Arizona republican., 1906-09-21
MASONIC LODGE MET
 ON A MOUNTAIN TOP
Novel Open Air Session Held Near a
 Canadian Town.

4 very novel incident is reported in the Stanstead Journal, a paper pub lished in Rock Island, province of Quebec, that will interest Phoenix peo- pie by reason of the participation of Captain P. P. Parker of this city, who has been spending the summer in that part of the country. The incident is an open-air session of a Masonic lodge, and the novelty of it has been equalled perhaps by only one similar event. That was when the Masonic grand lodge of Arizona met in an electrically lighted natural cave in the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee a few years ago. It may be news to some. also, to learn that this famous cave. hundreds of feet below the surface, fell in long ago and can never be available again for any similar purpose. The Stanstead Jour nal says:
 "A special communication of Golden Rule lodge, No. ,, A. F. & A. M, was held in the natural lodge room on owls Head mountain Saturday after noon. These meetings have become an annual event of great interest to the craft and each year brings a few from distant lands to witness for the first time this unique event. The Hodge room" is a natural depression in the rock. about twenty feet wide and forty feet long, with high rocky walls on two sides and one end. It is approached by narrow. rock-strewn passage, and sentries are posted on the surrounding heights, while the work of the lodge is carried on with the same degree of sOlemnity as at it's regular place of meeting.
 Although the day was rather cool and windy a large number of Masons and their friends took advantage of the excursion through the lake, but a much smaller number left the steamer at Owls Head wharf for the purpose of making the ascent"
 The Journal then gives a long list of the names of those present, among whom were Captain Parker, and, con- tinuing, it says:
 Worthy Bro. P. P. Parker, who was 70 years of age last Christmas, was the senior craftsman in the party, his closest rival in this respect being Bro. R. L. Aver, but Brothers Parker and Aver were not the last to reach the summit.
 'Very few who were not MasOns climbed the mountain. Mrs. F. H. Lee Georgeville; Mrs. V. V. Ellis Fitch Bay; Mrs. w. A. Forbes, Cambridge; J. D. McFadyen of Stanstead college, and Charles Crawford of Rock Island were among the number
 "The lodge was opened immediately after the arrival of the party at the top, and here, amid all the grandeur of the natural surroundings, Bro. C. C. Gardner received the degree of a Master Mason. Afterward, short ad- dresses were made by Worthy Bro. P. P. Parker and Worthy Bro. Lewis Cameron.
 "FOllowing the Masonic meeting. the marriage of Bro. C. Eugene Lee and Mrs. Verdir Violet Ellis of Fitch Bay was solemnized in the mountain lodge room, Rev. Bro. George s. Clendinnen performing the ceremony, which was witnessed by the brethren of the lodge, two ladies who climbed the mountain for that purpose and one or two other friends who were privileged to extend congratulations and best wishes to the newly married couple on the mountain top The Masons were quietly in- formed of the contemplated marriage after the steamer left Newport and, while the announcement was some thing of a surprise they readily gave their sanction to an event hardly less unique than the holding of a Masonic meeting on a mountain top"