Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-07-12 | Page 1 | Greatest in History

Greatest In history 11 I tol Detroit Mich mch July 11 What IB is said to be the biggest ot annual national re reunion reunion reunion union In the history of ot the Elks go got fully Cuny under way today with hundreds hundred of or additional delegations still sun arriving arriving arrivIng ing Tonight marked the tho formal open lag ing In of oC the grand l lodge at the Lyceum theatre Senator J 1 C Burrows of or Michigan Governor Warner and Mayor Philip welcomed the dele dete delegates delegates gates gata In to behalf of or the state stae and the city Reports of the grand nd officers will be berend b berend rend and the election of or officers taken up at the first official session of or the grand ledge led e tomorrow The present membership of 01 the order I is made mad up of or 1206 li egen The Thenet Thenet Thenet net increase In membership during the year ear was dispensations dispensation having been ben Issued to tC new lodges lodge Only one lodge surrendered Its charter Brooklyn lodge No 22 hen has the largest membership 2841 New York is till see sec second c cond ond with 2745 2746 Pennsylvania Is I the lending I state In having a membership of 01 37 New York Tork is le second with Since 1880 the order or 01 order der has spent In charity chari toY tho the sum of For the last lut fiscal year OfIr the total ex expenditures of or the grand lodge amount to The total a etc of or the th I grand nd lodge amount to The per J capita tax for the fh h year yield yielded I 66 and the ht total Va vat r of ot ne 1 i throughout tho the country is I