The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-12-11
MANY ATTEND SOLEMN SERVICE
Beautiful Musical Program Is Rendered
in Connection With the Annual Gath
ering of the Members of the Kenosha
Lodge to Pay Tribute to the Dead.

ssLlOyQ4 -. MdXWell OIL lulCdSO, iOlilel
grand esteemed lecturipg knight Of
the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks and national leadefin the great
fraternal Organization, paid high trib-
ute to The. principles Of Elkdom at the
annual memorial services of the Ke-
nosha lodge held at. the club rooms on
Sunday afternoon. It was one of the
most notable observances of memorial.
Sunday ever held by the Kenosha
lodge and Notwithstanding the inclem-
ellts. weather more than three hundred.
of the pensbers and friends of the or
der turned QUITO attend the ceremonies
of eonlnlen ogation
In keeping with the usual custom the
club rooms were decorated with ferns
and chrysanthemums, the festoons COW
ering the entife front of the large
lodge hall There was an unusually.
large attendance Of hesnembers of the
order sat the Services this year and the
is5htefast af The membel3s s5 she3 annual
sefseiaa taaae it all the more impress.
siA'e. An unusually beautiful musical
program was rendered by the Pearson
quartette of Chicago The service
opened with the singing of e Lead,
Kindly Light, y after which the invo-
cation was offered by the Rev Fred
Ingley, rector Of st. Matthew church.
MISS. Esther Pearson Of Chicago sang
no Fair, sO Sweet and Holy" after
which Jtld gA Lea Randall, eZalted ruiz
eF of the lodge, J! had chafgeof -the open
ing services, as provided by fhe ritual
of the order. James Hamilton Of Chi
cago, sang Tennyson 5 Crossing the
Bar, after which the opening services
were concluded. Miss Pearson and Mr..
Hamilton sang Stainer Love Divine,
All Love Excelhng, = after which Mr.
Maxwell delivered the annual grafton.
In his short adf1aress M II! SIa7W Well spoke
especially Of the work of the great Or
der of which he has been a national
leader for years. He spoke of the prin-
ciples~ as carried out by the members
of the Elks as doing much TO make
the world better and brighter. He de-
clared that the order Of Elks was
founded ia Christianity and that it of
fered its members an appeal to the
highest ideal of Christian manhood.
He spoke Of the patriotic work of the
order declaring that the EIks were dis
tinctively American and that their Am
ericanism was such that the order could
never thrive on foreign soil. He spoke
Of the benefactions Of the Elks and the
willingness of The members of the or
der to aid all in distress regardless of
their position in life.
He declared that in the less than half
a century that the Elks had been in
the order had given out with
lavish hand more than $20000,000 in
the relief of suffering. He made an
earnest plea for the members to live
close to the teachings of the order and
make it one Of the great factors in
character building among men and a
power in securing better civic eondi-
tions in cities. in which the lodges were
established. afs
One of the most beautiful of the mu-
steal numbers Of the afternoon was the
20 Rest in the Lord, sung by Edith
NJ. Jones of Chicago, after which the
closing ceremonies were carried out by
the lodge members and the service
closed with final number by the quar-
tette and benediction by the Rev.
7. w. Corey, pastor Of the First Bap-
fist church. ~
After the ceremonies at the club
rooms members Of the memorial COM
mittee braved the Wintrv wind and
went to st. James cemetery where a
short ritualistic ceremony was held
over the grave of Joseph n Messier,
one Of the charter members of the or
der. Following this chaplets Of re-.
membranee were placed on the graves
Of the deceased brothers including
Douglas K. Newell Ossian NJ. Petit,
Thomas Cecil O5Donnell, johnson Jack
son, Joseph n. Messier, John G. Will
son, Benjamin f. Windsor, Frederick
J. Gottfredsen and John O'Donnell.
Floral tributes were sent to other cities
to be placed on the lest resting places
of Frederick L. Ellsworth, Hugh o.
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