Odd Fellows Are Coming

The Odd Fellows of the state are to wu Aun Arbor nest week Tnesday and ' Vednesday,Ootober 8 and 9. On those ; wo days will be held the grand ' ampmeut of the I. O. O. F. and also he state cantonment,both being annual meetings. The encampment, which will bring 200 delegates to the city, each encampment throughont the state being entitled ;o one representative, will convene Tnesday morning at 9 :30, in Maccabee nall over the postoffice, and with more or less frequent intermissions will be in .session both Tnesday and Wednesday. Tho meetings will be of a business nature and will be private. However, at 9 :30 on tho first day there will be an open session at whioh Mayor Walker will address the encampment in a speech of weirome. Among the prominent Odd Fellows of the state, who will be in attendance, are Grand Patriarch Dandy and Secretary E. H. Whitney, of Lausing. The headquarters of the encampment will be at the Anwrican house. The cantonment will meet f or the two days in the I. O. O. F. lodge room, ecrossthe street from the Cook house. It is expeoted that three hundred men will be present in uniform, oantons being expected from Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Owosso, Piint, St. Johns, Graild Ledge, Hillsdale, Adriau, Charlotte and other places, fifteen oantons in all being expected. The Charlotte contingent will bring a band, and rhe Detroit Newsboy's band also will be here. Cantonment headqnartera will be at the Cook house. Department Coinmnder A. W. Adair, of Kalarnazoo, and Assistant Adjntant A. T. Willett, of Flint, two of the most prominent Odd Fellows of the state, will be hcre to assiRt in making the cantonmuut successful. Thfi inost intnrestitiir features of the ïonvention to the public will be the lrills and parado. At 1 :30 on Tuesïay, the cantonment drill will take place at the fair gronnd aud will be Eree to the public Many jrizes are offered, some as f ollows : For the bes drilled cantón, not less than fifteen swords, first prize, $75 ; second, $50 ; third, $25: fonrth, $12.50. There will be prizes for the oanton coming the longest distauce, for the laregst oanton, for the oldest, youngest, handsomest, hornliest, tallest and shortest chevalier in uniform. At the conclusión of the cautou drill, there will be a dress parade. Wednesday niorning at 9 :30 there will be sword contests on the court house square. Liberal prizes are offered for individual sword work. Wednesday afternoon the graDd parade will take place, forming about the court house square, the line of niarch being south on Main street to William, east to División, north to Liberty, east to State, south on the west side of State to South University rvenue, returning on the east side of State to Huron, ■west to the court house, where the decisions of the judges regarding prizes will be annonnced and the prizes given out Ann Arbor cantón will take part in the parade and drill under command of Captain John Feiner.