Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1898 — Securing a Lodge Attendance. [ARTICLE]

Securing a Lodge Attendance.

Some of the Rensselaer lodges which find it hard work much of the time to get out a quorum at their meetings might adopt the plan of a Streator lodge. This lodge had a similar trouble. Time and again the faithful few would come to the hall on regular nights, only to find a member or two short of a quorum. They could do no business without the specified number. So they would sit around and growl, and go home sour and sad. The next time some of them would also remain away, disgusted. Now this is all changed. The faithful few one night scared up a working quorum and passed a rule that when a meeting of that lodge comes and a quorum is not present, those who do report shall take cash enough out of the treasury to buy an oyster supper for themselves, tfbich shall be partaken of forthwith. Now every fellow goes,