THE LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE

The Loyal Order of Moose is an international fraternal society consisting of more than sixteen hundred lodges in the United States, Canada and throughout the English-speaking world, having an aggregate membership in all these lodges of more than five hundred thousand men. Most of the lodges provide sick benefits and funeral expense funds for their members. Each lodge is a complete unit in itself, with full local autonomy.

As a means for better accomplishing their purposes the lodges have organized a central agency called the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose, with headquarters at Mooseheart, Illinois. All general activities of the order center there and the supreme officers in active charge have their offices there.

Mooseheart is an estate of one thousand fifteen acres of land, thirty-five miles west of Chicago on the Fox river, between the cities of Aurora and Batavia, Illinois. The title of this estate is in the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose. Mooseheart is a home and vocational training school for seven hundred and seventy-four dependent children of deceased members of the order. The residential part of Mooseheart resembles a modern village of about one thousand inhabitants and consists of about fifty buildings of modern concrete fire-proof construction, with red tile roofs. There is a central heating and power plant, large modern print shop, a high school building, several industrial shops, a modern farm and many dormitories and residences. The educational features are highly vocational and practical. About twenty-five of the most useful crafts, including agriculture, are being operated as a part of the education work