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Show I. O. O. F. A Magnificent Temple to lie Erected In Chicago Notes. The Odd Fellows' Temple association of Chicago has been incorporated to erect a temple in Chicago; capital, 1500,000; incorporators, in-corporators, W. H. Crocker, John C. Smith, Thomas Chalmers, W. II. Underwood, Jr., and John M. Campbell. In addition to the lodge rooms there will be a large auditorium audi-torium that will accommodate 10,000 people peo-ple Office rooms will also be arranged for', and it is the intention of the association associa-tion to make it the finest temple in the country. The new building will cost about , $1,000,000. The ladies of the Rebekah branch of Illinois, Il-linois, who are engaged in the work of es-' es-' tablishing an orphan's home in that state have compiled a list of all the orphans of I deceased Odd Fellows in that jurisdiction and find over 400. About 200 of them will 1 be ready to go into the home as soon as it is ready. , The Odd Fellows' employment bureau of Denver is about to issue The Odd Fellow, devoted to the order, and its proceeds to support the bureau. Buffalo is now agitating the question of an Odd Fellows' temple. The lodges are appointing delegates to attend a meeting to consider ways and means, with good prospects of bringing the plan to a success-f success-f ul issue. A lodge in Chicago imposes a fine on any of its officers who does not deliver his charge from memory. "One hundred thousand" Is what Penn-sylvania Penn-sylvania will put on her banner for the year ending May, 1S',L |