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I!" F‘. Hoyt, of Derby. is being on-
tertained by his father, I. M. Hoyt.
in South Norwalk.
A special meeting of the city coun-
cil will be held this evening. A num-
ber of important matters will be con-
sidered. .
The postponed lawn festival, held
under the auspices of the Court Lau- «
Isl Club. will be held tonight at the
home of Mrs. W. H. Ryan, on Fairileld
avenue.
B. Hershfleld. of Wood street, wish-
_esythe Sentinel to state that he did
not use unbecoming language in con-
nection with Sunday‘: trouble in his
neighborhood.
Porter Emerson Brown, of this city,
noted playwright, was one of the hon- ‘
orary pail-hearers at the funeral of
Charles Frohman. the famous theatri-
cal man, who lost his life on the liner
‘ "Lusitania." The services were held
at 11 o’clock this morning in Temple
Emanuel, in New York city.
The strip of land at the corner .of
Water and Washington street deeded
to the Bridge Construction Commit-
tee by the estate of Johan. Ferris,
‘yesterdaywas cut away by McHarg
Menus
l1!“ lilto the fittest;
fllgnmenl with the Wilmington street
bridge Yourb. Bor‘thls property a strip
' dsimflttr else was deeded in 624
change by the bridge committee
Many people went to the White
strict station yesterday to watch the
I kilns ol' Ringling Brothers' circus
pass through en route from New-
burgh. N. v. to Stamford. The trains
did not"'go through Danbury. as items
" discovered that the large cars con-
tainingthe animals could not get
through the tunnel at Norwalk. so the
ranting of the trains was changed and
‘lllnbury people did not even get a
glimpse of the circus.-—Dnnbury
lime.
Norwalk “grads" have received the
announcement that the‘s‘econd annual
“Jarvis" Day celebration in honor of
the former Weston Military Institute
and its proprietor, the late GeneraL
Andrew S. Jarvis, wh'oconducted the
'be held on Saturday, June 19th
Specific arrangements Mil later be
nude and announced by the president
and committee of the Norfleld Inl-
provement Association, who have the
cutter in charge. Every effort will
g be made to make the celebration as
‘ successful and interesting as it was
last year on June 29th. The general
exercises. and program this year will
be given in the Norfield Congregation
8‘ church. and. the. banquet will be
served in the adjoining town hall.
I
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Our Trust De artment
makesaepecisltyo Person-
at Tmmada Will or
under Agreement. Corres- "
pondcnce or interviews with
‘ considering trust!
of anykmd u.- schoited. ~’
‘ bank is an important
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lad get our proposition.
annulus.
r was a feature each year. And it is
xsuch celebration. the steward was di-
Eh ‘mfi‘dlm
school in Weston for many years, will ,
" ~ 18487-8—4ames Stevens.
_ 1852-5Eu K. Street.
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they are intact and now repose in
the lodge safe. I have been looking
through them, the old ones up to
about 1825, and they 'well repaid me
for my trouble. The most ancient of
them are bright end~clear; mostly
in handwriting that is like engraving
and written in ink such as cannot
be obtained nowadays.
Reading between their lines. many
interesting fagts are brought to light.
We are thought nowadays that
Lodges cannot be adjourned. But in
those old days that was the common
practice. ‘
The celebration of St: John's 'Day
evident that the brethren did not toast
their patron saint in water. For one
reeled to provide one demijohn of
brandy; one of Madeira wine: and a
quantity of rum. A short time there-
.after two brothers were expelled for
intoxication. Rather inconsistent it
would seem—yet ft is an enlighten-
ing commentary on the manners and
customs of the time. While it indi-
cates that drinking was almostuni-
versal it shows that drunkenness was
held in abhorrence.
St. John's Lodge is directly con-
nected with the hist_ory of our land.
in 1798 the Master was Taylor Sher-
man, who was. the ancestor fig those
two illustulous brothers lo! world-
wide false. Will Tecumseh Sher--
g e Army, and {John
” ills of the United
States. Hi funeral was attended by
the lodge on June 16.1815. Proceed-
ing their emigration to Ohio, the
Sherman family lived in the house
still standing at the southerly cor-
ner of Main and Cross streets.
The charter meritbers of the lodge
were Beanlsaacs, Master; Stephen
St. John. Senior Warden, and Jehiel
Ketchum. Jun. Junior Warden.
We cannot know, certainly, who
were their immediate successors. in
1779 the chairs were all' occupied pro-
tempore. On Sept. 8th that year
when the existing records begin. the
acting Master was Ebenezer Whit-
ney. Since then the following brethren
were Masters for the years named:
HBO—Stephen St. ‘John.
1781-2- 3~Eben. Whitney.
“Si—Stephen St. John.
1785 6- 7—Daniel Lambert.
1788- 9- 90-123~—Matthew Reed
179i~Samuel Burl-ell.
USE—Jonathan Knight.
1796~lsaac 8.1831108-
1797—Phineas Miller
1798-‘Tayior Sherman.
17981800-01-2-344-5-6- -- Jonathan
Knight.
1808- 9—Josiah Thatcher.
1810—Wm.M. Bette. .
ugh—Phineas Miller. _
1812—4Mo8es Gregori-
Bis—Daniel Church.
1814 -15«—Wm. J. Street.
1816-17—Joseph Keeler.
1818-19—Wm. J. Street.
ism—Joseph Keeler.
1821—Wm. (ll. Bette.
182243—41». Keeler.
Jill‘s—smear. Smith.
18'2M-Henry Selleck.’
iszs-e-Phllo Price;- .
1830-1-24Asa‘di}. Smith.
- 1833e-Janles Stevens. .
“,1834-5.6-—He~ury W. Smith. .
1837-8-940-1—4J‘am-es Stevens.
1343-3-Asa E. Smith. _
'18t4-6-—Henry W. 3mm.
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1850—l-John A. McLean.
1851—Dimon Fantbn.
“We—Wm. I). Climb
HGT—Samuel Lyrics. ‘
4the office of Master.
, home owned by Masons.
large family.
fill—Samuel Lynes.
lino—Isaac Climb.
‘ 1871—Davld Pollard.
181244.. C. Golding.
islets—s; H. camp.
lflFJesse Pollard.
18178—4. Cam, . K»
nib—Marl Harris. '
“Mao. were Selleck.
whim-lid, .C- leb ‘
18828—401“; «Getter;
flasks—4. H. Camp.
1886-7-8—Jolln H. Lee.
3 lento—muons W. Many.
1891-43. W. Maples. .
1892-3—Frederick Mead. "
Rube—Arthur C. ’Wheeler.
1896—~Jolm H. Wade. 7
IBM‘s—«Edgar ,N.» 819811;.
lsss—Hm‘veyjl. Kent.
”om—Samuel H. Huntington.
mind-Beer‘s E. Curtis:
1903—»‘8haries F. Tristram.
1904~Edward P. Weed.
And here moment history of the
lodge is linked with. its most remote
past. for Worshlptui Brother Weed is
a direct descendant of that illusn
trious and honored brother who'wss
our 11er Master, and he was born in
the house ill which the first meeting
of the lodge was held.
NOTE-Nicholas Martin.
1907——Henry F. Bennett.
1908-,»Jsmes T. Hubbell.
1908—410th Martin.
1910—-—Howard A. Crampton.
1911-12-4oseph A. Carier.
1913»C’. Otis Fitch.
1914~Percy W. Morgan.
which brings us down to the present
time and Worshipful Brother Keeier.
In all. seventy brethren have held
..
«Benj. Isaacs is reported to have
held it for eleven consecutive years.
The records show that. Jonathan
Knight was Master for nine consecu-
tive years and one Il.dtlltionnl, while
James Stevens appears as Master in
nine years not consecut‘fi'e.
I refrain from boring you with lists-
of the other officers. Most of thud
who served as Wardens reached the
that in due time.
The records shed no light on the
locations of the Lodge rooms in the
some time the brethren met in any
convenient place, possibly in the
homes of seine of them. From other
sources I have learned that for some~
time previous to 1852 the lodge met
in Odd Fellows Hall which wait till the
easterly side of Main street. uotJar
above the corner oi Well In
that year it established itself in the
Hadden building on River street op-
The foregoing list is so long that
early days. it is not unlikely that for “
yard Manure.
Telephone ms.
1'1le MM inmost
Mm
up housekeeping for themselves. the
Mother Lodge sltill retains her vigor
and yields toilette of her odspring in
'dbillty’ to do 'Wbil was: and in tidal-
ity to the torrent of our order.
' The aucient ill tory b! St. John‘s
Lodge may be laid to end with the
celebration other centennial in 1865.
posits the Norwslk Hotel. remaining
until lately Red Men's Hall. These}
quarters were in some respects the
most desirable of its various homes.
The hall was well furnished by the
cient ventilating system. som
that is sadly lacking in our 1:81:61:
more elaborate qllarters. T
was dedicated in full form by the
Grand Lodge on Dec. 27, 1887. For
twenty years the Lodge made its home
there, enjoying a period of great pros-
- parity and becoming noted for the ex-
cellence of its war
Then it -
sided that it should it was de
ave I permanent
‘The Ben).
lssscs Masonic and Benevolent Asso
elation was organized and this build-
ing is the result. The old Issues More
stead, a landmark for generations.
. yes for centuries, was torn down to
make way for the march of improve-
ment which included not only the elec-
tion of this building, but the opening
of lenses street and the construction
of the present Weed homestead and
the Vogel building. Previous to the
demolition, of the old house a M.asonio
long remembered by those whose
memories of Norwalk go back for a
generation. It continued, it I remem-
- her aright, for two weeks and took the
form or an old New England Tavern.
There was a dinerent landlord each
day. they being members or the lodge.
und they vied with each other in malt-
ing their respective days_ attractive. ..
When the old house was demolished
many souvenirs of it were preserved.
Our master's chair and this table wm‘
made from some of the timber. They
builded well in these old days.
St. John's lodge is the mother era
The first olfshoot oc-
curred In .1797 when, on October‘s, six
brethren living in Bidgefleld petititub
ed and received her permission to
.wltlldr’awand «inbuilt lodged!
their own. Similar action was" event;
. sally taken by New Canaan and West» "
wubmthrmanddsallyonMyto.
_. 1868. the record says. "The followup
M blothi‘bn. W paralleling ‘bo
ml? or I dispensation to open 1'
’tb Norwslk. which undo-t
Lodge. which also installed an elli-l
hat roomi
Fall' was held therein which will bel
" ohuseits.
‘servioef an impressive tribute was
‘. That was a most elaborate adeir!
there until 1867, when it moved to the The brethren raising and expending
Gazette Building, Occupying What was: more than 62. 000 on the entertain-
bont or their guests, which leads to
the conclusion that either money was
easier in those days or else there was
a large number of wealthy and liber-
al men enrolled in the lodge and ac-
tively interested in its affairs.
l It may be pertinent at this time to
remark' that in those days the Masonic
yorder did not have to meet the com‘
petition that it lsbfirs under now. Our
. Rev. Brother Werner in his recent ad-
dress to the Elks truly said that "this
town is lodged to death " It is also
[true that it is "clubbed" to death. But
fifty years ago the Masonic Lodge was
pretty nearly the whole thing in such
l communities as this was. Not to be a
{member of it was to be without the
lpsle. It was about the only place
I where men of high standing could con-
lgregete‘. It was The Club or that day.
lalso probably the Board of \Trade.
leturaiiy then, the leading citinens
were active and enthusiastic members.
ltheir allegiance not being divided
among manifold interests as at pres-
ent. So that When a Masonic Lodge
set out to do something big; it bad the
wholehearted support or the most silh-
stantiai element in the cemmunity. .
l To return to on centennial one
bratlon, it commenced with the at-
tendence o! the lodge and invited
lguests at a special service in old St.-
Paul's Church where an historical
address was delivered by the rector,
Rev. Brother William Cooper Mead.
D. 1)., olivine who attained to wide
eminence mole Church.
Following hie address there was an
oration by Rev. Dr. Randall, Pest
Grand Master ni’Masons of Massa-
At the conclusion or the
paid to the. mother? or our ill-st also
ter at his grave in the churchyard
The lodge. bed guests then proceed-
'ed. to tile Nor-walk Hotel where lln
elaborate cohlltion was served to 700
brethlfi ' ' « .
The celebration Was concluded by
a hand with ‘tockwood’s Hall. We
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was the unanimous choice for and
should have been the historian on
this occasion, but his well-known
modesty “caused him to decline. I re
for to our beloved Brother James W.
Storey. Here let'me quotelin refer-
ence to a dark period in Masonic his-
toryl from the eloquent address by
Dr. Mead as hereinbeiore mentioned:
“In 1793, a Grand Lodge having
been organized for the State of Con-
necticut, this lodge deposited with it
its Provincial Charter. which had es-
tablished it as Stalohn's Lodge. No.
l. and took out its present charter.
as St. John’s Lodge. .No. 6. From
even tenor of its way. apparently un-
influenced by any of the"political or
ywar-lllte excltements through which,
In her rapid, wonderful and romantic
career. our nation has passed. Dur-
ing the past 100 years of its exis'
tence, ,it has been underthe govern~
ment of forty-one worshlpful masters,
ciples and duties of masonry through
her ‘fostering care. During the bit;
tor crusadé of political anti-masonry
which sought the destruction of our
timebonored institution, and caused
the. dissolution of many lodges in our
land, St. John’s Lodge. No. 6, stood
firm iii its allegiance to the great
institution, unintimldated by threats,
ed by persecutions;——supported by the
belief that the noble principles- of
' their ancient order would ultimately
pass unharmed through the tires
which had been kindled by traitors
and demagogues, and that purified by
its trials, Mssopry would shine forth
with _ ineressing- brightness and
flourish with greater success than it
had. eter before.en1oyed._ In thus
preserving their organization, during
that dark period of her history, this
lodge was especially cheered by the
counsel, and encouraged by the exam.-
;ple of her noble master, our late
brother. James Stevens; who, aided
by a few kindred spirits. continued to
hold its regular; communications; and
in the absence of other work, to oni-
ploy the craft in cultivating masonic
virtues, and to encourage thslii‘ "pa-
neatly to wait tor more prosperous
imes. ” .
Little oi anything has occurred
since the lodge made its dual move
as Metory. Hoylsver, haters
8 Don’t Forget
a see -_
Tom Murray
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that time to this it has pursued the «
and has numbered some 700 members.
most of whom have been-enlightened '
at her command, and taught the prin- ‘
uniniluenced by apostates, undismsy- .
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the great deal. we are indebted to
the very attentive labors at Brother!
Lyneg and Treadweik whose accom»
plisbments in that line are only too
well known.
Such then is an outline ’of the pla-
cid history of our beloved lodge. Let
us and our successorl'ondeavor so to
follow the teachings of our institu.
tion that; her furture historians may
llnd nothing but brotherly love and
harmony to record.
Rev Stapleton Gives Oratlo'n. .
st. John Stapleton gave. the era-
tlon which brought to a close the com-
menial-stirs exercises.
Impromptu speeches were made by .
Blind Gliders Clarence" at. Austin. ..
Thomas MdKénlie. Charles 0. rerun ‘ '
The]: I). Wilder. Charles M. new»;
it". Charles A. Marks Theodore W
Worshlpful Brother James. ‘8
ey. Most Worshipful Bullhead . .
0. Wheeler, Worrbipful Brothers '
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