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Masonic Token: October 15, 1884 MASONIC TOKEN. WHEREBY ONE BROTHER MAY KNOW ANOTHER. VOLUME 2. PORTLAND, OCT. 15, 1884. No. 30. MASONRY IN MAINE. made a similar excursion to the same place, Published quarterly by Stephen Berry, October 7th. No..37 Plum Street, Portland. Lodge Elections. New Lodge.—The M. W. Grand Master Twelve cts. per year in advance. '13/= Postage Central, 45, China. George B Pray, m ; prepaid. Theron E Doe, sw; Willis R Ward, jw; has issued a dispensation, dated September Willis W Washburn, sec. 6th, for a lodge at South Thomaston, to kc Plymouth, 75, Plymouth. William Harris, called Knox Lodge:—Mark D. Ames, Mas­ Advertisements $4.00 per inch, or $3.00 for half an inch for one year. m ; William H Toothaker, sw ; William H ter; Robert A. Harrington, Senior Warden ; Condon, jw ; L P Toothaker, sec. William A. Tripp, Junior Warden. No advertisement received unless the advertiser, Liberty, 111, Liberty. Moses M Johnson, or some member of the linn, is a Freemason in m ; Hazen N Dennis, sw ; John C Sherman, good standing. jw; Ambrose P Cargill, sec. Rooks, Papers, etc. Monument, 96, Houlton. Samuel W Put­ We are indebted to Hoyt, Fogg & Don- nam, m; Hjalmar Edblad, sw; George S ham for the Maine Register for 18Sf Price, TIIE DEATH OF TIIE FLOWERS. Gentle, jw; William F Braden, sec. §1.25. The statistics in this book render Oxford, 18, Norway. J Hibbard Aldrich, it invaluable. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. m ; Frank Seavy, sw ; Samuel R Knowland, jw; Howard D Smith, sec. The Freemason’s Journal of New York has Moses Webster, 145, Vinalhaven. George increased its size to eight pages. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of R Doak, m; E W Arey, sw; Moses L Young, the year, Boletim Official de Grande Oriente Lusita- Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows j w; C E Boman, sec. brown and sere. Village, 26, Bowdoinham. Converse Pur- no Unido Supremo Consilho da Maponaria, Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; ington, m ; S Loyelest Browne, sw ; George Portugueza, publi<?ao mensal. We have They rustle to the eddying gust and to the rabbit’s H Blodgett, j w ; Benj L Higgins, sec. been favored with the number containing tread. Rural, 53, Sidney. G K Hastings, m; A proceedings from April to December, 1883. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the H Bailey, sw; 8 C Hastings, jw ; J F War- shrubs tlxe jay, ren, sec. Bro. William Wallace Leo, of Meriden, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the dreary day. Monmouth, 110, Monmouth. John C Kings­ Conn., favors us with a copy of the proceed­ Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that bury, m; Timothy F Flaherty, sw; Herbert ings of the Fourteenth Annual Reunion of lately sprang and stood B Blake, jw ; D P Boynton, sec. In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous the Masonic Veterans of Connecticut, at sisterhood? Baskahegan, 175, Danforth. V W Put­ nam, m ; Joel Foss, sw; B W Stinchfield,jw ; Norwich, June 25th. Bro. Lee was again Alas ! they all are in their graves; the gentle race M L Porter, sec. elected President. We find in it the state­ of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good Archon, 139, East Dixmont. George R ment that Simon Knowles is the oldest liv­ of ours. Thurlough, m; Jeremiah Smith, sw; Amos ing Freemason. We have shown elsewhere The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold Whitney, jw; Benjamin F Porter, sec. November rain that he was mistaken about the year of his Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely Lebanon, 116, Norridgewock. Charles W ones again. Farrand, m; O Fremont Hall, sw; Ansel initiation. Holway,jw; William J Haynes, South Nor­ The wind-flower and the violet^ they perished long Col. Carroll D. Wright, chief of Bureau of ago, ridgewock, sec. Statistics of Labor for Massachusetts, favors And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer’s glow. Chapter Elections. us with his 15th Annual Report. The value But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, Dunlap, 12, China. Joseph E Crosman, of his work cannot be overestimated. And the yellow sun flower by the brook, in autumn hp; Charles E Dutton, k; Shubael Bumps, beauty stood,— History of Freemasonry in Maryland, by s; Willis W Washburn, sec. Edw. T. Schultz. As we go to press we ’Till fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven as St. George’s, 45, Liberty. Gustavus H falls the plague on men, hp k have received the first number of this valua­ And the brightness of their smile was gone, from Cargill, ; Lucius C Morse, ; James Lee­ upland, glade and glen ; man, s; Ambrose P Cargill, sec. ble history, which is published by J. H. And now, when comes the calm, mild day, as still St. John’s, 25, Dexter. William II Dustin, Medairy & Co., Baltimore. It is issued in such days will come. hp k To call the squirrel and the bee from out their ; Henry S Dole, ; John Martin, s; parts of 112 pages each, at 50c. a part. Newell H. Bates, sec. winter home; Woodcuts of Lord Baltimore and other Cushnoc, 43, Augusta. Charles B Mor- When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though ton, hp ; F B Smith, k ; John E Avery, worthies illustrate it. We have not time to all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the s; 1) M Waitt, sec. review it for this issue, but it is needless to rill, point out that Maryland was one of the earli­ The South wind searches for the flowers whose Installations. fragrance late he bore, est points in this country to receive Masonry, And sigh., to find them in the wood and by the The officers of Oxford Lodge, at Norway, and that therefore its early history is indis­ stream no more. were installed Sept. 9th, by P. M. Alfred S. pensable to every masonic library. And then I think of one who in her youthful Kimball. Large attendance. Supper and beauty died, The first lodge was instituted at Annapolis T,iebymyni?de bl°88Oln that grew Up and faded social entertainment. in 1750 by Grand Master Thomas Oxnard, 1,1 <f1oerest1<?aaiThetle*aafrth We laid ber when the Festivities. who was himself of a Portland family. An<180 brieT tUat °ne lovely should have a life Atlantic Lodge, of Portland, made its an- We have received from Richard A. Saal- Yet not unmeet it was that nr,.. friend of ours at 0,10 1,ke that ?oung nual excursion to Spurwink River, August field, 12 Bible House, New York, the follow- S° Cers^ 80 bOaUti£u1’8hould P^h with the 1st. They had a clambake and a good time. ing pieces of music: “ With Cleveland we Ancient Landmark Lodge, of Portland, shall win the day”; "Cleveland and Hen- 234 MASONIC TOKEN OCT. 15, 1884. dricks’ Grand Victory March;” “You Ask An Old Maton. Editorial Items. me to Forgive the Past;” “ Better Luck To- All masonic editors are happy to greet —Grand Master Henry W. Murray, of Vir- Morrow,” a new Motto Song; “ Amatori Bro. Stephen Berry’s spicy little eight page ginia, died at Charlottesville, August 15th, Waltzes.” The publisher offers to send the sheet from Portland, Maine We notice ref­ He was born at Dublin, Ireland, in 1826. lot post free on receipt of §1.00. erence made to “ First among his Equals,” in allusion to the roll of aged craftsmen where­ His father, being reduced from affluence to in Bro. J. M. Bickford gives some comments poverty, came to Virginia about 1840. He Chips. as to Capt. Sylvanus Hatch, of Port Lavacca, became a prominent lawyer, and was a cap­ —There are 9 lodges and 293 masons in Texas, whose certificate of membership in British Columbia. Solomon Lodge, No. 1, Savannah, Georgia, tain in the confederate service during the war. —Gen. Logan is a mason. is designated as issued as of Juue 6th, 1809, thus making him a mason of seventy-five —Irish Lodges, including those chartered —Bro. Robert Burns was “exalted” to the years, standing, and mentioning him as first abroad, number up to 1014, of which 378 are Royal Arch degree by the Chapter at Eye- among his equals. This is well so far as it now working. Irish Chapters number almost mouth. Scotland, as would appear from the goes, but should New York State not come in for an older, when we read from t‘ie as high, viz : up to 935, and 162 are working. following extract from the records : Tribune of this city, thus: Delhi, N. Y.,— The Chapters largely take the numbers of “ On account of R. Burns’ remarkable Simon Knowles, of Meredith, this county, poetical genius, the members unanimously claims to be the oldest Freemason in New the lodges in the same places. agreed to admit him gratis, and considered York State, if not in the Union. He joined —Bro. Grove B. Cooley, who died in Min­ themselves honored by having a man of such Columbia Lodge in East Haddam, Conn., in neapolis, August 20th, had been Grand Master shining abilities for one of their companions.” October, 1807, at the age of twenty-one. In 1818 he removed to Meredith, where he has of the Grand Lodge and Grand Council of MasoNic CoNGRess.—In the official organ lived ever since, never having been away Minnesota, Chairman of Committee on Cor of the United Grand Lodge of Colon and from the village.
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