Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-07-12 | Page 2 | Greatest in History

Greatest In history Detroit Mich July TIlly 11 What Is sold said to be the biggest annual national re reunion union In the history of or tho the RUes Elks get t fully under way today with hundreds hundred of or additional delegations still WI arriving ing Tonight marked the formal open openIng opening Ing InK of the tire grand lodge at the Lyceum theatre Senator J T C Burrows of or Michigan Governor Warner Warnor and Mayor Mayer 2 r Philip welcomed the dele delegates gates in behalf of or the state and the city Reports Report of or the tho grand officers will Ivill be berend rend read and the election of or officers taken up at the first official session of Or the grand nd lodge tomorrow The present membership of or the order is in made up of or 1206 1406 ledges l d Thenet The Thenet Thenet net increase In membership during the year was 2622 dispensations dl having been Issued to t new lodges Only one lodge surrendered Its It charter Brooklyn rooklyn lodge No U z has h ha the th Urgent largest membership 2841 New York Is I see sec second ond end with 2746 Pennsylvania Is I the ending state In having bavins II a membership of or 2728 New York is in I second with Ith Since 1880 tho the or order orl order der l r has spent In I tho the sum of or For the lost last fiscal year the t o total ex or expenditure of or the tho grand ledge amount to fo J The Th total asKot of or th the grand lodge amount to The Tb TbT per T r capita tax ax fr far f the tb year r yielded and the hl total value v val hll ae of or tit I throughout tho the country is