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VOLUME XXIX
Must Recognize
Officers Elected
MONTHLY BOARD SUB-COM
MITTEE OF MANAGE
MENT ODD-FELLOWS
SO ORDERS
Affairs of Order in Georgia Re
ceive Much Attention—Com
plaints of J. C. Styles, W«
Decker Johnson and B. W. S.
Daniels Sustained —Lodges
Warned Not to Pay any Dis
trict Deputy or Supervisor
any Money
The Monthly Board of the Sub
committee of Managemnnt, con
sisting of Grand Master Edward
H. Morris, Grand Secretary James
F. Needham, and Grand Treasurer
Julius C. Johnson, met at Head
quarters Building, Philadelphia,
Pa., Monday, November 10.
Of chief importance among the
matters brought to the attention
©f the board .by Grand Master
Morris were several complaints
which he had received from cer
tain members in Georgia, setting
forth certain wrongful, arbitrary,
and usurpatory acts of the socalled
executive committee of District
Grand Lodge No. 18, and appeal
ing to the Grand Master for relief
The complainants- w-ere J. C.
Styles, W. Decker Johnson, Dr.
B. W. S. Daniels, and L. L. Ed
wards, and divers other persons
with complaints similar to that of
Brother Edwards.
Bro. J. C. Styles averred and
submitted that he had been duly
nominated for, elected to, and in
stalled in the office of district
grand treasurer of District Grand
Lodge No. 18, jurisdiction of
Georgia, at the meeting of said
district grand lodge in Savannah,
Ga., in August last.
He further averred, submitted
and complained that Associate
Justice W. L. Houston had wrong
fully, arbitrarily, and without au
thority issued from Washington,
D. C., a so-called restraining or
der or injunction pretending to
oust him, the said J. C. Styles,
from the office of district grand
treasurer of District Grand Lodge
No. 18, to which he had been duiy
elected and into which office he
had been duly installed by Grand
Director George A. Sheeby (a
visitor from Florida), in the pres
ence of the delegates there assem
bled and that of Henry Lincoln
Johnson, deputy grand master of
the Order, and Grand Director C.
A. Howze, of the Sub-Committee
of Management (a visitor from
Alabama).
And Brother J. C. Styles further
averred, submitted, and complain
ed that the so-called executive com
mittee of District Grand Lodge
No. 18, with B. S- Ingram, acting
as district grand master, and B. J •
Davis, acting as district grand sec
retary, had wrongfully, arbitrari
ly, and without authority proceed
ed to hold a pretended election
and pretended to declare that an
other person, to wit, one William
Driskel, was grand treasurer of
District Grand Lodge No. 18, not
withstanding that the said Wil
liam Driskel had not been nomina
ted for the office of, nor voted for,
nor installed as the district grand
treasurer at the Dieting held in
Savannah, Ga.
And in like manner Brother W.
Decker Johnson averred, submit
ted, and complained that he had
been nominated for, and elected
and installed as district grand di
rector at the Savannah meeting
and that Chief Justice B. J. Davis,
of the Odd Fellows Supreme
Court, in his capacity as such chief
justice, had wrongfully, arbitrari
ly, and without authority issued
from Atlanta, Ga., a so-called re
straining order or injunction pre
tending tv oust him, the said W.
Decker Johnson, fsom the office
of district grand director District
Grand Lodge No. 18.
Brother W. Decker Johnson
further averred, submitted, and
complained that the so-called ex
ecutive committee of District
Grand Lodge No. 18, with B. S.
Ingram acting in the capacity of
grand master, had wrongfully,
abitrarily, and without authority
proceeded to hold a pretended
election and pretended to declare
that another person was district
grand director of District Grand
Lodge No. 18.
Dr. B. W. S. Daniels averred
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and submitted that he had been
lawfully chosen as district grand
medical examiner, and that he had
been wrongfully, arbitrarily, and
without authority ousted from the
office by the so-called executive
committee, with B. S. Ingram act
ing as grand master and B. J.
Davis acting as grand secretary.
Brother L. L Edwards, of
Three Links Lodge No. 5647,
Waydross, Ga. (and others, made
inquiry as to whether lodges in
Georgia are to be governed by the
proclamation of the Grand Master
of the Order in America issued
in June last respecting the recog
nition of so-called division depu
ties and the payment of certain
division taxes and fees —a part of
the so-called deputy system —or
whether the lodges in Georgia are
to be forever subjugated by the
intimidatory orders issued by B.
J. Davis in his capacity as district
grand secretary. [Brother Ed
wards also advised Grand Master
Morris that since writing his com
plaint, District Grand Secretary
B. J. Davis had notified the per
manent secretary of Three Links
Lodge that he (L. L. Edwards)
had been suspended ]
All of the complaints prayed for
such action on the part of Grand
Master Morris as was within his
power of relief.
In disposing of these complaints
Grand Master Morris issued the
following:
Order —.The Odd Fellows of
Georgia and the Odd Fellows of
the Grand United Order of Odd
Fellows in America, wherever
th ay may be, are hereby directed
and commanded to receive and re
gard Brother J. C. Stiles as the
district grand treasurer of District
Grand Lodge No, 18, of Georgia,
and Brother W. Decker Johnson
as district grand director of Dis
trict Grand Lodge No. 18, of
Georgia, until otherwise directed
by the National Grand Master aid
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 1913
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Real Charity Ball Next!
Month
FOR BENEFIT OF CHARITY
h HOSPITAL
Will be Held at Masonic Tem
ple December 36th—Proceeds
Go to Hospital Improvement
Fund. •
In most of the cities of the north
and middle west the charity balls
are the most talked of events ®f
ti^e winter season and this year
Savannah will endeavor to have a
similar event.
On the last Tuesday night in
next month, December 30th, a
charity bail for the benefit of
Charity Hospital, will be given at
the Masonic Temple. While this
is by no means the first time this
institution has had an affair of
this sort yet none of them has
reached that degree of popular
favor where they have been con
sidered a success in the broad
sense of charity balls.
However, efforts are now on foot
to have the coming event one of
much significance to the people of
Savannah and one that will be a
propei- beginning of these annua)
charity balls.
Dr. C. C. Middleton, of the hos
pital staff, in speaking of the affair
the other day, said that every ef
fort would be made to arouse
proper interest in these annual
balls which the hospital expects to
pull off and that he hopes they will
be looked forward to from year to
year as of much benefit to the
community in general.
Card of Thanks
Mrs. A. E. Allen and Mrs.
Bache) Hudson desire to thank
their friends for their sympathy
pn4 kindnesses during their
jecent bereavement and h i u v
floral offerings.
Second Church Will Hold
Carnival
FIVE-NIGHT HAT SHOW TO
BE FEATURE
To Be Held at Mrs. Jno. Starr’s
And Adjoining Residences on
Gaston St., East —Commences
Monday Night.
On next Monday night a novel
carnival will be held by the crew
of the-steamship Mauretania, who
are in a financial race at the 2nd
Baptist church with ihe Lusita
nia, the other vessel which is also
returning from the imaginary yet
very interesting trip to the Holy
Land, which was begun several
months ago and which has already
resulted in many hundred dollars
being added to the fund to wipe
out a four thousand dollars mort
gage on the church.
Next week's entertainment will
be known as a kk Hat Carnival” and
will end on Friday night, No
vember 28th. The carnival
will be held in several of the
houses on Gaston street I etween
Price and Bowen stieets, with
Mrs- John Starr’s house as head
quarters.
The features of the carnival;
will be prizes for the lady who
brings the largest and oddest
shaped hat and for the one who
makes and brings for exhibi-.
tion the neatest and best trim med j
hat. There will be Aunt Peggy s;
millinery department, which w/i;
contain a large assortment of \ in
ter bats for sale at low price-, j
Aunt Jerusha’s apron table, wi m e I
home-made aprons both fancy m d j
plain w ill be on sale, a Europt am
dining room where all the season's]
delicacies may be had, and .ni
amusement room containing al
shocking gallery, a gr»h bap- a I
fishing pond and oihe o.ieies. i >i; '
Died ii? Darien
। Mr. E. N. >i. h'.an died Wed-
I nesday night last ih Darien. Ga-,
■ where he went a lew days ago for
; the beoelii or his health. Mr. Sul-
I livan has been for li e past several
years resioing in Atlantic City
N J. Recently his health failed
him and he came South about two
months ago. He was well and fa
vorably known in this city. He
was always stiaightforward in his
dealings. He leaves a wife and
two children, other relatives and
many friends to irnuun his death.
He was a member of the First
Congregational church of this
city and Mt. Moriah Lodge of
Masons. Ihe funeral takes place
in Dai ien to-morrow
Thanksgiving at First Congre
gational Church
Thanksgiving services will be
held next Thursday morning at
the First Congregational church at
11 o’clock. The pastor, Rev. VV.
L. Cash, will preach a special ser
mon. Special offering will be
taken for the poor. The church
| has appointed a committee to solic
it articles which will be distribut
’ed to the poor after the service.
]The public is invited to attend.
features.
On thanksgiving day a grand
old time^barbecue will be held and
a turkey dinner and supper will
be served from noon until near
midnight.
T 1 e church folk are much en
thused over the bright prospects
of the coming carnival and it is
more than likely that a very neat
sum will be raised from the five
night entertainment. The price
of admission to the carnival is ten
cents a night, with season tickets
going at twenty-five cents. The
race between these two rival clubs
of the church is a very spirited
one and so close has it been that
the contest which is scheduled to
close in March will undoubtedly
terminate much earlier.
NUMBER 10
Wage Earners To
Build
WILL ERECT BEAUTIFUL
THREE-STORY STRUCT-
URE AT WEST BROAD
AND ALICE STS.
Work on New Building to Com
mence About February—Bank
To Have Most J Modern Quar
ters— Building ito| be of Buff
^Brickj and|Stone Front—Will
r Have About 30 Offices and
Will be Steam Heated —Build-
ing to Cost $35,000.
That Savannah in the course of
the next nine months will have
one of 4he most beautiful and
modern buildings in the country
occupied by a Negro banking in
stitution may be seen from the
cut on this page of The Wage
Earners Loan and Investment
Company’s new building.
Work on the new building will
commence about the first part of
February. The new structure
will occupy the northeast corner
of West Broad and Alice streets,
a portion of the half block which
the company purchased some time
ago, and will be the one block
south of the Union Station-
The building will be constructed
of buff brick and will be three
stories high on a basement. The
bank will occupy the major por
tion of the first floor and its quar
ters will b« luxuriously equipped.
The front of the first story will be
of stone.
Aside from the bank, there will
also be one store on the first floor.
The second and third stories will
contain office rooms. In the base
ment which will extend sever al
eet above the street ^thereby al
lowing ample light and ventila-
Ition w T ill be a nicely fitted barber
shop, the steam-heating plant and
several storage rooms. •
A slight change has been made
from the way the building appears
in the cut. Instead of having the
entrance to the offices on Alice
street, the main stairway will open
on West Broad. The building will
cost approximately $35,000.
Auto Polo Players to Have
Game Here
Through the efforts of several
Savannahians who are interested
in the sport, the automobile polo
players who arrived in Savannah
Wednesday en route to Florida,
have been induced to remain in Sa
vannah until to-day and give an
exhibition of the game.
Arrangements have been made
for the use of the baseball park for
the exhibition. These auto polo
players have appealed in nearly
all of the larger cities of the United
States. Walter Sterling, the or
iginal player ofthegame, and Jim
mie Allen who compose the team,
known as the American team, have
appeared also in Europe. An ad
mission of 25 cents will be charged
for the exhibition; which begins at
3 o’clock this Saturday afternoon.
Colored Public Library
Interest in the campaign is cen
tered at the present time in the
quartette contest and debate which
will take place at the Second
(Fort) Baptist church, corner of
Houston and President streets, on
Monday night, November 24.
The following quartettes have
registered : Piney Woods with I.
Williams, W. W. Mumphris, E.
R. Collins, and Dan Burroughs;
Pastime with Chas. Pleasants,
Paul White. Frank Hooker and
Nelson Cuyler; Forest City with
Joseph Ford. Chas, Anderson, J.
C- Anderson and Clifford Ander
son; Y. M. C. A. with L. L. James,
Jr,, Wm. Brown, A. D. Burton
and E. W. Lee, and the Imperial
with Robert Jordan, H. R. Col
lins, Fred Lightbourn and P. A.
Moore. The subject of the debate
is, “Should Women Vote?” Af
firmative, J. C. Lindsay and Dr.
B. W. S. Daniels. Negative
Rev. A. W. Bryant and E- W.
Sherman. Alternates, G^eo. W,
Hall and H. T. Singleton.
The Lexington News, a Negro
weekly at Lexington, Ky., has
one of the best and largest me
chanically equipped printing shops
in the country, among the race.
Hardin Tolbert, of Frankfort,
