ELKS, BENEVOLENT AND PRO

group TECTIVE ORDER OF, a fraternal or-|in ganization in the United States, founded | Great in New York in 1868 by the members of | 360 a pre-existing society, known as ‘The Fiji Jolly Corks." The Grand Lodge was | incorporated in 1871 and empowered to|@nd form branch lodges. Membership is} the open to all white males of good moral | character over the age of twenty-one, | Pop. Members may form branch lodges only | islands in cities with a population over 5,000, | at the last geitonal convention of the | Exuce order, held in antic y, N. J., on July 11, 1922, it was reported that’ the| membership stood then at approximately | \:* 850,000, these being found principally Bee) in New York, 70,862; Pennsylvania, | POP66,793; California, 49,995, and Ohio,] 49,066. The biggest lodge was that of|can Brooklyn, N. Y., with a membership of | was 10,328. In 1921 the organization dis-|man’ bursed a charity fund amounting to|in 1895, $2,044,218. ty for othe ‘ Wage or 9 was Inches 28 Sask | She - gee Dutch,: 27. are chant OR XLLA (d. 588), 1st king of | has the Deirans after tite pehegeyt he ral New the Bernicians 559. E. was also the name| and <4 ae, Baron king fl. 477-515. 5 and of a| Public his orthumbrian exploits against king the d. Dares, 867, famed for Eng.