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Show VCTiMJ ODD PELLOUS iiEET Association Is One cf Two of Its Kind in This Country, Coun-try, All Members Having Been 25 Years in Order. Old in years but yonng in heart and spirit were., the twenty-five members of the Veteran Odd Fellows' association associa-tion that gathered around the banquet table at the Bransford fiat last night for their annual reunion. - The associa. tion is one of the two of its kind in the United States, each member having been an Odd Fellow .in good standing for twenty-five years or more. - Following the banquet the following toasts were responded to with Chief Veteran Alexander Rogers acting as toastmaster: 1 . . ".Recollections of Fifty Tears" Hon. E. D. Hoge. "The Veteran Association" Chief Veteran A. Rogers. "The Veteran at Work" P. G. M. E. O. Pearee. "The Old Boys" P. A. Simpkin. Brief addresses were made by Ichel Wattera, Louis Swasburg, . George Arbogast, H. F. Evans, W. J. Moore. After singing "Auld Lang Syne," the meeting was closed. The following were present: Past Grand Master Alexander Rogers, Enos D. Hoge, Martin Stockman, W. P. Rowe, Harry F. Evans, Ed Pearce, George Arbogast and Past Grands T. C. ; WaltenspieL Ichel Watters, Rudolph Alff, B. Berryman, H. L. Stein, George Olson. Albert Fisher,- Bernard Rick, W. H. Stahl, C. P. Hutchinson, John H. Kidd, Louis Strasburg, W. T. Harris, William D. Gaby, Charles E. Street, b! D. Blackmarr, Grand Scribe William J. Moore, Grand Secretary P. A. Simpkin. |