Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1909 — Indianapolis Scene of State Meeting of Odd Fellows. [ARTICLE]

Indianapolis Scene of State Meeting of Odd Fellows.

The annual session of the grand encampment of the Indiana Odd Fellows opened Tuesday in the assembly room of the Odd Fellow building with representatives from all parts of jthe state in attendance. The encampment ended its work with the election of -officers and Wednesday the grand lodge began a two days’ session. J. A. Andrews, of River Vale, Ind., who was elected grand junior warden for the coming year, won his office after three ballots had been taken. He had a dozen of his brethren in the encampment opposing him for the place and the voting was spirited. The office of grand junior warden leads to the post of grand representative in the sovereign grand lodge, and it is a much sbught place at each recurring session of the Odd Fellows. The other officers elected were: Grapd representative, H. J. McSheehy, Logansport; grand patriarch, W. H. Taber, Terre Haute; grand high priest, H. W. Hodson, Martinsville; grand senior warden, W. J. Hughes, Alexandria; grand junior warden, J. A. Andrews, River Vale; grand scribe, W. H. Leedy, Indianapolis; grand treasurer, J. M. Lang, Sullivan; grand trustee, S. P. Stroup, Shelbyville. Immediately after the election the new officers were installed by John B. Cockrum, of Indianapolis.