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  "notes": "The Bend Rifles, formed at the Emblem club three weeks after the United States entered the war, take the club hall as barracks until the athletic club building is finished. The company roster is printed: Captain Frank R. Prince, first lieutenant Carl A. Johnson, and twenty more.",
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    "summary": "In May 1917 the Emblem Club's hall became the Bend Rifles' barracks, three weeks after the United States entered the war.",
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      "The Bend Rifles took the Emblem club hall as barracks \"until the athletic club building is completed\", drilling Monday and Friday nights.",
      "The company had more than 50 enlisted and expected to approach 100 by the end of the week; uniforms were ordered.",
      "The roster names Captain Frank R. Prince, first lieutenant Carl A. Johnson, second lieutenant D. G. McPherson, adjutant J. B. Heyburn, first sergeant Harry Shoults, and further officers and corporals.",
      "Carl A. Johnson became the Emblem Club's first vice-president in February 1918 and presented the Bend Iron Works gavel and emblem block in 1922.",
      "Drill grounds were the old baseball grounds on Bond street near Louisiana street, with field headquarters on the property west of them."
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      "\"Temporarily\" is the paper's word. How long the hall served as barracks is not established here.",
      "The roster is a company roster, not an Emblem Club membership list. The overlap of names is an observation, not a documented identity between the two bodies.",
      "The page says nothing about the emblem."
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      "The United States declared war on April 6, 1917. The Bend Rifles were formed at a meeting in the Emblem club on April 20. By May 2 the club's hall is the company's barracks, its drill nights are a standing line in the paper's weekly calendar of “Doings in Your City”, and the men are ordering uniforms.",
      "The roster is printed, and the names are the club's own. “Captain, Frank R. Prince; first lieutenant, Carl A. Johnson; second lieutenant, D. G. McPherson; adjutant, J. B. Heyburn; first sergeant, Harry Shoults; color sergeant, Mr. Lundeen; duty sergeants, T. Beagan, Myron Powell, B. A. Stover, Fred A. Woelflen; chief musician, Frank Kelliher; chief drummer, H. H. Lamping; chief of medical corps, J. D. Donovan; corporals, Joe Lyons, Charles Frazier…”",
      "Carl A. Johnson would be the Emblem Club's first vice-president the following February, and in 1922 would stand up at a Commercial Club lunch and present the gavel and the juniper block with a Bend emblem on it. Frank R. Prince's wife would chair the club's music committee in 1921. Fred A. Woelflen had been elected vice-president of the Bend University club, organised in the same hall ten weeks earlier. The building did not merely host the town; the same few dozen men ran everything that happened in it."
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    "quote": "BEND RIFLES' ROSTER GROWS. Two Drills Will Be Held Weekly. Enlistments For Company to Reach 100 Before End of Week — Uniforms Ordered For Members — Drill Hour Changed.\n\nThe Bend Rifles, with an enlistment of more than 50 men, will get on an actual drilling basis Friday night… That the company's operations may assume more of a military aspect and that it may be afforded drilling facilities of a regular company, drill grounds and field headquarters have been established… The hour of drilling has been changed from 7:30 to 8 o'clock… The change in the hour will enable men working in the mills to return to their homes for dinner before drill. The Emblem club hall will be used temporarily for barracks until the athletic club building is completed. Drills will be held Monday and Friday nights."
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