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AUDIT ROW #281 · IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN — THE TEST AND ITS SETTLER
No tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men seated in Walkerton stands in the records reached — not in Howard's 1907 fraternal survey of the town, not in the register record, not in the town paper's lodge notices as indexed. The absence is printed as a test result at that strength, with the order's own state body — the Great Council of Indiana, IORM — named as the settler whose charter roll would settle the question finally. The order flourished in this county's larger towns in the same decades; its absence on this ground, if the settler confirms it, is a size fact about the town's lodge ring, which ran Masonic, Odd Fellows, Pythian, and Catholic instead.
Principal sources: Howard, History of St Joseph County