"This lodge is one of the flourishing colored fraternal organizations with well-equipped quarters at 112 North Corn street. The principal officers are Messrs. C.H. Webster, T.W. Valentine, and William Emmanuel. 

  It is the purpose of the organization to hold these social sessions during the coming winter months with distinguished guests as speakers. The guests of honor at this first session were City Judge Crowley and Attorney General Aaron G. Mintz." 

"Colored Elks' Lodge Holds a Smoker," Ithaca Journal, October 29, 1915, 3.