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The 1907 Census: Howard's Memberships, Counted
The frame is a single book and a single year: Howard's History of St. Joseph County (1907), volume 2, the biographical volume, swept whole for the memberships it prints for Walkerton men, and assembled here as the town's dated…
The Color Line, Tested on This Ground
The test, stated without varnish: the orders banked for this town — Masons, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Elks-class bodies in the county, the Grand Army post — were, in the era of the 1907 census, white men's orders in…
The Foundings Test: Nothing Was Founded Here
The test: was any fraternal order — any grand body, any order itself — founded in Walkerton? Run against the grand-body records of every order seated in this town, the answer is no. The Masons of Lodge 619 answer to a Grand Lodge…
The Ethnic and National Societies, at Their True Size
The layer is thinner here, and the thinness is the finding. Tested against the banked register read whole and the town paper record reached, Walkerton seats no ethnic or national society of any kind : no Polish Falcons nest, no…
The Downtown Social Club That Wasn't: Commercial Club Test and the Census-Year Roster
The test: did 1907-era Walkerton hold a downtown social or athletic club of the Commercial Club or Round Table class — the businessmen's club, with rooms, a roster, and a noon table? Run against Howard (1907) whole and the town…
The Country-Club Test: A Negative, with a Public Course in the Ring
Inside the town, the negative holds whole: no country club has ever stood in Walkerton, and no golf course stands within the town boundary — the banked register contains no country-club line, and no directory reached lists one.…
The Women's Clubs, as a Circle
Gathered as one circle, the town's women's organizations stand like this. At its center, the chapter can now be named in full: Kappa Kappa Kappa, Epsilon Chi chapter, of Walkerton — Tri Kappa, the Indiana philanthropic sorority …
The Conservation Clubs: No Izaak Walton Chapter Here
The full-size test comes first: the Izaak Walton League does not seat a chapter in Walkerton. No chapter line stands in the banked register read whole, and the League's own chapter record for this county seats the chapter…