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Sixty Elks, twenty-five years on

The Bend Bulletin · June 27, 1944

In the story: 6. The emblem outlives the club, 1930–2010.

A newspaper retrospective column recalling that sixty Elks became charter members of the new Bend lodge, instituted at the Emblem club.
A 1944 column recalls the Elks lodge instituted at the Emblem club in 1919. The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon Examine the original

The column that found the night Bend's Elks lodge began.

The item stands first under its heading, ahead of Mayor J. A. Estes and a newly organised boxing commission.

It led to the original of June 27, 1919, which is filed and is better: it gives the dispensation, the election of officers, the charter to be sought at Atlantic City in July, and Toney’s party arriving by auto that afternoon.

The column also says “chapter” where the original says “lodge”. A small thing, and the kind of small thing that accumulates.

From the source

Bend’s Yesterdays

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

(June 27, 1919)

(From The Bulletin Files)

Sixty Elks, previously members of lodges throughout the country, will become charter members of the new Bend Elks lodge tonight, when Deputy District Grand Exalted Ruler Toney of McMinnville institutes the Bend chapter at the Emblem club.

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