The Western Odd Fellow from Topeka, Kansas • 7

THE WESTERN ODD FELLOW PAGE SEVEN MARCH 1, 1910 ODD FELLOWS ATTENTION room, with ample ante and preparation rooms, and a banquet hall and kitchen. One of the standbys of Shawnee No. 1 in its degree work is W. B. Jones familiarly called Bill.

His delivery of the charges is good, and when he is absent, which is very seldom, his place is hard to fill. The dramatic degree in Odd Fellowship is the first, and Shawnee No. 1 is the peer of all the city lodges in this degree. Nearly every charge is delivered with force and earnestness, the brothers taking the parts acting it as if they meant every word of it. All that is lacking is a hall large enough to properly put on the floor work.

Maybe some day we will get that. OUR NEW I.O.O.F. CATALOG NO. 228 IS JUST OFF THE PRESS; THE MOST COMPLETE KVEIt PUBLISHED, 40 PAGES OF COLLARS AND SASHES ALONE; MANY PAGES OF SUPPLIES AND PARAPHERNALIA. YOU WILL FIND THE ILLUSTRATIONS ATTRACTIVE AND THE PRICES INTERESTING.

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CINCINNATI REGALIA REGALIA BLOCK CINCINNATI, OHIO uet I .118335 ViSOrHEMOOM I APPOINT. A Brotherhood Accident Co. Boston, Massachusetts. Incorporated under Massachusetts laws, August 17, 1892. FOR ODD FELLOWS ONLY.

PAYS SICK, ACCIDENT AND CEATH BENEFITS. Weekly benefits $5 to $50 Death benefits 100 to 700 Over $900,000 paid in claims to members. Live Representatives Wanted. For full particulars address CHAS. S.

POWELL, General Manager, P. O. Box 1740, BOSTON, MASS. Or W. D.

PRINTZ, State Organizer, TOPEKA. KANSAS. "Free with each policy, one-half size. Different numbers on each badge. I.O.O.F.

TOPEKA F. A. Warren is chief patriarch of Shawnee encampment. M. T.

Watson is the captain of Canton Topelca No. 3. Mrs. Parish, a member of Naomi TCehekah loflge, died recently. John V.

Graber, a member of Eugene lodge No. 79, died at his home Topelca lodge No. 40 exemplified the second degree in Excelsior lodge on February 18. All of the south side lodges have been having plenty of work during January and February. Eugene lodge No.

70 was invited to put on the third degree in Excelsior lodge on February 25. President Gertie Johnston paid an official visit to Naomi Rebekah lodge in January, and to Capitola lodge in February. II. C. Stevens has been elected and commissioned major of the second batallion, first regiment, Patriarchs Militant of Kansas.

The noble grand of Shawnee No. 1 is Chas. W. Taylor; No. 40, A.

W. Bradshaw; No. 70, Bro. Mills, and of fi20, F. W.

Boutwell. Past President Jennie Wehe is spending the winter in Texas for her health. At the time of writing she was at Mineral Wells. The most dignified presiding officer of the lodges in Topeka the present term is the noble grand of Excelsior lodge No. 620 F.

W. Boutwell. in Oakland recently. A petition is out for a new subordinate lodge to be organized at Oakland. It is said the petition is a long one.

The stand-by of Shawnee encampment is Patriarch O. A. Peck. The first degree without him acting the leading part would be very tame indeed. Captain T.

P. Kelley of Shawnee No. 1 has the most proficient degree staff of any of the subordinate lodges of the city. This is acknowledged by all the lodges. Shawnee lodge No.

1 exemplified the first degree in Excelsior lodge No. 20 on February '11. The work was done fine, a large crowd being present. The sick list of all the Topeka lodges is quite full at this time 'of the year, and lots of money is paid out to help those who are unfortunate in this regard. Bro.

M. C. McCormick, one of the old members of No. 1, delivers the past grand's charge as impressively' as we have ever heard it, and this is saying a good deal. Eugene lodge No.

79 has the coziest Odd Fellows hall in the city. It is nicely papei-ed and has a carpet on the floor, which adds much to its attractiveness. Shawnee encampment conferred the Golden Rule degree on February 10. On the 24th they gave the Royal Purple to five, after which they had something to eat. Naomi and Capitola Rebekah lodges meet in Security hall at Kansas avenue and Seventh streets and have the pleasantest meeting places of any of the Odd Fellow bodies.

The first noble grand of the first Odd Fellow lodge is Kansas (Shawnee No. 1) was Henry W. Martin. The editor has a photograph of him and some day he will have it enlarged and hung up in the lodge room. Costumes Regalia Badges Banners Robes, Etc Oar catalogs are the flnoHt out.

Our goods are absolutely reliable none better. Our prices the lowest because we sell direct to 1 dges and at factory prices--no agent-, no traveling sahsmen. When purchasing from us you get full value for mouey Invested. Plain, isn't it? Your Lodge takes no risk. We Ship on Approval.

Write us wh in need of supplies. Buy your REGALIA and COSTOMES from the Independent Manufacturers and save money. We can show you. Catalogues free on request. THE PETTIBONE BROS.

MFG. Cincinnati, Ohio. Separate catalogues for Subordinate, Rebekah, Encampment and Canton. adjunct for the proper interpretation of the work, but the student of the ritual will readily grasp them. Where a lodge desired additional revenue the lodge room and stage might be rented for concerts, entertainments and even for a theater on open nights.

The above is written that- lodges intending to build may get the benefit of the idea if so considered. The stage would be used for portrayal of the major portion of the work in all the degrees, though part would be done without the stage. E. J. Phelps in I.

O. O. F. Record. THE FUTURE LODGE ROOM.

The lodge room of the future will contain a stage with all modern accessories for the presentation of the dramatic parts of the degrees of Odd Fellowship! To some this may seem a visionary statement; to the intelligent student cf the degrees it is a matter of wonderment that the stage has not been applied long since in the presentation of the degrees. In the working of degrees in the ordinary lodge room practically no change of scene can be provided for. We may journey from the court of a king to the hut of a shepherd without any change of scenery to help the illusion and king and shepherd be within sight of each other and the audience, though the audience is required to suppose them many miles separated. Then think of the beautiful sea with a back-ground of wall paper depicting, perhaps the "Three Links, the Skull and Cross Bones and the Scythe," or imagine a lonely rock on a desert plain with a fore ground of gaily covered carpet and a background of lodge charters and pictures of "our eminent brethren!" With a stage, what a change? Curtains and wings carry out the illusion of place, and lights subdued or brilliant with reflected colored lights carry out the illusion of morning, midday, twilight sunset or moonlight. Proper settings are at hand for the lesson of humanity, the friendship of shepherd and prince, the lonely road, and the temple of truth.

And the settings (curtains and wings) may be very inexpensive compared with other equipment of the lodge room. A few hundred dollars wisely expended will provide all this. The stage itself may occupy no additional space. It may be "boxed in" and thus form a delightful banquet room or may be used for club room or the like when not in use for degree work. It may be placed back of the vice grand or any other of the four principal stations.

In the wings would be the paraphernalia lockers so that these usually unsightly things would be concealed and thus also prevent waste of space. The lodge room itself might be smaller, if desired, as a result of using a stage and thus economize space especially if the stage be used also as a banquet room. Practically all the floor space could be used for seating members when the occasion demanded. The use of the stage would be of course practically limited to those who own their own halls. But these lodges would have a great advantage in depicting the dramatic work of the degrees.

Their staffs would never lack interest or the lodge attendance. Great progress in staff work would result in a more faithful interpretation of the degrees provided and immeasurable good to the order follow its use. Km. i DE MOULIN BROS. A CO.

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He joined the Maccabees and Masons, he joined the K. of he blowed in all he had to pay initiation fees. He borrowed money of his friends and put them on the bum, to take out life insurance in the Elka-foozleum. He was a Modern Woodman and he headed the parade, an axe upon his shoulder that had a wooden blade; his wife at home was wrestling with a gnarly knot, to iry to split a splinter off to keep the cook stove hot. He went into the Workmen, but he had no love for work, a kind of lodge bacillus in his system seemed to lurk, and when he went up town to buy potatoes, meat or tea, he was very apt to spend the cash to take some new degree.

One night the lodges all combined and, gave a banquet rare, and you bet your bottom dollar the j'iner he was there. He ate some cheese and pickles and a bait of oysters fried, in short he took a founder and" went SIGHT. WRITE TODAY. H. VAN DIESSCHE Box 74, Gloversvllle, New York.

ODD FELLOWS AND REBEKAHS Desiring a splendid paying business which will help build up our order and at the same time make money, write and send stamp for full information to J. M. WOLFE, 2007 Willow The encampment, canton and Re- straight home and died. Now, when The sitting past grand of Excelsior lodge is an undertaker, the vice grand is an undertaker, and the treasurer is an undertaker, yet the lodge is one of the most wideawake to be found anywhere. What OrlH Followshin in Toneka bekahs would be able to employ the the fact was proven by his sad and stage to as good advantage as the weeping wife, she was handed twenty subordinate in the greater portions of thousand in insurance on his life.

She their degrees. said: "I see that everything has come fU ywiL-Jj ootla Ttinj.tnlo ct a cot hrr Rpr-.