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Ten men take on the debt
The Bend Bulletin · April 25, 1919
In the story: 4. Emblematic measles, 1917–1922.
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A dinner dance at the Pilot Butte Inn, a $5,300 debt divided ten ways, and a club that came back as something else.
By 1919 the Emblem Club had a closed clubhouse and a debt of $5,300. On the evening of April 24 the matter was settled in a short business session during a dinner dance at the Pilot Butte Inn: T. A. McCann of the Shevlin-Hixon Company and C. S. Hudson of the First National bank each promised to find four other Bend men, the ten of them to take up the debt between them.
The same meeting elected officers. H. J. Overturf succeeded H. A. Miller as president, with R. A. Ward first vice-president, Dr. C. H. Soll second, Charles W. Erskine secretary, R. D. Moore treasurer, and J. P. Keyes, J. C. Rhodes, R. S. Hamilton and Jack Herbert as directors. Keyes and Rhodes had both been on the club's trip to Portland six years earlier.
And the paper records what the club was now to be — which is the sentence that separates the two Emblem Clubs. The 1913 body was a publicity club with one officer called the Taboo and an oath about a hundred thousand people. What reopened in 1919 was a social club with a board, a treasurer and a mortgage. A week later it bought the building back.
From the source
EMBLEM CLUB REORGANIZED — FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS PLEDGED.
…on a sound financial basis was assured last night when T. A. McCann, of The Shevlin-Hixon Company, and C. S. Hudson, of the First National bank, each promised to secure four other Bend residents, the 10 to take up the $5,300 indebtedness now outstanding against the club…
The club, in its reorganized form, will be purely a social organization, with a limited membership. The old Emblem club building on the banks of the Deschutes will be given a thorough overhauling and placed in readiness for club activities.