Campbellsport News, November 4, 1915

WORK ON WALL
IS COMPLETED
LAYING OF CORNER STONE FOR ODD FELLOWS HALL TAKES PLACE NOVEMBER 13th

   Work on the concrete wall for the new Odd Fellow hall was completed today, and final arrangements for the laying of the corner stone were made at a meeting of the local lodge last night.
   The laying of the cornerstone will take place at three o'clock, Saturday afternoon, November 13th, and it is expected that the ceremony will be performed by Grand Master Mahoney, of the state lodge, who will also deliver an address during the afternoon.
   Besides the representative of the grand lodge, a number of other speakers will be present, and many out-of-town lodges are being invited to participate in the program. After the ceremonies, a banquet will be held at the New Opera house.
   It was at first the intention to have the ceremonies and banquet on Sunday, November 14th, but circumstances have so shaped themselves that the members of the local lodge found it advantages to  change the date to November 13th.
   The local lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows was organized January 17, 1868, as Wicker Lodge No. 138, with the following charter Members:
   Samuel L. Marston, Thomas F. Gage, Edward P. Odekirk, Delass Wilcox, C. I. Burgess, Philip P. Hancock, I. L. Sheldon, Ralph Romaine, Garret Romaine, O. L. Helmer, M. H. Flint.
   The first officers elected and other acts of the lodge are not known, as the charter members are all dead, and the early records were lost when fire destroyed the old hall building in February 1912.
   At present indications are that the new hall will be ready for occupancy about the first of next March.