Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1909 — INDIANA RED MEN MEET [ARTICLE]

INDIANA RED MEN MEET

Election of Organization’s Officers Will Take Place This Afternoon. Indianapolis, Oct. 19—The Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men of Indiana is holding it annual meeting today in the German House, and on the following day the degree of Pocahontas of Indiana will meet in the grand lodge hall of the Odd Fellows. The election of officers of the Red Men will be held this afternoon. The chief contest is over the office of great junior sagamore, which is the first of the stepping stones leading, by the usual system of promotion, to the highest offices of the organization. The candidates announced for this position are George F. Harper of Madison, John H. Underwood of Bedford, Charles Bivin of Evansville and W. W. Rhea, of Keystone. Following the usual course of promotion, Dr. Charles M. Stoute of Middletown, great senior sagamore, will become great sachem, and will be succeeded as great senior sagamore by Oliver C. Norris of Rushville, who is nowgreat junior sagamore. Opposition, as far as is known, has not developed to the re-election of Otto Wolf of this city, who is great keeper of wampum. The report for the year ending last June shows 56,797 members of the organization in Indiana, divided among 388 subordinate tribes.