Centennials are important milestones. It was on Saturday May 21, 1924 that the Susanville Lodge #1487 of BPOE, better known as the Elks, received its charter. It was, by the way, a big day in Susanville.

It was a full day of merriment beginning at sunrise and lasting until the wee hours of Sunday morning. One hundred thirty eight members were initiated that evening. At 12:30 p.m. a special passenger train arrived bringing Elk delegates from the San Francisco Bay Area. Upon. arrival a excited procession picked them at the depot and proceeded to the lodge at the west end of Main Street.

The most unusual event was that of Professor Stillman Taylor who was to do a high dive off the top of the Lassen Industrial Bank building, into a three foot deep bathtub of water. It was reported that after Taylor said his prayers a dummy was substituted for the dive.

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