Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1922-05-31

In the evening there was a delight
full concert by the Lyric male quartet
of Bangor and Higgins orchestra,
followed by ball, in which the old
fashioned square dances, came in for
| their own. The evening was thor
| oughly enjoyed by large number of
| Masons and their ladies.
The concert program was as fol-
lows;
| Hunting Song, Gebel
| A Night in Spain. Trotere
| A Question r. w. Glider
! The Lilac Tree George Gartlan
c. Leroy Lyon
| Annie Laurie, Geibel
! Over the Billowy Sea, Pietre
Walter Mills
Ole Uncle Moon, Scott
Darling Nellie Grey, Shattuck
My Dreams, Tosti
! Cyrus D. McCready
| Please, Won't You Be My HIM? Dore
| Dews of the Summer Night, duet
from "The Legend of Don
Munio,") Dudley Buck
Mr. Lyon and MIR, McCready
Honey, 1 Want Yer Now Coe
Sweet Genevieve, Tucker
Orchestra
HISTORICAL.
Lygonia lodge is one of the oldest
lodges in Maine. There are but two
older in Hancock county-Castine
and Bucksport. Lygonia lodge was
chartered on April II, 1922, the |
charter being granted to James C. !
Fisk, John Hopkins, Calvin Peck,
Abner Lee, Porter Sawyer, Thomas
]. Whiting, Meltiah Jordan and Asa
A. Pond, and their associates.
There has been some question as |
to the location of the first home of |
the lodge, one quite generally &C
cepted belief being that it was in the ,
house at the corner of Main and |
South streets, now owned by William
Goggins. Henry l.. Moor, after a !
careful and painstaking search of the |
records at the registry of deeds and !
through the mass of historical papers !
in his own possession, has fixed the |
location of Major Alfred Langdon's |
store, in the attic of which the first |
meetings were held, as on the corner /.
diagonally opposite the Goggins
Main and Grant streets.
There, Mr.. Moor says, the first
brethren of Lygonia lodge met and
began work, with James c. Fisk as the
first master. A few years later, find
ing the hall too small, the lodge
moved to new building built by
Brother ]. A. Dean, adjoining what is
now known as the old laundry build
ing, west of the bridge.
After being suspended for about
fifteen years, during the dark ages"
in masonry, the lodge was reopened
in 1S47 in Otis hall, over what is
now the Thomas Lee store on Water
, street. Two years later it moved to
the hall on the third floor of the
Peters block at Main and State
streets, now known as Grand Army
! hall. This was the lodge home until
1867, when it purchased the hall in
the Tisdale block on State street.
now the laundry building This hall
Lygonia occupied in common with
Esoteric lodge and Acadia chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, after their
formation Later Esoteric lodge and
+, the chapter moved to the present
quarters in the Manning block.
,, On January "a, 1907, the Masonic
block on State street was Quilted by
fire, the lodge losing all it's regalia
most of it's records and valuable pOr-
traits of eminent MasOns. On the
morning after the fire, the master of
| Esoteric lodge, and several of the
brothers of that lodge, visited the
ruins of the fire, and on the spot ex
tended to Lygonia lodge an invita-
ton to hold it's meetings in Esoteric
lodge room, and use it's regalia and
paraphernalia. The invitation was
two lodges dwelt amicably until their
union in January. 1908, as Lygonia
lodge.
The living past masters of Lygonia
lodge are Elmer E. Rowe, Henry l..
Moor, Charles A. Allen, William
Goggins, Elvert e. Parker, F. Carroll
Burrill, Howard w. Dunn, Everett S. /
Means, Charles A. Dews, hubert B. |
Mathews, Herbert A. Ashe, Harry G. |
Austin, Chester E. Norris, John A. ,
Haynes, Fred E. Milliken, Carl R.
Wiberg, William A. Alexander, Grin .
M. Clement, Carroll F. Shea, George !
S. ODER, Willis E. Dunn.
The living past masters of Esoteric
lodge are James A. McGown, Thomas
E. Hale, A. X. Cushmane William H.
Dresser, Harvard c. Jordan, Albert
l.. Witham, Leslie w. Jordan, Harry
E. Rowe, John F. KnOwlton.
The present officers OF Lygonia
lodge are worshipful master, Leon E.
Rowe; senior warden, Walter ].
JOY; junior warden, Roger l.. Hig-