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1921
The upstairs city: Fourteen years after Howard's roster, the 1921 Polk directory lets the club city be mapped address by address, and the map is a downtown of upstairs rooms. Under "Public Buildings, Halls, Etc." the Mishawaka section lists: the Knights of Pythias Hall at 115 Lincoln Way West; the Loyal Order of Moose Hall at 214–16 South Main; the Masonic Temple at 110½ North Main; the Odd Fellows Hall at 202½ North Main; the Red Men's Hall at 109 South Main; the Army and Navy Hall on the third floor at 123 North Main; and De Meester's Hall at 546 West Sixth — a hall in the Belgian west end, at the same address the directory gives the Mishawaka Homing Pigeon Club. The societies themselves fill in the tenancy: the Knights of Columbus met at their own club rooms, 208–210 Lincoln Way West; the Catholic Foresters' courts and the Catholic Knights of America met at St. Joseph's Hall, 217 West Third; the Independent Order of Foresters' Court Mishawaka No. 1490 met in Dixon Hall at 109 South Main, the Red Men's address; the Maccabee tents met in the First National Bank building and the Knights of Pythias Hall; the Grand Army's Houghton Post met in the Odd Fellows Temple. Almost nothing in this geography survives as a hall today, but in 1921 it was the town's social plant: every order within two blocks of Main and the Lincolnway, in rooms over the stores.
The small clubs of the same page: The directory's clubs list, beside the country club carried in its own entry above, names the town's small secular clubs, and they are printed here at the size the directory gives them. The Dodge Club, at 102½ Lincoln Way East — Clayton E. Lukenback, secretary — was the club of the Dodge works' men, an employer's-town institution of the kind the big shops kept. The Forty Good Fellows Club met the first Tuesday of every month in the Mishawaka Trust Building, Dr. T. F. Seymour secretary-treasurer. The Mishawaka Homing Pigeon Club kept its loft address at 546 West Sixth. None of the three is carried further by any record reached; they stand as the directory left them, named and officered in 1921.
Sources:
- R. L. Polk & Co., South Bend City Directory, 1921, Mishawaka section — "Public Buildings, Halls, Etc.," "Associations, Circles and Clubs," and "Secret and Benevolent Societies," read first-hand.