Moosejaw
the chief city of a division of Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, on the Moosejaw river, and on the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific, and Canadian Northern railways. The city has many important public edifices, including a public library, court house, city hall, and collegiate institute. It has also important industrial interests, including iron works, flour mills, lumber mills, and manufactories of automobiles and tractors. Pop. about 14,000.
MOOSE, LOYAL ORDER OF, an American secret and benevolent organization founded by Dr. J. H. Wilson at Louisville, Ky., in 1888. The purposes of the order are social and fraternal, and to furnish payments to members during illness, and funeral benefits. The first lodge was established at Cincinnati, O. The organization owns an estate of 1,000 acres at Mooseheart, near Aurora, Ill., where has been established a home, farm, and school for orphans and dependent members. The order is governed through the supreme lodge. There were in 1920 1,600 lodges and over 600,- 000 members.