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Five men and a dance
The Bend Bulletin · December 29, 1917
In the story: 4. Emblematic measles, 1917–1922.
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The clubhouse had closed. Getting it open again started with an informal dance, and the paper named who arranged it.
Four sentences in a Saturday paper. The club rooms had closed, and the way back into them began with an informal dance — arranged, the notice says, by T. A. McCann, Clyde McKay, Carl Johnson, R. B. Gould and Harper Skuse.
Six weeks later the club elected officers, and four of those five men were on the slate — Johnson first vice-president, McKay second, Gould treasurer, Skuse secretary. McCann would be the trustee who bought the building back in 1919. This is not a social note. It is the organising committee of the next Emblem Club, meeting in the room it was trying to reopen.
It settles a small thing too. The officer lists give only H. W. Skuse. This notice gives him a first name: Harper. He had been on the club's trip to Portland in 1913, so he spans its whole first decade.
From the source
Emblem Club Dance.
As a means of bringing members together in order to reorganize the Emblem club, an informal dance will be held tonight in the club rooms. Mr. T. A. McCann, Mr. Clyde McKay, Mr. Carl Johnson, Mr. R. B. Gould and Mr. Harper Skuse are in charge of tonight's affair.