Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1916 — MOOSE LODGE HAD WONDERFUL MEETING [ARTICLE]

MOOSE LODGE HAD WONDERFUL MEETING

Hoopeston Degree Team Was Here iSunday to Confer. Degree Upon New Members of Local Lodge.

The affair planned for the Moose lodge last Sunday exceeded the expectation of the most sanguine of its members, as a class of something near ninety witnessed the degree work by the Hcopeston team. There was something over 250 members present and their lodge hall was packed full of enthusiastic and loyal members. Miss Ruth Wood, her mother playing the accompaniment, sang three selections entitled “Who Knows,” “Auf Wiedersehn,” .and “Within the Garden of My Heart,” that simply brought down the house. Many of the Hoopeston team who are judges of fine music pronounced Miss Wood's contralto voice as one of the finest they had ever heard, and at the close of the services a unanimous standirtg vote of thanks was accorded to her. Under the head of the “Good of the Order”, D. S. Makeever made one of the finest speeches that was ever made in any lodge room in our city and told why he had become a Moose. Mr. Smith, one of the officers form the Hoopeston, 111., lodge, told of what wonderful progress was being made by the Moose school at Moossheatr, 111., and stated that in future years graduates of that institution would speak of their degree at Mooseheart, 111., with as much pride as our sons now speak of Yale and Harvard.

He also stated that the charity of the Moose lodge did not stop within its doors but that the lodge at Indianapolis distributed over 2,500 baskets of food to the poor last Christmas and that the Hoopeston lodge distributed over 87 baskets to the poor of Hoopeston last Christmas. The Rensselaer lodge is going to do the same thing this year and they would be very glad to know of some wdrthy persons whom they can bring good cheer on next Christmas morning and ask that their names be handed to the Moose lodge for consideration. The Moose lodge is also going to hold an “Old Fiddlers” contest the last Thursday of this month, being Nov. 30, in which prizes will be given to the best contestants and ask that those going into the contest report the same as soon as possible to Chas. Pefley, Secretary, Rensselaer, Ind. Following the old time fiddlers contest will be a checker tournament for the championship of the state and also a billiard tournament for the championship of the state as the Moose lodge is in a position with their large membership to get the best that there is.

No one could have attended the services yesterday without being bathed with the baptism of fire and enthusiasm for the great things that the Moose lodge is accomplishing and will accomplish, and it is the prediction of the officers of the Hoopeston lodge that Rensselaer Lodge No. 664 will go to eight hundred members inside of a year and will be one of the greatest powers for the good o Jasper county and surrounding country. L. A. Harmon, by the unanimous vote of the lodge, was elected of parchments.