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ALBERT PIKE LODGE
#98
CHARTER MEMBERS 4/9/1899 An account for jewels and furniture in the amount of $67.00 was allowed and paid. Whitewashing hall in the amount of $3.75 was allowed and paid. Voted to buy 1 dozen chairs for lodge room in amount of $9.00. Dues reduced from $2.00 to $1.00 1/25/02 15 members 2 guests present Voted to buy 2 dozen spittoons, a coal bucket, a lantern, & camellia sticks. Motion made to build a horse rack, committee appointed. 10/10/03 2 petitions read, committees appointed. Report on un-Masonic conduct: charges sustained; prosecutor appointed; trial set for next meeting. $20.00 donated to Master Masons sick daughter. 8/27/04 Motion was made that all try to live right for one month.
All so agreeing rose to their feet. Motion carried. 4/22/05 Bro. Head reprimanded Brother for un-Masonic conduct.
Brother was charged with un-Masonic conduct, plead guilty, and ask for the mercy
of the lodge. Ballot spread to expel: rejected, Ballot spread to suspend
indefinitely: rejected Ballot spread to reprimand: passed. 10/4/05 Sam Rose, Willie Blankenship, & F.W. Young elected to receive degrees Motion to lease K.P. (knight of Pytheas) Hall for $4.00/month, $5.00 including Order of Eastern Star. The K.P.s will furnish fuel and lights. 6/20/06 Called meeting for funeral of Bro. James McRiley Grace. Marched in procession to Bro. Grace's house where they took charge of the remains and carried them to the Methodist Church where J.W. Stead preached the funeral. Then the body was carried to the cemetery where it was buried with the usual Masonic ceremonies. 11/17/06 Voted that smoking be prohibited in lodge room. Bro. M.
reekmore stated that he had been furnished with a copy of the law and that since
he had learned that running a pool hall was against the Masonic law he had been
trying to sell his pool hall and ask that if anyone saw anyone that wanted to
buy it, to send them to him. He also stated that owing to having his hand
hurting he had, at the day of the previous meeting, "drunk some" and
come to the lodge and the warm room caused him to go to sleep. He ask pardon and
was excused. 10/26/07 Committee reported that they had Bro. J.C. Cole's picture enlarged at a cost of $25.00 and framed at $10.00 and should be hung in lodge hall. Note: Bro. Cole's picture still hangs in our lodge 92 years later. 3/21/08 Brother was charged with un-Masonic conduct for being drunk at the Midland Valley Depot. "Outraged public decency in presence of Mrs. Brack and her mother. Hereby that he be dealt with." 12/26/08 A communication was read from Bro. Lee O. Bennett requesting this lodge allow Albert Pike Lodge #60 of Guthrie to retain the name Albert Pike. A resolution was passed granting the name to Albert Pike #60 provided this lodge be given the name Stigler Lodge. 2/20/09 Voted that lodge put a stained glass window in the Methodist Church and assist the Eastern Star to put one in if they wanted to. 12/12/16 Treasurer's report. 4/8/19 Motion carried that lodge now meet on every 2nd and
4th Tuesday of the month. 5/13/19 Motion carried to purchase "Stigler Building" form First National Bank for consideration of $2,500. Motion for lodge to accept $750.00 for its 1/2 interest in lots owned jointly with IOOF. Committee appointed to raise money to buy building. (Committee: Eugene Mayer, J.R. Mathis, S.O. Brown, R.F. Terrell, Guy A. Curry, & O.L. Thomas.) These are some excerpts from the minutes of the early lodge here in Stigler. For obvious reasons some names have been omitted. |