Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 July 1889 — Page 3

FORTY YJARS AN ODD FELU)W.

Mr. James Hook's Address on the Institution and Growth of the Order Here. "U

THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS MEMBERSHIP OF 61,

Interesting Reminiscences, Not Only of the Order, But of Men and Things—War Record.

Friday evening Mr. Jamee Hook delivered an address at a public meeting of Odd Fellows at the hall in the McKeen block, reviewing the history of the order, especially of its growth in this Btate and city. The occasion was the fortieth anniversary of his membership in lodge No. 51. The following is that part of his address which covers the story of Odd Fellowship in this city:

The grand lodge of Indiana was instituted in August, 1837, at New Albany, and was removed to Madison in 1841, and to Indianapolis in 1846. Its first meeting at Indianapolis was in January, 184G. In January, 1853, the grand lodge decided to build the grand lodge building at a cost of $39,003, the money to be raised by stock, that proved to be a wise and profitable investment. The site chosen for the building the rise in property has enhanced the value to three timeB its cost, and furnishes the grand lodge a yearly income of over four thousand dollars, making the financial condition of our grand lodge very good, and to which we, as an order, can point to with pride. At that datejthere were some one hundred and twenty-threw lodges with a membership of about

five

six

thousand. According to the last report of our grand ollicers we have 554 lodges with a membership of 30,0C0, not including nearly

thousand ladies of

the degree of Rebekah, with 153 lodgeB. The total membership of the Rebekah degree, in this state, including the brothers of the degree, is over eight thousand, with assetsof over nine thousand dollars, leaving them in good working condition. The degree is increasing vary fast in uumbers and is helping to build up the order by removing much of the existing prejudice against all secret orders.

Before I leave this subject of statistics, 1 will call your attention to the last report of Grand Sire John S. White to the grand lodge of the United States, as follows: This year stands out as the most prosperous in the history of the order. Not only has the increase in the order bean larger than ever before, except on one occasion, but the revenue received is larger by hundreds of thousands, and the expenditures for relief are vastly increased over any former period. Njt only this, but the order has increased largely in wealth, power and inlluence. Lirga cities and towns which formerly paid little or no attention to us, now eagerly welcome us to their hospitalities. Judges and governors vie with each other in doing us honor, and well may we be proud of the position the order has attained. It will be seen that the increase in membership is the magnificent number of 25,422, and the current year bids fair to outstrip the preceding one. Very few of us appreciate the importance and magnitude of the order to which we belong. Take the two great Odd Fellow organizations, the Manchester Unity and the American Odd Fellow orders together, and we find that there are more Oid Fellows in the world by far than there are members of any other secret fraternal organization.

The oldest an 1 greatest of these, according to their own authority, numbers, from the beet estimates that can be made, 1,083,000, while the Odd Fellows number, according to the last actual returns, as follows: The American order, including the Australian and German empire, 571,030 the Manchester Unity, 027,600 making 1,101,603, or 118,033 more than the oldest and most numer-' ous of the secret fraternal organizations. To this add 40,000 Daughters of Rebekah, who are engaged with us in striving to better the condition of suffering humanity. This is truly a proud position to occupy, as the order has been built up in the comparatively short period of seventy years.

Terre Haute, No. 51, was instituted on the 21st day of January, 1848, in the second story of a small frame building, situated on the lot which the Cincinnati house now occupies, owned by W. K. Ed wards, and the second story was occupied by the Masonic order, No. 19, that being the first and only lodge organized by the Masons after the Morgan excitement, and, through the cr rtesy of that lodge, No. 51 was granted .ue use of the room to institute the lodge. A room was obtained in the Stewart building, on the north side of Main and west of Second street, to which they moved on the 5th of February, 1848. In a short time after May 13th, 1848, they moved into the St. John building, on Second street, where they remained until the lodge became too numerous for th$ room to accommodate, and on the 25th of April, 1853, moved to a room on Main street, over Sykes' hat store. At that time we were all together as one lodge, and remained so until in January, 1855, when I. P. Windle,Firman Nippert, A.Nippert, S. K. Allen, Jas. 13. Edmunds, A. R. Summers, W m. Patrick, Sol Harbert, John Abbott, W. M. Slaughter, M. W. Williams, James Baird and John Leach took their cards and organized Fort Harrison lodge, 157, D. D. G. M., John H. Barr officiating as instituting officer. The first oflicers of Fort Harrison were: F. Nippert, N. G. A. R. Summers, V. S. J. B. Edmunds, secretary, and M. W. Williams, treasurer. Fort Harrison occupied that hall with 51 for thirteen years, then went into the McLean building, from there to the Gilbert building, on the south side of Main between Sixth and Seventh streets from there to the place they now occupy. No. 51 continued to occupy that room on Main street also for over thirteen years, during which time the war of the rebellion was^on hand, and such was the state of things that it became necessary for the

Bnfety

of our city and its people that we should have a place, a room that the people could come together in and consult for the protection of the city, and aid our soldiers who had gone to the front to save the government and the country, and that the meetings of the citizens should be private, as it was dangerous to trust even your frieuds or neighbors unless under an obligation as binding as an oath or pledge of honor. A secret political organization known as the Union league, bouud together by the common tie of mutual protection and safety, organized from the best element of our city, from the gray-haired sire as well as the young, from the pulpit and the bench, the merchant from his counter, the lawyer from his books, the mechanic from his work shop—all classes sfeAmed to come as with common cause to chdck the tide of deeo-

lation that threatened us at that time. The organization was complete with passwords, signs, etc., and full officered. They lacked a p1ace where they could meet in privacy to take co ancil together. The Odd Fellows with very few exceptions, were loyal to the old flag, and they said there is no place too sacred, though it be a lodge room, that may not be used for the saving of the country. Our lodge room was tendered to the league when not in use by the order. It was gladly accepted, and for many months during the crisis of the war night after night was that large hall filled to overflowing with the members of the league to hear the news and listen to the council of those who were hopeful for the result, and to devise the ways and means to meet and counteract thi threatened destruction of our city.

A large number of the members of 51 were in the army, and the lodge donated from the funds of the lodge money to keep their dues paid while in the field, on duty. Our loage was so depleted by the volunteering of the active members that at times we found it difficult to hold lodge meetings. Offen we were obliged to go out and hunt up members to form a quorum to hold a meeting and do business. For a period of four years during the war we admitted to membership by initiation only ten persons, and about the same number by card. We held but two degree meetings during the war. We had to elect officers for the second term in order to get the places filled. I held the office of treasurer for twenty-two terms. Brother N. W. Conn held the office of secretary for five or six terms. Other members did other similar duties to keep the order alive and in working order until the war was over, and our brothers returned from the bloody field of strife to the more congenial ranks of the brotherhood of the order. When I look back at the state of things just described, and call to mind the loyalty of the order, the acts of kindness and generous feeling towards the soldiers and members of the order engaged in our defense, I feel a just pride in the fact that I was an Odd Fellow and lived in that day. Brethren, you may well be proud of the record of our order during the war.

Just forty years ago Vigo encampment, No. 17, was instituted, and for some time it was prosperous. A large proportion of the members of the subordinate lodges were desirous to have the degrees of the patriarchal branch and become members. The encampment held its meetings in the hall of the subordinate lodges until they secured the hall they now occupy. During the pressure of the times just previous to the war and the effect of the war on its members, so depleted its members that it was with great difficulty that we held the organization together. Once in awhile we could get a quorum together and then a grave discussion would occur upon the surrender of the charter, until such times as we could see the way clear to take it up again. It is said there iB a time in the history of institutions as well as individuals that tries the kind of material they are made of. These were times that tried ©dd Fellowship in this place. Yes, indeed, all over the country many lodges could not stand the pressure and they had to succumb, but thankB to the memory of a number of noble souls with indomnitable wills who have since passed to the higher life, the order here was kept alive and intact, until returning prosperity put it on its feet again, and to-day it stands the peer of any of the lodges of the state, prosperous and in good condition.

In the fall of 1867 Fort Harrison and No. 51 each appointed a committee to act jointly for the purpose of buying a home already built or buying a lot and building a hall to be occupied jointly by the order. For awhile they worked well together, all agreeing that we should have a home, but when they began to get down to work on the locality and the minutia of building, a division of opinion sprung up. A portion of the committee was for building a large and splendid structure which was beyond our means, but the better judgment and caution of the financial members of the order put a quietus to that. They then agreed to buy the building on Third street known as Odd Fellows' hall. Before the arrangement for the purchase was consummated, Fort Harrison's committee backed out, too. Upon consultation and satisfactory terms being arranged, 51 made the purchase, going in debt for part of the

purchaEe

money, for

which the lodge issued her bonds on stock at $5 per share, which bore 6 per cent, intereat, and was receivable by the lodge for any debts or dues to the lodge. This stock was all taken by the members, and in a short time was all taken up by the lodge, thus securing a permanent home, which proved to be a good financial investment. No. 51 still owns the property on Third street and the old hall is still dedicated to Odd Fellowship, our trustees having leased the hall to the lodge of oolored Odd Fellows. We are occasionally asked if the colored Odd Fellows derive their organization from the same source as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. They do not. While the principles and praotice of the order are similar to ours, their organization is different. In the early history of the order in England, there were ten or twelve different organizations, each acting independent of the other, and our colored friends get their organic authority from what was known as the Sheffield Unity, but we understand they have cut loose from them and have an independent head for the colored lodges in this country.

On the 19th of June, 1868, we had our first meeting in the old hall on Third street, and for about twenty years continued to occupy it, until our lodge voted to vacate and move to this hall. Since the institution of this lodge, No. 51, in January, 1848, 750 names of memben have been added to the roll. There is a little less than two hundred on the roll now. Where are the five hundred that can not answer to roll call? 1 can account for over seventy of them that I have followed to the city of the dead and cast the evergaeen in the grave as we deposited the remains of our departed brother in the silent tomb. Others have scattered to the home of their choice in other lands. When I look atound our lodge-room I find but one familiar face of one who was a member of this lodge when I came in. That face is Richard L. Ball. Of all the names of those who were the active members of the lodge in instituting and building it up Hamilton, Warren, O'Boyle, Barr, Fairbanks, Boothe, Boudinot, King, Wood, Carter, St John, Clark, Stewart, Bennett, Thos. Hook, Windle, Beymer, Edwards and many others not in my memory at present, all are gone. J. M. Edwards was the most active and zealous member of the order. In Odd Fellowship he was an oracle. He was posted, having filled all of the higher stations, except that of grand sire. Had he lived, such was his ambition, that he would, in all probability, have reached that distinction in the order. At his death he held the office of grand patriarch of the grand encampment of the state, atul was very popular in the grand lodge and encampment

I will ask you ot grant me a few min­

utes while I speak of a matter in which I was a party. Thos. K. Hook, my brother, was one of the first members of 51, and was a very ardent advocate of the order. At that time he was living with me, and I was aa muck opposed to the order as he was in favor, having imbibed my opposition to all secret societies during the anti-Masonic times that I have referred to. We bad frequent discussions on the subject and left about where we began, both being of the class called stubborn. He left in the Bering of 1849 to go overland to California in company with two other individuals. I can not call them men. They had pledged fidelity to each other to stick together, let what would come. When out on the plains, away from civilization or any means to obtain assistance my brother was attacked with cholera and was unable to travel. Theee two friends who pledged fidelity to each other left him by the roadside to die, as they supposed, like a brute. It was not to be so. A company from Ohio wtuch was on the same route came across mm, a stranger dying with cholera by the way side. Some of that company were Odd Fellows. My brother gave them the sign of distress. They said to him, "you shall not lie here and die like a brute." They administered to his wants, took him up and took him along. He recovered and lived for twenty years afterward. He wrote me the facts. My prejudice was mortally wounded. I said there must be Bome good in Nazareth and I determined to find it out I made application to 51, was admitted, and for forty years have been fighting the battles of Odd Fellowship.

Goethe lodge, No. 382, was instituted on October 16,1871, in the old hall on Third street, and occupied that hall for one year, the guests of No. 51, and then moved to the lodge-room of Fort Harrison, where they have remained and prospered ever since, with about one hundred members at this time and a good exchequer. Canton McKeen was organized within the present year with, I understand, about thirty members. It is military in design and equipment, and is to Odd Fellowship what the Knight Templars are to Masonry, and the uniform degree of the Knights of Pythias is to that order. It is designed to bring the young and ambitious, who are fond of the display, into the order, for they can only reach the military branch through the patriarchal degrees.

The degree of RBbekah, or the ladies' degree of Odd Fellowship, was given to the order in 1852, and for a number of years did not receive much attention, the degree being conferred in the subordinate lodge. There was then much prejudice against the degree, the men and the women as well. In order to render the degree more effective, some sixteen years ago the grand lodge gave the right to organize a degree lodge of the Rebekahs. On November 20, 1873, the Prairie City lodge, No. 107, of the Rebekah, was instituted here. Its growth was slow. The same prejudice existing, and it required the energetic persistence of a few friends of the degree to keep it alive, and through the persuasion and the determination of a few members it was carried along until it began to receive attention, and began to grow, and make itself felt as a branch of the order that was doing good in a quiet way in relieving the sick, and burying the dead among the Bisters, they alone being the only beneficiary's financially of the order. The grand lodge has given the degree another impetus by enacting that the degree shall only be conferred in a Rebekah degree lodge. Prairie City lodge is prospering, having initiated about fifty members within the last year, the lodge now numbering near two hundred, and still growing, the prejudices against its works melting away like the morning dew before the rising sun.

5 Oxford League.

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Illinois Counterfeiters Gobbled Up. CHICAGO, July 27.—A dispatch from

Sullivan, 111., says: A United States marshal arrived here yesterday from Springfield and arrested Joe and Lawia Freeman for making and passing counterfeit

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neighbor while felling some trees on Freeman's property, found some molds for the making of small silver coin with evidences of illegal work. He at once made his discoveries known to the state's attorney, and he in turn to the United States grand jury whose investigations resulted as above.

Dr. Mendenhall Leaves for Washington.

Dr. Thomas C. Mendenhall left yeeterterday for Washington, D. C., where he will enter upon the duties of his office as superintendent of the United States ooast and geodetic

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he goes to Toronto, Canada, to attend the meeting of the American society for the advancement of science, and from there he will return home in time to open the Polytechnic.

Jack Bolan, Pngllist, in the City.

Jack Bolan, the well-known prize fighter, who recently won the light weight championship of Ohio at Cincinnati, is in the city. He has with him an unknown light weight whom he wishes to match against Bart Shea.. Bolan has just returned from New Orleans, where he witnessed the Sullivan-Kilrain fight

Terre Haute Concert Guarantee Association

The Terre Haute concert guarantee association met last evening and decided to engnge the Boston quintette club to give a concert in October or early in November. Other concerts will soon be arranged for the coming winter.

A Real Estate Deal.

Mr. Elisha Havens has bought the northwest corner of Seventh and Ohio streets. It consists of seventy-two feet frontage on Ohio street and 142 on Seventh. The price paid was $10,0C3, and Havens will build on the ground.

The production of the ballet founded on Shakespeare's "Tempest" at the Paris Academy of Music is said to be the grandest soenic effect of modern times. Purple grottos, vast antique ships surrounded by naiads, enchanted islands, alternations of storm and calm—all are produced with wonderful skill and astonishing richness.

THE TERBE HAUTE EXPRESS, SUNDAYiMORNING, JULY 28, 1889,

[Wrltteafsrtke MAT.

The warm wind softly murmurs through The eider trees, above my bead Above a aky of deepest blue,

Beneath me, earth's green grass outspread. At rest I be. and dream of you, it

Of memories of that past, now fled, Of sweetest hopes that then were new. Of sweater hopes, that now an dead.

For sweetheart, you an far away, And others, whom you love, an by: And tbenwill come, to yon, a day,

When memory of me will die. Yet with the birds I sing my lay, With bird*, beneath the sonny aky, Of faith and love, that last alway,

Of love for you, that cannot die. DONALD P. STAMLOT.

EXPRESS LOVE LETTERS.

No. 38.

TERRE HAOTE, April 15,1889.

MY OWN DARLING: It is with supreme happiness I acknowledge the receipt of your most affectionate letter. Each word, in every line, is fraught with messages of deep, undying love from your true, tender heart. Oh, my beloved, my cherished one, can you know how slowly the hours have drifted away since we parted? the days seem as months, the months are as years to me, ages have passed since your dear, rose-bud lips nave pressed mine. Return soon, my precious one, to your own sweet heart. Ah! why have I not wings of a dove that I may fly to your love-laden arms?

Last night I dreamed of my idol so far away and the pinions of love bore me swiftly to you. I awoke with a a start, to find myself lonely. I am truly glad, my innocent, gentle love, you do not realize the utter desolation of my beating heart. Oh! light of my life, etai^of my soul, how can I exist without thee?

From some trivial cause, in a former letter, you seem displeased and ask me to forget you, darling. Darling can it be? command the rivers to cease flowing, the sun to shroud herself in perpetual darkness, beseech me to forget the author of being, but, dearest, of all earthly one, ask me not to forget the desire of my heart, the idol of my soul. Now, light of my eyes, love of my life, write Boon that I may drink from the pen's fountain, words of love I can not drain from those sweet lips. As ever, devoted and loving, your own "PET."

No. 30.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 16,1889. MY DEAREST:—What a dreary week this has been! Is it possible that it has been only a week since I last looked into the beautiful eyes that have never met mine unkindly or untruthfully, since I felt the pressure of the strong, loving hands which are to lead me through life! It iB a blessed privilege to be so near one's dearest earthly treasure, but that very propinquity only seems to make every enforced absencfe doubly grievous.

I need not ask you to hasten back to me as soon as the tiresome business that called you away is concluded. Have you not told me, time and again, that even our separations area burden to you, and that you look forward with a lover's impatience to the time when your home Bhall be mine? and oh! dear Harold, how happy 1 will try to make it for you. Whatever trials you may encounter in your struggles with the cold, selfish world, in your home—in our home, darling,—you shall find only love, comfort and sympathy. That home, thanks to your patient toil and self-de-nial, is now no longer a vague hope, but an assured fact, with only a few more months waiting to endure. It will be small and humble with only your hands to supply, and mine to prepare the daily bread, but will not such isolation and mutual dependence serve to heighten the pleasures of our united existence?

My pen has been lying idle

for the last hour, my thoughts have been with you, dearest, and with the Bweet future. I cannot content myself to write more. I want to hear your voice, to see your smiles I want your precious self—bring me these and I shall be, once more, your happy

ELEANOR.

No. 40

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 19,1889. MY OWN DEAR NELLIE: You have relieved my aching heart to quite an extent by writing me, which flfc^eceived this morning. Oh, but it sffdraRIf me so much pleasure. I read your letter several times in succession as Boon as I received it, and I imagined that you were seated near my side, and could hear your sweet voice repeating those words you had written me. 1 wish you would write oftener than you do. I could scarcely wait until I had time to answer yours, as I feel satisfied that you are also delighted to hear from me. I am so glad that you will return home soon, as I am almost dying to see you. I did not give it a thought that I would miss you as much as I do, for there is not a single hour but what I think of you. I notice by your letter that you are enjoying yourself hugely with your cousin, Anna. I do not blame her for trying to keep you there with her, as I would do the same, as your lovliness would charm most anybody. You tell your cousin that we will spend our honeymoon at her house, and we can have some joyful timee together.

Last evening I felt so lonely without you that tears came to my eyes, as it was the usul evening that we spent together, and my thoughts were about you the whole time. I felt as though my heart would fall to pieces from the aching I had. Oh, but I am glad that the day will soon be here when our hearts will be joined in one, which will relieve my aching heart.

Mj- dearest, I will bid you good by for this time by hoping to hear from you very soon. Please accept this kiss from me. Your own true love, Gus.

The Kental^of the Cherokee Strip. CHICAGO July 27.—A dispatch from

Kansas City, Mo., says: Treasurer Andy Smdler, of the Cherokee Strip live stock association, yesterday notified Treasurer R. B. Ross, of the Cherokee nation, that the $100,000 rental for the strip from July 1,,1889, to January 1,1890, was in bank at his disposal. A meeting of the cattle association,was held yesterday, but only routine matters were disposed of and nothing was said of the extension of the lease.

The Weekly Hank Statement. NEW YORK, July 27,—The weekly

bank statement shows the following changes: Increase. Decrease. Reserve. -v.'.. $ 165.7H0 Loans 2,696,100 Specie 2,118,000 Legal tenders 622,600 Deposits 5,318,600 Circulation 5 113,200

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Real Batata Transfers,

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THE NEW SWIMMING POOL

At the Artesian Bath House is now open. Positively no one admitted without full bathing suits, and ladies are required to wear stockings. A competent natatorial professor will be in attendanee every Tuesday and Friday from 10 to 11 a. m. and 2:30 to 3:30 p. m., to instruct beginners in the art of swimming.

PHOENIX

Foundry and Machine Works

NINTH STRFET NEAR UNION DEPOT, TERRE HAUTE, IND.I C.J MAifCrAOTnBKKS or

£n$rii)es, Rollers, Mill and Mining Machinery

ARCHITECTURAL IRON WORK A SPECIALTY. —NSAI.SBSIIF— Belling, Bottiig Cloth, Pipe, Brass Goods, and All Kinds of Mill and Machinery Supplies. •Engine and BotUr IUpatrino promptly attended to.

Caligraph Writing Machine.

Waftlilnetoii St., [INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

Incorporated 188£

I J. M. CLIDTi Sec'y and Tress.

CLIFT & WILLIAMS CO.,

Paints, Oils, and Builders' Hardware,

darner of Nlsth HI Malberry Streets, Terre Heale, frnl.

HENIfY HILD.

Boiler Maker and Sheet Iron Worker.

steam Boilers, Tanks, &c. Repairing a Specialty.

All Work Guaranteed First-class, "'j ,.

Boots, Shoes and Slippers

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GEORGE A. TAYLOR'S,

Wbere jou can save moneriryou do jour trading. 1 lf| WifiASH AVE Repairing neatly and promptly executed. IIUJ n&DJlOiL HID

WINEMILLER'S CAFE,

17 South Fourth. Street.

Mantels, Tin A Slate Roofing. MANION BROS., S15

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