Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-12-10
ELKS' MEMOR-
|AL SERVICE

The Elks' memorial service Sun
day in which lodge No. 754 OF this
city and lodge No. 436 of Bloomsbury
united went ON record as one of the
most successful occasions of its kind
ever held in Danville. The dead in
deed we're fittingly honored by the
beautiful and impressively rendered
exercises, while the living were ad-
monished as brother admonishes broth
er and the beauty Of benevclencs and
protection to the weak aud helpless
was eXtolled and magnided.
Ali the lower floor of the opera
house was comfortably filled, no one
! beiug admitted except on tickets fur
nished by members of the order. Large
numbers were anxious to attend no
were unable to gain admittance. The
ElkS desired to prevent overcrowding
and thus in giving out tickets care
was taken to keep the number down to
the proper limit.
The services we're slightly marred
by delay in the arrival of the Blooms
burg lodge, which was caused by an
interruption of the trolley service. 1t
was about 2 80 O'Clock when the Dan.
Vile lodge decided to open the cxer-
cises and, pending the arrival of the
Bloomsbury brethren, to proceed with
the rendition of the program. A quart
er of an hour later the Bloomsbury
lodge arrived.
The officers of the two lodges were
furnished seats on the stage. The 9TH
er members occupied a space reserved
in the lower part of the parquet. EThe
Bloomsbury contingent comprised ov-
er 40 men. Practically the entire mem
bership of the Danville lodge was pre-
sent.
On the stage, in addition to the
officers of Dauville lodge. whose names
were formerly printed. were the. fol-
lowing officers of Bloomsbury lodge,
No. 1856: Exalted ruler, Edward
Schenke; esteemed leading knight,
Gerald Gross; esteemed loyal knight,
Anthony Meuzbsch; esteemed lectur.
ing knight, William d. Holiness sec
retary, Freeze Quick; treasurer, Frank
ID. Deutler; tyler. Miles Ii. Betz;
Chaplain, Joseph r. Murphy; inner
guard, Joseph Flaherty organist, Karl
P. Writ; trustees, John G. Hsrman,J. |
II. Coleman and John Gross.
The music throughout was a most |
inspiring feature. The duet, Love
Divine, all Love Encircling, soprano
and tenor, Miss zimmerman and Mr.. |
Eggert, was especially fine. The sop
rano solo and obligato by Miss Am
norman and the baritone solo by Mr..
Vannan were likewise features that /
no one would have cared to miss. The /
Orpheus Glee club was never in better
form and its members won much praise
The following are the deceased
members of the lodges: Danville
lodge, No. 754, Ned S. Harris, John
L. Evans, Thomas W. Beaver and Ed
ward P. Thomas; Bloomsbury lodge,
Clemue @. Beishline. Anthony Col.
William T. Huutsinger, DR..
W. II. Purmsn, Stewart A. Ash, A lex
ander E. Cohen, Jeremiah r. Fowler.
AS is customary in the Elks' Memor-
ial service the name of each deceased
member was called three times. The
effect was most impressive. AS each
name was called for the third time,
one OF thirteen lights representing the
deceased brethren was extinguished.
NJ. Morris Moskovitz, Esq. of Scran.
ton, delivered the Memorial oratio.
Most eloquently he dwelt on the sub
ject of the deceased brethren, extoling
their virtues and perpetuating their
memory by many kind and loving tri-
butes inspired by fraternal love. To
the brave the loyal hearts that were
left to mourn their loss he rendered
full assurance of sympathy and con-
dolence, In its entirety the address was
one that appealed to the heart of ev-
cry true and loyal Elk.
The eulogy was delivered by W.
Kase West, Esq, Of this city, who ex.
planned the object of meeting and the
custom of holding Memorial service,
in conclusion enlarging on the topics
OF charity, Justice, fidelity and broth.
erly love