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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1908
Page
3
The Odd Fellowship gathering outlines mutual relief aims and moral instruction as members from ranches worldwide join a ceremonial event. The grand encampment reads today in Hearioll at 16 o'clock while the Nebskha assembly meets Wednesday at 10 in the Balby building, with no ladies' delegates yet arrived.
J C Wilson of Charleston has held all encampment offices and served 23 years as an Odd Fellow member of Glen Bik Lodge 95 and Glenwood Encampment 40. M B Postlethwaite, longtime leader and former grand lodge delegate, is tipped for grand treasurer. D M Marsteller, deputy grand master, expected to become grand master by succession. D W Marsteller will likely be succeeded by D P Kesler, grand warden from Cowan. L S Price of Charleston is grand marshal and Glen Elk 95 member with 24 years as an Odd Fellow. George G Stout of Parkersburg, visiting grand treasurer for 33 years in Sharon Lodge 25, is lauded as a self-made Odd Fellow. W H Cecil, current grand master, to retire after this term. presiding at Parkers Lodge 7 and active in grand lodge. Fairmont Grand Chaplain Carter serves as presiding elder of the Methodist Church.
The Local Odd Fellows Binefield will send W. J. Bailey from No 144 and B. & B. Martin from No 250 to the grand lodge. W. I Francis is delegate to the grand encampment with C. Patti sco as alternate. A number of Past Chief Patriarchs from Bluefield will receive the encampment degree including Leroy Landrum Pattison J. Cooper E. Martin and W. F. P. Francis.
The Odd Fellows' Friend, printed in Bluefield by C. Pattison, long served as the lodge's official organ. Editor and publisher C. C. Pattison, of the city, has shown strong interest in Odd Fellowship and is advancing steadily in the order.
A local note lauds a publication titled The Great Lodge for its high quality and broad readership. The paper is described as an excellent product with extensive circulation and strong community impact.
The Daily Telegraph invites any person with rooms for rent or able to provide both rooms and board to phone the business office this morning with address, number accommodated, and terms. The information will be given to the committee led by SEPTIMUS HALL of New Martinsville Past Grand Master and Odd Fellows Home committee member.
A lay treatment piece explains how the stomach processes food and lists distress from indigestion. It touts Pape's Diapep sin as a fifty cent remedy and claims a single dose can turn every bite into nourishment.
A. F. Hardy of East Wilton Maine credits Stuckten's Arnica Salve with curing every sore boil ulcer or burn it is applied to and says it has saved many a doctor bill. The ad notes 25 cents at all drug stores and mentions Kinzer's inventory of Odd Fellow and Rebekah pins.
Maefeld proposes a distributing depot for postoffice supplies to serve the territory from a central city location. The plan contemplates shipment of stamped envelopes and postal cards in solid car loads to the postmaster, with stock on hand reaching ninety thousand dollars and occasionally as much as two hundred fifty thousand dollars. The main hurdle is suitable facilities and storage, with a goal to establish the depot promptly before the federal building completes. Washington and Toledo are the nearest comparable points.
Kinzer invites all odd fellows and risveks to visit the store. The college provides a thorough training in spelling grammar rhetoric correspondence punctuation and office work with typewriters. It includes bookkeeping penmanship correspondence banking and commercial law along with music and arts courses.
Mrs. Mary Dowling of San Francisco recommends Electric Litters for stomach trouble, claiming it benefits digestion and liver health. Dr. King's New Discovery is praised by Wm. V. Henry of Panama for coughs and lung conditions, with a 38 year proof history and a free trial bottle offer.
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