Agana Guam BPOElks Lodge #1281. Lodge instituted sometime between 1912 and 1913. Click here for current contact information.

• 1922 elks Magazine article on three far flung lodges. Includes Guam, Alaska and the Panama Canal. Click here. In adobe pdf format.
• Trivia- on Jan. 4, 1942, the Agana, Guam, Lodge No. 1281 was overrun; 489 Elk members and their families spent the remainder of the war in Japanese concentration camps.
• When the Philippines and Guam fell to the Japanese, the Elks provided aid for members and their families of Manila Lodge No. 761 and Agana Lodge No. 1281.
• First Captured, Last Freed- Memoirs of a P. O. W. in World War II .. Click here to go to this interesting book  - Google Books Result. It includes the writers comments on the Japanese occupation of Guam.
• Elks are hotspot for shuffleboard. Click here.
   

Pictures taken July 2007	Thanks To Carl Robinson for making these pictures available.
In 1938

Updated 04/09/2009

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