Clubs & Organizations
The following clubs and organizations were listed in the Rains County Leader along with their officers. The date of the newspaper issue follows the name of the club/organization in parenthesis.
Rains County Leader
"First National Bank 50th Anniversary Section"
July 10, 1953
1903 Lodges and their officers
Knights and Ladies of Honor
meets 2nd and 4th Tuesday night each month
H.C. Fouts - Protector
Pettis Montgomery - Vice Protector
V.H. Montgomery - Secretary
M.S. Pierson - Treasurer
Junior Order United American Mechanics - Emory Council #5
Meets 1st and 3rd Monday nights at the court house
O.H. Rodes - Councilor
O.E. Nunn - Vice
R.S. Hill - Secretary
Masonic - Mars Hill Lodge #283
Meets Saturday night on or before the full moon.
G.C. Spence - W.M.
C.L. Hamrick - Secretary
Woodmen of the Word
Meets 3rd Thursday night each month
W.H. Clendenin - C.C.
Marshall Lamb - Clerk
January 15, 1904
Masonic – Mars Hill Lodge, No. 203
Meets Saturday night on or before full moon. G.C. Spence, W.M.; C.L. Hamrick
Sec’ty
Woodmen of the World
Meets 3d Thursday nights in each month.
W.H. Clendenin, C.C.
Marshal Lamb, Clerk
Junior Order United American Mechanics – Emory Council No.
5
Meets 1st and 3d Monday nights at the court house. O.H. Rodes, Councilor;
O.E. Nunn, Vice; R.S. Hill, Sec
Knights and Ladies of Honor – meets
2d and 4th Tuesday nights in each month.
C. Fouts, Protector; Pettis L. Montgomery, Vice Protector; V.H. Montgomery,
Secretary;
M.S. Pierson, Treasurer.
Rains County Leader, October 5, 1906
The stockholders of the Rains
County Land and Immigration Company met in the Odd Fellows hall in Emory
Tuesday evening and organized with the following board of directors:
S.K. McCallon, President
J.C. Wylie, Vice President
T.N. Tackett, Secretary-Treasurer
C.J. Crabb, General Manager
V.H. Montgomery
W.D. Peeples
J.W. Humphrey
IOOF
est. 1909 Rains County
Ancient Order of Samaritans, #129 (08 March 1912)
(organized in Point, March 1912)
W.M. Nelson - President
John T. Rushing - Secretary
J.T. Prince - E of G
G.W. Bellah - P.C.
S.A. Cozart - Steward
W.F. Henson - Guide
W.T. Thornton - Guard
N. Woodson - Sentinel
Steve Adair - Chaplain
Dr. H.L. Stewart - Physician
W.T. Knox, George Hughes, Jesse Smith - Auditors
Equitable Fraternal Union (09 Feb
1912)
(organized in Emory February 1912)
Newt Perryman - President
John K. Woosely - Vice-President
O.B. Cline - Secretary/Treasurer
F.B. Tanner - Advisor
C.L. Hubble - Warden
J.B. Fowler - Usher
John Kearney, Robert T. Pearson, Fred Cross - Trustees
Farmers Co-Operative & Education Union of America
(organized 1904)
charter members :
J.S. Turner
W.T. Cochran W.S.
Sisk
Jesse Adams
T.J. Pound
J.B. Morris
Dr. Lee Seemster Newt
Gresham O.H. Rodes
Tom Donaldson
I.O.O.F. (05 July 1912)
officers for the last half of 1912
B.A. Carter - N.G.
G.H. Morehead - Warden
C.A. Glass - V.G.
S.K. McCallon - Conductor
F.M. Pomeroy - Secretary
M.A. Vincent - Chaplain
J.W. McElroy - R.S.S.
Jim Stricklin - L.S.S.
Will Whittle - R.S.N.G.
Joe Kennemur - L.S.N.G.
J.K. Woosley - I. Guardian
L.J. O'Rear - O. Guardian
Ladies Home Missions Society (16 Feb 1912)
Mrs. W.H. Edwards - President
Lou Woosley - 1st Vice-President
Florence Owens - 2nd Vice-President
Mrs. J.F. Cross - 3rd Vice-President
Jennie Allen - Recording Secretary
Mrs. W.W. Berzett - Corresponding Secretary
Rosa Rodes - Treasure
Mrs. Clarence Glass - Press Superintendent
Modern Order of Praetorians (10 May 1912)
(organized May 1912)
B.A. Carter - Sublime Augustus
Mrs. J.B. Reeves, Jr. - Senrior T
Mrs. Maud Hill - Junior T
W.H. Clendenin - Attorney
A.A. Hendrix - Recorder
R.T. Pearson - O.G.
J.B. Reeves - Soothsayer
O.B. Cline - 1st C
F.B. Tanner - Lygian
A.C. Reeves - 2nd C
Mrs. Lizzie Pyrtle - Praetorian Queen
Cecil Duffy - M.
OUB Lodge (3 May 1912)
J.A. Amis - President
Pearl Martin - Past President
Mary J. Henry - Secretary/Treasurer
Mrs. W.L. Ivy - Lady of Charity
Eula Morgan - Lady of Entertainment