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276
27.60
15.00
42.60
Levi A. Deedrick
644
Oskaloosa.
87
8.70
15.00
23.70
Harry S. Andrews
645
Stanton.
234
23.40
15.00
38.40
Elmer Lundgren
648
Castana
237
23.70
15.00
38.70
M. M. Farwell
650
Burlington
103
10.30
15.00
25.30
Edward S. Lite
651
Webb.
235
23.50
15.00
38.50
Lora Ball
654
Des Moines
119
11.90
15.00
26.90
Glenn C. Dyson
655
Dumont
117
11.70
15.00
26.70
Fred M. Sorenson
656
Des Moines
119
11.90
15.00
26.90
Fred G. French
657
Ft. Des Moines
124
12.40
15.00
27.40
John W. Anderson
658
Des Moines
119
11.90
15.00
26.90
Donald C. Cook
659
Davenport.
79
7.90
15.00
22.90
Arthur D. Atwood
Total
$4,374.20
$4,585.00
$8,959.20
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REPORT ON FINANCE
On Appropriations for 1949-50
C. D. Cox, Chairman, presented the final report of the Committee on Finance, which on his motion was-
ADOPTED.
To the Grand Lodge of Iowa:
Your Committee on Finance begs leave to present its final report showing the appropriations of the Grand Lodge for the fiscal year 1949-50.
I. Grand Master's Office
Honorarium for Grand Master
1949-50
$ 1,000.00
Contingent Fund
2,000.00
$
3,000.00
II. Grand Treasurer's Office
Salary of Grand Treasurer 200.00
III. Grand Secretary's Office
Salary of Grand Secretary.
6,000.00
Salaries of Office Help
7,000.00
Committee on Chartered Lodges-
Contingent
$ 400.00
Clerical
2,500.00 2,900.00
Printing for Officers and Committees-
Telephone and Telegraph
Postage, Express, and Freight.
3,500.00
Traveling.
Contingent Fund.
19,400.00
IV. Grand Lodge Library
Salaries Books and Binding 1,500.00
3,500.00
Supplies and Equipment.
150.00
5,150.00
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V. Building and Grounds
Insurance $ 975.00
Repairs, Improvements, and Paving 1,000.00
Light, Heat, and Water
1,400.00
Janitor and Assistants.
2,200.00
Trustees-Board Meetings. 500.00
Trustees-Special Printing Fund.
1,000.00 $ 7,075.00
VI. Grand Lodge Bulletin
Bulletin
5,000.00
VII. Iowa Committee on Masonic Education
Committee Expense and Salaries
8,650.00
Employees' Retirement Fund. 1,440.00
10,090.00
VIII. Instruction
Custodians' Contingent Fund.
2,300.00
District Lecturers.
2,300.00
4,600.00
IX. Inspection
Special Representatives.
400.00
X. Grand Lodge Communication
Printing Proceedings, etc.
4,000.00
Pay Rolls-
"A"-Custodians and District Lecturers; three-day School of Instruction. $ 2,225.62
"B"-Grand Lodge Officers. 677.79
"C"-Trustees, Committeemen,
and Past Grand Masters 1,555.92
"D"-Representatives of
Lodges 8,959.20 13,418.53
Sessional Expense
1,000.00
Fraternal Review Honorarium, 1949-50
800.00
Additional work on completed Reviews 300.00
Grand Tyler's Salary. 150.00 19,668.53
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XI. Special Appropriations
Certified Accountants
$ 475.00
Past Grand Officers' Jewels.
325.00
Masonic Relief Association of the U. S. and Canada 291.88
Grand Master's Conference-
Grand Master's Expense to. $250.00
Expense of Conference. 90.00 340.00
Committee on State Hospitals-expense 1,800.00
Masonic Charitable Educational Corporation 250.00
Masonic Service Association of U. S. 1,875.63
Appraisal of Property (annual appraisal) 50.00
Lodge Secretaries' Conferences
2,000.00
Past Grand Master's Apron
25.00
Committee on Finance-expense of committee ..
100.00
Printing of New Code.
6,500.00
Improvement Fund-Library Building
20,000.00
34,032.51
$108,616.04
Fraternally submitted,
C. D. COX O. J. BARTOS W. A. THOMAS
Committee.
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS
Past Grand Master Tom B. Throckmorton, at the request of the Grand Master-elect, assisted by Brother William Shrope as Installing Marshal, installed the following offi- cers :
ELECTIVE
Most Worshipful Don Carpenter (259), Council Bluffs, Grand Master.
Right Worshipful Harry Downs (326), Greene, Senior Grand Warden.
Right Worshipful Foster G. Iddings (615), Sioux City, Junior Grand Warden.
Right Worshipful C. Dale Cox (304 Stuart), Ottumwa, Grand Treasurer.
Right Worshipful Earl B. Delzell (263), Cedar Rapids, Grand Sec- retary.
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APPOINTIVE
Right Worshipful Harry K. Burmeister (263), Cedar Rapids, Dep- uty Grand Master.
Right Worshipful George E. Farmer (25), P.G.T., Cedar Rapids, Deputy Grand Secretary.
Right Worshipful Sterling J. Baldwin (69), West Union, Grand Chaplain.
Worshipful Harry J. Blosser (354 Cromwell), Creston, Grand Mar- shal.
Worshipful T. E. Haworth (533), Armstrong, Senior Grand Dea- con.
Worshipful John C. Davisson (168 Kinross), Wellman, Junior Grand Deacon.
Worshipful L. R. Adamson (1), Burlington, Senior Grand Steward. - Worshipful R. K. Stoufer (71), Council Bluffs, Junior Grand Steward.
Right Worshipful J. Ellitt Grayson (65), P.J.G.W., Cedar Falls, Grand Tyler.
PROCLAMATION
William Shrope, as Grand Marshal, then proclaimed the Grand Lodge Officers duly installed.
PRESENTATION OF PAST GRAND OFFICERS' JEWELS
Past Grand Master-
Thomas W. Wellington, P.G.M., on behalf of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, presented Brother J. Guy Swartslander with a Past Grand Master's jewel, saying in part:
From time immemorial, yes, from the time the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, it has been the custom of the Grand Lodge to give the Past Grand Master's jewel to each retiring Grand Master.
Most Worshipful Brother Swartslander, I assure you that it af- fords me great pleasure to be assigned to this pleasant duty. You have labored in the Grand Lodge for many years; your brethren have learned to love and respect you and to appreciate the great efforts you have given through the years to this great Institution of Masonry, and they have been glad to co-operate with you in your year of work. You have been fortunate in holding this office at a time when there was great activity among the lodges of Iowa
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Masonry. There have been many petitions and lots of work, and the lodges have appreciated the fact the Grand Master, and many times his officers have been able to accompany him, has been able to visit these smaller lodges. It has been a great privilege to them.
Brother Guy, this Grand Lodge appreciates the service you have given to them, and they wish to express their appreciation to you, and to wish for you many years of happiness, and many years of health, that you may continue your work for the great Institution of Masonry. On behalf of these brethren, I present to you this jewel of the Past Grand Master.
Brother Swartslander responded as follows:
It certainly does please me to have received this Past Grand Mas- ter's jewel from Brother Wellington, representing you brethren out here. I can think of no one whom I would rather have had present this jewel to me. The record of my year is on the books; it can't be changed; but I do hope I shall be able to serve Masonry for many years, and try to repay you in some way for the privilege of having served as your Grand Master. I shall be proud to wear this jewel, and I hope that there shall never be any cause to regret your having elected me to this high office, in any action I may take in the remaining years of my life.
Past Junior Grand Warden-
Charles B. Hayes, P.S.G.W., in presenting the Past Jun- ior Grand Warden's jewel to Brother Cecil S. Myers, said:
It seems to me sometimes that my Masonry has been one happy experience after another. And to me this morning has been accorded what, in my opinion, is an outstandng Masonic privilege. A year ago by your ballot you elected this good brother as your Junior Grand Warden. This brought happiness to me, partially because of the fact he is a member of my lodge-more than that, for years a fellow townsman, a neighbor, we worked together, and played together. This morning the record of his service is known to all of you, and it is unnecessary for me to attempt to recapitulate the virtues which this good brother possesses. But in order that you might know something of the cause of the joy which comes to me in his having held this position, I would say that, while we are about the same age, I happened to get into Masonry before he did, so he has become a sort of a Masonic son. And so it is a real pleasure to me this morning, on behalf of the Craft of Iowa, to place upon our good Brother Cecil Myers the jewel of the Past Junior Grand Warden, the evidence not only of his splendid service but of his permanent membership in the Grand Lodge of Iowa.
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And to Brother Cecil I would add just one word, and that is to say in all sincerity that as we stand here this morning I feel that very close to us in spirit is our late lodge brother, Past Grand Master Gannaway. And I know John in spirit says with me this morning, and with all you brethren, "Well done, Cecil, you have given a splendid account of yourself, and we know you will go on through all the days that are yours giving loyal service to Masonry."
Brother Myers responded as follows :
Thank you my good friends and brothers; and thank you my very good friend and brother, Charlie. I want to tell you it is through his grace and your grace that I am proud to wear this emblem. And I will pledge you the same interest and work for this thing called Masonry as long as I am capable of doing it. I thank you.
Past Grand Treasurer ----
Fred H. Nolte, P.G.M., presented Brother Glenn A. Fos- ter with his Past Grand Treasurer's jewel and commented as follows :
A few years ago it was my pleasure to make a nomination-to ยท nominate a man on the Committee on Finance. I picked for that man Brother Glenn, a man whom I knew had the ability to make good. He served on that committee, and he made good. This Grand Lodge then elected him Grand Treasurer. He again made good. He is now a life member of this Grand Lodge; and so it is a real pleasure for me to pin on the breast of this worthy brother his jewel. And we hope for you, Brother Glenn, many happy years of service with the brethren you really love.
In responding, Brother Foster said :
I have heard the Grand Master say many times this year about his officers, how proud he was of them. He says some of them were appointed and he had something to do with it, and that some of them he was stuck with. I was one he was stuck with. But I want to say that I have never had any more enjoyable time in my life than I have had this year with the Grand Master and my fellow officers; they are the finest bunch of fellows I have had the pleasure to associate with. I want to express my thanks to them, and to you brethren of this Grand Lodge, who have elevated me to this office from which I am now retiring. Thank you.
PRESENTATION OF GAVEL
Brother O. J. Bartos (592) has made many gavels, but
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the one presented this year to the Grand Master had a special significance. It was made of myrtle wood. In addi- tion to being a work of art, it particularly appealed to the Grand Master in that he recalled that many years ago he married a young lady by the name of Myrtle Wood.
LIST OF TRUSTEES, CUSTODIANS, AND COMMITTEEMEN
TRUSTEES AND CUSTODIANS OF THE WORK
Trustees Grand Lodge
Wm. A. Westfall (145), P.G.M., Chairman. Mason City Term expires 1951 ...
Ernest R. Moore (263), P.G.M. Term expires 1953. Cedar Rapids Fred G. Hansen (100), P.G.M. Term expires 1955. Clinton
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Trustees Grand Charity Fund
Milo J. Gabriel (93), P.G.M., Chairman. Term expires 1950 .... Clinton Harry A. Palmer (263), P.G.M. Term expires 1951. .Cedar Rapids Frederic M. Miller (110). Term expires 1952. Des Moines L. W. Lovell (173), P.G.T., Treasurer. Term expires 1953. .. Monticello Albert Wharton (49). Term expires 1954. Dubuque Harold R. Boles (626 Davenport), Secretary Bettondorf
Trustees Masonic Charitable Educational Corporation
Wm. A. Westfall (145), P.G.M., Chairman.
Mason City Term expires 1950 ..
Wilbur F. Earhart (304), P.S.G.W. Term expires 1952. Stuart Herbert W. Braack (221), P.G.T. Term expires 1954. Davenport
Custodians of the Work
John T. Ames (340), P.G.M., Chairman. Term expires 1951 ...... Traer Thomas W. Wellington (13), P.G.M., Secretary. Term expires 1953. Fort Madison
Charles C. Clark (650), P.G.M. Term expires 1955. Burlington
STANDING COMMITTEES
Credentials
Edw. J. Mackenzie (269), Chairman. Ottumwa
Ralph M. Fogleman (506 Gowrie). Callender
Warren A. Sides (216). LaPorte City
Lodges Chartered and Under Dispensation
Edwin L. Lunde (103), P.J.G.W., Chairman.
Term expires 1952 ..
Sioux City
Ralph C. Brown (14), P.J.G.W. Term expires 1950. Bloomfield Clyde H. Robinson (633), Secretary. Term expires 1951 Des Moines
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Division and Reference
Glen G. Radcliffe (175 Belle Plaine), P.J.G.W., Chairman. .Boone Graydon W. Johnson (155) Mechanicsville
C. H. Knapp (551 Farley) Dubuque
Appeals and Grievances
Corwin R. Bennett (110), Chairman. Des Moines
Claude W. Smith (249), P.S.G.W. Ames
George B. Sparks (631) Council Bluffs
Masonic Jurisprudence
Charles C. Clark (650), P.G.M., Chairman.
Term expires 1951. Burlington
Harry A. Palmer (263), P.G.M. Term expires 1950 Cedar Rapids
Clifford D. Jory (376), P.G.M. Term expires 1952 Sheldon
J. V. Gray (8), P.G.M. Term expires 1953. Mt. Pleasant
Harry L. Searle (498), P.G.M. Term expires 1954 Bristow
Finance
O. J. Bartos (592), Chairman. Des Moines
Wayne Thomas (368) Carlisle
Warren L. White (335) Oakland
Iowa Committee on Masonic Education
B. F. Butler (624), P.G.T., Chairman.
Term expires 1953
Waterloo
Charles B. Hayes (273 Grinnell), P.S.G.W. Term expires 1950. Des Moines
Raymond H. Sawyer (300). Term expires 1951 Shenandoah
H. J. Thornton (4). Term expires 1952. Iowa City
Edwin P. Sherman (22). Term expires 1954. Des Moines
Cecil S. Myers (273 Grinnell), P.J.G.W., Secretary Cedar Rapids
Grand Lodge Library
Ivan M. Maxson (495 Hartley) Laurens
Fraternal Review
Ernest R. Moore (263), P.G.M. Cedar Rapids
Fraternal Dead
LeRoy Shields (396 Murray) Grand River
Grand Lodge Recognition
Fred H. Van Allen (255), P.S.G.W., Chairman. Clinton
Millard D. Thomas (633), P.S.G.W. Des Moines
Roscoe D. Markle (141) Charles City
Visitors
Fred H. Nolte (304), P.G.M., Chairman Stuart Wayne Harbour (156) Bedford
Dorsey L. Andrews (61) Knoxville
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State Hospitals
Tom B. Throckmorton (110), P.G.M., Chairman. Term expires 1952 Des Moines
Nathan L. Hicks (108), P.S.G.W. Term expires 1950 Marshalltown Glenn Barbe (29), P.J.G.W. Term expires 1951 Keokuk
SPECIAL COMMITTEES
Masonic Code Revision
Harry A. Palmer (263), P.G.M., Chairman Cedar Rapids
Floyd Philbrick (639), P.S.G.W. Cedar Rapids
Earl B. Delzell (263), Grand Secretary. Cedar Rapids
Research Lodges
Charles A. Dewey (26 Washington), P.G.M., Chairman .. Des Moines
John T. Ames (340), P.G.M. Traer
Tom B. Throckmorton (110), P.G.M Des Moines
MINUTES OF THIRD DAY'S SESSION
George E. Farmer, Deputy Grand Secretary, read the minutes of the third day's session, which were approved.
BENEDICTION
Sterling J. Baldwin (69), Grand Chaplain, offered the closing prayer.
CLOSING CEREMONY
The Grand Master, with the assistance of the newly in- stalled officers, closed the Grand Lodge in ample form at 11:35 A. M.
Grand Master.
RAND
LODGE
SEAL OF
OF IOWA
1844
Grand Secretary.
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COMMENTS BY VISITING BRETHREN BEFORE GRAND LODGE
Our visiting brethren were very generous and inspiring in their comments. Obviously their entire speeches can- not be printed, but we do want to bring you a part of some of the messages.
Morris Ewing, P.G.M., Missouri; Dwight L. Smith, P.G.M., Grand Secretary, Indiana ; J. Ellitt Grayson, Grand Master of the Grand Council, R. & S. M .; and Earl B. Delzell, Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery, K.T., spoke briefly and brought greetings from their re- spective Jurisdictions or Bodies.
JAMES F. RISHER, Grand Master of Masons in South Carolina:
It is indeed a great honor and great privilege to be able to meet with you in your annual session and to bring to you greetings from 40,000 of your brethren in the Independent Republic of South Caro- lina. It is a happy privilege to meet with you brethren.
I happen to come from that section of the country, you know, which some of the political leaders of America think is very be- nighted in lots of ways, most especially from an educational stand- point; and I have a story which I think illustrates the fact that down in South Carolina we do know something.
A good many years ago one of the common sights was to see a dray with a mule hitched to it, driven through the streets of the average city by a Negro drayman, draying everything as an em- ployee of what we called "transfer companies" in those days. I want to give you just a little of one end of a telephone conversation that took place between one of these Negro drivers and the overseer of the transfer company. He rang the telephone and he said, "Is that you, Cap? Well, this old mule done stopped on the street and I can't get him to move no how. Policeman say he going to shoot him if I don't get him moved off the street. ... Yes, sir, yes, sir, done wear the whip down to the handle. . . Yes, sir, yes, sir, done blowed in his ear. Don't do no good. ... Yes, sir, yes, sir, built a fire under him and he just tromp it out. . . . No, sir, no, sir, I ain't twist his tail, a white gentleman done twist his tail, look like a northern gentleman."
Seriously speaking, gentlemen, it is a great privilege to be able to speak to you as a group of Masons. I want to tell you, I wouldn't have traveled all this distance merely as a matter of curiosity to
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see whether you are as ritualistic as we are, because after all that is the mechanics of Masonry. I am here because I am vitally inter- ested in the dynamics of this great organization of ours. And I am interested because I believe the Masons of America face the greatest challenge ever known to any group in history. We have a philosophy which the world needs, and in this philosophy of ours lies the only power that can bring safety and peace to the troubled world. If we will take a brief glance at human history, we will be convinced of the fact that Man, time after time, has run into trouble because he has failed to realize as a foundation principle of his life the fact that God is cur Father and that our fellow man is our brother. That trouble started back in the first human family when one brother took the other brother's life; and God walking in the cool of the evening asked him, "Where is your brother?" And he said, "Am I my brother's keeper?" He was simply saying, "Why ask me? It isn't any business of mine." In other words, he was deny- ing that fundamental truth in his life. The very course of human history has been affected because men have failed to regard that fundamental principle in their living-their relationship with their fellow man. Back down in the years our savage ancestor took the second step along the path to modern science; he discovered power. That power multiplied his responsibility to his fellow man. If he had had the philosophy which would have made him certain of his position in life, he would have used that power in order to help lift the burden from his fellow man. Instead he used it in order to gain for himself something he wanted. And then, some centuries later, Man invented gunpowder. For the self-same reason, instead of using it to lift the burden off his fellow man's shoulders, we find it rammed down the cannon's mouth in order to take human life. And so it has been, as civilization has been traveling steadily west- ward, until today there are more eyes turned on that flag of ours than on any flag that has ever unfurled itself to the breezes in this world. It was but a few years ago when the sands of New Mexico were lighted up with the first atomic bomb test. That was a stop sign. And so we find ourselves standing at the very crossroad of civilization, with the possibility of life or death, not only to our- selves but to mankind, within our hands. The only way we can be certain we are going to take the right position is for us indiv- idual Masons not only to profess a belief in God, but let it become such a reality in our lives that our fellow man will become our brother. Such is the challenge which I feel stares in the face today every Mason who professes to be a Mason. Will we accept it, or will we fail? Whether we do or not, to my way of thinking, will determine whether the thing we call civilization is going to survive, or whether it will go down in a hell of destruction.
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HAROLD L. READER, Grand Secretary of Missouri:
It is very trite to begin an address by saying you are glad to be here, but I am. I have looked forward with a great deal of pleasure to this visit.
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I want to remind you of one or two things. In the first place we have reached the place where we have to do some very serious thinking. We haven't done very much thinking in the last 100 years, because we haven't had to do very much thinking"; we have been so rich, so bountifully blessed, we haven't had to do very much think- ing. But we have reached the time, especially in our Craft, where we must do some very serious thinking.
There is just one thing I want to remind you of, and then I am through.
There are five different approaches to Freemasonry, and only five. The Historical approach; the Philosophical approach; the Psychological approach; the Ethical approach; and the Ritualistic approach. There are no other approaches to Freemasonry. Now, we have stressed the historical approach; we have spent thousands and thousands of dollars stressing the historical approach; that is very important. We have stressed the ritualistic approach; we have spent thousands and thousands of dollars stressing the rit- ualistic approach. But, my brethren, the most important approach- and I venture the assertion here we haven't spent one cent on it- is the ethical approach to Freemasonry. I wish I had time to talk to you about it today, but I haven't. That is the most important approach to Freemasonry. Why? Because Freemasonry is a way of life. Let me throw out a hint here-I hope I shall not be mis- understood-Jesus never accepted the word "religion"; indeed, you can't find the word religion in the four gospels. Jesus accepted the word life-"I have come that you may have life." Freemasonry is a way of life; that is what it is; therefore, the most important approach to it is the ethical approach. I hope to live long enough, my brethren, to see as much emphasis placed on it as there is upon the historical approach and the ritualistic approach, important as they both are.
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HARRY F. SUNDERLAND, Grand Master of Masons in Missouri:
It is with the utmost pleasure that I bring to you fraternal greet- ings and best wishes from 112,000 Masons of the State of Missouri.
I was most interested to hear the report of the Field Agent for the Masonic Service Association. We have three Field Agents in
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the Grand Lodge of Missouri working in the State of Missouri- one at Jefferson Barracks, one at O'Reilly General Hospital at Springfield, and one at the Administration Facility at Excelsior Springs.
I was interested to hear of the visitation made by your Worshipful Grand Master recently at the Veterans' Hospital in Des Moines. In fact I have a booklet at home with his photograph showing him at the bedside of one of the brother Masons who is lying there on a bed of pain.
JOHN W. THORNBURG, Grand Master of Masons in Indiana:
I want you to know that in coming out to your Grand Lodge I bring you greetings from some 540 lodges of the great State of Indiana; that State, not where the tall corn grows-because we are conscious of the fact that that is an honor that belongs to the great State of Iowa-but the State that has been the home of the Corn Kings of America ever since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
To you men out in the Grand Lodge proper I would suggest you might well wish the Grand Master and his official line would pro- vide for you a fairly constructive leadership that will enable you first to recognize the problems of Masons as they exist in this great domain of yours, and secondly that you may be told how to go about solving those problems. I suggest those two factors enter- ing into your Grand Lodge session. I am content that you are going to have the same great Grand Lodge up here at the Coliseum that they have been having down there at the Roosevelt Hotel.
Brother Earl B. Delzell has brought back a report from Indian- apolis that is going to make it very, very difficult for me and my Grand Lodge Officers next year to entertain those men of your group whom you send to Indianapolis in the same splendid hospitable manner extended to us here; you have opened your hearts and your city to us, and have made us feel at home. As I sat in your lodge, Crescent No. 25, last night I felt as though I was sitting at home in a lodge, back home again in Indiana, there was such close similarity between your Ritual and ours. You have a great Masonic organ- ization out here in the State of Iowa.
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