Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-07
AN EVENING OF ENJOYMENT.
Annual Past Masters Meeting at Forest Lodge on
Wednesday Evening.

Past masters night, the annual event
of Forest Lodge No. 40, f. & A. M,
was held in Masonic Temple on
Wednesday evening, Dec. 1st. This
is an evening which is looked forward
to by the Wausau fraternity with
much pleasure. The rooms of the
temple were filled to their fullest
capacity on this occasion. The time
from 7:30 to O'Clock was taken up
with a business session and from the
latter hour until IL, the M. M. degree
was conferred upon Chas. Gill, the
chairs being filled by pastmasters, as
follows:
& & & 1 parIi1 scba1ee,a Ep / , ssdns Willard
5. 5. n McSs6shton Sls0s n n v u Gsasnart aibsra
E. B. Thayer Karl Mathie
H. G. Flieth FP. Stone
The only past master outside of the
city present was Karl Mathie of st.
Cloud, Mimi. The others, unable to
be present, were: Eli r.. Chase, Mar
tinez, Cal; j. p. West, Hastings,
Minn., S. II. Alban, Rhinelander,
Wis; Rev. VIM. Wright, Geneva,
Ohio; n. t. Northup, Green Bay,
Wis. Those who have passed away
are X. z. Manson, Chas. V. Bardeen
and G. f. Crosby.
A banquet followed the work. This
was in charge of the ladies of Mara
thon Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star. The tables took up the entire
space of the large lodge room, run
ming east and west, ard at the east,
was one loug table running in the
opposite direction at which were seat
ed the paStmaSterS and the speaker of
the evening, w. w. Perry of MilWau-
kee. The table decorations were cut
flowers and strip of blue crepe
paper down the center of each, and
programs in color to correspond. The
menu was elaborate such as to satisfy
the most exacting epicure, and was
served by the ladies of the Eastern
Star. The Columbia orchestra fur
nished music during the refreshment
hour. The following program fol-
lowed the refreshments:
PROGRAM.
Toastmaster er..s...................W w. II. Mylrea
Mrs. Geo. Hart. Mr.. and Mrs F. Howard
and Nr. A, V. Gearhart
Presentation of M asonic History ...............
,.......-... ...........-..-....... E: b. Thayer
Reading Of Letters Received VII H. HMrea Mylrea
Address W F Perrg aga Of I'm Milwa%aee Rowaee
Mr.. Mylrea as POSTMASTER was at
his best and that means he kept all
in good humor during the evening.
The vocal numbers were very appro-
pirate and were feature of the even
ing greatly enjoyed. At the last an
nual meeting K. b. Thayer was chosen
as historian of the lodge and during
the year he had devoted considerable
time in getting up scrap book his
tory, which he presented to the order
The history showed that dispensa-
tion was granted Forest Lodge 100,
Nov. 1860, and charter granted June
II, 1861. Its charter members were:
Walter ID. McIndoe, Garry L. Judson,
Eli r.. Chase, r. p. Manson, A. Me
meyer, j. Irwin, j. K. Armstrong and
S. G. Davis.
It's first officers were:
w. M.-Eli r. Chase.
S. W.-R. p. Manson.
j. W.-Asa Lawrence.
Treas.-B. G. Plumer.
Sec.-J. A. Farnham.
S. D.-S. G. Davis.
j. Dc. G. Green.
S. G-Wm. S. Hobart.
j. S.-H. Combs.
Tyler-D. w. G. Mitchell.
The history further contains pict-
ureS of the various buildings in which
the Lodge has been held since 1860;
a picture and history of each worship
full master of the lodge; articles de-
scriptive of lodges and dedications;
nrOcApdinUS of animal mast masters;