Excerpt from I. O. O. F. Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois at Its Seventy-Fifth Annual Session: Held at Peoria, November 19, 20, 21, 1912 The Opening Ode was sung, and the Grand Chaplain offered prayer. The Deputy Grand Master, by order of the Grand Master then proclaimed the Grand Lodge open for the transaction of business. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.