Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-07-24
.ELKS CLOSE MEETING
SAN FRANCISCO DRILL TEAM
WINS $500 IN GOLD.
Between 10000 and 10000 EIks and
Their Wives Attend Golden
Jubilee Reunion.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver-Seventy-fi thousand mer-
rymakers frollicked and danced and
| laughed on the downtown streets as
Bill Elk said farewell to Denver, and
the golden jubilee closed with
monster carnival and dance in the
Court of Honor.N With the glow of n
hundred thousand lights upon them,
| IIlks and their hosts of friends said
| goodbye to the city which had housed
them during their all to brief stay IN
| Denver.
Extend State Rights.
Delegates who have been striving
for extended Jurisdiction for state or
position in the last session of the
grand lodge at the Auditorium, The
greater part of the session was given
over to the installation of officers.
When the grand lodge meets again
1t was predicted the state lodges will
be given absolute power to legislate
upon matters that pertain peculiarly
to the respective states, without the
necessity of grand lodge sanction or
legislation.
The grand lodge abolished the rit-
ual committee and a ritual commission
designed to give the ritual more
stable basis, making it impossible for
change except by constitutional
amendment, was created
Between $4,000 and 10000 Elks and
their wives attended the reunion. ac-
cor'iing to an estimate prepared by
Thos. NJ. Hunter The estimate is n
conservative one, he says, and is
based on the registration at the Au-
ditorium and comparison with the
gathering of 1906.
In numbers, Thursdays parade has
been surpassed few times in the his
tory of Denver and the West. In orig
inality and Kaleidoscope variety it
never has been equaled.
Ruler Makes Address.
Grand Exalted Ruler Benjamin did
not make lengthy inaugural ad-
dress. He pledged himself to the
work of bettering the order and to
give his hearty cooperation with In
dividual lodges throughout the coun-
try in any plan which would make for
the benefit of the organization.
In addition TO Benjamin. the follow
ing officers were installed: Grand
esteemed leading knight, Lloyd Max
well, Marshalltown, Iowa; grand es-
teemed loval knight, F.. NJ. Diker-
man, Tucson, AriZ: grand esteemed
lecturing knight, William Schad, Mil.
waukee. Wis; grand secretary. Fred
C. Robinson, Dubuque, Iowa; grand
treasurer, Charles A. White, Chicago:
grand tiIer, F. KOpelik, Pueblo. Colo:
grand inner guard. Thomas Donahue.
New London, Conn; grand trustee,
Calvin Kingsley, Waterloo. Iowa; chief
justice grand forum, Albert T. Brophy.
New York city.
Winners Of Prizes.
Following are the prizes awarded in
the various contests:
| Drill Team Awards.
| First I'riZe-San Francisco Lodge No.
Second Prize-Oakland. Calf, Lodge
No: III, S35o in gold.
| Third Prize. Boulder, Colo, Lodge No.
GRIND Parade.
COLORADO Lodges Not Eligible
$3.50; 2nd. Arkansas. $50: ard. chey-
Greatest Number in Line-lst. chey-
enne $3.50: End. Great Falls $50;
Srd, Emporia, Kans. 500.
sna GeSf ssoo r e!ES ssn FTSn
Most Unique uniforms-rst. chey-
Bird. Utah. 800.
Prizes for greatest mileage and
greatest number of women present to
be awarded later owing to difficulty
Industrial Parade.
CFor Colorado Lodgcs.)
$3.50: GS' End. sSiids. SEQ; ard, d TGebio,
500
walsenburE. $50: srd. centrSi city.
CIV Hest Decorated buildings.
business Houses - LIST, Daniels &
Fisher; $500: 2nd; Intersiate state Trust Co
Denver Gas & Electric Light Co. dia-
RcsidenceswIst. p C. Schaefer. 9ss
between 3rd and tth on Broadway. s2j
in laundry: 3rd. Theodore Marks. 1864
Elizabeth. cut glass vase.
Freak Prizes.
TalIest Man,Ross W. Bryant. Roehesi;
shortest Man-w. r.. Faulkner. To
peka: Kans.. IT. Sik in: prize. gold
FattGst Mani. q. Gignac. franklin.
y. H, weight i52 lbs; prize. diamond
Leancst Man-Cover #. 10 in. in
heiEhtD-J g. Mcnamara. Omaha. Neb.,
e,eiEht illh lbs; prize. gold watch
Oldest Elk in Grand Parade. y.
Theobold. Loveland. Colo. so years old:
prize. gold pocket knife and chain.
Bolt Hits Wire; Man Stunned.
Colorado Springs.-William Scranz.
n Santa Fe switchman, is in St Fran
els hospital recovering from injuries
sustained when lightning struck the
wires of n telephone he was using.
The wires were a private line of the
railroad company. Scranz was knocked