The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
Annual Memorial Exercises of Ne
nosha Lodge Held at New
Lodge Room on Sunday
ELOQUENT PRAISE FOR DEAD
Great Concourse of People Gather With
Lodge Addresses Are
Delivered by Judge Smiled
ing and Rev. Farrill

Paying tribute to the memory of
members of the Kenosha Lodge of
Elks a great concourse of the
friends or the order gathered at the
new lodge rooms on Wisconsin street
on Sunday afternoon to attend the
annual memorial service of the lodge.
The gathering in Kenosha was in
keeping with the custom established
years ago and in keeping with the
custom observed by every lodge of
the order.
In loving memory of the dead the
lodge rooms had been beautifully
decorated with palms and flowers and
sweetest music and brilliant oratory
joined In making the service the smost
noteworthy one ever held by the EIks
in Keuosha. There is lot of senti-
ment in Elkdom and the best of this
sentiment was shown in this annual
memorial service. The crowd was
the largest ia the history of memorial
day in Kenosha, many Elks coming
from other cities to attend the service
and take part in it. The Kenosha
lodge had representation of nearly
a hundred members.
The music was furnished by the
Stemm Brothers orchestra, Mrs. Her
bert E. Tanner, Mrs. Elizabeth Steb-
bins Goodfriend and the Schubert
quartette of Chicago.
The exercises for the afternoon
opened with an overture by the or
chestra after which the Rev E. I,
Farril1 of the First Congrega tiona1
church offered prayer. The Schubert
quartette sang the memorial song af-
ter which Exalted Ruler Peter Fisher
Jr. and the officers of the lodge carried
out the regular ritualistic service pre-
scribed for the day. During the ser.
vice Mrs. HI. E. Tanner sang IN very
charming manner, Gently Lord, o
Gently Lead U.s." after which the
ritua1istic service was concluded.
After the singing of the Auld Lang
Syue, so dear to the heart of every
Elk, the Rev. E. T. Farrill delivered
a short address speaking especially of
the deaths that had occurred among
the members of the Kenosha lodge
during We year just closed. He paid
trir of love and memory to Joseph
N. Messier and Johnson A. Jackson,
tha two members who had died during
the year. He spoke especially of the
life of Johnson Jackson telling in a
way that brought tears to many in the
audience of the sterling worth of the
former we'll known Kenosha man. In
concluding Mr.. Farril1 spoke of the
death of John McWade of the Chicago
lodge, who had been widely known
among the members of the Kenosha
lodge and the people of Kenosha. He
spoke of thesmusic that he had given
at other memorial services and paid
tribute to his memory. In closing
Mr.. Farrill spoke of Frederick L.
Ellsworth, another of the members of
the lodge who had passed away since
it's organization and brought back
memories most dear to many of the
members of the order.
After the quartette had sung the
''Lead Kindly Light the Hon, Will
liam Shielding, judge of the Munich
pal Court in Racine and a past ex-
allied ruler of the Racine lodge, de-
livered the annual eulogy. Judge
Shielding spoke especially of the prin-
ciples of the Elks as an order and
showed that the principals of the or
der were the principals of the free
born American citizen. He spoke of
the annual custom of holding memo
rial services In honor of the dead and
declared that this was but one of the
indications of the great bond of fell
lowship which bound the order to-
gether. He spoke of the beautiful
sentiment expressed by the motto
1.-The faults of our brothers we write
upon the sand their virtues on the
tablets of love and memory and de-
clared that it was this feeling of fell
lowship that had made the Elks lodge
one of the greatest fraternal organi-
cations of the world. He spoke of
the broad principals of justice, char
ity, brotherly love and fidelity on
which the order were founded and
the ruling sentiment of every true
Elk to do unto others as he would
they would do unto him and said
that 1t was this spirit that actuated
every member of the order ia his de-
sire to keep IN mind the virtues of
the dead and keep alive the lamp Of
fraternal love toward the living.
Following the address of Mr.. Smiled
ing there were more songs by the
quartette, after which the closing ex-
ercises of the lodge were carried out
and the service closed with the sing
ing of "Nearer Ny Goo to Thee" and
the DoxologY. Rev. Mr.. Farrill pro.