What became of Charlie Guthrie's table?

Somewhere --- if anywhere, most likely California --- Charlie Guthrie's remarkable table might still be around. Commissioned during 1901 as a souvenir of his Noxall Club membership, the table was subject of front-page stories in both The Chariton Herald and The Chariton Democrat during January of 1902. 

The Noxall Club, organized during 1895, was for younger, single, aspirational Chariton men. Its purposes were purely social with a dose of athletics on the side. Club rooms were located upstairs on the square. During the appropriate season, the club fielded a football team. The image above is of the 1901 Noxall team with Charlie seated far right, opposite the goat. That's also Charlie at left in his club membership photo. Here's The Democrat story of Jan. 16:

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Chas. B. Guthrie of this city is  the  proud possessor of a unique and handsome table which he prizes very highly. It was purchased of Ekfelt & Son and is of quarter-sawed oak, 27 x 39 inches, piano finish, colonial style. In the center of the top,  within a circular scroll  design, is the inscription, "Noxall Club, 1901, Chariton, Iowa." The  artistic carving was done by Eugene Holmberg.

In the top are thirty photographs of members of the Noxall Club during the month of December 1901. Each photograph is embedded one-fourth of an inch and covered by individual oval glasses diamond cut and hand polished, just the size of the picture. The photographs were made by Goldsberry and are all  excellent individual likenesses, finished and printed by the same light and are all toned alike.

The club as pictured in the table is as follows: Lute Busselle, Lloyd Penick, Will Eikenberry, Fred Waight, Pete Paton, Verner James, Oscar Clay, Bert Beem, Dr. Dougherty, Elmer Hasselquist, Leo Bartholomew, Dr. Ford, Sanford Rea, Joe Kridelbaugh, Ed Guthrie, Will Jackson, Percy Perry, Horace Larimer, Charlie Guthrie, Elijah Lewis, Charlie Goldsberry, Al Ekfelt, Frank Manning, Ernest Gasser, Ed Culbertson,  Lawrence Hasselquist, Bert Gookin, Clarence Blake, Robert Manning, Logan Field.

The table was designed and is owned by C.B. Guthrie who will ever prize it as a memento of pleasant times in Chariton.

The table is provided with a cover of art linen in old gold with a wreath of holly in green and red worked in the center. Out from the leaves of the wreath in the form of a sunburst are the names of 30 of Mr. Guthrie's lady friends in Chariton embroidered.

He says the drawer of the table is to be reserved for mementoes of Chariton.

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Charlie (Charles Bentley) Guthrie was an Ohio native who had lived since the age of 10 in Bedford, Taylor County, where his father practiced medicine. He was 26 and single, but highly sociable, in 1901 with a good job that produced a dependable income --- mail clerk on the C.B.&Q. Railroad. He also was engaged in what proved to be a very long courtship involving a Chariton girl, Miss Pearl Coles.

Charlie and Pearl finally were married during 1904 and set off promptly for the greater Los Angeles area in southern California where all that glittered was spelled "real estate." Presumably, the table traveled with them.

Charlie was a considerable success in the Los Angeles market, working extensively in suburban areas, too, including Glendale --- where he is credited with founding the Glendale Board or Realtors during 1921. He continued to be a successful Los Angeles Realtor until his death almost 30 years later, during 1949. Charlie and Pearl had one daughter, Catherine.

Poking around online, I came across this photo of the Arts & Crafts style home Charlie and Pearl built for themselves in an unidentified Los Angeles neighborhood about 1920. It's from the collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. So we know they had plenty of room for the souvenir table, but what became of it eventually is a mystery.