Show SALT LAKE IS PLACE WHERE ELKS REIGN REICH Lod Lodge Lode e No 85 83 Is Filled With Fine Pine Fino Members Welcome Here Standing today as one of ot the leading and representative civic and community In salt Lake Utah the rich th-rich famed tamed metropolis of ot th the rich Intermountain country 11 n r p J O 0 Elks Lodge Lodle No now In tie Its seventh thirty seventh record car ear enjoys a rec- rec rec ord for accomplishments that Is attention enviable and worthy ot of o much at- at at and throughout Elk Elk- Elk dom I MEMBERSHIP The history of ot Salt Shit s lt Lake Lalee City LOdge Is chiefly interesting because ot of Its 10 wealth of ot personal anecdote and membership of ot men who have achieved In commercial and professional pursuits pursuit risen to great heights In the broad field of endeavor or won their spurs spur In tho arena ot of political It Is s not a story of poetry or romance ro- ro romance ro-manc ro mance mance and yet ot running through the wondrous development of ot the sturdy organization there Is an In- In In Indefinable definable something which places Salt Lake City Utah Lodge and and its members member far tar above the com coin commonplace com commonplace Its It seven se ear of history l are arc literally cramme crammed 1 with events of ot Importance adventure adventure adventure ture ups and dow downs and the story Is more than eventful as com com com- compared compared pared with that of ot many other Il In the great Croat fraternalism ot of the Benevolent and Protective Or- Or Or Order del der of ot Elks of ot the United States ot of America ROMANCE One Ono Interested may inquire ot of almost any of ot the time old-time mem mcm members hers bers ers for something out of ot the or- or ordinary ordinary or ordinary and In return get ret an car full from which to weave an In- In interesting In cloth of ot romance roman co based upon actual happ happenings events that are semi-historical semi in the tho his history his his- history history tory of ot the th boys boy of ot the lain un- un metropolis who vho have havo don dead much to bring brine Into such favorable standing On One need not go BO far tar to search for tor sensational semi senS incidents with which to start and finish colorful and exciting narrative And during It all as good Rood 01 old 1 No o Sj 85 8 has passed along the high high- highway way way of ot the organizations progress there thero has haSe been no lack of ot the tho cs- cs es essentials of ot operation co-operation and bar har harmony har- har harmony mony mon grit and backbone one which In Inevitably In- In inevitably enter Into the career ota ofa of ot a successful Elks lodge lodee and It is isto isto to this phase phaRo of ot Its splendid exist exist- existence existence ence that the historian must turn In the effort to penetrate beyond the curt curtain ln of ot years which separate sepa- sepa separate sepa separate rate the birth ot of Salt Lake Lak City Lodge from the present G GROWTH Its annals recite steady consist consist- consistent consistent consistent ent growth crowth and development From Froman Froman Froman an infant lodge o 0 some tome thirty sev en years ago ao with a membership or of but a few stalwart bucks buck the has grown and become one ot of the hustling hard hard- hardworking hardworking hard working factors leading In aid of oC all worthy civic and community projects In the great Mormon City and In the rich ter- ter territory ter territory surrounding creating a a nam name for tor that Is pointed to with pardonable pride by Its hundreds ot of members and by the thousands ts ot of Elks of ot the six lodges ot of Utah TRUE SPIRIT The true Elk spirit has ever beEn exercised here with that potent A 1 dominating Influence asserting tInG issei-tInG It- It itself y It-y J self gently c but firmly when pe- pe periods pe periods ot of o stress and storm or Inter inter- intervals Intervals vals vais of ot doubt and discouragement as assailed the future o the lodge There have bees o bee sore ore trials and troubles to obstruct the path ot of success especially during durine the ear ear- earlier ear earlier lier periods when for tor a 0 time the tho Star ot of Hope seemed teemed dimmed 1 broken confidence In individuals Individual and misplaced trusts In ii In other places have jarred the even tenor ot of existence But these petty prejudices have hao all been swept away and almost forgotten by the older clear thinking members and this lodge has been enabled to maintain the tho even progress of growth crowth and development which has lias brought broucht It into greater leadership tor for good and placed fO No 85 SS on 01 the pinnacle ot of with Its Us member member- membership membership ship practIcing and belIeving In till iho glorious precepts ot of t our Order Charity Charity Ju Justice BrotherlY Love and Fidelity Fidelity- tho Fidelity the corner cornu tones lonES ot of o the Benevolent and Pro Iro Pro Pro- Protective Protective Order of ot Elks ot of the United r States State tates of ot America r I The high quality and personnel ot of the pio membership ot of Salt Lak Lake Lako I City Lodge egan tegan reran right and has hJo since so continued Like a tiny Uny thread ot of gold cold Its fellowship runs through the th civic life lIC ot of C tho the cit city unIting In to a common brotherhood the tho varying and best types of ot cill- cill citi citizenship A never n circle ot of congenial and helpful compan compan- companIonship companionship companionship has been has been upheld with mer mer- mer- mer merchants merchants chants ts bankers lawyers doctors mining operators manufacturers auto dealer dealers Industrial earners leaders wage earners and even newspaper newspapermen newspapermen men and publishers meeting on common ground to exchange Ideas and cement the tho ties tics of ot brotherly love and lasting friendship TUB THE nEGI BEGINNING Referring to the turn of o the 1 ot or fraternal fate which brought about the tho Inception ot of Salt Lake City Lodge No 85 5 the th his his- historian historian his historian torian finds the following Devout Elders ot of o early day Alex Alex- Alex Alex- Alexander Alexander ander Mitchell Ferd Ford J Fabian Charlie Frank Shelley Bill Murphy W C Pavey A J Gunnell E B B D Critchlow Hoyt Sherman and F N Shelton were the tho men amen behind tho the guns cuns who had much to do with the start Mitchell was Il a f that time Gen gen- cral cen-cral oral eral agent arent for tor the tho Chicago MI Mil Mil- Milwaukee Mil Milwaukee waukee d St Paul railroad one ot of the tho most popular railroaders railroader ot of limo tho west and a a rea rca mixer who It seems seems was one and of ot the originators ot of the lodge During the th course ot of conversations among these men marked by th the usual platitudes and civilities the th subject ot of establishing lishing an Elks lodge In Salt Lake City wa was broached and Informally discussed The group croup ot or pioneers became so impressed with the Idea I th thata that t ta a dinner party party was staged later and shortly thereafter a a peti- peti petition peti petition tion llon was placed J In l circulation for tor charter members |