Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1901 — Odd Fellows’ Growth. [ARTICLE]

Odd Fellows’ Growth.

W. H. Leedy, grand secretary of the Odd Fellows, says new lodges are organizing all over the state preparatory to the meeting of the sovereign grand lodge in Indianapolis in September. The number of requests for Mr. Leedy’s service has been so great and the work of preparation for the big meeting so heavy of late, that the grand secretary has not been able to find time to' respond to all the requests. By June 30, he says, there will be 55,000 Odd Fellows in Indiana, * The Rebekah organization alone has a membership of 35,000,20,000 of whom are women the Odd Pellows being entitled to membership in Rebekah lodges.