The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-05-10
WAXAHACHIE
ELKS WIN PRIZE
TAKE LARGEST NUMBER OF
LADIES IN PARADE At Dali
LAS TUESDAY,.
BAND RECOGNIZED
Pat Sims and Ills Rand Carried on
First Honors - Princes Home
Town l. Put on the
Map.

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Waxahachie Elks played an i'm
portant roll in the state convention
at Dallas Tuesday. carrying off hon
ors for having the largest number OF
ladies in the parade and for having
brought 10 Dallas the largest and
best band. There were more than
one thousand Elks In the parade and
the long string of automobiles car
ried hundreds of ladies. II was
gorgeous parade in which Dallas Elhs
and visiting brethren delighted.
Headed by a squad of mounted po-
licemen and brass Dand, followed
closely by General Fred McJunkin.
In chief of the Elks' Ar
my and Navy of Texas; Dave D.
Calm, adjutant general, and james v.
Polk, lieutenant general, and their
staff, and followed by Alloah Dallas
Elk in a beautifully decorated auto
mobile and the Dallas drill team, the
parade moved along Elm street from
Preston shortly before 3 O'Clock and
back up Main to Harwood and south
on Harwood to the EllS5' club.
Alloah Dallas Elks, the 14-year-
old blind girl, who is the ward Of
Dallas lodge No. II, clad in pret-
ty white dress and wearing. the col
ors Of Elkdom on her sleeve, rode
Immediately in front Of the uniform
ed Dallas dr.. team She was chap
eroned by Mrs. Grant S. Maxwell and
Mrs Charles Block.
Immediately behind the Dallas
drill team were f. b Prince of Waxa-
haehie, president of the state asso-
citation. and George f. Roekhold 4
Dallas, exalted ruler OF the Dallas
lodge, In handsomely decorated
car. Behind lnem rode General Pat
terson of Dallas, the originator tt
the Elks' Army AND Navy and retired
commander In chief,
MaAahaehie Shows Best.
Many lodges in Texas were repre-
scented in the parade. but the WaXa-
hachie lodge, with baud and eigh-
teen decorated automobiles and q
uniformed drill team, made an ex-
Icellent showing and had the largest
delegation from outside the city.
The Waxahachie delegation wa.
followed by the patrol wagon, man
ned by Chief r II, Purdy and sever
nj husky assistants, each wearing 6
huge silver star 1t was the duty q
these officers TO arrest any Elk dis
covered in the crowd and not par
ticipating in the parade. Before the
end OF the route was reached the pa
/ troll was practically filled,
Palestine scores Cne.
In one automobile rode a single
member Of the Palestine drill team
Holding aloft a banner on which wa
printed "One lonely buck from thu
holy city OF Palestine. The waite
wagon came next On it rode doz
en- or more Elks, some OF whom wer,
Having a very hard time staying q
the wagon How Dry | Am" wa
their official hymn and they sang i
lfrom the beginning of the parade I'm
it'll they reached the Elks' club
The Mckinney delegation, With ;
band OF twenty-five pieces, made
igood impression and was secon'
lonly 10 Waxahachie in point of mum
bers. though il was closely presses
by the sherman lodge, which cam
next The Shermanites We're dresset
ia the conventional cap and gown am
bore pgEuants ot Austin College
Kidd Key College Carr-Burdctte Col
lleee and other Sherman schools. aa'
IL banner on which appeared the slo
gan. sherman. the Athens Of Tex
las This pennant was carried By ,
sherman Elk on bicycle skates. VII,
raced up and down the street a, good
speed
oklahoma Represented.
a lively delegation from Ada. ok
Jeanne next closely followed by TIM
band on san Antonio boosters wA,
are makine "a hard fleht for the mex
convention They carried huge pea
aau labelled San Autouio ln 1879
h Ienz iue ol decorated esfs caFrs
ue Dallas Eihe ard their laaie'
,am uaU l the parade
Corpus GArisa is muNiue the O. IA