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The best advertised town in the northwest
The Bend Bulletin · January 18, 1917
In the story: 4. Emblematic measles, 1917–1922.
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A visiting lodge officer says out loud what the club was for.
The Emblem Club was founded in 1912 to make Bend known outside Bend, and its oath ran until the town reached a hundred thousand. Five years in, a visiting officer of a national order stands up in the club's own dining room and tells a hundred people that Bend is the best advertised town in the northwest. He is not talking about the club — he is describing its result, and he does not know he is doing it.
The prediction is the other half. Bend had about 2,000 people when the club was founded. Martin gives it 15,000 within two years. It would not reach that figure for another sixty. Booster arithmetic of this kind is the air the club breathed, and the 1913 oath is the same arithmetic written down and sworn to.
From the source
…Woodmen of the World, Deputy Head Consul E. P. Martin presiding at the ceremonies attending the institution of the Camp, at Sather's hall. At 10 o'clock a banquet was served at the Emblem club, marking the event, more than 100, including the members, their wives, and guests, taking part. Dancing concluded the evening.
More Growth for Bend. That Bend is the best advertised town in the northwest and, with its resources and the boosting spirit of its citizens, should grow to 15,000 in 1918, was the assertion of the Deputy Head Consul, when he spoke at the gathering at the Emblem club.