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Evening Star, Issue 18050, 18 August 1922, Page 6

The weekly meeting of tho l\nsvf> Lodge, No. 105, 1.0.G.T., was hold us the Oddfellows’ Hail, Kensington, on Tuesday, C.T. Sister V. Dray presiding over a good attendance of members. The C.T, and officers carried out an initiation ceremony, four mines being added to tho roll. G.C.T. Bro. Dalton, a* installing officer, and Bros. It. Sincock and It. Mercer, as installing marshals, installed and invested tho officers for tlie new quarter, ac, follow;—C.T., Bro, W. A. lies; P.C.T., Sister V. Dray; V.T., Sister D. Baird; secretary, Sister L. Baird; financial secretary. Sister Don gal; treasurer, Bro. Hilton; chaplain, Sister A. E. Mercer ; marshal, Bro. A. Stanley; guard, Bro. R. Loathley. Bro. Sincock responded to a vote of tlianks on belialf of the retiring officers. On the syllabus for the evening was ‘A Gift Night,’ and this was responded to by the members to the entire satisfaction of the lodge. Previous to the meeting of the adult lodge the Star of the South ,ln#.-.m!o Temple met, S.J.W. Bro. Hilton presiding, assisted by Bister I). Baird. There, was a large attendance of juveniles, and nine new members were initiated. Arrangements were completed for providing items at the Caversharn Methodist Band of Hope meeting on Monday nest.

Confetti at weddings is not wanted by tho Vicar of Bicklcy, in Kent. In hia parish magazine, just issued, ho appeals to the parishioners not to use it. 1 Thi ancient custom,” ho says, “was to thron rice, a symbol of fertility. The birdi appreciated it, even if the happy ooupla did not. But the birds have no use for this abominable paper stuff. After a recent wedding the churchyard_ looked like, tho mnnnnje after the visit of a