Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
ELKS' BANQUET.
Installation Of Officers of Wan.
sau Lodge, No. 24S, B. P. 0.
e.. and Banquet, at HOteI
Bells. Elks Present From
MarshfieId, Grand Rapids
and Merrill.

going Exalted Ruler, for his excellent
work the past year, and to the new
officers for their very superior work of
the evening. He then gave brief his
tory of the order and closed by saying
that the success with which many of our
best lodges were meeting was due to
working along the same lines recently
adopted by our local lodge.
w. HI. Cary, of Grand Rapids, re-
sponded to the toast, 'Wausau Efks, +"
and extended to the officers and mem
Grand Rapids lodge for the royal enter
Stainment accorded the visiting Elks,
and extended to Wausau lodge an invi-
tation to visit Grand Rapids lodge.
{ M c.. Ewing, Exalted Ruler elect,
responded the POSTMASTER by saying
that those lodges of Elks which had
attained their greatest success could
attribute that success to strict adher-
ence to the rituals and principles of the
order That wherever and whenever a
lodge of Elks had experienced a period
{ of refrigeration, the true and only
causes were found in the violation of
I laws of the order, and a subordination
of the grand principles upon which it is
founded to the Introduction of discred-
liable customs which have no place in a
(
said that with the growth in the coming
two years which had characterized the
Wausau lodge during the past year, a
membership of 500 in this city in 1906
would be no more than conservative
contemplation. He thanked the Wau-
sau lodge for the high honor conferred
upon him, and expressed the hope that
he might be able to merit that conf
dence.
Dr. Sauerhering followed with the
I toast, why | am an Elk" and did JUS
tice to the subject by narrating some
amusing incidents pertaining to the
fraternity.
w. q. Johns was called upon and, as
! a member of Wausau lodge, pledged to
}it every support within his power to
render.
A number of recently initiated mem
J bers were called upon and told of the
sensations incident to the sprouting and
wearing of horns. Those were followed
by c. b. Bird, who told an amusing
J incident at the expense of Dist Dept.
DIR. Lathrop, of Marshfeld. He then
read an appropriate poem, entitled,
) The Candidate" and. closed with a
toast, ITO the Success of the Order"
The banquet came to close at 2 A. NJ
with story by POSTMASTER M. b.
Rosenberg, and all standing and sing
I ing America" led by +. W. Kick
busch, Jr.
Those in attendance from out of the
city were Fred Wright, JAS Wright
I Geo. Arson, Robt. Kurtz, DR. H. ID.
Hinckley, Dan Curtis, VIM Brown,
Eugene Bisbee, Geo. Emmerich, Harry
nurd, Geo. Purvis, j. j. Kiley and Win
Kubasta, of Merrill lodge; w H. Carey,
Thos. A. Taylor, c. j. Norton, f. ODER
beck, Sam Church, r. r. Harvey, L K.
Mullen and Henry Vaschereau, of
Grand Rapids lodge; Dir. II. A. Lathrop
and Geo A. Hnntzicker, of Marshlield
lodge.
The Wausau lodge is certainly enter
ing upon new era and preparing for
its future growth. The third story of
the First National bank was especially
laid out for an Elks' lodge room and
club combined, and it was the head
quarters of the order for several years.
The rooms have again been engaged
and will be occupied by the Elks in
September.