The Press., 1920-06-10

The regular meeting of the Amalga-
 mated Textile Workers will be held Friday evening at 7.3O.
 Louis Petterle and Louis Beig have purchased a two tenement house | in West street near the R. I. w. mill | from Benjamin Campo.
 The annual high school picnic will be held this afternoon at Crystal Lake.
 In the evening there will be dancing
 to music by Woods orchestra.
 Mrs. Janet Scott St. Marie was
 granted a divorce on the grounds of afternoon in Rockville by Judge J. B. Keeler of Stamford. She testified that she was married in 1914 and that her husband deserted her four years ago. She also asked for a change of name
 but this was refused. At present she is living with relatives in the Hollow. The fiftieth anniversary of Ionic lodge, No. 110, A. F. and A. M. was
 observed by the lodge on Tuesday
 evening. There was an attendance of
 over 16O. including large delegation
 from Urial lodge of Morrow and Will
 lington and members of Wolcott lodge,
 Stafford. The Master Mason degree
 was worked on five candidates, the
 chair being filled by Past Masters J.
 G. Martin, J. Carl Converse, Ora Walk
 CT, David Bissett and J. D. Griffith.
 The first past master of the lodge, J.
 V. Squier, now living in Windsor
 Locks, was present. It was first
 planned to have a banquet at the
 Springs House after the work, but as
 it became evident that the attendance
 would be larger than could be accom-
 modated in the hotel dining room, it
 was decided to have MT. Needham fur nish buffett lunch at the lodge room. After the excellent repast had been served cigars were passed and R. w. Ellis, acting as toastmaster introduced the speakers. F. F. Patten gave a brief history of the lodge. We quote briefly from his paper. In 1870, some of the members of Wolcott lodge, Staff ford, living in the village of Stafford Springs believing that lodge could be sustained here applied to the grand lodge for a charter. dispensation was granted and forty-one members of Wolcott lodge withdrew and re- assent led here. The first meeting of | what was then termed the Mineral | Springs lodge was held in a small hall l in the Foster wooden block on Febru- | ary 19, 1870. The charter members | were: J. V. Squier, William H. Cool | ey, George s. Lucas, Garner Reed, H. | c. Mclaughlin, Anthony Adams, | James Mclaughlin, Edward Johnson, Holmes, Oscar w. Sanford, | Edward w. Dunlap, l.. w. Collis, H. | Albert Fuller, J. R. Washburn, l.. J. Wescott, Emory Pierce, Henry Hills, | D. H. Medbury, w. M. Crawford, Cy- | rus Bandford, F. N. Crane, Henry | Smith, Isaac c. Hamilton, William Fields, Carl Carlos Prouty, Augustus | Medbury, John A. Nichols, Charles c. | Essex, F. w. Pulford, G. Howell Olm- | stead, F. J. Weston, J. A. Medbury, | w. J. Sibley, Andrew Case, Rev. Will liam Nc. K. Bray, Dr. c. B. Newton, | E. Akers, Elmer Davis, William Com | ins, Amos N. Nichols, L. G. Winter. | Of the above 41 members only are | now living, J. V. Squier, Dr. c. B. Newton, Elmer Davis and H. Albert | Fuller. The hall in the Foster block was too small and quarters were ob
  building erected opposite he borough hall, on the site now oc- ,upied by the Helm garage, by Craw- ord & Banford. The new quarters we're occupied and dedicated on June 1870, on which date the lodge re- eiyed it's charter. In May the same ear the name was changed to Ionic I odge. On February Sth 1877 the f uilding was destroyed by fire but the . ecords, charter and lodge jewels ' ere saved. The lodge received $500 z lsurance. and the fire in a way was ' blessing for in less than 60 days, the I pod of March 27th, 1877, destroyed f 1.-the buildings in that section of the z orough. The lodge would have lost f Il their property and possibly the harter, and there would have been no lsurance. After the fire for about a ear, the meetings were held in the Warren wooden block that occupied he site of the present Warren brick dock. The Stafford National bank ost it's building by the flood and was obliged to build a new block and the odge made arrangements to occupy heir present handsome and commo- lious home, where the first meeting was held on March 4th, 1878. On the night of May 26, 1917, when the Baker block was destroyed by fire the lodge room was damaged by water and smoke and the lodge received $522 in insurance. The list of the 25 past masters of the lodge is as follows: J. V. Squier, Oscar Sanford, Emory Pierce, Anthony Adams, Embert Mars iale, Albert c. Eaton, Fred Close, Will liam Spedding, Harvey S. Abel, David Bissett, J. Carl Converse, George w. Eaton, Richard M. Fisk, finders Ja- cobsen, John M. Leach, Charles R. Newton, William H. Heald, James Stretch, Robert H. Fisk, David Robert son. Willis H. Reed, Joseph G. Martin, Ora Walker, George Siswick, John D Eight of the past masters nave died as follows: O. W. Sanford, Emory Pierce, G. B. Marsdale, A. c. Eaton, Fred Close, H. s. Abel, G. w. Eaton, Anthony Adams. The lodge 1as grown from Al members to 145. The second speaker was E. H. Park man of Thompsonville, master of he grand lodge of Connecticut in 1914. MT. Parkman gave a very interesting address on Masonry It was nearly o'clock when the exercises were closed and it was an evening long to De remembered by the members of Ionic lodge