The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-29
The Loyal Order Of Moose.

Last week we told you something o
what the Union City lodge is doing, 81
now let us give you few things fo
which the order stands.
The Loyal Order of Moose is a fra
ternal order of great magnitude, al
though quite young.
From small beginning in the year
1906, f.om membership of 241 char
ter members, it has grown to be an
order of some three-fourths of a mil
lion. The order has built and is now
maintaining a home at Mooseheart, Ill.
We own 1000 acres of land, fertile and
beautiful, located in the Fox River Val
ley, and the value OF the same is said
to be $500 per acre, with an option of
1000 acres more. This farm is stocked
with the best of the different kinds of
valuable stock, besides the large sum of
money that is invested in schools, dor
mitories, factories and such like, with
fine system OF sewerage, water and light
plant, with modern sidewalks.
This home has been prepared for the
purpose of taking care of the orphan
children OF the deceased members when
they are not able to care for themselves.
These orphans not only get the best of
in books but are taught
other things that will enable them to
battle successfully with the affairs of
life. They are taught to work and also
instructed in different trades and pro-
LESSONS. 1t is the purpose of the order,
and it is doing it at the present, to give
the aged member home when old age
comes on the member having no one to
take care of him in his declining years.
twenty-five cents of the dues each quar-
ter is appropriated to defray the ex-
Denses Of this home. This amounts to
one dollar per year for each member.
There are several hundred children in
his home at this time, and they are
getting the practical part of an educa-
books and other things,
ind are also, in some instances, proving
to be quite efficient in vari-
JUS lines OF work.
Cottages are being built whenever
needed for aged people who come to
he home, and the children are also !
ooked after like the parents, and are
Ilven all necessary attention for their {
aried wants. These old people are
made to feel at home and do not feel
ike they are objects of charity; in fact
re not, but this home is made for them
nd the orphans of deceased members.
t is home in every sense of the word. :
AS to our home in Union City, we n
an truthfully say that it is in every
way one into which the most elegant n
nd refined can go and are made to feel Il
bat the atmosphere is pure and whole d
ONE, for strict decorum and the best L
f order prevail at all times. c.
Some of the older members have for
ONE time felt that a Y. NJ. G. A. in O.
ur city was very much needed, but for /"
ONE reason the matter has not been -
a.
onsidered as yet and we are striving to 81
lake this order as far as possible equal Y
/ all respects to Y. M. G. A., and are m
lad to say that our dream has almost il
cen realized.
The Reds and the Blues" of k
hich we spoke last week, are doing b'
bod work and many names have al u
lady been added to our list of mem Id
ers, and we hope when they come to
'e you they will be able to enlist you
this noble work, for such we think it
be. We now have nearly 200 men, III
ers and hope to make it 800 in a very ~ ~,
tort time; that is, before the close of "
is contest. Yours in u