Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-01-01
NEW ELKS' LODGE.

Last Wednesday the Best People On
Earth organized branch of their order
at Stevens Point. There were large
attendance of Elks present from this
city, Ashland, Merrill and Green Bay.
The new lodge is known as the Lodge
No. 641 of the Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of Elks The new lodge
starts out with membership of thirty
seven, of whom thirty were charter
members. The following were the
officers elected and installed:
Exalted RuIer-A M Fox.
Esteemed Loyal Knight-M. A. Had
cock.
Esteemed Leading Knight-M. A.
Rood.
Esteemed Lecturing Knight-G. L.
Park.
Tyler-C. H. Grant.
Secretary-R. B. johnson.
Treasurer-C. w. Karner.
Trustees-L. Brill, j. W. Clifford, F
I. Boston.
Supreme High Ruler, I. b. Mills, OF
Superior, had the work in charge and
was assisted by the members of Wau-
sau, Ashland and Merrill lodges.
The following attended from this city,
as given by the Stevens Point Journal
Charles Weinfeld, exalted ruler
Henry E. Smith, secretary; H. H. Man
son, treasurer; Judd Alexander, es-
teemed loyal knight; E. A. Goodrich,
lecturing knight; j Kiefer, outer guard
COL Pier, inner guard; George w. Bor-
rowitz esquire; w. D. Alexander, w.
S. Cudlip, DR.. r. Lyon, L. P. Gilman,
H. G. McCrossen, D. Ploss, Harry Hell
nemann, w. S. Nablo, w. Single, Al.
Cook, M. G.. Bells, w. O. Davenport,
H. G. Head, George Franklin, colored
mascot and Billy" the goat.
ore of the members of Wausau Lodge
of Elks, who attended the organizing
of the new lodge at Stevens Point, pays
the following high compliment, to the
Elks of our sister city,
ITO the citizens of Stevens Point in
general, and the members of the Ste
vens Point lodge of Elks, in particular,
must be given the palm for entertain
ment, the most transformations, yet,
withal, the most complete, most salts
factory ever accorded company OF
strangers in strange land. From the
moment that we aIighted from the
train till we were whirled away in the
daa. ness of the next morning, not one
minutest detail was overlooked, and
yet there was no confusion: no delay, no
straining after effect; it seemed super
fuous to impress upon the new mem
bers of 64i, the fact that the principles
of the order are Charity, Justice and
Brotherly Love-so imbuAd with the
essence of these virtuous attributes is a
Stevens Pointers being that for him to
breathe out anything but cheerfulness,
honesty of heart, thorough good fellow
ship would be disease and death. The
quality of your membership is excellent,
Brother Fox-'May you all live long
and prosper
after the initiation OF thirty candi-
dates. which was conducted with all
the pomp and circumstance of cere-
mony and to which the goat contributed
with his usual eclat, we .partook of a
sumptuous banquet at the Jacobs
House. Shell oysters, only fifty hours
from their bed in the Chesapeake; reed
birds from Oregon; wines from Cali
fornia; not forgetting our own famous,
native dishes-Superior white fish and
the Influence that made Milwaukee
famous, put Us in fine condition for the
feast of reason and the flow of soul
that came with coffee and cigars. All
hope that some day. in small degree,
we may reciprocate in kind, but if this
is denied us let us all pray that Stevens
Point viii again ask us to partake Of
her hospitality"
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