The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
ORDER OF BLUE GOOSE
SPREADS THRU LAND
INSURANCE MEN FAST BECOME
GOSLINGS.
New Fraternity Is Less than Half Year
Old, but Already Has Spread to
Many States Of Northwest
Of Minnesota Nest Soon to Be Held

The first formal meeting of the Min
nesota nest of the Ancient and Honor
able Order Of the Blue Goose will take
place in Minneapolis soon and num-
Der of goslings' pin feathers will be
pluckeQ in order that they may be adj
mitted to that mysterious land of grace
full PUSHES, tall and waving grasses, and
luxuriant wild rice, where the Blue
Goose makes his home.
Who ever heard of a blue goose9
Prior to June 20 last, no one; since
then, nearly every fire insurance man
turnout the land.
The original blue goose seems to have
been Matched in the fertile mind of DR..
W. r.. Golden Of Milwaukee, who al
lowed it to fly for the first time at the
meeting of the Wisconsin Field Men g
was the general opinion at that meet
ing that IRE insurance men were much
In need of q social organization dis
tinctively their own. &.
Name Is Chosen.
There was much discussion on the
subject, in great part as to a suitable
name. It was then that DIR. Golden let
fly. his suggestion that the name be
the Blue Goosc.''' & He explained at
length why he thought Blue Goose"
good name; because of the ancient
and proverbial wisdom Of the goose;
blue, as representative of the great
freedom the bird displays in taking
its flight at heights where the atmos-
phere Of earth seems to melt away into
the boundless blue ether, of the heav-
ems. DR.. Golden said lot more things
equally eloquent and as full Of logic,
favor of "The Blue Goose Sc it was
that the initial "nest," OF "grand
nest,v as it is now known, was organ
| lied that "lovely day in JuneD with
officers whose names will ever stand
out in the annals Of the order, inscribed
by the grand wielder of the golden
goose quill, as follows :, @rrzs. 7.
!: Most loyal grand gander,. Walter E.
pervisor of the flock, W., E. Golden,
| Milwaukee; grand custodian Of the
goslings, W. w Conklin, saltwater,
Mimi; grand wielder of the goose
quill, George Heller, Jr., Milwaukee;
grand keeper of. the golden goose egg,
George A. Roberts, st. Paul.
| Minnesota Nest Built.
| In connection with the. parent nest,
there are also the guards to the
grand =; ,,., custodian of the gos5ings.
|
NJ NJ. Maxhurst. ~ G. E. 'i HilSert,,
r. Bird, c. E. Lane. July II, at Osakis,
was held the meeting Of the Minnesota
and Dakota association. Several Blue
Geese. told great things Of the newly
born s" .Ancient and Honorable q order;
of. the joys of being a goose-not the
ordinary, common kind, but a great
uncommon "Blue Goose As a re
suit, there was organized the :" Mime
sofa nest, I" which now has some forty
Blue Geese" whose names have been
properly enrolled on the record with a
| Blue Goose quill, and whose pinfeathers
have all been plucked.
The officers of the Minnesota nest
are: Most Loyal Gander, George G. Main,
| Minneapolis; supervisor Of the flock
J Frank FL. Barney, Minneapolis; Gus
/ todian Of the goslings, w. o. Chamber
lain, Minneapolis; wielder Of the goose
quill, F.. A. Manner, Minneapolis
keeper Of the golden goose egg, Thomas
P. Herbert, guards to the custodian OF
/ the goslings, Charles s. Whittlesey
Fargo, N. D.; W. G. Cree, Sioux Falls
is. D.; w. J. Tippery, Fargo; y. r
/ Daniel, Minneapolis; w. H. Higley
1 Minneapolis; j. R. Hobbins, Minneap
oils.
4 The order is at present entirely SO
cial in its nature. In time to come, per
4 haps in the near future. it will doubt
i less have associated with it some bene
i fits, such as aid to members desiring
assistance. IN any way, care IN time O
sickness, etc. a nest has Just beer
organized in Iowa and there are nest
racantlv fnrmad in MICHIGAN. Illinois
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