Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-06-24
PERSONAL MENTION.

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PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss Bessie Gist returned last week from
school at Gordonsville, Va.
We were pleased to meet Mr.. A Williford,
of Winnsboro, in town last Monday.
Messrs. John s. Moore and VIM. I. Wither-
spoon, students at Fort Mill Academy and
Messrs. J. A. Mclean, Jr., and J. E. Mason,
students Of Davidson College, are at home
during vacation.
Mr.. L. w. Perrin, of Abbeville, Past Grand
Dictator, Knights of Honor, has been here for
several days on visit to his mother-in-law,
Mrs. McCaw. At the meeting of Home Re-
lief Lodge X. Of H., last Friday night, Dicta-
tor Perrin was present, and impaired much
information of a beneficial character to the
members.
The following officers of the State Grand
Lodge, A. F. NJ, arrived here Tuesday after
noon, and accompanied the members of Philan-
thropic Lodge to Kings Mountain, for the pur-
pose Of assisting in the ceremonies of laying
the cornerstone of the proposed monument !:
Augustine T. Smythe, NJ. W. G. NJ, Charles
ton; James F. Izlar, D. G. NJ, Orangeburg !;
Charles Inglesby, G. Sec, Charleston; J. B.
McFadden, Sen. G.. Deacon, Chester Geo. G.
Gill, Jun. G. Deacon, Chester.
OLD MASONIC RECORDS.
Among the books and papers Of the late COL
w. G. Beatty, has been found the journal of
the first lodge of Free and Accepted Masons
instituted at .Yorkville. The warrant for
this lodge was issued from the Grand Lodge
at Charleston, under date Of May 8, 1874, and
empowered 'sSamuel Lowrie, Master; Mat
thew Boyers, Senior Warden; and John Gal
lagher, Junior Warden, to open and hold a
lodge designated by Number 80, at Yorkville,
York county, in the State Of South Carolina,
or within Is miles of the same''
A dispensation of the s'same date, under the
same SEAL signed Thomas Stewart, Deputy
Grand Master, and countersigned by Alexan-
der Alexander, Grand Secretary, directed to
William Polk, James Porter and John Long, or
any two of them, authorized and empowered
them, or any two of them, to install the said
Samuel Lowrie, Master; Matthew Boyers,
Senior Warden and John Gallagher, Junior
Warden, of said Lodge No. 80, in the true and
ancient Masonic FORM"
According to the journal the lodge was duly
instituted on the 10th of July, 1894, with
the above officers, there being present
members of Phalanx Ledge, No. Z; 4 members
of Pinckney Lcdge, No. 25; and one member
each from Rutherford Lodge, No. 7; Water
Rec Greek, No. Is; Salem, No. q; Cole Rain,
No. 235; Londondary, No. 365; and Columbia,
No. 10. -.....
Immediately after the Lodge was ''constitu-
ted and the officers thereof, according to an
cient custom and usage installed, the Entered
Apprentices Lodge was opened" and after
being duly elected, John Allison, James Mitch
ell, and John Harris were duly received in
the degree of Entered Apprentice. The Lodge
then closed "and to stand closed until the
first Monday in August, to meet again at this
place at - O'clock"
The next entry is under date Of August 4,
1894, and records the proceedings o. the Lodge
which was held at John Eggleston's, "agreea-
BILE to the last adjournment" According to
the closing paragraph of the journal of this
meeting, as we'll as nearly every meeting there
after, contained in this record, which extends
to December 81, 1902, the fraternity III those
days believed in creature comforts. This
paragraph reads: 'sThe bill Of the night; 4
bottles of wine and decanters of whiskie, 81,
/; bottle wine afterwards, s a, g.; making a
total Of 81, 5, g."
At the next meeting, on September 5th,
the Lodge took the name Of Philanthropic,
and under this name worked regularly until
1928, when the Lodge was suspended, and so
remained until 1852, when it was Reconstructed
under the same name, but taking different
number.
Few names occur in the proceedings famil-
lar to the present generation. At the last
meeting recorded in this book, December 81,
1902 the following members were present:
Jonathan Sutton, W. M, pro tenn; Alex. Ross,
S. w. pro tenn Joseph Kerr, j. w., pro tenn;
James Mitchell, Treasurer; John Mccall,
Steward John Bates, Secretary; Samuel
Walker, s. d.; George Ross, j. D.; Joseph
Wallis, Tiler; James Martin, James Ditty,
(visitor), VIM. Tomlinson, VIM. Smith, Ar
thur Ross, (visitor), VIM. E. Hayne, Andrew
McCullogh, (visitor), Robert FAIRIES, Hugh
Finch, (visitor).
The journal will be placed for preservation
in the archives of Philanthropic Lodge No.
IS, of Yorkville, the early history OF which it
forms so interesting and valuable part.