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  "notes": "Names Harper W. Skuse as secretary of the Emblem Club and director of the Commercial Club, in business in Bend since the fall of 1912.",
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      "He sold the complete stock of the Skuse Hardware Co. to the Bend Hardware Co. and left Bend to enter the army.",
      "He was first lieutenant of Co. A of the Bend militia and had trained at the University of Oregon officers' training camp.",
      "This gives a first name to the H. W. Skuse of the club's officer lists and the 1913 travelling party."
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      "Harper W. Skuse arrived in Bend in the autumn of 1912 — the year of the emblem — and opened a hardware store. He was one of the sixteen who went to Portland with the club in 1913. He was one of five who organised the dance in December 1917 that brought the lapsed club back together, and he was its secretary on the slate elected six weeks later. He drilled with the Bend Rifles, who met in the Emblem Club's own room every Wednesday at a quarter to eight.",
      "In October 1918 he sold up and left for the army, a first lieutenant of Co. A of the Bend militia trained at the University of Oregon officers' camp. The paper gave him a send-off that doubles as a biography, and it is below.",
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