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Later orders; the Prince Hall and klavern tests printed as tests — one positive, one split

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Tests run November 2026 · South Bend (boundary positives); Osceola/Penn negative throughout

Pointers. The Loyal Order of Moose stands in the metro fraternal directory as Loyal Order of Moose No. 741 (South Bend metro) — pointer size, as the row directs. No Eagles aerie for this ground was found in the directories reached; the pointer is printed as a not-found. Osceola's own later body is banked already: the Lions Club of art-55-1's register line (ruled March 1966; GAP-O10-C3 bounds its continuity). The Prince Hall test — positive at the boundary, negative on this ground. The row anticipated a negative, and the test as run does not return one for the county: the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Indiana (organized 16 September 1856) seats St Peters Lodge No. 31 in South Bend — P.O. Box 4454, South Bend, in the Grand Lodge's own lodge list, meeting the first and third Tuesdays; the IRS-derived directory record gives the lodge at 1519 Linden Ave, South Bend, its exemption established March 1984. The two grand lodges' recognition is in conflict in the sources reached and prints whole: the Grand Lodge of Indiana's reference record dates mutual recognition to May 1998; a lodge-directory account dates the recognition to 2014. For Osceola and Penn Township the test is negative and is printed as one: no Prince Hall lodge seats in the town or township in the Grand Lodge's list or any record reached — the county's Prince Hall record is South Bend's, and St Peters No. 31 is its article. The klavern test — split the same way. The Ku Klux Klan kept a headquarters in South Bend — a downtown building whose third-floor window carried its illuminated cross — and on 17–19 May 1924, when the Indiana Klan under Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson rallied in the city for a parade and picnic aimed at its Catholic population, some five hundred Notre Dame students marched downtown and fought the Klan in the streets, chasing its members back to that headquarters; the episode is documented whole in Notre Dame's and the Indiana Historical Society's RESIST! exhibition record (2024–25) and in Todd Tucker's Notre Dame vs. the Klan. For Osceola and Penn Township, no klavern — no chartered local Klan unit — appears in any record reached, and the test is printed as a negative for the township with the county's positive record stated beside it, exactly as run.

Sources: Cause IQ metro fraternal directory (Moose No. 741); Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Indiana lodge list (mwphglin.org) for St Peters No. 31; NonProfitFacts IRS record for the Linden Ave address and 1984 ruling; Grand Lodge of Indiana reference record (1998) against the lodge-directory account (2014) on recognition; Notre Dame News and Notre Dame Magazine (2024) and the RESIST! exhibition record for the May 1924 clash and the South Bend headquarters.

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Source: Later orders; the Prince Hall and klavern tests printed as tests — one positive, one split, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/secret-societies/later-orders-at-pointer-size-the-prince-hall-and/