Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-06
fELKS REMEMBER
Their DEPARTED
Hold Annual Memorial Service
at the Lodge Hall Yes
terday.
CEREMONY is IMPRESSIVE
F. d. Let's OF Davenport Is Prin-
cipaI Speaker of Afternoon
i Mfr. -RexdaIe Gives EuIogy.

The local lodge of Elks held annual
memorial services yesterday afternoon
at the lodge haIl, and they were as
Ebeauttful and impressive as usual The
kprogram included two addresses and
several musical numbers, and it was
greatly enjoyed by those who braved
Ethe cold 10 pay their respects to the
dead of the organization. The audi
ence Included not only the members of
the lodge but number of ladies and
I men who are mot connected with the
order.
/ The exalted ruler Of the lodge, Lloyd
! c. Lamphere, presided at the services,
i and opened with short talk Impress
ing upon the members of the lodge the
+ necessity of remembering the departed.
The first number on the program which
followed was a violin solo, ITO the
Evening STAR by Mrs. Florence Fries
tat-Lee, accompanied on the piano by
Frank Friestat. After this the audi
ence Joined In singing the lodge hymn,
and at its close Rev. Granville H Sher-
wood offered a short prayer. Mrs.
Gertrude Carse-Applequist rendered
Rock of Ages" and G. w. Sandstrom,
member of Moline lodge No. $50. gave
Z residing of "Thanatopsis," and the
Arion quartet, composed of Ora C.
Hickman, Arthur Jonassen, J. G. Haz-
ard and w. z. Caulpetzer, sang LEAD,
kindly Light"
EuIosy for the Dead.
RoSert RexdaIe read a eulogy to the
uonory of the departed members of
she lodge and the order in general.
Tour of the members of Rock Island
!cdGe have passed away since its or
sslization, and Mr.. Rexdale called the
rel of their names and spoke of the
honor in which they were held in the
ledge and the sorrow which accom-
panied their death The dead of the
loose are Harry F. Blocker, who died
Nov. %, 1907; John B. thinner, Jr.,
Who died Nov. %. 1907; John B. lin
mer, ST., who died March I, 1908, and
George Reaugh, who died April 6, 1909.
Interspersed in the euIogy were sew
eral poems which had beautiful sig
nifcance They we're Mr. RexdaIe's
own poem, The Eleventh Houth,' and
''The Valley of Silence"
Following the eulogy, VIII Trimble
sang Emulation, in which he was &C
compsnied on the piano by Miss
Blanche TrImble, and Mrs. Florence
Friestat-Lee rendered another violin
solo, "Reyerie" The main address of
the services was given by F. D. Let's
of Davenport, who spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Contrasts In Everything.
Prom the dawn OF time there have
been contrasts in everything in this
life; sunshine and shade; storm and
calm; peace and war; plenty and pow
erty; the beauties of summer and
sweet-scented flowers. the bleakness OF
winter and its Ieahess trees. There is
birth and tender youth; the MONDAY Of
life, crowded with the labors of the
harvest; and, but g little way beyond,
the Reckoning shades OF night. There
is no escape from these conditions, and
ont Of them come all the beauty of vir-
tue, all the harmony OF music, all the
glory Of great and valiant deeds. They
destroy the elusive beauty Of the uni
verse, they loosen the chains Of boast
ed knowledge, and open the prison
doors of the Wanted brain and bring
men forth to feel the warmth and see
the glory Of the sun, setting them as
free from prejudice as the mariners
CON pass, desiring only to discern, amid