Elks Club of Muncie, Indiana

IN CIRCLES OF ELKDOM

Muncie Degree Team Instituting New

Lodge at Hartford City.

Many Members of Local B. P. O. E. in

Attendance - Right Royal Treatment

Blackford County Metropolis - Muncie

Lodge is Growing - Novel Events Under

Contemplation.

The officers of the Muncie lodge of Elks, B. P. O. E., are instituting a new lodge in Hartford City today. The work will be continued until after this evening. The new lodge at Hartford City which has not yet been numbered will have twenty-five charter members. Every one of the charter members will be given the degree this evening.

About one dozen members of the Muncie lodge including the officers, went to Hartford City on the morning train. About twenty others have signified their intention of going there this evening. All will remain over night, returning to Muncie on the 9:45 train tomorrow morning. Those who went this morning were C. O. Grafton, James Thomas, Dan Hemingray, E. G. Clark, Charles Gough, W. L. Holmes, W. W. Brullender, Roy Hurt, F. M. Miller, F. O. Gill, John C. Gray, Exalted Ruler; J. G. Thomas, Esquire; E. G. Clark, Leading Knight; Everitt Moffitt, Loyal Knight; Everitt Moffitt, Loyal Knight; Charles Grafton, Lecturing Knight; Will Holmes, floor manager.

The Muncie team ranks with the best in the United States and the lodge at Hartford City, without doubt, will be instituted in an exemplary manner.

The Muncie guests will be treated right royally at Hartford City tonight. They are quartered at the Ingram hotel where a sumptuous banquet will be served after the institution work has been concluded.

The membership of the Muncie lodge which is already large, is expected to be greatly increased the coming winter. Several novel events are under contemplation.