Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois - University Library

TU da GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS, I. O. O. F.
Klov l| i913 ! 83
Since the holding of this meeting in Lincoln, I am creditably
informed that the Masonic fraternity in Illinois, has provided an
appropriation of $50,000.00 with which to construct an isolated hospital
building in connection with the Illinois Masonic Home at Sullivan,
111., therefore in the future the matter of a hospital will be eliminated
from the meetings of this association, the next one of which will be
held at Sullivan, at the Illinois Masonic Home.
The meetings of this association accomplish great good in bringing
together the superintendents and matrons of the various fraternal
homes of the state and in the course of time avails each superintendent
and matron with the privilege of visiting and inspecting the homes
of the other fraternal Orders.
Your Grand Master approves of these meetings and recommends
that the superintendents and matrons of both our homes attend the
next meeting of this, association.
ODD FELLOWS' LEAGUE AND RELIEF BOARD.
At one time there were two separate Odd Fellows' concerns in Chicago
that undertook to relieve transient Brothers. They were combined
a few years ago and now exist as the "Odd Fellows' League and
Relief Board," of which Bro. J. W. Jackson is President and Col. Harold
A. Jensen is Secretary, and their headquarters are Room 49, 54 W.
Randolph St.. Chicago, Illinois.
By direction of the Grand Lodge, this Odd Fellows' League and
Relief Board assumes the duty of caring for distressed Brothers and
Sisters in Cook county and especially in the city of Chicago, that
arrive there from other jurisdictions.
It is with pleasure that I can recommend the work of this board.
I have visited their quarters and the President and Secretary have
shown me the records of many cases where they have been of the
greatest value to the distressed members of the Fraternity.
In my official communication of July 15, I said: "I desire to call
the attention of the Lodges of Cook county to their obligation to
support the Odd Fellows' League and Relief Board. I also desire to
remind every other Lodge in the State that a small contribution to
this Relief Board would be a splendid aid to the Relief Board in Chicago
and to the honor and the credit of the country everywhere."
The necessity for the above suggestion is as great now as then.
Nothing advances the interest of our Order as thoroughly and satisfactorily
as the relief of distress and it is with pleasure that I sub
mit the report of the Odd Fellows' League and Relief Board, recently
filed in my office: