Dec 15, 2020
Mark SimonsonShown in October, this is the current Moose Lodge at 20 E. Main St. in Sidney. The Loyal Order of Moose was instituted in Sidney in mid-December 1920.
A beginning for the Moose, a new parochial home, remembering an aviation iconâs visit and basketball woes were all a part of the local life and times around Sidney in December 1920.
A NEW âHERDâ OF MOOSE
âS.J. Smith, Deputy Supervisor, of Glens Falls, has been in Sidney the past few days, and as a result of his visit a lodge of Loyal Order of Moose of the World will be instituted in Sidney next Sunday afternoon,â readers of the Sidney Enterprise learned on Dec. 15. Instituting ceremonies took place at the I.O.O.F. Hall.