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Odd Fellows Want A Site

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
November
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

ODD FELLOWS WANT A SITE

TO LOCATE HOME FOR ORPHANS AND WIDOWS

Colonel Sellers Here Today Looking Over the City and Favorably Impressed - Institution May Come Here

Colonel E. H. Sellers, of Detroit, A. H. Brown, of Traverse City, Rev. George Vernor of Hillsdale and R. G. Jackson of the Upper Peninsula, constituting a committee of the board of control of the Odd Fellows Home, were in the city Friday last, looking for a site on which to build a home for the orphans and widows of Odd Fellows and aged and indigent members of organization. The board has been given power by the Grand Lodge to find a suitable site for the building up of such an institution and during the last few months this committee has been visiting various cities and towns in the state intent on securing land that would be suitable for the purpose named.

They wish to have the land donated and will agree to put up fine buildings and expend a large sum of money within the next ten years. Col. Sellers said that they would spend upwards of $200,000 in that time. Col. Sellers came here to see what could be done along this line and was entertained by Judge Newkirk and Mayor Copeland. The mayor said he considered the object a laudable one and would do all in his power to bring the institution here. The board of control has instructed the committee to look at land near a city which can be used for faming and gardening purposes. Fifty or one hundred acres are desired by the Odd Fellows located near enough to some city to have the advantages of it especially the schools

A committee of the Rebeckah branch of the Odd Fellows consisting of Mrs. Ida M. Bailey, Mrs. Lydia M. Peet and Mrs. M. A. Downing, from Traverse City, Ithaca and Bay City respectively, are working in co-operation with the gentlemen who visited Ann Arbor today. The colonel left for Detroit late Friday afternoon much impressed with the sites which were shown him and said that he awaited action on the part of the city council here. He was given to understand before he left that some action would be taken.