney, Sr.,
and Harry Crozier; Columbia
Lodge, No. 26 - Frederick w.
Schlosser; Eden Lodge, No. "a
David t. Hay, j. Morton Dillon,
Charles H. Collins, amuel Wolters,
Charles E. RICHTER, Thomas Linds-
ley, Henry t. Clark, William S.
Riley, Warren E. Elliott, Klas A.
Nordquist and Ralph A. Work;
Centerville Lodge, No. 81 = Will
liam G. Craig, John Waterman and
Harry I. Arment. Sixteen mem
bers of the lodges in Kent and
Sussex Counties died during the
year. They were: Minos Maxwell
and Silas ]. Warrington, Union
Lodge, No. 3, Georgetown; Hiram
Reedy and William J. Boyd, Phil
odemic Lodge, No. z, Dover; Will
liam G. Abbott and Willard L. Hy-
dorm, Crystal Lodge, No. 10, Mil
ford; William H. Messick and John
r. Griffith, Hebron Lodge, No. IA,
Seaford; M. E. Hopkins and James
Fowler, Golden Rule Lodge, No.
IL, Milton; w. Fred Mills, Amity
Lodge, No. 20, Camden; j. Mack
Lynca and A. ]. Campbell, Fidelity
Lodge, No. 25, Frankford; H. G.
Smyth, George w. Moore and
Oliver Cordrey, Charity Lodge, No
27, Laurel. More than 300 men,
bers who came from all parts of
the state for the session were serv-
ed luncheon before the start of the
afternoon convention. The lunch
con was served by Rebekah As
sembly which was directed by the
following committee: Mrs. Naomi
Dawes, Mrs. Mary Tucker, Mrs.
Ida d. Colbourn, Mrs. Mabel Lew
is, Mrs. Mary Vaughn and Mrs.
Julia Douty. Other officers who
were elected and installed were:
Lawrence r. Outten, Charity
Lodge, No. 27, Laurel, deputy
grand master; Henry G. Penning-
ton, Delaware, No. /, grand war
den; William w. Douty, Mechanic,
No. 4, grand secretary; P. J.Isaac,
Mechanic, No. 4. grand treasurer;
j. Burton Wainwright, Hepborn
Lodge, Seaford, grand representa-
tive to the sovereign grand lodge.
The appointive officers are all
from the Oriental Lodge, No. IL,
of Newark. hey are: Grand mar
shall, Charles NJ. Eissner; grand
conductor, Frank Smith; grand
chaplain, Daner Kraft; grand
guardian, George T johnson;
son, grand herald, Edward Stick
ley. No change was made in the
Odd Fellows Home fund, which
now amounts to $4,000. For the