The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-22
JUDGE TAYLOR ORATOR OF DAY
Former President Of Aerie Tells of
Struggles in Getting New Club House
Plan Started.-Members Pledge Sup
port to Undertaking.

Dirt is flying in the neighborhood
of the lake shore and Wisconsin
streets this morning and the excava-
tion for the new Eagles Club house
is well under way. Sunday afternoon
in the presence of more than seven
hundred people Michael Earl who dug
up the first ten dollars to buy one of
the bonds of the Eagles Club House
Association, drove a gayly decorated
spade into the virgin earth of the lake
shore and declared that the club house
had been started. This morning the
work was taken up by score of real
diggers and within a few days the
work of raising the walls Of the new
building will be under way.
The starting Of the building on Sun
day afternoon was an suspicious occa-
sion for the members of the Kenosha
Aerie No. 1855 of the Fraternal Order
of Eagles. The starting of the build
ing work on the new club house
had not been extensively advertised,
but a great crowd Of Eagles and their
friends gathered for the ceremonial.
Many Of them brought their wives
and children with them and there was
clicking of cameras and shouts and
cheers as the first spade of earth was
turned over and the work of building
the club house officially started.
L. G. King, one of the members Of
the building committee in charge Of
the erection of the new home, acted as
master of ceremonies and introduced
Judge George W. Taylor as the princi-
pal speaker for the afternoon.
Judge Taylor spoke briefly, telling
of the organization Of the Kenosha
Aerie and the plans that had been
made to give Kenosha Eagles a home
that would be home in every idea of
the word. He spoke Of the struggle
of the Aerie in securing a start on the
building fund and of the loyalty of
the members in purchasing the bonds
which would make possible the raising
of the fund to pay for the building
and its equipment. He paid high
various
building committees which had been
named to have charge of the big move
ment Of securing the new home and
declared that they had been forced to
take all sorts of abuse on account of
the fact that they had insisted from
the first that the Kenosha Eagles build
a home that would be real home.
He spoke of the united spirit of the
members of the Aerie in backing the
committee now that the plans had been
worked out and declared that every one
of the seven hundred members of the
order in Kenosha were now standing
shoulder to shoulder with the members
of the committee to secure the compile
tion of the building.
Judge Taylor was cheered by the
members of the big company as he
turned the decrated spade over to Earl
who threw out great spade full of
earth
Klemm and Klemm are the general
contractors for the building and it is
expected that the new building will be
under roof by the first of July and
that it VII be ready for dedication by
Thanksgiving day. The money for the
erection of the building is pretty well
in sight and the enthusiastic manner
in which the members of the Aerie are
supporting the plan gives assurance
that there will be plenty Of money in
the building fund by the time the
building is completed and ready for
occupancy.