1~25 1925 OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAM ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST ANNUAL COMMUNICATION OF THE SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE, 1. O. O. F. GENERAL MILITARY COUNCIL AND ASSOCIATION OF REBEKAH ASSEMBLIES ~~.~~/ .~~~~ ....., I I '"' ...S'\:) - Portland, Oregon September 21-2.5, 1925 """"""'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ""''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''"'''''''''''''''10'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''"""'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''"'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' """'"'''''''' """"""""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1 ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII~ FRATERNAL GREETINGS o the Officers and Members of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the General Military Council of Patriarchs Militant, Association of Rebekah As• sem blies, and friends: The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs in Portland as well as the whole State of Oregon are ~~::dJ glad of the privilege of extending to you, our visitors from all parts of the earth, a most cordial welcome. May you have joy and happiness in realizing that though you come from afar you are among friends whose every aim is to add to your comfort and pleasure. Vie are proud to welcome you as a great Fraternity which stands for all that is noble, pure and true, and whose chief aim is to make the world better because of the principles which we teach and exemplify from day to day. Portland, the City of Roses, the convention city of the West, whose highest joy is that it be noted for hospitality and good fellowship, bids you a most hearty welcome and greeting. The glow of our friendship reaches from beyond present State lines. The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia, once part of our Jurisdiction and former sons and daughters of Oregon, join in extending fraternal greetings. We trust that this one hundred and first session of the Sovereign Grand Lodge will be the most memorable one in all its historic greatness and that when you have concluded your deliberations that you will tarry a while to gaze at the beauties of the great Pacific Northwest. Our towering peaks covered with perpetual snows smile down upon you, our winding high• ways invite you, our rippling streams murmur a low beckoning call for you to loiter along their sequestered glades, while nestling in the mountains to the southward lies Crater Lake, unparalleled as a picture of grandeur and beauty. Wherever you may wander in this, the land of our love, remember that at all times our heartiest felicitations and best wishes accompany you. -GENERAL COMMITTEE. ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillllllllili1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII~ HEADQUARTERS SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ODD FELLOWS BUILDING-Curner loth and Salmon. Multnomah Hotel (lift); Portland Hotel (,.ig"'). 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII~ OREGON greets you, Odd Fellows meet you Wi th true loving heart and hand, R EBEKAHS are smiling, roses beguiling A welcome to this our fair land: EARTH'S rarest beauties are here spread before you, They're yours as well as ours; G OD'S gifts to His people in boundless profusion He streweth in bounteous showers; o H, great are the blessings and rich are the treasures In this beautiful State in the West, NO happier people in all this broad nation Than Oregon Odd Fellows, blest. OCEANS, highways and rivers; lakes, cascades and mountains, That tower 'most up to the sky; DEEP valleys a-blossom and fields that are golden, With cloud fairy ships floating high; D ARK caverns mysterious, Columbia imperious, That in majesty rolls down by the sea; FRIENDS, all this in great measure is here for your pleasure By the Giver of gifts given free. ENJOY them, my Brothers, enjoy them, my Sisters, All our treasures are laid at your feet- LOVE that is holy and truth that is mighty, With friendship; Ah, Friendship, so sweet! -L ET love's loyal labor and every endeavor Prove the tie that gives blest repose; o DR one earnest wish is to make our guests happy In Portland, the Home of the Rose. W ARM is our welcome and wide is our hearthstone Please en ter and tarry a wee; SINCERE is our gladness, so banish all sadness, We greet you in F. L. and T. -J.K.; A. s.; A. W. ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiilllllllllllllllllllllllili111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 PORTLAND-"TfH: ROSE CITY"-Unspoiled by the double blessing of commercial supremacy and natural beauty, holds out every lure for which the Northwest is justly famous. OFFICERS OF SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE r-r-Herbert A. Thompson, Grand 51r. a-r-Ernesr W. Bradford, Deputy Grand Sire. ,-William H. Cox. Gr.md Tressvrer. 4-Frank G. Perter, G"md Chaplain. ~- J- Edw. Kroh, Gr.:md Secretar)'. 6-0livcr C Black, Grtmd Mflumger (Edgar B. Pohlman, Assisrant Cr.wd Stefeta,)'_ S-Pcrcy T. Coupland, Grand M(Jrs/;al. 9-Harry C. Curran, Readill!. Clerk. lO-j. A. Lucas, Grand Chaplain Emeritus. r r-r-Myles F. Gray, Grand Guardian, ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII111111111111111111111111111111111111111111:111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllil111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I111I1I1I1I1111m ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE MEETING PLACES The new Odd Fellows Building, corner of loth and Salmon for the officers and members of Sovereign Grand Lodge. Streets, Portland, Oregon, is the chief place of meeting for the Portland Hotel, a large hostelry with an established reputa• various Odd Fellow Organizations during Sovereign Grand tion, is the headq uarters for the officers and members of the Lodge. This building, the illustration of which you will note Association of Rebekah Assem blies, and the Imperial Hotel on a previous page, is one of the most beautiful fraternal is headquarters for the Patriarchs Militant, the military buildings in the world. It was built by the Odd Fellows of branch of the Order. Portland during the year 1923 and, although its cost was but There are numerous parks and playgrounds scattered $300,000, it is doubted whether a similar building could now throughout the City of Portland. The city covers an area of be put up for less than half a million dollars. sixty-six square miles and has six hundred sixty miles of The lower floor of the building is used for commercial paved streets. There are four main arterial highways leading purposes but the second floor has a large auditorium with a from out the City, the one extending north to the Canadian beautiful balcony. This auditorium will seat practically 2,000 border, two running south to the California line, while the people. The Lodge Hall proper is on the fourth floor. It is Columbia River Highway is paved from Seaside on the west beautifully finished in mahogany, and is fitted up with furni• to The Dalles, one hundred miles to the east. ture which gives it a fine finish. There is a smaller Lodge One of the great charms of Portland is its scenic surround•