The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-07-25
.ELKS CLOSE MEETING
SAN FRANCISCO DRILL TEAM
WINS $500 IN GOLD.
Between 10000 and 10000 elks and
Their Wives Attend Golden
Jubilee Reunion.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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Denver.-Seyenty-fiv 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 With the glow OF
hundred thousand lights upon themsj
Elks and their hosts of friends saiS
goodbye to the city which had hous
them during their all to brief stay IN
| Denver.
Extend State Rights.
Delegates who have been striving
for extended Jurisdiction for state or
| ganizations of Elks met with no op-
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
It 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 a moro
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-
cording to an estimate prepared by
/ 70 fo
conservative one, he says, and is
based on the registration at the Au-
| ditorium and a 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 a 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 loyal knight. f. NJ. Diker-
man, Tucson, Ariz; grand esteemed
lecturing knight, William S,had, MIL
waukee. Wis; grand secretary. Fred
c. Robinson, Dubuque. Iowa; grand
treasurer, Charles A. White, Chicago;
| grand tiler, 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 Prize-San Francisco Lodge No
| 3. $500 in gold.
:. Second Prize-oakland. Calf. Lodge
| No. III. $3.50 in gold
:Third Prize. Boulder. Colo. Lodge No.
$50. $3.50 in gold.
| COLORADO Lodges Not Eligible>
Most Attractive Float-1st: Utah.
s25o; ;na 2nd Arkansas. $50; srd. chey-
Greatest Number in LIne-lst. chey-
| ehne, SZou: ZId, Great Falls, $3.50:
End. Rochester. $500; ard. San San Fran: ram:
Most Unique uniforms-1st chey-
enne. $3.50; End, Nowata. Okla. $50:
Bird. Utah. 800.
Prizes for greatest mileage and
greatest number of women present to
be awarded later owing to difficulty
Industrial Parade
| fFor Colorado Lodges.)
| Most Attractive Float-1st Boulder
s25o; end. salida. $50; 3rd. Pueblo.
Mining Float-1st, Victor. $3.50: 2nd.
Walsenburs. $50: 3rd, Central City,
Best Decorated Buildings.
Business Houses = 1st. Daniels a
$3.50: ard. A. c. Foster Bldg. s1oo; 4th'
Denver Gas & Electric Light Co. dia-
mond scarfpin.
Residences-lst. P. c. schaefer, ess
between 3rd and 4th on Broadway. s25
In laundry; 3rd Theodore Marks. 1854
| Elizateth cut glass vase
| Freak Prizes.
| TalleSt Man-Ross w. Bryant Roches-
ter, \. T.. TT. . in: prize. diamond
| Shortest Man-w. r. Faulkner. To-
peka; kans.. #. 81 in: prize. gold
Fattest Mani. G. Gienac. Franklin
n H.. weight 452 lbs: prize. diamond
Leanest Man-tover S #. 10 in. in
v'eisht 111A lbs: prize. gold watch
Oldest Elk in Grand Parade. B.
Theobold, Loveland. Colo, so years old !;
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