BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS.

Flint Lodge No. 222, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was organized under a dispensation from the grand lodge, December 4, 1891, a charter being granted on the 15^th day of June following. At its first meeting, which was held in the lodge rooms in the Ward building, a class of forty-eight was initiated. These rooms were occupied until the order removed to quarters in the Judd block. At the completion of the Dryden building on South Saginaw street, the entire sixth floor was leased for a term of years, where in the lodge and the club rooms were located until the present Elks temple was erected.

In December, 1914, the temple was formally opened with a reception to the public, the building occupying the site at the corner of Beach and Second streets, formerly known as the Dr. Lamond homestead. The value of the property, including the land, building and furnishings, is about one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Architecturally, the building is considered one of the finest temples in the country, and the membership list includes most of the prominent citizen of the community. Socially and financially, the order in Flint is in a most flourishing condition, the building, in its up-to-date appointments, offering to the members all of the advantages of a modern city club. The membership at present is between nine hundred and one thousand.