Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1915 — SEVENTY-SIX JOINED THE MOOSE LODGE [ARTICLE]

SEVENTY-SIX JOINED THE MOOSE LODGE

Instituted Thursday Evening and Charter Held Open For a Time For Others to Join. With M. M. Mahoney, national director, and J. W. Manges, organizer, to assist in the work, seventy-six enthusiastic men in this city and community formed themselves into the Rensseloer Order of Moose Thursday night The meeting had the tone of good fellowship and the members expressed the wish and intention of making it a big order and say that they will not feel satisfied until the membership has reached 200. With a view to increasing it at this time it was decided to hold the charter open and to take members on the haais established for those who went in Wednesday night. A plan is on foot to have a trig time Sunday afternoon, June 20th, when the degree team of the Hammod lodge wild come here to confer -the work. Following the initiation on that day a picnic is to be held in some near-by woods. In the absence of a hall the former armory was used as the place for instituting the lodge and will probably be used again when the work is performed by the Hammond team. The order, however, expects to secure its own home and has two properties in view at this time. The order maintains a plan for financing the building of a 'lodge hall and club rooms, and a company, according to Mr. JM*ngw, the organizer, will put up the money. The following officers were elected: Dr. C. E. Johnson, past dictator, W. H. Parkinson, dictator, Art Kanme, vice dictator, Leo Worland, prelate, Mort Murray, secretary, C. G. Spitler, treasurer, Chas. Osborne, ser-geant-atxanns, Paul Norgor, inner guard, Earl Hemphill, outer guard, Harry Swautzell, David Bare and James Hemphill, trustees. Mrs. I. G. Faris returned her borne at Gary today after a viat .‘f several days with the family of Trustee J. W. Stevens, of Gillam township