Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-05
ELKS' OUTING IS
AGREAT SUCCESS
About $50 Members of Local
Lodge Cast Aside Dull Care
for the Day.
CAMP NEAR BUFFALO, IOWA
Fearful Amount of Food is Consumed
by City 5oys-HaVe Honored
Guest.

One hundred and fifty intrepid Elk
mariners yesterday morning shipped
on the good brig Harriet plus barge
Columbia, bound from Rock Island to
an island near Buffalo, with cargo
of joy and felicitation. The occasion
was the annual Day in the Woods
and the affair was unanimously voted
the most successful in history. The
voyagers congregated at the club
rooms about $50 a. N. attired in
various picturesque costumes and
slumberous mein. AT 8 o'clock they
marched in a body to the waiting YES
sci, which cast off its anchor a few
moments later. Stroehle's orchestra
was stationed on the second deck OF
the barge and dispensed various popu-
lar airs of the day with much gusto.
HAVE HoNoRED GUEST.
Colonel F. D. Lewis of local No.
357, Victor, Colo, was the guest OF
honor, and proved to be the life of the
party. With his care-free western
manner and open hearted joyousness,
the colonel impaired a breezy atmo-
sphere 70 the entire surrounding land
scape and endeared himself in the
hearts of all.
AS the vessel drew nigh to the
shore of the island, the advance
guard threw several hundred cannon
crackers into an immense bonfire
which had been built at the waters
edge, and the noise was deafening.
Then il was that the colonel mount
ing the rail, removed his hat, expos
ing a smooth shiny surface, entirely
unencumbered with hair, and patriot
ically addressed his ship-mates as fol-
lows:
Men and Soldiers: We are APP
preaching an island never before trod-
den by the foot of the pale face. Upon
CHANGING perfunctorily down the pages
of my atlas | learn that the natives
on yOn island are particularly fond of
human flesh. In fact. human flesh is
their main article of diet. We will
take that island in a blaze of glory and
plant the glorious stars and stripes on
yon wooded noll. CAside-Shoot you
redskins, shoot.) Men, soldiers, will
you follow me? To arms. Charge.
TWO BALL GAMES.
Two base ball games were played
but the score was lost. Promptly al
1870 the antlered ones formed in line
and marched to the dining tables
which had been laid out beneath tut
trees, and for a half hour no SOUND
was heard except calls for more ca
fish or roasting ears.
In the afternoon large numbers tool
a dip in the river, through the kind
ness of Sam Ryerson. who vofun,eer
ed 10 guard the vacant clothing
against the depredations of the Lane
: lubbers.
The return trip was begun at
o'clock. supper being served on tn
boat. On the second deck, 2 BIZ
crowd gathered around the orchestr
and the entire program of nationa
airs was rendered vocally with nue.
enthusiasm if not harmony. The HON
port was reached at 1870, bringing t
. a conclusion one of the most pleasan
days imaginable. When Colonel Lew
is, who had ridden the widest bror
choes Of the western plains withou
G. pulling leather, who taught Ruffal
. Bill and Annie Oakley all they knO,
n of the rife game, and who has swuI
the Mississippi four times withou
, stopping for breath or a smoke, CAV
: the order TO disperse, the crowd brok
=, up and all was peace.