The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-05-12
PRINCE HEADS
STATE ELkS
WAXAHiCHlE MAN UNANINOt s.
IY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF
STATE ASSOCIATION.
To DALLAS IN 1915.
North Texas Metropolis Chosen as
Convention City for Next
Year Students Loan
Fund Favored.

| WACO, Tex, May 12.-The pro-
sram for the election of Il. b.
| Prince of Waxahachie as president
of the Texas Association of the
Benevolent and Protective Order Of
| Elks and the selection of Dallas as
! the 1916 convention city as fore
, cast in these specials yesterday went
| through without hitch.
| The Waxahachie mayor was eject
ed president of the association by a
! unanimous vote after he had been
placed in nomination by Hon. c. A.
! Pippen of Dallas. Mr.. Pippen made
an eloquent appeal for the election
of Mr.. Prince. and when the vote
was taken the Waxahachie Elks let
it be known that they were present
in large numbers. Other delega-
tons joined in the applause Mr..
Prince was called to the platform
and asked to make a speech, but
aside from thanking the convention
for it's support Of his candidacy and
giving assurance that he would try
to faithfully discharge his duties he
said that he would reserve his for
NAL speech for the installation of
officers today.
Dallas was unanimously selected
as the meeting place in 1916.
| Other officers elected are as fol
lows:
First vice president. r. d. Bar
num- Ell Paso: second vice presi-
dent, David d. Calm, Dallas; third
| vice president. r. O. Gresham, Tenn
pie; secretary. II. J. Frey, Dallas, re
elected; treasurer, Charles c. Hall,
Rhea, Mckinney. All the officers
were elected unanimously. The
i chaplain will be appointed by the in
coming president. who wil also name
| the executive committee. The new
! ~ elected officers were installed this
morning.
The report of the credentials
committee yesterday showed
the votes e2ch city was entitled to
as follows; Amarillo !, Childress 8
Corpus Christi 4, Dallas Z. Denton
|, FL Paso /, Hilisboro 3, Marlin
3, Mckinney 4, Plainview 4, San
Marcos ,, Sweetwater 3. San An
tonic |, Sulphur Springs /, Tyler 3
Waco 7, WaXahachie and Temple
6.
More Than Half of Lodges Join.
President +. II. Perry, in his re
pert for the year, told OF the actiyi-
ties of the stAe association. He
declared that today more than so
per cent of the lodges in Texas We're
affiliated with the state organiza-
ton, and expressed the belief that
all of them would be identified with
the Texas association by the time
the next convention was held. He
believed, he said, that the objects
for which the state association had
been formed, to bring the Elks'
lodges in Texas in closer social COM
munion and to advance the interests
of Elkdom in Texas, had been
accomplished
A report was made for the exc
cutive committee by the chairman
]. H. Lockwood of Waco.
NJ. d. Henderson Of Plainyiew
chairman Of the transportation com
mittee, Sid it had been found inn
possible to get a better rate from
Texas for the meeting Of the Grand
Lodge OF Elks in Los Angeles In
July, than the regular rate of $52 SO
for the round trip.
motion To select en- official
route for the Texas delegation in
making the trip to Los Angeles was
lost
Secretary II. ]. Frey in his report
showed that $25 had been received
from charter members, while sea-
80 had been collected in per capita
taxes from lodges and individual
members OF the state association for
tho year The disbursements total
ed S44s,30, leaving balance on
hand OF SIG.
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