{ "id": "news-1920-03-08-4", "title": "\"Emblem Club Plans a Leap Year Dance\" — the lady-members and the men members, March 1920", "publisher": "The Bend Bulletin, 1920-03-08, image 4; Historic Oregon Newspapers", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1920-03-08/ed-1/seq-4/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-12", "notes": "An advance notice of the club's leap year dance. It distinguishes \"the lady-members of the Emblem club\" from \"the men members\", names Mrs. R. W. Hendershott chairman of the function, calls a meeting of the lady-members at the club house, and records that the dance had been postponed by the ban on all social gatherings.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/news-1920-03-08-4/", "evidence": { "id": "news-1920-03-08-4", "kind": "history", "date": "1920-03-08", "summary": "An advance notice of the 1920 leap year dance that calls women \"the lady-members of the Emblem club\" and the men \"the men members\" in the same sentence.", "findings": [ "The notice distinguishes \"the lady-members of the Emblem club\" from \"the men members\" within one sentence — the archive's first original-source evidence that women were members rather than guests.", "Mrs. R. W. Hendershott was chairman of the function, and called a meeting of all the lady-members at the club house at 8 p.m. on Thursday.", "The dance had been arranged for several weeks earlier and was postponed \"on account of the ban placed upon all social gatherings\".", "The club house was in use for club meetings in March 1920.", "The name is printed \"Hender-shott\" across a line break and was confirmed as Hendershott on the page's native-resolution scan." ], "limitations": [ "The page establishes the usage, not the constitution. When women were admitted, on what terms, whether the 1913 forty-member cap survived, and whether they voted are all unresolved.", "\"The ban placed upon all social gatherings\" is not explained here. That Bend's closure orders of this period were influenza measures is context from outside this page.", "Mrs. R. W. Hendershott is named as chairman of this function only. No club office is established.", "This is an advance notice. What happened is reported on March 15 and filed separately.", "The page says nothing about the emblem." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1920-03-08-4.pdf", "sha256": "7c69c048a8b9e40d10b1bd43076551665dc24bb7e4c7919528c9c6e094415ac8", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1920-03-08/ed-1/seq-4/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-12", "role": "Received source bytes" } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1920-03-08-4.pdf", "page": 1, "box": [ 88, 596, 296, 508 ], "title": "“Emblem Club Plans a Leap Year Dance”, March 8, 1920.", "rights": "The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon; documentary reproduction, excluded from the project artwork license.", "color": true, "width": 1000, "render": "PyMuPDF at 144 dpi; JPEG quality 94", "sha256": "ae1de3cb0d146202259624f7dfc3362562af8ab56091cb2710f4c9d4a672fdd3", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/news-1920-03-08-4-page-1.jpg" } ], "family": null, "origin": null, "sourceIds": [], "review": { "status": "image-reviewed", "method": "Complete source page and selected crop inspected visually; OCR used only to locate the passage.", "reviewedOn": "2026-09-12" } }, "measurement": [], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "news-1920-03-08-4", "title": "The lady-members and the men members", "intro": "The archive's first original-source evidence that women were members of the Emblem Club, not guests of it.", "body": [ "One of this project's standing questions is when women joined the club and in what capacity. The 1913 book describes forty men and a cap on the membership. Until now the evidence on the other side was two phrases — “Ladies of the Emblem club” and “the lady members” — and both reached the archive through retrospective columns rather than originals.", "This is an original, and it is a harder kind of evidence, because it uses both terms in one sentence. The lady-members are to give the men members surprises. Not the ladies and the members: the lady-members and the men members, two halves of one body. A meeting is then called of all the lady-members of the Emblem club, at the club house, at eight on a Thursday — which is a membership being convened, not an auxiliary being invited.", "It does not settle everything. Nothing here says when the widening happened, whether it changed the forty-member cap, or whether the lady-members voted. But the paper of March 1920 plainly regarded them as members of the club, and this is the page that says so.", "The ban is the other date-stamp on it. The dance had been set for several weeks earlier and was stopped by “the ban placed upon all social gatherings” — Bend, like the rest of Oregon, was closing public gatherings against influenza into 1920. The club's social calendar is visible here being interrupted by it." ], "related": [ "news-1920-03-15-3", "news-1919-03-14-1", "news-1919-02-14-3" ], "date": "1920-03-08", "collection": "club-life", "publication": "The Bend Bulletin", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/news-1920-03-08-4-page-1.jpg", "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1920-03-08-4.pdf", "page": 1, "sha256": "ae1de3cb0d146202259624f7dfc3362562af8ab56091cb2710f4c9d4a672fdd3", "box": [ 88, 596, 296, 508 ], "width": 1000, "caption": "“Emblem Club Plans a Leap Year Dance”, March 8, 1920.", "alt": "A newspaper column headed “Emblem Club Plans a Leap Year Dance”, reporting that the lady-members of the Emblem club will entertain the men members, with Mrs. R. W. Hendershott as chairman.", "credit": "The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon", "sourceUrl": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1920-03-08/ed-1/seq-4/", "color": true } ], "quote": "EMBLEM CLUB PLANS A LEAP YEAR DANCE. Ladies of Organization Ready to Give Male Guests Real Surprises in Way of Entertainment.\n\nThe lady-members of the Emblem club will have their inning next Saturday night at the Leap Year dance, which was to have been given several weeks ago, but was postponed on account of the ban placed upon all social gatherings. The ladies plan to give the men members a number of real surprises in the way of entertainment. Mrs. R. W. 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