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Show etto lodge, No. IS, Jan. 1, 1i0, ana n therefore been a meinbc of tho lodge l nearly fifty-five years! During this .iu?.; he has faithfully performed the duties outside guardian for forty-nine years, wit less than a dozen nights absence from In post during this Ions period. Dro. Eickui ton, who has passed the allotted a;;2 o, man (threescore years and ten), is still a. active as mos.fc men at 40, and bids fair to add many more years to the long term he has already so faithfully served. There is a movement in Illinois to abolish abol-ish the lodge system of representation to the grand lodge, and to substitute the district dis-trict system for the same. The object is to make the grand lodge more effective bj reducing the representation, which now consists of about 700 members, and also to cutdowu theexpense.which averages about $fl,000ayear. Bro. A. 1). Sanders says Illinois does not want an orphans' home; each lodgo is the guardian of its dependent widows and orphans. . , , . Hew York city has S3 lodges working in the German and C'2 in the. Knglish lau-: lau-: guage. There are also 4 Bohemian, .1 Danish, Dan-ish, 1 French and 1 Swedish. The annual report of the grand encamp-i encamp-i nientof Utah says that the gain in meni-! meni-! borahi p for the year ended March 81, IKK), was 41). Tho total number of members is m. The grand master of Ohio is allowed (3JM for expenses to visit the lodges. The grand master of the slate of New York is allowed fJM for the same purpose: There are now about forty-five Odd Fellows' Fel-lows' insurance companies, from which i the income la-i year approximated $l,t;ii'J,-(WH.07. $l,t;ii'J,-(WH.07. The Indian territory is to have a grand lodge. Kecent Odd Fellows' statistics foot np the number of white Odd Fellows on tho globe at 1,341,27a Tho are now fi81 eantoqs, with a total membership approximating 25,000 chevaliers. cheva-liers. At tho present rate of growth the P. M. army will number about 27,000 by the time of the cantonment at Chicago. There are eighty-three lodges of tho Re- j bckoh degree in Massachusetts; receipts for the year, $2,142.20; disbursements, $2,020.20. California has 352 lodges, Oregon 93 and , Kevada 32. Indiana gained 1,030 during the year. British Columbia has on an average 100 members to a lodgo; Connecticut, 171; District Dis-trict of Columbia, 108; Maine, 143; Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, 188; New Hampshire, 130; Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, 87; Hhode Island, 122. Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, however, has nearly a thousand lodges, while Ohio, the next highest, has only (170, and Illinois 669. Pennsylvania has 84,000 members; the next highest jurisdiction, juris-diction, Ohio, has 40,207. L O. O. F. - the Oldeat Outside Gawd lan and Other Mattes. M. J. L. vn-ites to Odd Fellows' Sittings nd claims for Lafayette lodge, No. 18, of Philadelphia, the oldest outside guardian in any jurisdiction. He Is firo. Benjamin fcickwlon. wiw iras initiated. jato JLalmci: |