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Warren county — J. i). Porter. 



Washington county — H. G. Whittenberg. 



Wayne county — James McGrew. 



White county — Francis M. Charles. 



Whiteside county — R. E. Logan. 



WiU county— Charles Snoad and Sister Snoad. 



Williamson county — J. T. Hill. 



Winnebago county — Webster Osborne. 



Woodford county— Morris H. Wart. 



Committee. 



Motion made to adopt the report as read. 



Bro. Logan moved to amend by striking out name o f 



Sister Snoad from Will county. Amendment carried. 



Report, as amended, adopted. 



Worthy Master tnen delivered the following annual 

 address, which was referred to a special committee of 

 three: 



Brothers and Sisters : 



Time in its onward march brings us to the close of an- 

 other year. And in accordance with the provisions of law, 

 we have assembled in annual meeting to recount the labors 

 of the past, and devise plans for the future. For the bless- 

 ings which have crowned and enriched the year, let us be de- 

 voutly thankful to the Giver of all good. The past year has 

 "been a marked one in the history of our Order. Those who 

 from design, or otherwise, have mistaken the object for which 

 our Order was founded, conceiving it to be nothing more nor 

 less than a mere political organization, supported and carried 

 forward in the interest of designing men, prophesied its down- 

 fall with the close of the exciting political contest through 

 which the country has just passed. This, instead of resulting 

 m the overthrow of our Order, has giving additional strength 

 to it, 



Because it has demonstrated to every candid and fair- 

 minded person that as an Order, we occupy a higher and no- 

 bler plane than a mere partisan one. That its mission is not 

 to degrade, but to elevate and enoble. Not to sink the indi- 



