The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-07-01
Moose En- Masse Leave Kenosha
for Modern Utopia at MOOseheart

Again, page the pilgrims. kenoSna
Moose became that on Saturday after
noon when they journeyed en- masse
to the sanctum sanctorum, the holy OF
holies for all loyal members of the
order.
Somewhere between Elgin and Auro-
"a, down in Illinois, is the place Ponce
de Leon was looking for when he
found Florida, the fountain of eternal
youth. 1t isn't a bubbling spring,
flashing in the sunlight; it's eight
hundred and fourteen 814 pairs Of
sparkling eyes belonging to as many
laughing children, who, were it not for
their five hundred thousand fairy god
fathers, would be just orphans with
out home to go to-" 1t is called
Mooseheart.
Being a sort of shrine, it is visited
occasionally by its fairy godfathers.
Forty-two Of them, members of the
Kenosha lodge of the Loyal Order Of
Moose, accompanied by their wives,
children and friends, one hundred and
thirty-three in all, made such little
journey sometime between Saturday
afternoon and Sunday evening.
They were the pilgrims.
In motor cars properly labeled and
led by Iner Turkelson, they paraded
Market Square and the main streets Of
the business district of Kenosha be-
fore hitting the trail for Mooseheart
Having left the SINCE band at the
corner of Sheridan road and Market
street they proceeded via Diamond
Lake, Darlington, Lake Zurich, Elgin,
st. Charles and Batavia, through
clouds of dust and avenues of willows
to the green stiffness Of their shrine,
home in the heart of the hills.
Andrlike the pilgrims of 1920, the
pilgrims of 1920 had their difficulties.
They called them by names unknown
to Puritans- blow-outs, punctures, and
the like, emitting the French All were
promptly and efficiently handled by
the Kamm Brothers trouble truck"
which brought up the rear of the mo-
tor cavalcade
Like other pilgrims, too, they were
led by cloud-of dust.
The Mayor Meets Maud Muller.
Suob GHe same Inc dusty CIHll De-
came romance-road at harrington,
where Mayor Joachim assumed the
role Of the Judge in a Maud Muller
episode. He didn't "stroke his horses
chestnut name" as that dignitary did
but he leaned nonchalantly on the
hood Of his flying Mercury" when
along came Maud in the person of a
1 hoJ1 IL
corsage cluster of roses and alyssum.
Since the cars of the caravan were
stopped just then a wag among the
pilgrims began to sing "Here comes
the bride" Another suggested that
someone congratulate her on behalf Of
the local Moose.
"You tell her, mayor; I'm a little
hoarse." Cts good if you say the
words right)
This from the wag who had started
the wedding march.
The mayor told her. She listened at
tentively, yea, b1ushingly; then an
swered venomousIy: "Say, you can't
kid me; I've been kidded by experts"
In the poem the judge erode slowly
down the lane" Having been born in
a motor-age the mayor could make
better time. He did. He left the dusty
trail entirely and wasn't shen again
until supper tipe, four hours later.
Then he insisted that Maud's remark
had been intended for the wag who
started the wedding march.
Which ended the episode.
A Snapshot of MoOseheart.
About an hour before the mayor de-
| livered his ultimatum the motorists
caught their first glimpse Of Moose
heart; the Fox River winding blackly
through fringy trees and islands;
white tents, that were to be their quar-
ters for the night, along the twilit
shore; and behind them, gay but not
gaudy, rising above masses of shrub
berry and lawns polka-dotted with flow
ers, the red and grey buildings that
were more than houses, homes for al
most thousand orphans.
Mooselets Like the Movies.
Somewhat later after dust had been
literally scraped off of coats, hats, and
faces, and after supper had been eaten
with greater relish for being late, the
pilgrims caught their first glimpse of
"the kiddies."
They were at the movies in Roose-
| welt Memorial Hall; eight hundred and
fourteen Of them, not close-cropped
like conyicts, or uniformed so as to be
just pattern in bingham or duck, but
each Of them becomingly dressed in
clothes that he or she had "picked
out" at the general store and with his
or her hair coifed or cut in a style
most appropriate to his or her type of