Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1913-12-18

One of the most successful frater-
nal orders that the world has ever
seen is that organization known as
the Loyal Order of Moose. 1t now
has about half-million members.
To show how it is growing we will
state that the Linton lodge of the
order, some three and half years
old, is numbered 16S, while the new
est lodge is numbered above 14O0. In
many of the cities and larger towns
of the United States, Canada and
Australia the members own their
own building, one in Cleveland,
Ohio, costing two hundred thousand
dollars, and large number cost
ing upward of a hundred thousand
dollars. The amount Of money ex-
pended by this order for sickness
and death benefits and other help
full work during the past year
amounts to more than two millions of
dollars. One Of the mammoth
undertakings Of the order is the
founding Of great vocational or
industrial school, which has 80 far
progressed that the institution has
now a considerable number Of pupils
in attendance. although the build.
ings in which they are housed are of
a temporary character. The loca-
ton of the school ia near Aurora,
Illinois, about an hours railway ride
from Chicago. There the order a
couple of years ago purchased q
thousand acres of the best of farm
land on the banks o. Fox river, and
there buildings costing something
like two millions of dollars are being
erected. The name Of the institu-
tion is Mooseheart, with a railway
station of that name near by. 1t
will be the home of the orphan
children of the departed members of
the order and of old or otherwise in
capacitated members and their wives.
For the building Of Mooseheart a
dollar year is paid by each member
of the order. the income therefrom
amounting to about q half-million q
year. The boys and girls will be
taught trades or made into practical
farmers. When the writer was in
Chicago last July the dedication of
Mooseheart took place. About
twenty thousand Moose members
paraded the streets of that city, in
the morning before the trains left
for Mooseheart, and the Chicago
newspapers estimated the number
present at the dedication all the
way from thirty to forty thousand
people. The principal address was
made by Vice President Marshall
who is a member of Indianapolis
lodge of Moose. Governor Dunno
of Illinois. another Moose of national
reputation, also delivered an address
The great writer, Ebert Hubbard
ezra Albertus"), himself a mem
her, says Of the oder:
THE Loyal Order of Moose is 6
fraterna organization that ha!
seized the good, weeded out the bad
and takes no chances with the medic
ere. Every phase of practical, help
full human cooperation is known to
Moosedom. Education, good health
honest accomplishment and help to
those who need it, loving care and
dsslStauCe ttleSc are lUc lUluSs
Moose strive for. Every good
Moose is an economical unit, not q
geological specimen. Moose &C,
louder than they preach. Witness
Mooseheart, the wonderful thou.
sand-acre estate in which each Moose
is stakeholder. This little section
Of paradise is located within ar
hours ride Of Chicago, on the rich
black, alluvlal lands of northern
Illlnois-near Aurora, to be exact
At Mooseheart life is worth while
Here are schools for the children Of
those Moose who have passed away
Here are homes for the aged, botf
Moose and their wives. Here are
stock ranches, grain, vegetable ant
fruit farms. The lucky Mooseheart
ties eat their own Mooseheart meat
garden stuff and fruit, and wa,
strong and happy. The Loyal Order
of Moose combines all that is gooc
in the fraternal idea with minimum
Of possible shortcomings. 1t ha
been able to profit by the errors Of
others. 1t has gained by their wis
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