Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois - University Library

82 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [ N „Tu f^?
/ Nov. is. 1913.
splendid purpose and can be, and are, a great service to each of the
home boards.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
The Grand Master desires to recommend that there be con-
structed at the Old Folks' Home at Mattoon, Illinois, a' separate dining
room of sufficient size to accommodate, upon the ground floor, the
Superintendent and Matron, the day and .light nurses and all other
help employed in and about the home, and that the second story of
the building be fitted up for sleeping purposes.
The Grand Master desires to further recommend that an isolated
building be constructed at the Old Folks' Home in Mattoon in which
to care for that class of members coming to the home, who are really
fit patients for a hospital and not fit members for our Old Folks' Home
during the time that it has no isolated building in which "to care for
them.
Many Brothers and Sisters are admitted into the home as proper
members for the home, but the increase of years and the infirmities
that, come with them transpose the same Brothers and Sisters into
purely hospital patients and we should have some place at the home
in which to care for them.
MEETINGS OF THE ASSOCIATED FRATERNAL CHARITIES.
The third annual meeting of this association was held at the Odd
Fellows Orphans' Home, at Lincoln, Illinois, Monday, September 1, 19i3,
which your Grand Master attended, together with Deputy Grand Master
Darnall, Superintendent and Matron of the Old Folks' Home. Brother
and Sister North, and Dr. and Mrs. Lucas, of the Orphans' Home,
Brother Pumphrey and wife, Superintendent and Matron of the Illi-
nois Masonic Home, of Sullivan. Illinois. Brother Clark and wife, Sup-
erintendent and Matron of the Knights of Pythias Home of Decatur,
111., and the Superintendent of the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home, at
LaGrange, 111., Brother Moulton and Brother Dixon of the Masonic
Fraternity. Brother Owen Scott representing the Eastern Star
Home of Macon, Illinois, and several other prominent fraternity people
were present.
Brother Warren C. Darnall was elected chairman for the next year
of this association; Brother W. K. Whitfield. Grand Chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias' Domain, of Illinois, was elected vice-president.
Addresses were made by most of the members present.
The main purpose of this organization has been to ascertain, if pos-
sible, a method by which a hospital could be erected by the three fra-
ternities. Masonic. Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, in which to
care for the hospital patients of each fraternity.