Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1914 — Monticello Visitor Was Oldest Charter Member. [ARTICLE]

Monticello Visitor Was Oldest Charter Member.

Monticello Journal Mr. Marshal Phillips was in Rensselaer last Friday evening to attend a county meeting of Odd Fellows. He is very much interested in the Rensselaer lodge as it was in that organization that he was initiated into the mysteries represented by the three links and was taught the lessons of Odd Fellowship. It will be sixty years in November since he took his first degree and the Rensselaer lodge is only just a lib tie older, as it was instituted in the preceding March. He is the oldest initiate of that old time institution. The next one, as nearly as can be learned, lacks nearly fifteen years of reachng as far back into the life of the lodge. The meeting Friday evening was for the purpose of effecting a county organization and a fine audience of both Odd Fellows and Rebekahs were present Mr. Phillips greatly enjoyed the pleasures of the evening in the way of reunions with old time friends, witnessing the degree team’s work and the good banquet.