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Show I. O. 0. F. Encouraging Figure! from Many JurisdictionsNotts. Juris-dictionsNotts. Iowa reports 570 lodges and 22,521 members. mem-bers. A gain of 5 lodges and 716 members. Ohio leads New York in tho number of lodges, having 684, with a total membership member-ship of 52,774. The report of tha grand secretary at the recent session of the grand lodge of Minnesota Minne-sota showed a net increase of membership the past year of 1,212. The total revenue of lodges was tl26,910.Sti, an increase of $42,47C over last year. The current expenses were t50,948.91, and relief to the extent of $15,-4311.18 $15,-4311.18 was given. This is an average of $1.68 per member. Sixteen Rebckah degree lodges were instituted duriug the year. The balance on hand, as shown by the treasurer's books, was $3,676.50. The sixteenth anniversary of the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania L O. O. F. home was recently celebrated in Philadelphia. The institution institu-tion has fifty inmates, $62,000 in assets, with no debts and $20,000 permanently invested. in-vested. The grand lodge of Odd Fellows of Missouri, Mis-souri, in session at St. Louis, decided by 38 to 25 to expel saloon keepers. Members in Illinois at last report, 34,403; now, 86,201; number of brothers relieved, 4,826; weeks' benefits paid, 17,760; widows relieved, 267: brothers deceased, 364; totai paid for relief, $107,409.32; total revenue, $J48,975.44. When these figures were made up thirty subordinate lodges had not reported. re-ported. The order is now nearly 93,000 strong in Pennsylvania. Grand Master Freeman hopes to bring it up to 100,000 during bis administration. Feb. 13,1890, there were 38.779 Odd Fellows Fel-lows in good standing in Massachusetts. |