Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1914 — Oldest Initiate of Rensselaer I. O. O. F. Lodge. [ARTICLE]

Oldest Initiate of Rensselaer I. O. O. F. Lodge.

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 next November since he took his first degree and the Rens- ! selaer i lodge is only just a little' older as i’t was instituted in the preceding March. He is the oldest ini-! tiate of that old time institution.! The next one. 1 a s pearly as can be learned lacks nearly fifteen years of reaching 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 Md-time friends, witnessing the degree teams’ work and the good banquet.-—Monticetlo Journal.