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An airline, decided in the clubhouse
The Bend Bulletin · June 30, 1920
In the story: 4. Emblematic measles, 1917–1922.
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Express, mail, passengers and forest protection — put to a meeting in the Emblem Club's hall.
The announcement was made at noon that day at the weekly Bend Commercial Club luncheon at the Pilot Butte Inn, by H. J. Overturf — the Emblem Club's own president — following an address by Harold Grady, a former army flyer then with the O. K. Jeffry Airplane company of Portland. The scheme covered express, mail and passenger carrying, with forest protection emphasised.
Bend in 1920 had been on a railroad for only nine years. The clubhouse had already hosted the founding of the Elks lodge and would shortly host the Commercial Club writing its own constitution. This is the same room being used to decide whether the town should have an airline.
Whether it was organised, this page does not say.
From the source
Whether or not an aerial transportation company will be organized in Bend with capitalization of $30,000 is expected to be decided tonight, when, at 8 o'clock, a meeting of all those interested in the proposed venture will be held at the Emblem club.