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New Quarters Of The I. O. O. F.

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The gromd opening of the new quartpps oí the Odd FeMow ifraternity, looaited on the 3d fjoor of t h 'Henning bïock. last WVdnesdny ovonintr, waB a Tpry suvccesSful affa.iT, some 350 peoplp being preeent. Tlie crowd ws so great that dancing; was not Rn (vvsy matter in the fors part of the eveninK, hut as the otder ppoplethinned out the yomnKer ones had more room !n which to enjoy ttiemseltvess anl tliey made t!he moMiof ilt. Tlic Odd Felio-svs have now secured ?or theniseTvei5 remarkably fine rooms for both liodge and social pnrposes. This has been done by the various lodjres of the order combnin, as the Maisioms did severai years ago, and all warking for tfhe samei end. Tlie resiidit is a bèauWul hovne for all of them, Bmd will end in a closeir bond bet-ween the va'rious separate organizationis. For the fo-HoAVMiR account of t hese new rooms we are imdebted t-o the DaWy Times : "On reaching tlie third floor of the Henning Wock. the visltor enters a smnll hallway wït.h a doo-r leading directty iivto the dlning room and another into the flrst amte-room. Attached to the diining room is a kitehen. "Folding doors open between the dininir room and the first ante-room, f-roim tiits to the sec-ond amte-room and thence into the lDdge room proper. To the first ante-room adjoins ladles' c!rxik and toilet wrans, from the second ante-ivom twin proporty rooms for the two mibordiniate lodges. Above these rooms is a torger room, around the Bidés of which are lockers for tlie use of the uniforined rank, of Patriarche Militant. Opening east froTC' the maih ldge room i the property room of the Bnoampment. The lodge room proper ib 38 f eet by 42 f eet ín si ze, without pïïlairs of any kmd to interfere with the hiM use of the flooT space. The walle and cetlInfc are tastetuiMy and richly papered and hung wtth mimprous banners and pictirres, some af wMch are of more than iiPnal valiu-. Tlip whole suite of rooms te heated by" steam and is as convpnliip and pretty as any kosoópty can weH de-sirp."

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Ann Arbor Courier