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In the cities of this county's record, 1924 has names: Leonard, Murray, the Harmony Four — dance orchestras whose bills survive in the larger towns' papers. The audit ordered the 1920s read for Walkerton's equivalents, band by band.Walkerton Independent's 1920s run whole — it stands in Hoosier State Chronicles and on the society's microfilm, beyond the reach of the sources open — and it does not invent the roster that reading would produce. What the reached record holds is printed, and it is structural rather than nominal: the rooms existed. Bender's Hall — the upper story of Jacob Bender's brick store block, the town's hall in Chapman's 1880 census, with the Odd Fellows' hall in the same building — and the opera house of 1901 are the town's documented public rooms of the dance era's opening decades, and the Lincoln Theatre of 1916–17 (H. A. Giles, proprietor) is its picture house; school dances stand inside the 1965 yearbook's social record ("Empty dance floor at noon," its foreword sighs), and the school's own "Business Band" of the same book (article #188) is the one named dance-adjacent ensemble in the reached record — a school band, not a professional orchestra. No professional dance orchestra is named for a Walkerton room in any source reached, and the three names of the test were checked as claims: none of Leonard, Murray or the Harmony Four is documented in Walkerton in the record reached, and none is printed here as a Walkerton band. The article closes as a named gap, not a roster.
Sources: Chapman (1880) and Polk 1916–17 (Bender's Hall; Lincoln Theatre); Echoes 1965 (foreword; Business Band); Arts (opera house, GAP-W-ART-1). Closure: NAMED GAP — settler: the Walkerton Independent's run for the 1920s read for dance bills and hall advertisements (Hoosier State Chronicles; the society's microfilm), with the Lincoln Theatre's programs if any survive.