MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
Mooseheart Service
By LOUIS W. HARVISON, Mooseheart Student

THE WATSON CHILDREN
be enough to eat and a place to sleep.
On September 12th, 1918, the mother, Mrs. Lydia Watson, contracted the influenza and died after an illness of a week. The children were now left both fatherless and motherless and to add to the distress the older brother was out of work. Soon two of the younger children were sent to an orphanage. The older brothers realized the danger of the younger children being ?,eperated and appealed to the Loyal Order of Moose for help.
Gillespie Lodge No. 978 secured admittance blanks for the six children and sent them to the Mooseheart Governors for their approval. They were admitted as students on May 3, 1919, and arrived, at Mooseheart on May 5, 1919. They are: Thomas Elliot Watson, age 12; Otis Henry Watson, age 9; Emma iHice, age 7; John Arthur age 6 and Annabelle, age 3.
A year has passed and the Watson children are among the happiest at Mooseheart. The ,1older boy, Thomas, is now playing an instrument in the Junior !land and says that he’s learning how to be a cabinet maker. MOOSEHEART is a place where boys and girls are given a chance to develop themselves, and thru its undying efforts is turning out clean and respectable young men and women, who will be a success in life.
MOOSEHEART Service means protection of your loved ones from Ignorance and Poverty. It means that the widowed mother will have a place to sta^ with her children, and that they will receive the proper mental, physical and moral teachings. Many people think they can protect their families from want by heavy endowments and insurances. Some people pay as much as fifty dollars a year for the remainder of their natural life. The net returns at the time of death are probably ten thousand dollars. Did you ever stop to realize what an incomplete sum ten thousand dollars is when it comes to giving your children a thoro education ?
MOOSEHEART trains your children for life and it costs but two dollars a year!
Brother Thomas Watson was a charter member in good standing of Gellespie, (111.) Lodge No. 978. He had a large family of a wife and ten children. He worked as a coal miner and with the help of his two older sons and daughter was able to care for the family in a proper manner.
While working in the mine on August 12th, 1918 an explosion occured and Brother Watson Was instantly killed. This was a serious blow to the large family and the two older sons and the daughter worked very hard that there might
THE HENDRIX CHILDREN
in the ranks with other numbers, that once used to be happy little boys and girls. Each day they marched from their work to their meal of mush and milk and beans.
Some orphanages are a little different from the old time slave holding markets. Few people realize that there, brothers and sisters are torn apart from each other, just as the little child was torn from the mother's breast in the slave holding days, and placed out in the homes of strangers, and .in some cases, never see each other again.
The Hendrix children were about to be distributed among families when Bloomington Lodge No. 1081 received notice of it. They were withdrawn from the orphanage and the lodge acted as their guardians. In the meantime applications were secured for their admittance to MOOSEHEART. The Mooseheart Governors considered the Hendrix case to be quite serious and so the children were admitted as students
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ROTHER Charles C. Hendrix was a member in good and regular standing of Bloomington, (Ind.) Lodge No. 1081 and had been a member for several years. His occupation was that of a store keeper. He possessed a loving wife and three children.
On January 7th, 1918, Brother Hendrix died from the Influenza and left his wife and children without any material support. Bloomington Lodge No. 1081 paid all funeral benefits and gave Brother Hendrix a proper burial. This sudden death was a great blow to the little family and it fared hard with them.
To keep the wolf from the door Mrs. Hendrix went to work as a laundress with a salary of ten dollars a week. The long hours and hard work in the hot, stuffy laundry soon undermined her health and on May 26th, she died as an easy victim of the Influenza.
Almost immediately the children were transferred to an orphanage. There, they were given a number, donned uniforms and were placed