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Edition 3Rd Wednesdays July and August Meeting At: 375 Highway 67, Dousman, WI 53118 Mail To: P July Stated Communications: 7:30 PM 1st & 3rd Wednesdays Home 2018 September through June Edition 3rd Wednesdays July and August Meeting at: 375 Highway 67, Dousman, WI 53118 Mail to: P. O. Box 284, Hartland, WI 53029-0284 Secretary’s Phone: 262.367.2309 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.lodge42.net Worshipful Master Bruce Boland 262.354.4394 Senior Warden Timothy Behling, PM 414.254.3060 Junior Warden Tim Zellner, PM 414.588.5169 Treasurer Frank McKenna, PM 262.893.1106 Secretary Gary Pilgrim, PM 262.367.2309 Chaplain Craig Wiggins, PM 267.416-0788 Senior Deacon James Lukas 262.370.4356 Junior Deacon Robert Staley 262.309.9111 Senior Steward Scott Millikin 262.490.6023 Junior Steward Aaron Marjala 414.975.9770 Counselor Henry Pynakker, PM 262.370.2665 Organist Volunteer Opportunity 555.555.5555 Tyler Robert Jewell , PM 262.212.4616 Trustees Daniel Bast, PM 414.333.1412 James A. Johnson, PM 414.651.2072 Charles Gastrow, PM 262.370.1149 Thomas Ewald 414.429.5904 Frank McKenna, PM 262.893.1106 Sickness & Distress: Please notify the Senior Warden of Brothers in Sickness or Distress. Page 1 of 9 or helping out at the event as a volunteer. All are needed. Merrill Hills is a beautiful venue, and one of the prettiest golf courses you will see. Our golf committee has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make this a first rate event, and it will be much fun. It is good to see some of our new brothers’ step up and take on some roles. We also have an upcoming FC degree, and a possible EA degree in the near future. As WM, I would encourage some time and practice by each brother. Memorize a line or paragraph in one of the degree. Help and tutoring is available upon request. Good for all Summertime allows you some rest, relaxation and reflection. Take some time to reflect on what is truly important, and Thank - the Grand Architect for his grand design. We are all part of his plan, All roles and participation is important. Grab the Master's Message position that you are currently occupying and play it with all the gusto you can generate. Brethren, WM Boland Summer is in full bloom and half the year is gone. [email protected] or 262.354.4394 Einstein had a theory that time moves faster each second, but we have no way to prove it. It sure seems that it does. While we only meet once each month in the summer, we are busier than ever, as a Lodge. It does not seem like 1/2 of our year is completed. To all who participated in this weekend’s annual Pancake Breakfast on the Beach, a heartfelt thank you. It was good to see the usual hard work and fun spirits of many brothers’ and a few worthy ladies. Also to see some families show up and enjoy the breakfast.. No reports of food poisoning as of today. To the P-Cake, Flap-Jack, Butter, and Batter-men, you did not burn down the lakefront and arm hair grows back. Special Thank you to Br Tim Z and MaryLee. You have kept a great tradition alive and well and it is one of the From the Secretary’s Desk highlights of each year. To the trustees, most notably Br Tom E, Thank you My Brothers, for rolling up your sleeves and making smart, I am taking a break from my usual current dues nag, judicious decisions on behalf of our Lodge. You but be assured that I will not refuse any attempts at are doing amazing work and I truly believe we are a payment: model for some future lodges. We are most By check: Checks are to be made appreciative of your efforts and selfless dedication. payable to Oconomowoc-Hartland Also some help and guidance from Grand Lodge. Lodge No. 42, and mailed to me, Gary Our Golf Outing just around the corner, I encourage Pilgrim, 506 E Capitol, Hartland WI all to participate to your fullest extent. Playing golf, 53029. Please do not mail cash. Page 2 of 9 By cash: Pay Pal – Direct Pay Me: Calendar - June 2018 https://www.paypal.me/WILodge42Dues Wed 04 Independence Day. Celebrate freely Pay Pal on our website: but remember “Freedom is not Free” https://lakecountryfreemasonslodge4 Wed 11 7:00 PM GBD Chapter at Dousman No. 315. 2.org/ sign in to access the member th section, payment can be made under Mon 16 9:00 AM 15 Annual Lake Member Check Out Country Masonic Golf Outing. The Legends at Merrill Hills, W270 S & F S3425 Merrill Hills Rd, Waukesha, Br. Gary, (Your Friendly neighborhood Secretary) Wed 18 7:30 PM No. 42 Stated Meeting Wed 18 7:00 PM Bethel No. 35 at Dousman st Sat 21 1969 1 Moon walk by Buzz Aldrin Lodge mailing address: and Neil Armstrong. Lake Country Freemasons Lodge No. 42, F & A M Wed 25 7:00 PM GBD Chapter at Dousman P. O. Box 284 No. 315. Hartland, WI 53029 Fri 27 1953 Armistice signed in Korea. Sat 28 8:30 AM Officers and Trustees Meeting at Compass Point. Happy Birthday Brothers *VOS Represents Village on the Square, Glenn L. 07/05 ERIC A. EWALD Humphrey No. 364, Dousman Facility. Hereafter 07/07 WILLIAM J. RUNYAN known as VOS. 07/08 CHARLES R. GASTROW 07/14 JAMES A. JOHNSON Important Planning dates: 07/17 JAMES D. LUKAS 07/17 BENJAMIN D. JARVIS Aug 15 7:00PM No 42 Stated Meeting 07/19 CRAIG A. EWALD Aug 18 Noon, Master’s Picnic – Woods of 07/19 HAROLD D. SPEED III Pillars, Family and Friends. 07/24 JAMES R. MAHANEY Plan ahead, reservations requested 07/27 MARK RIESINGER by Aug 15, 2018 07/27 JONATHAN G. PRESTON Aug 25 8:30 AM Officers and Trustees 07/28 DARYL M. HIVELY Meeting at Compass Point. 07/28 TODD A. STACH Aug 29 Third, Fifth Wednesday of 07/29 ERWIN A. JULIEN JR Refreshment and Fellowship. 07/31 ARTHUR G. SCHWIBINGER Watch for details. 07/31 TIMOTHY T. BEHLING Masonic Anniversaries 58 ROY A. BRAATZ 16 W. JOHN M. WERNER 16 W. JAMES G. PRESTON 1 JAY E. EWALD 1 ERIC A. EWALD 1 RYAN J. HASLBECK 1 BRETT J. EWALD 1 AARON R. MARJALA 1 KEVIN A. EWALD 1 DONALD J. MITCHELL Page 3 of 9 United States Masonic Founding Fathers Of the 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence, it appears that only nine were Freemasons, or masons with verifiable records of association. While the nature of the declaration is consistent with the ideas of Freemasonry, it seems a stretch to think that the fraternity influenced directly the creation of the document. It is, however, likely that as the ideas of the freedom, independence, liberty, equality (and perhaps fraternity) were at hand in it’s creation and quite possibly included as its framers may have had these associations in their subconscious considerations. Whatever the case, these men and the 47 others who penned their name to this document, had the foresight of a brave and uniquely free country. Signers of the Declaration of Independence 1. Whipple 2. Walton 3. Ellery 4. Paine 5. Hooper 6. Hewes 7. Franklin 8. Stockton 9. Hancock William Ellery Benjamin Franklin John Hancock Page 4 of 9 Joseph Hewes (or Robert Treat Paine George Walton Howes) William Hooper Richard Stockton William Whipple William Ellery Declaration of Independence was second in size to John Hancock’s famous signature. He went on to be Rhode Island (1727-1820) a signer the Articles of Confederation. First Lodge of Boston, 1748 In 1785 he was an active supporter of Rufus William Ellery was the son of a successful merchant King in his effort to abolish slavery throughout the and politician in Newport, Rhode Island. Like his country. King was a Congressman who added father, Ellery attended Harvard, graduating in 1747 provisions to the 1785 Northwest Ordinance which and later engaging in business and practicing law in barred the extension of slavery into the Northwest Newport in 1770. Territory. Denslow’s 10,000 Freemasons says that Ellery was an influential member in the Continental it cannot be said for certain that Ellery was a Congress in 1776. As a signer, his signature on the Page 5 of 9 Freemason but that there is record of a “William on the list of members of St. John’s gives the date Ellery” being made a Mason in St. John’s Lodge of of reception, but under the column for withdrawal Boston on Oct. 12 and also Oct. 25 of 1748. It goes or death, no entry was made, indicating they had no on to say, “The same Ellery was present at the knowledge of what became of him. There was also celebration of St. John the Evangelist Day by the such a name on the rolls of St. John’s Lodge No. 4, Grand Lodge of Massachusetts on Dec. 27, 1753 Hartford, Conn., showing he was admitted Feb. 8, and also attended a sermon with the grand lodge at 1763 and was treasurer of the lodge later in the Boston’s Trinity church on Oct. 1, 1755. His name year.” Franklin’s Masonic career began in 1727 when he Benjamin Franklin organized the “Leathern Apron Club” as a secret Pennsylvania (1706-1790) society in Philadelphia (non-Masonic) printing an Grand Master of Pennsylvania, 1734 article in his paper pretending to reveal Masonic mysteries in Dec. 8, 1730. Denslow’s 10,000 American statesman, scientist, philosopher and Freemasons says of Franklin’s Masonic career that, author, Franklin began his career as an apprenticed in February, 1731, to his brother, James, a printer, when only 12.
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