Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-12-24
LOCAL ELKS LISTEN TO
A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE
PAVED TO THEIR DEAD.


Elkins Lodge No. 1885, B. P. O.
E., paid tribute to the memory of
hts dead at the annual memorial
service held Sunday afternoon in
the Elkins Opera House, before a
very large audience.
Col. Stallings' address:
Ladies and gentleman, brother
Elks and friends: We have assem-
to-day in accordance with the usage
and customs of our Order to give
tribute to the memory of our de-
parted members. As often as the
"Wheels of Time" roll round to
the first Sunday in December, the
Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks of every Lodge of the whole
world meet in solemn service to
pay homage and respect to those
who have answered "the final
call" To-day we separate our
thoughts from the cares that way
lay the common walks of life, and
center our reflections on the men,
Dry and exalted qualities of our
dead.
Fortunate, indeed, and thankful
are we that in the last twelve
months Elkins Lodge No. 1135 has
lost but one, and at the grave of
Frederick Glenn Mauzy, our mis-
sing member, we, to-day, bow our
heads, make pubic record of his
worth as a man, and give utterance
to our grief at the loss of our
brother and friend.
Death in any form is saddening.
| 1t brings sorrow to the heart and
puts Grape" on the feelings, but
when it comes with unusual sud-
denness the shock is appalling. The
unexpected death of Frederick
Glenn Mauzy was a most grievous
surprise to all his associates, his
brothers in the Lodge and his in
Vulnerable friends. 1t darkened a
happy home, Frustrated a loving
family and threw a pail over the
town in which he lived. He died
at the age of the thirty-hve before
he had reached the prime of his
honorable life, the summit of his
career, but loved and mourned by
all who knew him. In his short
life he filled positions of RESPONSE
bility, trust and honor in all deal
lings with his fellow men, was hon
est. In the great garden of man
kind" he was a kingly, stately,
knightly flower. But
"Thcre is a reaper whose name is Death
And with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at breath
And the flowers that grow between
He was kind and sympathetic
The rain that washed "the face OF
grief" wet his as well. Treachery
in friendship was unlearned by him,
deceit was foreign to his nature and
gratitude, that sin denounced alike
by savage and civilized man, founc
no Judgement in his makeup. He
hated cant, spurned pretense, de-
spised Hypocrisy. A man of cour.
!. age, he uttered his convictions
without fear or apology; there were
no letters on his thoughts, nc
shackles on his mind, and one
thing he never surrendered was hi'
independence. Generous almost tt
t the extent of prodigality, if he saw
+ human suffering his hand went t(
his pocket instead of his handker
chief to his eyes. His religion wa
to lessen every earthly joy, increas'
every human joy. 1t may be wei
said of him, che never brought
tear to the face of anyone until h'
died." No man who ever breath
the air of Independence in Thu
land had greater love, veneratlol
or respect for the emblem of tn
Elks-- that trinity of color--red
white and blue He believes tn
Stars and Stripes the grandest fa|
, that ever rippled in Gods hol,
breeze.
1t was a sad and venerable max
i'm of the ancient Greeks that "n'
. man should be accounted happ.
:, It'll his death" However true TIN
may have been in the stormy per
n iods of those brilliant republics O
old. or however true it may b