Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — RED MEN LEASE NEW QUARTERS [ARTICLE]

RED MEN LEASE NEW QUARTERS

Will Occupy Third Floor of The Democrat Building After Jan. 1, 1913. Pinkamink Tribe No. 533, Independent Order of Red Men, have leased the hall on the third floor of The Democrat building for a term of five years, and will occupy same after Jan. 1, 1913. This room was occupied for many jears by the Masonic lodge and was arranged especially for lodge purposes. It will be newly papered, repainted and thoroughly renovated for the Red Men and will make them excellent quarters. They are now occupying quarters with the Modern Woodmen in the Odd Fellows building, but the phenominal growth of the lodge which is now only about a year old and has 150 members with many more applications coming in all the time, has made it necessary for them to secure quarters of their own.

At the rate the order is growing it will probably have upwirds of 200 members before spring, and the lodge has been talking some of leas ing the five-room flat on he <nd floor of The Democrat ou'l •> 4 g i.d fitting it up as club rooms. By so doing it would give the lodge a prestige that would greatly increase the membership and soon make it the largest and most popular fraternal order in Rensselaer.