Shelby will be the meeting place on Thursday of this week of Woodmen from 21 counties of Western Carolina.
The occasion will be the annual meeting of the Western Carolina Log Rolling Association, the Woodmen organization for the section. Dr. T.O. Grigg is president and W.H. Grogan Jr. of Brevard is secretary-treasurer.
The meeting opens at 10 o’clock in the morning, April 22, at the court house. J. Clint Newton, past president of the Shelby Kiwanis club, will deliver the address of welcome for the club, while Lee B. Weathers will welcome the visitors for the city. An address will be made by Hon. E.B. Lewis of Kinston, state manager of the Woodmen, and other prominent officials of the body. Mrs. Sallie M. Stringfellow, district manager of the Woodmen Circle, woman’s auxiliary, will also speak. Mrs. Stringfellow is from Asheville. W.G. Spake of Shelby and other local officials will also make short talks.
From 12 to 2 o’clock there will be a drill by the local degree team of the U.R.W.O.W., a photo of the crack degree team being shown above. Dinner will be served delegates and others at the fair grounds with music furnished during the lunch hour by the Shelby High School orchestra.
Merchants and business men are united in welcoming the delegates here as it is hoped that the annual encampment of all the Woodmen in the state may be held here provided this meeting proves satisfactory. Should this meeting be brought here it will bring delegates from three states.
All members of the order living in the county are urged to attend the meeting here Thursday. It is a joint meeting of the W.O.W. and Woodmen circle, auxiliary for the ladies, and the attendance is expected to be large.
From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Monday, April 19, 1926
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