Arizona republican., 1910-12-05
Impressive and Beautiful
 Memorial Service
SEVEN WHO WENT BEFORE
High Tribute Paid Them by Officers of the Order - Theater Elaborately Dec orated for the Annual Lodge of Sorrow"

Sweet simplicity and solemn inn pressiveness characterized the annual | memorial service of E. r. O. F.. lodge No. 335, held yesterday afternoon in the | Elks' theater. Members of the lodge gathered to do honor to seven members of the lodge who had died during the year. As usual a general invitation was issued to the public and the thea ter was filled almost to its capacity. These memorial services serve to bring about a better understanding by the public of the aims and purposes of the order.
 The theater began to fill before 2 o'clock and soon every seat on the first floor was taken. By the time the services began. at 2:30. most of the | balcony seats were occupied.
 Excellent taste was displayed in the decoration of the theater.. The Elks colors. purple and white, predominated. White crepe paper was used to wrap the pillars. which were also encircled with garlands of pepper boughs. Here and there were purple paper flowers. The same idea was carried out. with notifications, throughout the theater.
 The center of the stage decorative 1 ed in the air. Woodland scenery was employed to form a very attractive | background.
 Seven empty chairs, decorated with white and purple ribbons. were ranged in the orchestra pit These chairs were for the departed Elks whom their | brethren of the order had gathered to honor. The names of the dead Elks | at an r1a rn In ha ter, plainly visible from every part of the theater. David C. Cunningham. Joseph Wheelock. Jr.. Harry N. Kalfus. Abro II. Robinson, O. w. Ringrose. | George w. Cowgirl and S. w Hamilton were the Elks who had died since the last memorial service of lodge No. 335. All the chairs on the main floor. for some distance back from the stage. had been reserved for Elks who were present" 4. R. Cater and Elliot Evans. both prominent members, oc- cupied posts of honor on each siGe of the reserved section. tables covered with purple and white having been placed for them. At the door were the tyler. inner guard and several other of- ficers, all in their proper habilaments.
 The desk of Frank DeSOuza. exalted
 
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 A number by the orchestra opened the services. This number was a funeral march, "On the Death of a Brother Elk" composed by Eugene R Redewill, director of the orchestra This is one of the best of MT. Rede- wills numerous musical compositions and was very effectively rendered by the large orchestra
 Exalted Ruler DeSouza made a few appropriate remarks concerning Elk dom. its objects and the devotion of members 70 each other. Briefly he ex- plained the purpose of the services. which was to give some outward evil l dence of mourning for Elks who have gone before.
 Face to Face" beautiful contralto solo, was sung by Mrs. James C. | Blaine. accompanied by Miss Bernice Horrell. Mrs. Blaine has often ap- peared in musical affairs under her maiden name of Miss Margaret Weber | She is the possessor of an extra | ordinarily sweet voice which was never heard to better advantage than yester- day.
 Following Mrs. Blaines solo the en- tire audience ,was asked to rise and 1 join in the singing of the opening ode Right Reverend Bishop J. w. Atwood. chaplain of the lodge. pronounced solemn invocation, closing with the Lords prayer
 Following the invocation, the orches- tra played Flotows "Stradella" over ture. and then Paul Renau Ingles. dis trict deputy grand exalted ruler for Arizona. delivered an oration Upon the Brotherhood of Elks"
 MT. Ingles took occasion to deny the assertion. so often made. that the Benevolent and Protective order of Elks is an organization for pleasure alone. He declared that the order is one having good as its object That the members smile as they go through life is not an indication that at heart the kindest of men, ever ready to lend a helping hand where needed by the poor. the needy and the unlucky The idea that the truly good go through life with never a smile nor a kind word for man or beast has passed out of existence
 Only organizations founded on great principles can survive or grow strong and the steady groth of the Elks. a purely American order. is a result of the principles upon which it rests-the principles whose furtherance is the purpose of its being. Though deeply rooted in religion, it neither condemns or accepts any particular religious creed. Gentiles and Jews, Protestants and Catholics are found among it's members. The order of Elks is re- ligious. but is not a religious order in the ordinary meaning of the term.
 Another musical number greatly en-