El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-09

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Joel L Ankrim as ". N.
Josiah F. Crosby as s. ".
! A G. Hyde as J. ".
Rufus DOan as Treasurer.
Simeon Hart as Secretary
G A Hoppin as S. D.
/ T. Hickman as Tyler
At the Eighteenth Grand Annual
3 Communication Of the Grand Lodge
/ OF Texas held at San Antonio. com
I mencing January Is, 1855. the Grand
Z Master in his address. delivered on the
I first day, stated: Some difficulty has
[ arisen in two or three Lodges about
meeting at > place different from the
/ one named in the Charter. About
letter from our r. ". District Deputy
Grand Master !. T. Crosby, saying
I that a mistake had been made in fl
I ling up their Charter with the town
Z OF San ElizariO. II was their inten-
Z ton to have the Charter say at FL
Paso county. but blank as 20 town.
[ The town named in the Charter, he
said. was not convenient 10 a single
member Of the Lodge, and he wished
I 10 know what to do under the cir
cumstances. I authorized them TO
meet and determine what place in thac
county would suit them best, and
I there meet until they could present
the matter 20 this Grand Lodge, and
have the name Of the town changed,
or such action be made as might be
right and proper. / mention this
matter so that you can either approve
or disapprove Of my course in the
premises, and fix some general law
upon the holding OF Lodge meetings
named in the Charter"
Ledge Authorized for Franklin.
At the morning session OF Wednes-
day, January Il. 1885, the Committee
OF Chartered Lodges reported that the
Grand Lodge dues as returned by E.
Paso Lodge No. $50 were $3.50.
At the morning session OF Thurs
day. January IS, 1879, the Grand
II Paso as the District Deputy Grand
Master for the Eleventh Masonic Dis
trict-
at the morning session OF Friday,
January 10, 1855, the Committee on
Grand Officers Reports, reported that
The Committee do not recommend
any general course relative to grant
ing a Lodge the privilege Of removing
their place OF meeting, as the same
is not justified by custom and might
be prejudicial in practice; but for the
5enefit Of FL Paso and Mount Horeb
Lodges, they recommend Resolutions
Nos. . and 8"
The Committees resolution No. ? isl
not pertinent to the question. Their
Resolution No. reads: Resolved,
That FL Paso Lodge No. $50 be. and
they are hereby, authorized TO hold
their meetings at Franklin, in e. Pa
so county in lieu Of San Elizario, as.
stated in the Charter, and a Certific-
ate hereof, with the seal Of the Grand
Lodge, be made by the Grand Sec
rotary TO said Lodge
No Record Of Old Meetings. q
From these records. 1 infer that the
Lodge worked at san ElizariO under
dispensatiOn, from March Is, 1888. to
November Of that year. II any Mason
can tell ne where the Lodge met in
San Elizario, during that time and
how often, or where they did meet
il elsewhere. II would be highly ap-
preciated- From these records I in
fer further that whereas the Charter
was granted by the Grand Lodge on
January q, 1854, that the Lodge did
not meet until some four months later
when on April s it installed officers.
The Charter was probably that long
in reaching the members. owing to
the slow mode Of travel in those days
and the infrequent communication
was frequently disturbed by incle-
ment weather at that season of the
year further infer from this time
10 now, the meetings were all held in
Fl PasO proper We all know that
the village Of Franklin was the daddy
Of FL Paso.
The Masonic year ended in these /
days on St John, the Evangelist day, I
and on December p, 1854, the Lodges I
reported to the Grand Lodge that
they had had four raisings. two pas ]
ing the year then closing Member I
ship of eleven
At the morning session Of Thurs
day, January q, 1858, Of the Grand ]
annual commune ion OF the Gran9
Lodge OF Texas, held at the town OF
Waco, the following resolution was
read and on motion, adopted:
Resolved, That FL Paso Lodge No. /
80, have until the June COmmunica- I
tion to forward the returns for 1856 /
and 1857 for said Lodge"
At the Grand Annual COmmunica- /
ton Of the Grand Lodge, held in the I
city Of Houston, commencing June |
20, 1851 the Grand Lodge dues Of
all Subordinate Lodges were re-
mitted for the year 1860. owing to 4
several unprecedented seasons and in
consequence Of the Civil War. Oni
April 18th, 1853, was held the last
meeting Of the lodge until after the
civil War. The Lodge recessed until
July S. 1856. On September 4, 1856,
Grand Master Richard Duglass OF the
Grand Lodge of Texas, writing from /
Crockett Texas, TO A G, HYDE, W
NJ, states. THAT believing il 10 be
to the interests OF Masonry, he deems
il proper to continue Il PasO Lodge
NO. 40, TO meet and transact busi-
ness as before the war, with instruc-
tions that said Lodge Will be repre-
Communication OF the Grand Lodge
Of Texas. with a fun statement Of the
facts connected with their case, for
the action o. that Grand Body"
Fortunes Ebb and Flow.
The fortunes Of the Lodge then
ebbed and flowed for nearly twenty
years. With u members IN 1856, the
Lodge had only II in 1884. Some
years there we're gains and some
they had rented quarters from ". W.
Mills, A. J. Fountain and others. We
are anxious TO ascertain Just where
the Lodge did meet prior to 1879. in
the various years and viii appreciate
the information or anything that will
lead mp to our searching for II.
On August 90, 1879, the Lodge
moved into q one story adobe build
ing, which had erected on its prop
erty at san Antonio street and Mesa
avenue and which was dedicated on
that date. This property had been
given by Mrs. Gertrude Webb on
April 6, 1867, and had been used as a
CEN eterw and Vas 50 rIeaa Until ahnlff