Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois - University Library

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Hugh .C. Clements $ 7,000.00
Security, 314 acresi of land in Vermilion county, 111.
Netting Grand Lodge five per cent.
On the above $7,000.00 mortgage only $6,250 has been paid, leav-
ing a balance of $750.00 still due.
The following bond has been purchased for account Old Folks'
Home Endowment fund:
Henderson county drainage bond $ 500.00
Drainage District No. 2, Henderson county, 111., bearing
6 per cent interest, bought at $106.81, netting Grand
Lodge about five and one-half per cent.
All other securities as reported in our last report are all intact.
Adopted.
Respectfully submitted,
M. P. BERRY,
G. F. KOESTER,
WILLIS MELVILLE,
Committee.
THIRD REPORT, BY BROTHER M. P. BERRY, OF NO. 412.
To the Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois, I. O. O. F.:
Your Committee on Finance would respectfully report as follows:
On Friday, October 17th, 1913, your committee visited our Orphans'
Home at Lincoln. We carefully examined the books and accounts, and
checked up all the receipts and expenditures of the Homes during the
past year. We also went through and examined carefully the new
building for girls, which has just been completed, and spent an hour
or two in going over the farm and viewing the stock and crops.
We were highly pleased with the general appearance of our new
building. It hasi been supplied with every comfort and convenience
that could be desired, and, standing among the other buildings, adds a
dignity to them all.
We met the children in the Chapel and were pleased with their
appearance and their exercises. We believe we have a good corps of
teachers and attendants, and that our children are receiving the best
of care and instruction, as evidenced by the love they have for their
superintendent and his wife, and for all their teachers and attendants.
In looking into their happy and contented faces no feeling but pleasure
and satisfaction can find a place in the human heart, and your committee
departed, carrying only these feelings with them.
We found the receipts and disbursements of the Home for the
past year to be as follows:
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