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Two of the junior boys

The Bend Bulletin · April 30, 1918

In the story: 4. Emblematic measles, 1917–1922.

A short newspaper item reporting that a dancing party was held at the Emblem club in honour of two junior boys who had enlisted in the navy.
A dancing party at the Emblem club for two navy enlistees, April 1918. The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon Examine the original

The revived club's room, four months old, giving a dance for two schoolboys going to war.

One sentence, in a column of school notes. The club had reopened its house in January after a dance to bring its members back together; by the end of April it was being used to send high-school juniors off to the navy.

The archive holds a good deal about what the Emblem Club's building was — Drake's log house, Cheney's addition, the Masons' lodge room, a car park. This is one of the few lines that says what it was for.

From the source

On Friday evening a dancing party was held at the Emblem club in honor of Marion Conger and Wendell Thompson, two of the junior boys who have enlisted in the navy.

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