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The remaining orders of the floor's census print as a single documented pattern: North Liberty men and women held them in other towns' lodges. The obituary record is explicit and repeated — Fassett was 'a former member of the Moose Lodge in South Bend'; Robert Powers belonged to 'the Moose Lodge in Plymouth'; Mary Pavey's auxiliary memberships ran to 'the Loyal Order of Moose Plymouth Lodge 741' alongside her North Liberty VFW auxiliary line; a Tyner Odd Fellows line (IOOF Lodge 821, Tyner) recurs in the township's obituaries. No Elks lodge, Eagles aerie, Moose lodge, Knights of Columbus council or Odd Fellows lodge seated in North Liberty itself was found in any source read — the town was big enough for Masons and two veterans' posts, and its other fraternal life commuted. The orders-founded-here test is likewise negative: no national or state order was founded at North Liberty, and no home office ever sat here. The color-line test prints at its honest limit: no parallel-order lodge (the Elks of the World or a Prince Hall lodge) seated in North Liberty was found in sources read, and the township's documented population history offers no base from which one would be expected in the record searched; the absence is printed as an absence in the sources, with the settler named — the Grand Lodge's Prince Hall counterpart rolls and the IBPOEW lodge directory for St. Joseph County.