Show PRIZE BADGES OF REUNION If there were a prize offered for the tho most mORt unique badge bade worn at nt the Elks' Elks reunion It would have undoubtedly been won by Adelbert M. M M M. Dewey of or Tacoma No o. o lit Mr 11 Dewey Dewcy wore won the tue same sam badge at Milwaukee last year It has three bars connected d by chains with nn an o'clock 11 dial at nt the foot fool It Is of oC solid silver liver and Mr r. Dewey has b been ri p-ri offered any six h badges worn nt at this thiN convention for It II Hc would not not exchange it f for r all nil of oC the badges put together The wa way Mr Dewe Dewey came by hy this badge was in itself peculiar When Then he arrived at nt the Milwaukee reunion from Quincy Ill where he lie happened to be he he found that there there was only o oe one e man from tron there Past Exalted Ruler M. M W. W Ia Lawrence wrence Mr I r. r Lawrence wore the official lod lodge c bad badge e. e 11 t he only onto had the one he wore Mr 11 Dewey ey felt the necessity of ot having haIng a a. bulge badge e representative e of his lodge so flO he h had d one made by a a. local Jeweler The three bars read rend B un P. P O. O O. O lit Ya Washington Weathington and then comes the clock with the hands pointing pointing- to 1111 11 Mr 11 D Dr De e wey Is a l agent of the United States Department of oC Labor with headquarters In Baltimore lIe He came here for the convention and will leave shortly for Pyramid Colo CoIn where his law brother has a ranch This i i- In the country where Pre President Roosevelt killed h his hla mountain lions and Mr lr Dewey Dewer believes that he ml may bring home a a. few lion skins himself He Is a LL relative of Admiral Dewey and has written a u. book on the Dewey family In June Tune 1899 he delivered a f e In tho the Salt Lake L. Tabernacle on the life and achievements of or the h hero o of Manila bay Mr III Dewey says Nas that as a a. Government agent he has much traveling tra to do clo In the last five fi years he lIa says pays s 's he has vl visited no less than 13 15 lodges and he has never yet et seen a a. liner clubhouse than that of ot r- r No o. o S 8 |