Odd Fellows celebrate in Monticello with parade and regalia
The Odd Fellows and the Daughter of Rebekah march through Monticello in a day of prayers music initiations and benevolence. Lodges from many towns join the Eastern District Association to mark the birth anniversary of American Odd Fellowship with officers led by QO R Ricker and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebekah
Odd Fellows
Monticello
Town City
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Springville
Anamosa
Wyoming
Mt. Vernon
Mechanicsville
Tipton
Hopkinton
Norway
Delhi
Manchester
Earlville
Greeley
Strawberry Point
Coggon
Central City
Shellsburg
Belle Plaine
Muscatine
West Liberty
Lisbon
Onslow
Olin
Oxford Junction
Miles
Bertram
Solon
Vinton
Preston
Davenport
Maquoketa
Dewitt
Independent Order of Iowa Odd Fellows
American Odd Fellowship
QO. R. Ricker
C. L. Gould
Iowa City
I. M
Odd Fellows Parade Marks 81st Anniversary in Clinton
Clergy and civic leaders unite as Odd Fellows and Rebekahs celebrate 81 years since American founding in Clinton with parades, bands, bunting, and speeches. Visitors from Davenport Anamosa Maquoketa Osceola join cantons and lines of marchers while organizers stress charity, education, and fraternal duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Street
C' City
Milwaukee Main Line
Cedar Rapids and
Calmar
Davenport
Wyoming
Center Junction
Olin
Northwestern Road
Clinton
Anamosa
Monticello
Milwaukee Road
Canton Twin City Lodge No. 24
Maquoketa
Onslow
Cedar Rapids
Kouba
Big National Band
Anamosa Band
Osceola Lodge
Marion
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
Mt. Vernon
Welcome to the best at the table in Friendship Love and Truth
The passage greets members of the order and friends with a ceremonial welcome. It explains colors pink and green symbolize modesty and hope and memory respectively, linked by Friendship, Love and Truth as guiding values for doing good and welcoming attendees at a gathering of home lodges Subordinate and Rebekah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebekah
Odd Fallows’ Association
Town
Murphy and Weare
Cedar Rapids
Lovelace and Lathrop
Towa City
Rebecca
Smartten
Secret Society
Order and Friends
Decoration of Chivalry Award Shocks Canton Meeting
The Cantons and Rebekahs and Subordinate lodges held events at the opera house and M B E church. P G L F Sutton of Clinton spoke eloquently at the church. Marion Canton No 7 awarded Captain Dunlap of Marion and Sister Jordan of Springville with the Decoration of Chivalry during the evening gathering. Fancy drills slated for 4 o clock after publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
M. BE
P. G
L. F. Sutton
Clinton
Marion Canton
Captain Dunlap
Marion
Jordan
Springville
81st Anniversary of American Odd Fellowship Observed
Friendship, Love and Truth noted as the 81st anniversary of American Odd Fellowship. Anamosa No 40, the county’s oldest lodge, founded July 6, 1852, with O R Ricker twice elected president. First street electrical display by Louis Lang highlighted, as opera house seating reduced about 200 for a central platform of chivalry decorations by the Marion Cantons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Odd Fellowship
Odd Fellows’ Lodge
Anamosa No. 40
O. R. Ricker
First Street
Louis Lang
Opera House
Marion Cantons
Watch lost and horse sale highlight Monticello news
A gold filled hunting case Hampden movement watch was lost between Langworthy and Monticello on Wednesday afternoon, with a double gold chain attached. The Greeley Importation Co offers a fine black Percheron stallion from Monticello, imported last November and weighing about 1900 pounds, sold by shares to a stock company. News arrives of George Thomas’s death at Manila while in Co T of the 82nd Regiment, died of disease. he lived in Monticello area all his life. Mrs O A Ahlers and her son of Bellevue visit Grandpa Rigby, joined by Bertha Rigby after a long Bellevue stay. Convict George Mann escaped from Anamosa penitentiary last Tuesday night using a skeleton key from the dynamo room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langworthy
Monticello
Greeley Importation Co
George Thomas
Manilla
Co. T
82Nd Regiment
Thomas
O. A. Ahlers
Bellevue
Grandpa Rigby
Bertha Rigby
George Mann
Anamosa Penitentiary
Dynamo Room
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the Order
Odd Fellowship
America
England
Patriotic Order
Order of Odd Fellows
United States
Baltimore
Rebekah Lodge
Rebekahs
Otto
Ladies’ Cornet
Iowa
Will V. Tufford
The
Clinton Age
KE. M. Harvey
FTER
Varilous Lodge
M. FE
Schaeffer
J. A. Deutrick
Odd Fellows and
Amanda KE. Hosford
Odd Fellows and Daughters of
Daughters of
Raney
Marengo
P. H. Connor
E. A. Hubbard
A. Matthiessen
W. W. Rhodes
Henry Bohlken
W. B. Sloan
W. J. Good
F. M. Wheeler
W. W. Hunter
O. G. Meyer
A. Bajasch
H. S. Lee
N. A. Rice
W. A. Overing, Sr
Thos. Cassady
LeRoy Clark
Ed. Harms
Lewis Darling
Jacob Wernl
A. J. Schoonover
Bert King
Bert
A. Errickson
Hindustan
Mithras
Persia
Oliver
Monticallo
Grand Minster
I. W. Evans
Milwaukee Railway Company
Sio
Association
Auxiliary Lodge
Iowa Cantons
J. A. Doutrick
L. F. Sutton, P. G
Teries
Porphyry
A. Ye
Star Clothing House
J. B. Zimmerman & CO
the People’s Clothiers
M. W. Herrick
Baw
Mone AtHeello
Donos Co
Lowa
Dubuquee
Deliware
Linn and
Jones
J. W. Doxsee
Yporney
Giun
Monloco
W.A. Mirick
M. D. Deevlingtan
Offica
T. B. Kent
Main Street
Postoffica
Lowe
Wm.j. Couchlan
D.D.S. Entist
This & Eilers
Lews
P. O. Babcock
Votionenr
Montilcello
Wilery Siles
J.H. Lathrop
Votonenr
Willery Sales
A. Matimilessen
A. E. Morcan
Roaldence Corner
Fourth Sta
Monticello, Lowu
H.C. Bohlken
Hicks & Hilers
Tat
World Manufacturing Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
T’verybody
Robert Young
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