PoE IR a 3 eh gee Eds ® , The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, September 8, 1999 . 3 By KASIA McDONOUGH Post Staff v DALLAS - Getting up the wooden flight of steps leading to a simple, sparsely deco- rated meeting room isn’t as easy as it used to be for the members of Oneida Lodge "+ #371 Independent Order of .- Odd Fellows. The group, which will mark fits 150th anniversary this ". ‘fall, has seen its numbers | -.-dwindle in recent years. “I'll “tell you why I don’t come to 1 .meetings all that often,” said .I'- Tom Reese, Representative to ‘the Grand Lodge. “It's these > damn stairs.” Local Odd Fellows lodge marks sesquicentennial Jones. Friends depended upon one another for help and for fun. “In the old days, the group would meet on nights of a full moon because that was the only time there was enough light to travel after sundown,” said Roth. “Back then, a meeting like this was a major social event and it was one of the few opportuni- ties people had to relax and enjoy themselves.” In addition to providing an opportunity for recreation, the Lodge offered, and still offers, support to a variety o charitable groups. “The Odd f Fellows used to run orphan- Telephone: customers: warned about scam Commonwealth Telephone Company is notifying its cus- tomers and the general public that the company has reason to believe it has been criminally misrepresented in recent days. According to customer reports, an organization has illegally contacted a number of business and residential Commonwealth Telephone Company customers, requested from them confiden- tial account information and 7 & 2 While climbing to the ages — there was one in i > ®: *_:second floor is a challenge for Sunbury — for children who subsequently, switched these i CE customers’ long distance “}:‘many of these gentlemen, the had lost their parents,” said ; : “oe ; 5 carriers without the customers .'}-:-obstacle is not enough to Roih. "The members made proper consent. This is known oh 1 spell the end of the oldest them a'home, gave them an in the telecommunications e]: fraternal organization in the education and made sure the 3 “ % » ’ : : industry as “slamming. -}: Back Mountain. “Now you kids learned a trade or skill. Per a company investigation -} + know why we're called Odd Today, of course, there is ersons identifyin themselves z, d Reese. “We hardly a need for that kind of P 8 | [+ Fellows,” sai er as employees of Commonwealth +} meet in a room hone of us ng. : ia Telephone Company have called can get to anymore. : : Assistance was given to Commonwealth customers and The Odd Fellows, a frater- : > families and widows of Odd asked for account information oS e nal organization originating in Wiemational Order of odd Fellows Blan 150th anniversary. Seated (from left): Ed Roth, Tom Fellows, also. “We've always including names, addresses, - =~ | England in the early part of Oliver, Fred Templin, Tom Reese, and Walter Gosart had a certain amount of social security numbers and + | the 19th century, first began * Standing in second row: Mike Hagan, David C. Jones, Fred Brokenshire and Peter L. Roushey. donations that we gave to telephone numbers, while gathering locally in August of family members to help them claiming that they are testing * 1849. “We started over in : out a little,” said Roth. the telephone lines for year Huntsville, meeting in a room know is that they have twice the group did not hesitate. when things were a lot : Today the Lodge continues 2000 compliance. After disclos- above the hardware store had to move this building “We were about 10 feet closer different then they are today, the tradition of altruistic ing the requested information there, but it burned down back from its original position to the road before those to said Roth. “Circumstances endeavors. “We contribute to unbeknownst to thei. these and the group moved to to accommodate transporta- projects required the building were such that people had to the Odd Fellows Home in customers’ long distance . Dallas,” said Ed Roth, a 50- tion.” 4 to be moved to its current band together and behave like Middletown, PA,” said Reese. carriers were then changed. | > year member who is helping Streetcars carrying passen- location,” said Jones. brothers.” “That's a place aging Odd Commonwealth Telephone | a) @ 1: make arrangements for an gers to Harveys Lake passed : Groups like the Odd Fellows can go if they don't - Company would like to inform Fellows were a common thread in the fabric of early American life. “When it was time for young men to go out into the world they would join an organization like this one as a way of establishing business contacts,” said Roth. “Then if they found them- selves having to move to a strange town they could look have a lot of family to help care for them.” Oneida #371 supports the Arthritis Foundation and a United Nations Tour as well. Each year, a student from the Dallas School District joins 41 students from around Pennsylvania in visiting Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Boston, and New York City. dangerously close to the structure, requiring the Odd Fellows to have it re-posi- tioned. “They had a porch on the second floor that hung out over the tracks and the folks who ran the streetcars warned Lodge members to remove it,” said Reese. “They didn’t get around to it quickly enough so one day the its customers and the public that it has not contacted and has no need to contact custom- ers for this type of information in regard to year 2000 issues. Commonwealth Telephone Company has filed complaints with the attorney general's offices in Pennsylvania and New York regarding this case. Further legal action is pending. {+ anniversary banquet to be . held September 23. The blaze destroyed their former home and all the group's charter records. “We don’t have information about who started the lodge or who its first members were,” said David C. Jones, Noble Grand. “But Tom (Reese) can prob- ably tell you how we got this La ve a i EE Oo ® .|. -building.” locomotive pulling the street- up Odd Fellows to help them While in New York the group If any Commonwealth Tele- Reese feigned dismay at car just clipped it. That's get started.” attends a United Nations phone Company customers are +]: ‘the implication he may have what my family used to tell The bond shared by Lodge work session to observe that contacted and asked to provide ++; been around to witness the me, anyway.” members is deeper than that organization in action. account information for year :1"*'move, but immediately Years later, when the of business associates, The trip is an opportunity 2000 compliance, they should; .| obliged the request. “Don’t Department of Transportation Social changes, not geo- ; however. “Our motto is to see history in the making, not divulge any information tO:f i »| ask me how they got here, I approached the Odd Fellows graphical shifts, have had the friendship, love and truth and but its hard to imagine the the caller. They should immedi- | !| was just a kid when it hap- with a request to move the biggest effect on the Lodge those words have been placed experience could be more ately contact the Common- pened,” he said. “What I do structure back a second time, over the course of time. in three links to indicate how enlightening than en evening wealth Telephone Company : to make room for a highway, “You're going back to an era they are bound together,” said with the Odd Fellows. customer service department at OD oH | 1-800-225-5282 to report these types of calls. REMNANTS LAMINATE FLOORS AREA RUGS DRAPERIES VINYL SHADES | GARAGE BARN SALE -Sat., September 11 © 9:00 'til Gone Garinger's i: across from Lake-Noxen Elementary School Harveys Lake oe No Early Birds ¢ | Legion Post # 672 to meet Daddow-Isaacs Post 672 of the American Legion will hold their regular monthly meeting Friday, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. in the legion home. The Professionals That’s us! 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