Athens furnishes four grand masters to Odd Fellows
The Banner features three Athens born or connected grand masters with brief life sketches and notes on a fourth, J H Dozier, who led Athens lodge duties. Charlies H Brand, Thomas Summer Mell, and Capt Henry Beusse are profiled with details of service, membership, and civic ties in Athens and Georgia.
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Athens
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
J. H. Dozier
Odd Fellows
Order
Charlies H. Brand
Lawrenceville Lodge
Tesident Lodges
Thomasville
Thomas Summer Mell
University of Georia
M. E
Glenn Lodge
Waycross
Macon
Atlanta
Great Progress Of Order In Georgia
Grand Secretary T. H. Robertson reports a year of strong growth for the order in Georgia. The tally shows 488 lodges with about 35 700 members, 29 new lodges, average lodge membership 34, and $62 000 in relief payments including $38 000 for brothers, $3 000 for widowed families, $1 200 for orphans, $14 000 for burials, and $5 000 for special relief. Subordinate lodges contributed $10 000 in receipts. invested funds total $216 000, and total assets reach $370 060. Lodges now exist in all counties except 22. The year saw 368 new members through club plans, and the order is described as healthy and growing statewide.
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Robertson
Electric Biter s aid women s remedy in Ideal Husband ad
An advertisement claims Electric Bitters help nervous exhausted women with loss of appetite headache sleep problems and fainting spells. It asserts thousands of sufferers from female troubles and backache have become healthy, offering 50 cent bottles with satisfaction guaranteed by W J Spith & Bro, H R Palmer & Sons.
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W. J. Spith & Bro
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Founder of Odd Fellowship Thomas Wildey Remembered
The article honors Thomas Wildey founder of American Odd Fellowship. It chronicles his London birth January 1, 1782, apprenticeship in coach spring making, emigration to Baltimore in 1817, and leadership as first N.G. of Washington Lodge and first Grand Master of Maryland and the United States. It notes his eight-year US tenure ending 1833, his travels to promote the order, and his death in Baltimore October 19, 1861. A monument cornerstone was laid April 26, 1865, with dedication September 20, 1865, celebrating Wildey’s enduring legacy and the order’s esteem.
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Thomas Wildey
Odd Fellowship
London
Baltimore
Order
Institution of
United States
N.G
Washington Lodge
Grand Lodge of
Maryland
Uni
Reah
Temple of Fame
Wildey
Greenmount Cemetery
America
Broadway
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Rebekah
Red Men
Royal Arcanum
Elks
Knights of Pythias
Masons
Superior Courts
Western Circuit
Grand Lodge
Independent
Odd Fellows of
Col
Thos. E. Mell
P. G
Joge Chas
H. Brand, P. G. M
Georgia
T. H. Robertson
Faa
Cart
Henry Beussee
The
Southern Cotton Oil CO
New York
Savannah
Chigago
Thomas ‘Wildey
Tom Boy
Susie
Ines
R. Palmer & Somm
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