What the club left to Bend
The Bend Bulletin · May 23, 1924
In the story: 5. For the use of all, 1923–1929.
Ten days after the disbanding report, a Bulletin editorial looked back at the club’s noisy, hospitable beginnings—and at the emblem that would outlast it.
The writer separates two chapters of the club’s life. Under W. D. Cheney, it staged publicity trips, songs and banquets to draw attention to Bend. The editorial remembers the September 1914 Portland Ad Club visit as a particularly spectacular occasion.
War and personal financial reverses, the writer says, forced Cheney to withdraw his support. The members continued with a more conventional private social club. That later organization was now voting to disband.
The closing lines return to the drawing itself. The editorial says Cheney had copyrighted the emblem and then given it to the town for everyone’s use. This is a contemporary account of what the emblem meant to Bend; it does not identify the designer of today’s common drawing.
From the source
There remains only the club device, the Bend emblem, at first copyrighted by Mr. Cheney and then given to the town for the use of all. That is likely to endure as long as there is a town here.
