The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-02-27
FARGO ELKS BOOST
DEVILS LAKE BOYS
INSTITUTION OF NEW LODGE IN
SATANIC CITY BIG EVENT
MONSTER CRoWD-ARRANGE-
MENTs HAPPILY PLANNED AND
SUCCESSFULLY CARRIED OUT.

TT was the largest gathering of
Elks ever held in the state"
1t was the most ably conducted
Elks' doing ever"
These and lot of other expressions
in which superlatives abandoned were
he remarks made by Fargoans vino
attended the institution of the new
lodge of Elks at Devils Lake.
If the antlered bunch in the satanic
city left anything undone that would
add TO the pleasure or comfort Of the
visitors none of the latter were able
to discover what it was.
There We're between 500 and 700 Wis
iting Elks, besides the more than 100
locals. One special took Fargo, Grand
Forks, Fergus Falls and Crcokston, not
to forget dot Leetle Cherman Band"
from the latter town.
Another n. P. special brought VAL
ley City and jamestown and the EIks
up the J. & ~ line. Minot and Will
liston came on the regular G. N. trains.
Bismarck had some representatives
there, Dickinson, perhaps being the on
~ unrepresented lodge in the state.
Every train into the city brought
from one to hundreds of Elks and was
met by Il band. The city was decorat-
ed in honor Of the occasion and Elks
colors were seen everywhere, some OF
the window displays being artistic.
The people of Devils Lake extended
openhanded hospitality and the Devils
Lake band under Will Cramer, an old
Fargo boy, the Fort lotion Indian
band and other musical organizations
assisted in enlivening things
. Deputy Exalted Ruler Leech and
Grand Secretary Crabbe formally in
stituted the new lodge, to be known
as 1915, at D. m. Saturday, after
which officers were elected and in
stalled. The institution was done by
Grand Forks with the famous Frank
". Kent acting as esquire by special
request. There were forty-one old
members and sixty-five new Initiates.
The new officers are:
I Exalted Ruler-Col. C. H. Doyon,
Esteemed Leading Knight-C. w.
Green.
Esteemed Loyal Knight--John Duis.
Esteemed Lecturing Knight-P. j.
McClory.
Secretary-H. z. Mitchells
Treasurer-A. H. Reade.
Treasurer-Wm. Heinze.
Trustees--W. Kirchoff, A. H. Bell,
A. M. Iverson
H. Y. Mitchell, the first secretary,
was also the first secretary Of the
Minot lodge and certainly should know
the ropes.
Deputy Exalted Ruler Ad Leech and
Grand Secretary Crabbe were pre-
= M ~.
baby lodge.
During the work many kilograms of
congratulation for the lodge We're re-
ceived from prominent Elks
The Devils Lake committee enter
tanned the visitors at lunch Saturday
noon, another "eat" at in the even
ing and banquet at midnight Near
ly 500 sat down to the latter Ev-
cry arrangement was perfect. Al. III.
Reade. Heine Mitchell. Colonel Doy-
on, Messrs. Bell, Heinze, Green and
many others had devoted a great deal
of time to the work and certainly made
good
The affair was held in the elegant
new theatre. The eats were in the
roller rink on the ground floor, the
guests loafed in the commercial club
rooms on the second floor, which by
the way are elegantly appointed and
handsomely arranged The visitors
watched the initiation from comforta-
BILE seats in the theatre and the work
was done on the stage.
Following the, banquet there was
vaudeville session ard the motion
pictures Of the Elks at the last Grand
lodge session at Detroit were also
shown.
The Fargo bunch had a special car
which left here Saturday morning on
No. at 5:17 and at Grand Forks
connected with the big special The
return from Devils Lake started be-
tween 4 and Sundag a. IN. and FAR
goans reached home at 10.50--tired
and happy.
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