Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1899 — Indiana Odd Fellows. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Odd Fellows.

W. H. Leedy, the grand scribe of- Odd Fellows, reports that there are now 644 lodges in . the state, with a membership of 48,690. The net gain in membership for the year was 2,595. The total receipts for the year $258,275.38During the year 4,543 brothers were relieved, and aid was extended to fourteen widowed families. Aid was also extended in other directions, bringing the total up for the year to $191,305.24. The secretary noted that since 1837, $3,595,939.66 had been expended in relief. The initiations during the year, the grand scribe said, were the largest in the history of the grand lodge.