Maryland, Delaware, and District of Columbia Association Meet

The Fourth Annual Convention of the Mary land, Delaware, and District of Columbia Elks Association was held recently at Ocean City, Md. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, P. J. CaUan, Washington, D. C., Lodge No. 15; First Vice-President, Francis V. Staub, Frederick, Md., Lodge No. 684; Second Vice-President, William U. McCready, Annapolis, Md., Lodge No. 622; Third Vice-President, W. H. Bovey, Hagerstown, Md., Lodge No. 378; Secretary, John E. Lynch, Washington, D. C., Lodge No. 15; Treasurer, K. E. Young, Hagerstown, Md., Lodge No. 37&. Trustees: G. R. Daisy, Cumberland, Md., Lodge No. 63; Samuel H. De Hoff, Towson, Md., Lodge No. 469; V. L. B. Williams, Salisbury, Md., Lodge No. 817; W. L. Hamann, Wilming ton, Del., Lodge No. 307. The Association, through its Committee on Social and Community Welfare, has completed plans for the erection of a suitable memorial tablet to President Warren G. Harding, to be erected on the spot where he addressed the residents of the Elks National Home at Bedford, Va., just prior to his inauguration as President. The cost of the memorial is to be borne by the individual members of the Subordinate Lodges within the Association, each Lodge appointing a committee for this purpose. Each member is asked to make a small contribution, not less than twenty-five cents and not more than $5.00 toward the memorial, which will not exceed $2,500 in cost. Lodges within the Association have been asked to send their contributions to E. H. Neumeyer, Jr., Treasurer Harding Memorial Fund, P. O. Bos 307, Washington, D. C.

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