Following the club’s final chapter
Michael Hall · 2007
In the story: 6. The emblem outlives the club, 1930–2010.
An Allen house nomination points to two May 1924 newspaper reports about the club’s decision to disband and sell its property.
A footnote, set apart below, and one of the most useful objects in this archive. Historic Oregon Newspapers holds no 1924 Bend Bulletin at all, so the club’s last year had to be reached from outside — and this note names the two reports, with their dates and page numbers, that a later search recovered from the Google News Archive.
It also does two things a citation does not have to do. It says what the May 13 article reported, quoting “in the immediate future…” from it; and it explains, in its last sentence, why an Allen house nomination is discussing the Emblem Club at all. The club’s property was next door.
The nomination supplied the citations that led to the reports. The final property transfer and legal dissolution remain open questions.
From the source
47 “Brief Illness Halts Career of H. E. Allen,” 8; Deschutes County Historical Society, A History of Deschutes Country in Oregon, 110-111. Society quote, Oregonian quote. Information provided by Harlow Allen; “The Emblem Club,” (The Bend Bulletin, May 23, 1924), 4. Allen listed as charter member of Emblem Club; “Pioneer Club Will Disband Members Vote,” (The Bend Bulletin, May 13, 1924), 1. This article reported the club planned to disband “in the immediate future…” and that Allen had been elected to the board of directors. The Emblem Club owned and met in the “Drake Lodge,” the house built by A. M. Drake on the east bank of the Deschutes River. Plans in 1924 called for selling the property which was “next door” to the Allen home.
