The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-22
INsUREs $3.50, 900 BUILDING
Only Little over Half of the Total
Membership Of Lodge Signs Pledge
Cards and Active Campaign to
Sell Stock Is Still Going On.


Kenosha EIks showed their faith in
a greater Kenosha and declared their
belief in the principles of Elkdom at a
great booster meeting held at the Wis
consin street club rooms on Thursday
evening when in just two hours time
two hundred of the four hundred mem
bers of the order pledged themselves
to take sixty-fve thousand dollars OF
the stock of club house association
to build new club for the lodge which
will meet the demands of rapidly
growing Kenosha. In addition to this,
the members of the order pledged
themselves to take more than forty
thousand dollars worth of the bonds
of the new club house association. The
action insures the building of a modern
club house in Kenosha to cost in the
neighborhood of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars and it is expected
that the work on the new building will
be started before the first of August
and completed before the opening Of
the summer of 1917. The location of
the new building and the detailed plans
for it are to be decided on just as soon
as the building committee can secure
competitive plans from architects.
The spirit of the new Kenosha was
very much in evidence in the meeting.
The Elks number among its members
many of the most prominent business
and Y1r6fnccinna1 o4 al 4
during the hour of talking, which pre-
ceded the appeal for pledges for the
club house stock these men proclaimed
their faith in Kenosha and later
on they backed this declaration up with
subscriptions of dollars and more dol
lars. Judge Clifford E. Randall presid-
ed at the meeting and as chairman of
the committee he outlined the plan
that was to be followed in securing the
erection of the club house. z. g. Sim
mons later in the evening took the
leadership of the meeting and he made
a strong plea to the members of the
Elks to build club house which would
be representative Of the real spirit of
Kenosha and which would furnish
modern place for the men Of Kenosha
to have as their meeting place. Mr..
Simmons declared his faith in the
future of Kenosha. He declared that
he favored building a club house which
would provide, not for population of
fifty thousand people, but for a popu-
lation of seventy-fve thousand in ten
years and for the second city in Wis
consin in the same time. Former
Mayor Dan O. Head gave enthusiastic
support to the movement; John M
Kehlor, the nestor of the Elks in Ke-
nosha, also declared himself in favor
Of building club house which would
be more than an Elks club and which
would meet demands of the men of
the city. DR.. George F. Adams, Joseph
G. Rhode, G. G. Allen, w. H. Robinson,
Joseph Lindl and Howard FL. Hahn
were among the other speakers. There
was not too much time given to talk
ing. The first call for funds for stock
resulted in a response of nearly thirty
five thousand dollars. The word was
brought to the hall that two members
offered to give twelve thousand FIVE
hundred more if the lodge would cover
this amount and within half an hour
the fund had gone up thirty thousand
and more. There wasn't any lag
ging about it either. "S'nuAf,o said
Chairman Simmons. "We will get the
rest of the money we want for stock
out Of the members who are still think
ing over signing the pledge cards. y
There was applause and cheers and
the members who had loosened the purse
strings for the largest sum ever given
to start any enterprise in Kenosha in
less than an hour, filed out and gath
cred about the tables where a buffet
luncheon was served. Everybody felt
good. In the meantime the members
of the club house committee had been
busy checking up the pledges and get
ting them in shape for entering on the
new books of the association.
eve have sixty-fve thousand dollars
all signed up" said the chairman of
the committee and there are still more
than two hundred members of the
lodge who have not signed their cards.
Some of these men are going to take
stock to the amount of more than
thousand dollars. We feel that we are
safe in saying that the stock taken by
the lodge members will exceed eighty
thousand dollars and it may reach the
one hundred thousand dollar mark.
The remainder of the cost of the build
ing can easily be provided for by the
issue of bonds. Already members of
the order have agreed to take more
than half of that amount of bonds
needed and the question of the bonds
has not been submitted to them. Dur
inc the NEXT two or 4hrno dnrr