Show I 1000 FELLOWS IN INGRAND Ji GRAND fRAND CONCLAVE GONGLA VE VEI i I I I I Eighty Third Eighty Third Annual Session I i i Now Being Held in St St. St Paul Paul I I PAST YEAR SUCCESSFUL I I Increase in the Membership of Relief Expenditures Expenditures Expendi Expendi- tures I St. St P Paul Minn S Sept pt All J All section sec see ton tion nf or lie United tal tatos 58 C Canada I Mexico tuba uba hawaii tilo tho PhIlip- PhIlip Phlp- Phlp o nt-o- represented r t Ml at the eighty eighty- frd nl annual i on oC tiC t ibo ho IO una gr-una nG io Independent t r Odd Je Fellow I ow I. I In Sj fh p u L d 1 to l' l gh TI t nn oC oCh h nd John 13 U. Goodwin of oC Baltimore Haiti Balti more mOIr shows that tho year rear ear ha haS hag boon boonIn In tI n ninny rE respects tho the mo most t ful fulIn In tho history of or tha tho order The ho net increase a In ha subordinate I lodge membership has has been heen 81 1245 be being being heIn he- he In ing th the highest point ever ej reached In Ina Inas a as year ear tho time net e in SI Sisters of ot th the branch has been f 7 being tho the next to tho the lal largest e t ov ever tr r ml 1 made and amid alil exceeded ed on only by a gain of ofU U while the net Increase of subordinate Ind lodge membership and amid sisters r of IC the branch In tho the pa t l year Car on tO together r the thelon lon largest est aggregate a net gain ain ever r report report- ed being S I. I The present lodge membership Is 1 r an and and- 1 the tho number 47 3 making an nn a aggregate aggregate- of oC 1 1 believe the the total membership will wi reach th the tho mark l by th the In last t of ot 1 1908 expenditure I The total loud rel relief f expenditure In all aU I branches for Cr en th time the In last l year ar ug aggregated f and aral represents a substantial sub suL- increase in every CT branch of the lie ord order r over that for tor the preceding year ear Tho ho receipts of or lod lodges es encampments s an and 1 Rebekah lodges amount to a n to total to- to tal 11 of a n gain over 1 0 the tho the previous lous years earR of During During th the tho year one new sovereign grand lodge c has been instituted that of or Saskatchewan wan Canada A gain of or nv five in the number of grand representatives representatives n- n s l Is reported making the tho total number 05 Two of or the these c represent the tho new nl Sa Saskatchewan grand lod lodge c. c and one each from th the tho grand encampments encamp encamp- ments mentI of Manitoba Maritime provinces prO inces and South Dakota Dalta The lar largest cst membership among the state stale rr provincial pro branches Is Js in Pennsylvania with wih Now New ew York Is second 1 with Ohio third with Illinois fourth In Indiana In- In Indiana diana lana fifth It Massachusetts Ja sixth 1 Missouri seventh 1 Iowa Iowa eighth Michigan Jehl an ninth o n and California tenth Order ro ln Of tl the Ind quasi independent Jurisdictions c- c lons of the order that of oC has a n membership of oC Germany Sweden n Denmark iZ Ii and Switzerland anil The Tho Netherlands about aboU Oo each The fhe order Is alto also aJI aJIc c established 1 In Argentina Cuba Cuha France Fanco Hawaii Japan Mexico and tho the Phi Phi- Phil Phil- This Is h time tho thC fr first t meeting of oC the lImo sovereign soy sov O grand lodge lodo to be held in this section of th tIme tho United States since Ince when lh time tho convention was wa held In Minneapolis Minnesota O Odd l Fellows and especially those of oC the tIme twin cities have made arrangements on an nn elaborate ate scale for the entertainment of oC the h hd d delegates I ega CE tf tes |