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Show NO WORD FROM ABSENT ELKS; CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL SUGGESTED Over at the Elks' club the members are seriously contemplating tho establishment estab-lishment of a correspondence school. The idea is to promote tho now almost obsolete obso-lete art of letter writing, particularly among the officers of the lodge, many of whom are now In California on tho big excursion. Since the antlercd herd loft a week ago today not a letter has been received by the acting officers, A. G. Mackenzie and Lou Kabn. and there Is a growing fooling and belief among the "home guard" that Exalted Ruler Jamca AV.. Collins and Secretary A. "W. Itay-bo'uld Itay-bo'uld tjuit school some years too soon. Two telegrams wore received from members or the delegation at Los Angeles, Ange-les, Thursday, but there is a. strong suspicion sus-picion In the mind of Mr. Mackenzie and his companion in silence, Mr. Kahn, that the messages were . dlctatod to' a messenger boy and wore not written by the persons whoso signatures wore affixed af-fixed to tho telegrams. Jt was also ru- morcd about tho club Friday that somo of the officers of tho local lodge were unable to Indorse their tickots and were put off the "purple speclnl" at somo desert water tank. Meantime the club is in a chaotic Condition. Acting Exalted lluler Mackenzie Mac-kenzie has been chilled to tho marrow since "The Terrlblo Frost." and has acted in a most cold-blooded way, dismissing dis-missing practically all tho Important committees and generally causing disruption. dis-ruption. One of the most familiar figures fig-ures about Ihc club was summarily ejected Friday and' has been denied rc-admlssion, rc-admlssion, despite the protestations of a delegation of prominent members headed head-ed by "Uncle Dan" Nickum. Mackenzie and Kahn have acted in an extremely arbitrary manner, in the opinion opin-ion of many club members, but as James "W. Collins, exalted ruler, has made no protest, II is feared that ho cannot read, let -alone write. |