Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-10-19
MANDAN ELK HERD
THE INSTALLATION OF LATEST
LODGE OF ANTLERED
MONARCHs

The fastest No--.,a<A ''S'9 nl1s
lodge to be : 1sss' many years
perhan~. ,1ooS = set in motion at
Man. sp.. the event was notewor-
y thy IL the annals of the order.
some of the particulars are thus re-
ported of Col. Ben Whitehead of
Williston, one of the visitors.
Across the hills and through gen.
tie valleys the spirit of brotherhood
was waited Saturd day night like the
perfume of a prairie flower, and
gathered in all it's power and beau
ty at Mandan when the baby lodge
of Elkdom, No. 1856 was instituted.
From every section of the common
wealth the members gathered and
found pride as we'll as delight as the
gentle lessons were powerfully re-
vealed under the auspices of Dickin-
son lodge No. 1137.
Grand Forks, Fargo, jamestown,
Dickinson and Bismarck were all
largely represented and from Ore
gon to Pennsylvania good fellows
as we'll as good citizens gathered
to find that solace which comes with
the carrying out Of the beautiful
ritual. Jurist and rancher, state Of
f1cer and business man came and
learned once more that the absent
brother is as we'll remembered as
though he sat within the councils in
the night and gave encouragement
to the spread of the doctrines of the
great lodge which is founded upon
so beautiful sentiment.
There were men there who be-
came members of the order In the
long ago and watched it grow slow
ly but surely with all the conf
dence and strength of the institution
which has made so many men
broader and gentler, more circum-
spect and more tolerant, and there
were those who but recently saw re-
vealed the real purposes Of the Be-
nevolent and Protective Order OF
Elks of the United States of Ameri-
ca.
Older men became boys again in
the joyous reign of the ones who
TESTED and younger men became re-
fective' and were given better
grip upon the more orderly affairs OF
life when they reverentially Joined
in those beautiful and sacred cere-
monies which Elks will travel count
less miles to witness or to help.
When the lodge of emergency op-
ened District Deputy Grand Exalted
Ruler Addison Leech of No. 26O,
was in the exalted rulers chair. The
following gentlemen acted in the
capacities designated:
q. E. L. K.-C. A. Klaus, No. $685.
P. D. D. and E. H.
G. E. Ii. XIV. A. Price, NO zoo
P. E. R.
G. E. Lee. K.-Col. William Nc
Graw, No. 255, P. E. r..
I. n. 0SC."
266, P. P. D. G. E. R.
g. Treas.AJ. G. Quinliyan, NO.
1877, P. E. R.
Grand 1. Gd.-Andrew >Blewett;
No. 995, E. R.
q Tvler.-B. F. Brockhon, No.,
255.
Grand Chaplain-Capt. A. J.. os-
borne, No. 1877.
Grand Esquire-S. Mcdonald NO.
260, E. R.
In every gathering OF Elks les
sons are learned that tend to make
them truer men. The lesson may
NOT come during the ceremonies OF
the lodge. 1t may not come un-
der the auspices OF nor with the
consent of the lodge, but ike all
gatherings of men their associatlsons
nov be summed up at the time OF
+ha eood-by with either profit or loss
and the Elk who went to Manuan
w,l, he able In after years 10 ieel
+ha+ there was really profit to>n1m
in the going. 10.
The ceremonies were held In the
opera house and the visitors were
escorted there, where q sumptuous
lunch was served. The Elks tnen
naraded the streets. the band Iol-
lowing the lodge dignitaries' me
esnd,do+aa and their goats came along
q one confused indiscriminate mass
tha goats showing no friendship TOT
the candidates and the latter leel-
ing that the goats might be lost ioi
all they cared.
A dinner was served to the guests
~ the hall. The basement was tilled
.,,,+, mon Who testified that the Man