The Lamar register., 1919-05-28
Io7 CANDIDATES TAKE DEGREES
One of the Largest Glasses Ever
known in This Section of the
Country Is Initiated Into the
Order by the La Junta
Team.

For Just a little spell last Thursday
evening there was CONSERVATION in La
mar when it started to rain real live.
ly and kept it up for several minutes
The city was in full gala decorations
for the coming of the hordes of Elks,
and it looked like all might be spoiled,
but it soon stopped with no damage
whatever to anything but the water
wagon. On it the colors ran together
so it looked just about right-as if re-
covering from a long souse.
Friday morning broke with beauti-
full clear sky and it was an ideal day
throughout. The crowds soon began
to gether and the waiting candidates
began to arrive at the club rooms and
receive their yellow tag decoration.
When they rcappeared on the streets
things began to happen instnnter ii
not sooner. The patrol wagon with a
complete band of Ellls police and a
specially prepared and decorated am
bulance got busy on them and lucky
was the guy that escaped without feel
ing the hand cuffs and hearing the
Judge say guilty, put him to work" "
Anything from selling lead pencils to
sweeping cracks was in order. OF
course there were some variations in
the regular program and the worm
turned sometimes. Bob McGrath took
two victims out to the country and
but let Bob tell it himself. 1t was sup
posed to be open season on candidates
only. but occasionally the game laws
get violated, don'tcherknow.
The stub from the west brought n
big delegation from La Junta including
their crack drill team. Also there were
many visitors from Trinidad and many
others from L. Junta, Rocky Ford,
Pueblo, and other points came in autos.
Ivy Baldwin, the veteran balloonist,
made a splendid ascent and drop in the
morning landing in the same lot from
which the ascent was made. In the
afternoon he made another fine ascen-
sion but the wind carried him con-
siderable distance west before he drop
ped.
At noon there was big free lunch
served at the club rooms for all the
visiting Elks and candidates.
The big parade was organized ana
started on its way about 2:3O in the
afternoon, and was all that the COM
mittee had been promising for the past
several weeks. 1t was led by the TT.
Lyon band followed by the La Junta
lodge and other visiting Elks about
one hundred strong and then came
about the same number from Lamar
lodge. A long line of decorated autos
and floats followed, and then came the
famous jazz band leading the process
sion of candidates and the marvellous
display of the worlds greatest mon
strosities. There were lO7 candidates
present out of the class of l26, and
they made a line almost as long as the
members themselves. In order To
properly place the candidates Sheriff
Downing and Judge Kinkaid as re-
representatives. of the majesty OF the
law had been handcuffed and placed
in miniature jails on trucks, and the
rest of the victims ranged from PLAIN
footmen to Ed Leigh as the beautitul
snake charmer. The parade was more
than A mile and half long and every
foot interesting.
At the close of the parade the mem
bers repaired at once to the 'ous'
room in the Fraternal Temple wher'
the solemn ceremonies of properly
branding would-be Elk were per
formed on Speaker Allyn Cole Geo
Harper and j. C. Fuller for the oene'
fit of the entire class, and the cere'
mony was performed in such artistic
style that all who witnessed it-and es
pecially the gentlemen mentioned