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field Lodge which had run down to almost nothing. By Col. Rucker coming out here and a new set of officers appointed, a new place selected to meet and getting in some of the best citizens, this Lodge bids fair to become a healthy and prosperous Lodge in this beautiful “Forest City.” March 12th a large class will be initiated and their new hall is to be dedicated by Col. Rucker.
What is most needed is to have some of the Supreme Officers or some one representing them to visit the Lodges occasionally and make the membership feel that they are remembered. They all want to see Rodney Brandon. But few Lodges in this state have been visited except by Col. Rucker whose words of good cheer and instruction have been encouraging and received with much pleasure. We hope he will come often for I know it will help us supervisors in our work.
We shall soon have a meeting of Ill-Io Legion No. 121 in Keokuk. Looking forward to these meetings always stirs up enthusiasm. I do hope that these Legion meetings in the future will be conducted on a higher plane. I refer more particularly to the entertainment features.
Frank M. Higgins, District Supervisor
Yours in P. A. P. Joseph A. Casey.
Galesburg, 111.—After having been with Col. Rucker, District Supervisor, for two years, he wished Galesburg Lodge No. 800 on to me last August. When we took hold of this Lodge we found a bankrupt treasury, there being only $3.70 in it, and a lot of indebtedness for sick, accident and death claims, rent, etc. We found but four members in good standing.
That fearless champion, “Daddy Rucker,” who never falters at hard things to do, did the head work and under his guidance, I have by persistent efforts, reorganized the Lodge and built their membership up to about 200. Col. Rucker was fortunate in appointing the new officers. The Dictator, L. W. Sauter, wholesale and retail hardware dealer, is one of the many successful business men in Galesburg and is an ideal man for the Dictator of the Lodge. He is respected and loved by everyone who knows him. Since the organization of Ill-Io Legion No. 121 in this district, we have held three very successful meetings and it is doing a great deal of good for the Lodges. Our next meeting will be held in Keokuk, Iowa.
Within two weeks Mrs. Anna Dickerson and Mrs. Dan Huff will institute a Woman’s Legion Chapter here
Celebration, furnished me by Bro. C. M. Raphun and his committee, to be held in conjunction with our international convention at Mooseheart, June next. Count on me for co-operation. H. P. Rucker, District Supervisor, Headquarters, 64 W. Randolph St., Chicago.
Keokuk, Iowa.—I have been in the Organization Department in Illinois under Col. H. P. Rucker, District Supervisor, for nearly three years. He sent me out here about two months ago. I find that many of the Lodges in this state have had little or no supervision for some time. I am making my headquarters in keokuk, the
most wide-awake little city in southeastern Iowa. The Lodge has a fine set of officers and a live membership ready to assist a supervisor in building up the membership with the best material in the city. They have set out to get 1,000 new members. Mayor Lofton is a real live wire fraternalist, and will go the limit for the Moose. There is the best fraternal spirit manifested between the different fraternal Orders in this city, that I have ever observed. If any one of them desires to pull off any publication demonstration, each and every one is ready to co-operate.
I am also trying to build up Fair-
EAEL C. HASEY District Supervisor
direct from the men in the field, so I immediately wrote to my deputies to submit their contributions which you will find below.
In my opinion the results o fthe efforts of the department in my field are flattering, taking into account the flu epidemic and the unsettled business conditions since the armistice was signed.
As soon as business gets settled down to normal conditions, and our Moose boys who went to the front return and get employment, I believe our efferots in looking after them in France and their families at home will be appreciated so much that our
Order will soon double in membership. Every Lodge should see that then-soldier boys find employment immediately upon their return. As loyalty to the Order and patriotism to our country has so well been demonstrated by the Moose, J have no fear but that our returning soldier members will be properly cared for.
One thing is certain that more harmony exists in the Lodges than ever before and as a rule they are in better financial condition. Our slogan is for One Million Members and a Greater Mooseheart.
I am more than pleased over the plans for a national Peace-Victory
N. WALDO KENNEDY District Supervisor
ternity that I will be an active one, and I may say that the activity of Toledo Lodge demonstrates that the membership of such men as Judge O’Donnell of the Juvenile Court of the city of Toledo surely has had effects.
Stop, Look and Listen! Delegates, past dictators and members are going to invade Mooseheart the week of June 22nd and I want to notify all subordinate Lodges throughout the world that think they have old and active members to bring them along for the young members contest as Grand Rapids Lodge is going to have as their personal representative to look after the welfare of this Lodge a loyal and active member by the name of Brother Charles S. Bendell, who was initiated into Grand Rapids Lodge on the second day of January, 1919, and lacking four days of being-one hundred and one years of age. So all members be prepared to meet this grand old Brother at the convention. I consider this old gentleman not only the oldest living member, but the best living member as he is talking Moose, Moose all the time and creates results as he has written up personally three applications since the night of his initiation.
Now you older members in mem-
W. Lee Provol, District Supervisor
bership, take copy of this. Go out in your district and do the same, as the most important thing in this great fraternity is good, clean, moral members and it is up to you and me to get them. You ask real estate men why one piece of land or one piece of property is more valuable than the other and the answer is that the piece that costs the most money is caused by the larger number of people passing the door, and so it is with this great fraternity. If we all want to make this the world’s greatest and largest let us begin now and pledge ourselves and get at least one or two applications before the convention begins at Mooseheart and in doing so we will be able to step off the train and step on to our soil and say “I have been a factor during the past ninety days in assisting to make this great fraternity one million strong.”
ILLINOIS-IOWA.
(By H. P. Rucker and Associates).
In compliance with your request to furnish you a few lines for the April number of the Mooseheart Magazine, regarding the work of the Organization Department in my territory, Illinois and Iowa, I thought the readers of the Magazine would prefer to hear