Telegram-herald., 1888-06-17
THE "OA|SY" LODGE
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GFsad Lodge.

Il ~ 4AA1 - A00W 49, 0tNA AAo = 49, 0~~~~~
nov. The capture Of the beautiful banner
st CinsinnsEi vas good advertisement for
| Grand Rapids znd proud accomplish
meat for TIE Lodge here. Every memosr
I OF the Lodge wore Q daisy IA tne lapel OF
bis coat. and tAe Lodge 10 now known -
| the daisy Lodge"
A daisy will be painted On the Lodge
/ badge here after.
| John Earr didn's sleep . wink after the
banner was awarded. and until il was put
in q glass cage in the Lodge room.
| Captain Judd made q good commander.
/ Charlie Black and Viii Bayns, Of the re-
union committee. were happy. although
| Charlie mournsd because he couldn't 60
Alderman Fred. Saunders carried the
| Lodge banner like = Major.
Esquire Killean Was tue handsomest man
in the parade.
Daniel E. Soper, Fred Klemdinst and
Mamie Strauss. who selected the uniforms.
swelled with pride.
| Dan S0per declares be will clear up his
/ frog farm next year and son IL 70 daisies.
| Secretary Chsuncey was the most digni-
fed man among the Grand Lodge officers
They think he Is Baptist preacher down
| In Cincinnati.
Doctor Barth paid the $40 ne owed
| O'Grady. while stirring up the animals in
the Geological Gardens
sws,land never perspired q drop oil
! through the eight mile march.
Brother Strahan marched merrily to the
music of the band in front and the band
behind.
The Grand Rapid. boys will never forget
| Mamie Strauss, OF Cincinnati, and his
| courtesies.
BRorHKRs; In look ing over this scene to-
night 1t seems 20 me as If the Order of Elks
had burst its p ent up Utica, and like the
Star Of Empire, Westward had taken its
way"
In looking at the familiar faces which
greet me here. fnd that the Order is well
| represented; that North, Sorth, East and
| West, the brethren have come TO this glad
| reunion, 10 10y the sweet fellowship OF
| kindred minds on pleasure bent, In this
| grand Western city.
Western City, did l say? Yes. so it is
| called, but that appellation Is nc longer ap-
propriate; the west is much further west
| than this, and what was once West is now
more east than even central. Let Us see
Cincinnati is about six hundred miles
from New York. eight hundred miles from
| New Orleans, and six hundred miles from
| the Atlantic Ocean. while it is some two
thousand miles from San Francisco and the
| Pacific Ocean. SO that the Star of Empire
has gone so far West that what was once
| Far West" is now not even central, but
the marvellous growth of our land and
people
And so with our beloved Order. What
was once but few Lodges, to De numbered
on our finger ends, nave now increased TO
nearly one hundred, and the individual
| membership number as many thousands
now as it did hundreds ten or twelve years
ago and still the good work goes on. APP
| plfCatlOuS coutEETue 10 be made Tor charters
for new Lodges. while those already estab-
llshed are increasing IN membership week
ly. and in thinking of this rapid increase
We are led to ask ourselves why is thig so?
And the answer comes that it is because
II is supplying long felt want among the
people. aud that its good works commend
II as worthy of esteem and fellowship, and.
Is il has been said of our Order,
II hath tear for pity and hand
| Open as day fo- melting charity"
| Has II been seen that you have carried
joy 10 the sorrowful and help TO the needy?
Have you, when to some the future was
dark and the day was filled with pitch
darkness carried the brotherly assistance
which has dispeiled the clouds Of dispair
and suffering aud cast rays of sunshine in
hearts bowed down with grief and woe?
In accordance with the tenets of our
Order, you have done this, and more
kindly sympathy has gone forth to the suf-
fering, your presence has cheered the hour
of pain. and smoothed the pathway TO the
end of human toll; and when the life of a
brother has been rounded with the last
sleep, your tender hands have tsnderIy laid
him away in an "Elks' Rest" to slumber
until the resurrection morn; and to the be-
| reaved ones you have extended that assist
| ance which true benevolence aud protec-
ton ever require and you know so well no W
TO give. You have not refrained
The graceful tear that streams for otberS woes
Il Rrnrnars- / convrnfuiafa tOnl0hf =,
| this gathering OF so many OF our number at
This great emporium that you have been
| prompted by nooe spirit to come together
here. To confer on those matters which most
concern Us at this time; to extend to each
| other the warm hand of friendship; that
friendship which has been called
| Mysterious cement Of the soul
Sveetsner Of life and solder Of societyF'
That you might spend few hours in hal
lowed friendship, where without the formal
business matters that press upon the meet
inzs of the Grand Lodge, you could see face
| 20 face, and eye 70 eye, and in communion
| sweet pass the teeting moments OF this
brief soj0urn in cheering each other on in
the good work of 6enevolsnce and protec-
ton.
This looks 70 me like = migration. and II
II is il is surely q good thing The stalwsrt
Elk br0wses not st one pasture ell his life,
but changes bis location. And II We would
listen 20 the requests OF friends and broth
srs. We. too. must migrate. let me say
here thss | an migratory Elk.
I can scarcely express the delight have
experienced in your company here. II will
80 with nae through life ss one of the most
| pleasant OF al the happy moments OF my
existence. You no doubt desire 90 hear
something Of our Order. know can no,
bore ioysl and true ks by fes brief re-
marks in reference to IL
| Our no6ls Order has extended its indg-
snces until iss Lodges form chain soros.
| the continent. vhose links are stesiiiy in
crossing With ne progress OF ths ysars.
l Il hes become isrgs in membership, pev-
srfsl in protection. popular ia character,
and nos embraces IN its xrsnd fraternity
| rnea OF 81 Professions and b1sisess P8r-
suits, eho. sy rtsson of their benevolent
| natrre and social ineIInetioas. naturally
drit together in the shifting tsass Of life.
There exisfed sn impression oatside of The
| Orier fhuf an PROUD 20 ssy nov almost
| desti thst Lodge n1estlnxs ssrs devoted en-
TREY % convivisiifF sBd socssl pleasures
Srch = rot 80 osse. Ssos re trus Elk
uho = not q tender. lovisg husos1d. q
fsithf1l son or ioysi friend
I'VE xnow ths4 n tbslr coun7sfo7 the7
| erhSbit an spprecisfaou OF hfs's 7ssfio %
| nature of tae atssr insoiLty Of w.slfh %
stsv the zrin rsspers band. thss thsy faIly
, zaaerst.8d thst al taey osn tsxe ~ith
them inss he dark nsvsssrfons shsoovs il
TIE fr.fernify that bis5s then n sc sse
sustsns them IN the drssd snd rssheriss
1 shs1s~s st - cicss.
Ressss tafs eng sffer 1sothers hsv'
hssr1 childhood. sweet petition a. res
ss~p elcgz.d tongaes ss fs~y fls..d their
site cess xso1-piskz the E<s srs frs1s-
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