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1907 · South Bend, from Howard's History of St. Joseph County, vol. 1 (boundary baseline); Osceola share stated
The leg's baseline is a count, and the count is Howard's. Timothy Edward Howard's A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1907), vol. 1, carries the county seat's fraternal roster at 1907, and it is parsed here order by order, as the row directs. Knights of Pythias: Crusade Lodge No. 14; the Uniform Rank's South Bend Company No. 12; and Moonlight Temple, Rathbone Sisters No. 255 — the Pythian Sisters under their period name (art-55-5). Elks: South Bend Lodge No. 235, B.P.O.E., seated in the Elks Temple on W. Colfax Ave. Tribe of Ben Hur: Courts No. 41 and No. 211. Ancient Order of Hibernians: Division No. 1, founded January 1885. Catholic bodies: the St. Joseph County Federation of Catholic Societies, and the Knights of Columbus, South Bend Council No. 553 (art-55-8). Maccabees and their kin: Pixley Division No. 2, U.R.K.O.T.M.; South Bend Tent No. 1, K.O.T.M.; and the Modern Maccabees' St. Joe Valley Tent No. 1108 (art-55-7). Order of Owls: lately established in the city in Howard's telling, under John W. Talbot — the one officer-grade name the reached text names, printed here because the row asks for officers and Howard's reached sections name few. Red Men: Montauk Tribe No. 426, and Leota Council No. 44 of the Degree of Pocahontas (art-55-6). Royal Arcanum: South Bend Council No. 347. And at the roster's edge, the bodies Howard lists without lodge numbers in the reached text: Patriarchs and Patricians, the Protected Home Circle, the Sons of Herman, the Turn Verein, the Polish Turners, and Sokol Polski — the German and Polish gymnastic-fraternal line of the city's immigrant wards. The roster's Masonic and Odd Fellows heads stand in Howard's earlier sections, reached here only in part (art-55-3, art-55-4): the complete officer roll of the 1907 census is settled only by Howard's page images themselves (archive.org), read whole, and this article claims the roster, not the full officer list. Osceola's share of the 1907 census is absence at census strength: Howard's roster is a city roster, no Osceola body stands in it, and the town's first dated lodge record remains what the banked register gives — the Masonic exemption ruled in February 1957, fifty years after Howard.
Sources: Howard, A History of St. Joseph County (1907), vol. 1, fraternal sections (LDS Genealogy transcription of the reached parts); the banked this history IRS register record for Osceola.