The Lamar register., 1921-05-25
ELKS CELEBRATE
Biggest Turnout of the Year Enjoys
Lodge Work and Athletic Smok-
er in Honor of Sixth
Birthday.

O. Elks, and visiting brothers were
present last night for the big ami
versary celebration. Six years ago on
NAV "a, 1915, Lamar Lodge No. 1913
was instituted with fifty members and
the growth since has been remarkable.
It had grown to one hundred and fifty
members on its second birthday, but
then the war stopped all lodge work
and the younger members enlisted ana
the older ones devoted their whole at
tention to war work until the winter
of 1918. Then the flu epidemic came
and lust little over two years ago
the lodge commenced work again with
only about one hundred members. To-
day it has over five hundred and the
hall is crowded at every meeting. Last
night the room was simply jammed
with overflow meetings in the club
room and ante rooms. The member
ship is scattered over a half dozen
counties but was present fifty per cent
strong nevertheless. Eads, which has
a good per cent Of membership of
Lamar Lodge broke all records by
showing up 100 per cent strong.
The celebration began promptly at
six o'clock with a big dinner served
cafeteria style in which over two hun
dred were fed all they could eat with
out any hitch or trouble. It was ac-
complished in less than an hour and
everything ready for lodge to open.
The principal work Of the lodge was
the initiation of class Of eight. can
didates as follows: Lon Filoon and
C. T. Boyd, Lamar; F. A. Dutton. A.
b. Counts, w. f. Yore, ]. L. Forker,
C. T. Edwards and S. w. Baber OF
Cheyenne Wells. The lodge team con-
tinues to improve in its work and each
new class gets the initiation ceremony
a little more intensely implanted in
their memories and on their persons.
At the close Of lodge the members
and visiting brothers repaired to the
Victory Theatre, where the stage had
been prepared for an athletic smoker
The first bout on the program was
a four round go for the 125 pound
class between Fidge Allen and Jesse
Davis, both Of Lamar. The boys mix
ed IL up with vengeance every minute
of the time and were given hearty
cheers of approval at the close. The
Judges awarded the bout to Allen on
points.
The second number on the card
proved the surprise Of the evening. II
was the 40 pound class and was he
tween Add Hall Of Lamar and Ja
Twillinger of Cheyenne Wells. Tho
latter has been putting long strin%
of boxers out by the X. o. route ar
most of TIE knowing ones figured
him for the winner. Hall however,
instead Of being scared at his reputa-
ton mixed it with him from the
sound Of the gong and got in the first
haymaker. and got the edge which he
kept throughout the bout winning by
wider margin than any other of II
contestants.
Another four round bout was fought
between Baldy McLain of. Fort Lyon
and Eddie Pullen of Oregon. Missouri.
This was the evenest contest of the
evening and both boys put up good
hard scrap and were up and coming
every minute of the time. It was the
only draw of the card.
The main event was a six round
bout between frankie Dean of Den
yer and Dewey Smith of Eads, and
again the knowing ones got a big
surprise. Dean won as they expect
ed but instead of the easy time pre-
dicted for him, he had hot job on
his hands and had to take lot OF
punishment and work to the limit
right up to the last sound of the gong.
Several times in both the fifth and
sixth rounds it looked as If Dean
could win by knock out, but each
time Dewey recovered and carried the
fight right to him. The decision was
in favor of Dean and he earned it.
Matt Ober presided rs official an
nouncer. R. Cook Of Eads acted as
referee and gave fine satisfaction. DIR.
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