Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1903 — Divided In “Friendship” and United In “Love” and Good Grub. [ARTICLE]

Divided In “Friendship” and United In “Love” and Good Grub.

It is written that “A boose divided against itself shall fall.” The Odd Fellows’ locge here has been divided against itself for the past six months, and the manner of their fall was to fall to‘eating ioe oream and cake of divers kinds, Thursday night, at the lodge room. The method of their division was that the lodge was divided into “sides” one under the lead of George Baboook, the other under J. E. Hopkins, and at the end of six months the side whioh had made the smallest bag of new members had to set np the banquet for the whole lodge. The Hopkins |forces won by a lead of three, and the Babcock oohorts had to pull their pouches for the supper. The disappointment of the losing members was not serious enough to impair their appetites, and they took their full shares of the good things their good cash paid for; and all had a right pleasant time.