Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-10

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Trinity Commandery si.e:o $3.50 SIS,
CuShnoc Z. ~. Chap
ter ,.......;..:...... c.,.9 800 $40
Bethlehem Lodge. 100 $50 20
Augusta Lodge 49,. slo 80 i.ac
$3.50 $3.50 :l240
He'd py Ctne-S...... 1880 go 1890
Total stock out
standing ........ $500 $3.50 $3.50
Aside from the four Masonic bodies.
there are q holders Of preferred stock.
and six holders Of common.
The common stock has been reduced
from sl5.0lo to $3.50, a tola, retirement
since 1894 Of $3.50
The present board OF trustees for the
common stockholders is as follows:
George E. Macombe-. W. G. Boothby,
w H. Gannett. elected by common
stockholders. c. W. Jones, for the Com
mandery: T. W. Flaisted. for the Chap
ter: L. L. Cooper. for Bethlehem
Lodge; NJ. S Campbell, for Augusta
Lodge: F. W. Plaisted is president Of
the board: W. 9. Boothby is secretary,
treasurer. and custodian o: the build
, ing.
radically all of the money for fur
nishing the Temple was raised in 1926
at the great masonic fair held on the
five nights of February IS to .. in
elusive. There were exhibitions and
entertainments, both amateur and
professional a gypsy fortune teller. 4
potter's wheel. Bohemian glass blow
ers, displays b. local merchants, sales
! IF fancy articles and confectionery. a
fish pond, and Punch and Judy
show.
Who docs that sound like? You've
guessed il. Yes. Frederick ". Plais-
ted vas Chairman Of the Fair Com
mittee. and Edwin c. Dudley treas
ur-er, and when we corped the l,alo.
ard raked in the last buck. the SIZE
of our little pc, was nearly $4,000.
J The voting contests We're spirited.
: Martin Reynolds won the BUN calf
contributed by Hon. Joseph II. Man
/ ley. and Z. O. Nickery romped in an
easy winner of the gold headed cane.
/ Among the lady prize winners were
the following:
so cigars, Miss -. also Miss --.
: loo cigars. Mrs. -: order for %
shayeS, Miss -: order for 80 shaves.
Miss =: IS trousers to measure,
Miss =.
And nov 7 pass from parent 10
child-from the Temple ~ the Club.
/ believe that We have Tie honor Of
being the first purely masonic club in
. Maine. meaning by that a club in
which any Master Mason is eligible
J. .f
. knight Templar Club had been dis
c'issed il Trinity Commandery, and
IN Bangor the Melita--a Commandery
Club. had existed fer many years.
But there We're no general HAS 1nic
Clubs III the state in 1895. though
since then they have been organized in
! Waterville, Bangor. Portland. Rock
land and else" here.
The siin. and the conditions were
ripe for the organization Of SUCH a
. club in 1S94. and vet 70 bc quite hon
est about the matter its formation in
that particular yer was largely due
% the pro.,3ic fact that the rc,I,lS on
the south. or blind. side OF the Temple
could not he rented as Offices az that
time Il is dfticu.t TO realize nov
tire condition "f the old wooden build
ings at the south end Of waite" street
in 1894. It seriously affected rental
! values. So when, at the Organization
meeting OF the Augusta Masonic
Building Company Governor Hill
asked what was to be done With the
rooms On the south. the suggestion
that a masonic club be organized met
with immediate favor. and il proved
! to be very little effort to start it.
! There were l25 original members
who paid a membership fe" OF So
each. With that money the Club was
furnished and decorated and tlle
hardwood floors put in. The Masonic
Building Company allowed the Club
what it would have cost to have
made regular Offices. the Club stand
ing the balance Of the expense.
The Indian name of Cushnoc was
in quite general use, and there was
q social club il Waterville called the
Canibas club so at the suggestion Of
CAPT. charles T.. Nash. the Indian
name Abnaki was adopted. meaning
"Thosc looking toward the rising
sun Fortunately for the success Of
the Cab this definition was not in
curporated in the Bylaws as quail
ification Tor membership, though
doubtless some Of US occasionally
look at the rising sun before slipping
the latch key in the front door and
stealing softly upstairs.
Plans for the Club rooms were
worked out by architect John G. Spot
ford, with the assistance Of General
w. s. Choate
The formalities Of corporate organ
able Herbert NJ Heath. The first
step was an application dated June
l6. 1894. and addressed to Herbert NJ
Heath. justice Of the peace, request
ing him TO issue his warrant to one
of the 10 applicants. recurring him to
call the organization meeting. The
warrant was accordingly issued to
General ". $. Choate. who called the
meeting in the statutory manner, and
on July ?, 1894. at P. NJ, the corpor-
ate organization was completed at the
old masonic banquet hall.
The first officers Of this Club were
then elected, as follows:
II. NJ. Heath. president: F. w
Plaisted. vice president: James f.
Blanchard. secretary and treasurer;
W. s. Choate. Jos. E. Badger. F. A.
Small, Nathan Weston. NJ. S. Camp
bell. directors.
The record doesn't show what else
they did in the banquet hall that eve