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1907
The count: Timothy E. Howard's History of St. Joseph County (1907) closes its account of the city's societies with a census of the club world as it stood that year, and it is the fullest single picture of the membership city ever printed. Around the bodies given their own entries below, Howard names a ring of orders at roster size: the Knights of Pythias, in Crusade Lodge No. 14, with its Uniform Rank company, South Bend Co. No. 12, and the Rathbone Sisters' Moonlight Temple No. 255 as the women's house; the Tribe of Ben Hur, in South Bend Court No. 41 and Beech Tree Court No. 211; the Knights of the Maccabees, in South Bend Tent No. 1, Schiller Tent No. 20, and the women's hives; the Modern Maccabees in St. Joe Valley Tent No. 1108 and Hive No. 900; the Red Men, in Montauk Tribe No. 426, with Leota Council No. 44 of the Degree of Pocahontas; the Royal Arcanum, South Bend Council No. 347; the Modern Woodmen of the World and the Woodmen of the World, in Fidelity Camp No. 28, Linden Camp No. 42, and Harmony Camp No. 78, with their Woodmen Circle groves; the Order of Patricians; the Protected Home Circle; and the National Union.
The ethnic ring: The same census carries the immigrant orders in the same breath: the Sons of Herman, the Turn Verein, the Polish Turners, and "the Sokół Polski, M. R." — the Polish Falcons under the initials of Mieczysław Romanowski, whose nest has its own entry below. Howard then names the downtown social clubs in one sentence: "the Country Club of the St. Joseph Valley; the Concord Club; the Indiana Club; the La Salle Club; the Per Se Club; the Sunnyside Golf Club; the Bismarck Club; the Press Club." For most of those names, this sentence is the whole of the record reached; they are carried in their own short entry below at exactly that size.
Sources:
- Timothy E. Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Vol. I (Lewis Publishing, 1907), pp. 461–464 — the fraternal census: Knights of Pythias, Ben Hur, Maccabees, Red Men, Royal Arcanum, Woodmen, and the closing list of social clubs.
- St. Joseph County genealogical society (South Bend Area Genealogical Society), immigrant-societies page, Jim Piechorowski submissions — "M.R." as the initials of Mieczysław Romanowski.