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Service clubs, the country-club test, and the present state

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As of November 2026

The service-club class is carried in this build where the record puts it: Tri Kappa's chapter giving, itemized in the school minutes (art, band, choir, theatre, academics), is the town's best-documented service-club line, and the charities and nonprofits sections carry the rest. The country-club test is a plain negative with a golfers' footnote: no country club has ever been seated in North Liberty in any source read, and the town has no golf course of its own; the county's club golf belongs to South Bend and Mishawaka, and its public golf to the county parks — while the state park on this township's ground offers its campers everything except golf. The present state, November 2026: Lodge No. 266 on North Main, Post 365 on Reed Street and Post 1954 on Tamarack Road all stand and trade; between them they are the town's whole private-club plant — three halls, three bars, and a century of dues — and the leg closes by printing them as what the floor's grander cities would recognize instantly: the membership city, at the size a farm town builds it.

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Source: Service clubs, the country-club test, and the present state, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/private-clubs/service-clubs-the-country-club-test-and-the-present/