South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-25
MOOSE TO HAVE FINE
NEW HOME At ELKHART
improvements TOtalIing S15,-
600 10 be Made on Old
Opera House.

between the trustees Of the John Cook
estate and the Elkhart lodge OF Moose
the building az 125-127 S. Main St
the former Brodriek opera house
will be remodeled. and the Moose Will
have a fine new lodge nome on the
second and third floors.
The specifications as prepared by
A. II. Ellwood & Son call for improves
rnents costing nearly $4,000 and in
clude IN addition TO the lodge quar-
tiers an entire new front Of brown
faced brick with stone trimmings.
The store room floors will be lowered
10 the level Of the sidewalk and given
modern reinforced copper fronts. Re-
cess external balconies will be built
on both the second and third floors.
The plans as approved by the lodge
building committee last night call for
a reading room, card room, billiard
room and spacious lodge room on the
second floor A large auditorium,
4Ox65 feet retiring rooms and apart
ments for the Junior Order OF Moose
will be located on the third floor, also
space will be reserved on this floor
for shower baths
The second floor Will be finished in
red oak and the third floor in white
nra4el The hallway and store en-
frances Will be OF ornamental thing
and all ceilings will ee wainscOtted.
George G. Kistner, who was
awarded the contract for the cree
ton OF the building, said Friday that
work would be started or the i'm
provement within few days. The
Moose lodge has been assured that II
can occupy the new quarters shortly
after Nov. l. The lodges present
quarters over 323-325 s. Main st. will
be occupied by the carpet, rug and
drapery departments Of the Ziesel
Bros big store.
The lodge building committee is
composed OF the officers as follows:
Supreme deputy G. A. Lee; past die
tatOr. George /. Wiser; dictator. p. l..
Metzger; vfce-dictator, Guy II. Earl;
prelate. Joseph Banded: secretary, E.
NJ. T. Nallinger; treasurer. b. 1. Blk
Ter; trustees, 9. w. Parritt. j. :.
Fischer. Thomas HOugh: inner guard,
Wilbert Hickman; outer guard,
Harry Levine.
Mrs. Susan NJ. Kendrick. 50 years
old, COS Strong av., is dead. Death
was caused by paralysis, Of which she
had suffered three strokes The pa
tient had been unconscious for two
weeks with the exception of a few
minutes last Friday.
Funeral services viii be held at the
home at o'clock Sunday. Burial
viii be in Grace Lawn cemetery.
Mrs. Kendrick was born in HOOsick,
Herkimer county New York, on Feb.
> 1926 Before coming TO Flkhart
in 1889. Mrs. Kendlick had lived at
Keene, y. H., and Watertown. S. D. |
She descended from New England |
stock. her grandfather, Rev. Edmund |
Foster. being known as one of the |
lighting parsons of the revolution !
airy war. On the morning of the bat |
tie of Lexington he dismissed his con-
gregatiOn, seized his musket and call |
ing his parishioners to follow him.
hurried TO the scene Of the battle.
Mrs. Hendricks husband, Charles
II Kendrick. who died here on March |
/. 1898, was for half Q. century in the
employ Of the New York Central
Railroad CO. lie was born on March
"A. 1928.
son, Edmund y. Kendrick and
wife. and two daughters. Helen and
Ruth kendriclI. all Of this city, are
the only immediate survivors Of Mrs.
kendrick.
Jesse a. Berlin died at his home, |
SIS : Riverside dr., Thursday. Death
was due TO a complication of diseases. !
Mr.. Berlin, who had been unable TO
lie down for weeks, died in a chair
just after having addressed a few in
coherent words 20 his mother
Funeral services, conducted by Rev. |
DR.. John c. White of Trinity MethO-
dist church. will be held at the homo |
at $3.50 o'clock Sunday. Burial Will |
be in Grace Lawn cemetery
Mr.. Berlin, who was born at Bluff |
ton, Feb. =, 1885, had lived in Elkhart !
10 years. coming here from Ligonier. |
Surviving MIR. Berlin are his wife, !
Jennie Berlin; a son, Lawrence X |
Berlin; q daughter Lulu Desa Berlin: |
u is
and two brothers. g. g. Berlin of this /
city and Y. V. Berlin OF ChntonviHe, |
Wis.
The 29th annual meeting Of the Elk |
hart county organization of the Wom- /
ans Christian Temperance union ad- /
jOurned Friday afternoon with the \
election OF the following officers:
President Mrs. Nora Novels OF /
Nnllersburg, reelected for the third /
time.
Vice president, Mrs. Pearl shady Of |
Elkhart.
Corresponding secretary. Mrs. Iva |
Wood Parker OF Elkhart-
Recording secretary, Mrs. Mark /
Morris OF Elkhart.
treasurer, Mrs. Milton Vert OF I
El..nart.
Resolutions were adopted urging an /
eight hour working day for women \
and a more strict censorship Of NOV
ing picture shows.
Simon 2. Withers OF Danville. H..
formerly an Elkhart resident while T.
employed as a Lake Shore engineer,
died at the home Of a sister. Mrs
f. &. Arms of Sioux Falls News OF |
the death was received by his sister.
Mrs. Adam NJ. Smith Of 1914 South /
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