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An important ritual for the Moose is the "9 o'clock Ceremony". At nine o'clock, all Moose are directed to face toward Mooseheart with bowed heads and folded arms and repeat a silent prayer "Let the little children come unto me, do not keep them away. For they are like the Kingdom of Heaven. God bless Mooseheart."
The order paid sick, temporary disability, and funeral benefits, as well as operating as a short-term assessment society, i.e., members in the order for a specified amount of time could cash in their certificates. The order went into receivership in March 1897 owing $72,000 to certificate holders while only having $35,000 in assets. [315]
Independent Benevolent and Protective Order of Moose; Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria - Founded September 14, 1847, as a temperance order in New York City by I. W. B. Smith. It was an authorized branch of the white Grand United Order of Good Samaritans which had been founded that March. Had initiated over 400,000 ...
The head of a local lodge was called a Grand Chief Orient; other officers were the Grand Vice Orient, Grand Prophet (chaplain) and Grand Marshall. [37] A splinter group called the Ancient Order of the Sanhedrims broke from this in 1895 and offered a benefit to members of "some secret societies in good standing."
Camden is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 2,196 at the 2020 census. The population was 2,196 at the 2020 census. The village of Camden is located inside the town Camden at the intersection of routes NY-13 and NY-69 .
It is in the Camden Central School District. [9] The Camden school district is the second largest geographically in New York state. It includes not only the town of Camden itself, but also part or all of the Oneida County towns of Annsville, Florence, Lee, and Vienna.
Other fraternal organizations arose as well, such as the Independent Order of Good Templars (1851), Knights of Pythias (1864), the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange, 1867), Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (1868), the Knights of Columbus (1882), the Loyal Order of Moose (1888), and the Woodmen of the World (1890).
The first Masonic Lodge on Long Island was Huntington Lodge No. 26 of Oyster Bay. [7] [8] Chartered on March 22, 1793, the original petition states the lodge was “to be formed in the town of Oyster Bay in Queens County, or in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County optional with the presiding officers and brethren on Long Island in this state which lodge shall be distinguished by the name ...