History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. II, Part 44

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 830


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Inasmuch as th institution was first located in the city of Newark, is under the case of the Pre by- tev of Newark, is associated intimately with the city of Newark, and its present location is but a mile and] a half outside the city limits, the corporate name is still retained, - The German Theological School of Newark, N. J.


Public Communications. - The movement which separated the township of Orange from the township of Newark was a movement which pervaded the mind of the wider community. It was n quickening of enterprise and of facilities for commerce for mann- fucture, for agriculture.


During that year of 1506 four important public roads were made. The cracked was made straight, the wet was made dry, the rough was made smooth, the steep ascent was made gradual, and the tide of wheeled movement at once increased. This was the construction by the act of the State of four turnpikes, ruchating from Newark -the Newark and Pompton road through Bloomfield; the Newark and Mount Pleasant rond, through Change, the Spring field and Newark road : the Essex and Middlesex pik . from Newark to New Brunswick. Ther wide avenues penetrated a wide cirenit of country. Distant roads, farm and mills file ther power. New mills, store and residences, and all forms of internal commercial life were createl That portion of the Pompton pike which was within the township of Newark that i-, east of the mountain crest-was conformly known as the Bloomfield turnpike The Newark and Pomp- ton turnpike was constructed from Robert Colfax's corner, at Benq ton, to Broad Street, in Newark, near or at the stone bridge which covered the old " Mill Brook." It was to cross the Passare River near the Little Falls, and to pass through the "most convenient gap in the mountain near Cranetown" The capital Mt .k was four thousand dollars a while, the shares twenty-five dollars, the three toll-gates, six mille apart, situated near the Morris C'anal, at the top of the mountain, and at Syngack, near the upper Passaic.


The incorporator- were John S. Cumming, John IF uld, Israel Crane, Noah Payre, Isane Mend, Robert Gould and Nathaniel Douglas; the commissioners, Andrew Wilson, Nathaniel Campand Richard Edeal There was no little opposition, for it cut a diagonal through the farms to the mountain top. But the ex vitement was allayer. The constructed rond attracted distant wheels from towards the Ddaware over its brand and hard bed. larael t'rane was a leading di- rector, and from his bury wholesale and retail store at ('rus etown the great wagons went even beyond the bor lers of the State.


The road beenme indebted to Mr. Crane, who careil


THE MORRIS CANAL passes through the entire length of old Bloomfield, and was completed some years 1- fore the township of Belleville was formel. It was valuable to Bloomfield in the intr xluctim ofcoal and in the transportation of wood and of general ier- chandise. Two pocket-boats also, at one time, plies for some years between Paterson atal Newark. The inclined plane at Bloomfield, Guy seven feet in vr- tical height, represents what is to med the sun t plane," an invention for raising boats from level to level, peculiar to this canal. The upper level ter- minates at a solid bank across the cinal, ant higi above the water, over this bank, [ == the tracks of the inclined plane, which decend beneath the water of the level below. The boat is made in two Half-hull boxes, joined with a hinge: the boat rarr azr has also a corresponding joint, and so boat and carria e chosb the sun mit bank, and descend from it, with_t dis- turbance of the cargo.


From the upper end of the Bloomfield plandstr tehe- "the long level" for seventeen miles, and from the lower end the canal reaches to Newark with but a single lock.


The canal was completed from the Delaware to the l'assaic, at Newark, in 1531, and five years later it was extended from Newark to Jersey City.


Jacob F. Randolph, a resident of Brumfield, he- enme president of the company in 1869, which offire he still holds. The caual was transferred in 1571 under a ja rpetual lease, to the Lehigh Valley Rulroy 1 and is now one of the great coal carrier- of that com- pany. The lease yields to the carol company six per rent. on its stocks and indebtedness.


THE NEWARK AND BLOOMFIELD RAILROAD WAS opened for passenger trem Bloomfield on De. 20. 1855, and some six months later from West Bl embield. Negotiations were at first made with the New Jersey Railroad Company, but the final arrangement for building the rond was completed with the Morris and Essex Company. When first opened to West 1, com- field, the same person sold the tickets at the station and was the brakeman on the train. One tri tone car, with an engine furnished by the Morris and Bass (' mpany ran up and down the six trips demande I by the time-table. A bell was rung at the sunition to notify the people of the approaching train.


The first incorporator, when the charter was oh- tained in 1852, were Zen - S. Crane, Joseph s. Davis, Tra Dodd, Grant J. Wheeler, Robert C. Cak. David Oakes, David Conger, Will am & Morris and W rren S. Baldwin; but the direction had much changel be-


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HISTORY OF ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.


fore the road was opened. Dr. Joseph \. Davis was the first president, and was most efficient in procuring the construction of the road. Ira Dodd was afterwards superintendent. The actual capital stock in 1556 was $105,000, of which $55,000 was held by the Morris and Essex Company and $50,000 taken by subscribers, mostly in Bloomfield. The bridge across the Passaic just east of the station, in Newark, was built by the Ploomfield company. When work was begun. Dr. Davis took up the first spadeful of earth near the present t'lark Street, and the Rev. Job Halsey, of West Bloomfield, made an address. The number of pas- sengers in January, 1856, was 3843, besides commuters, and in July, 10,642, 660 of whom were between Bloom- field and West Bloomfield, and 355 between Roseville and Newark. At the end of the first seven montlis there was a deficit of $330.53.


" Dodaltown " was first called by the conductor as the houseless station next below Bloomfield, but the old historie Indian name Watsessing soon took its place. A fourth station in the old town was opened about 1-60, which was named Ridgewood, but has since been changed to Glen Ridge. Through trains were run to New York from about 1865, under the Morris and Es-ex Company, which controlled the branch road. Subsequently, when the Morris and Essex Railroad was leastd to the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western Railroad. the Bloomfield Branch passed under the controlling management as one of the auxiliaries.


The Bloomfield Branch has now seventeen trains a day cach way between Montelair and New York The fastest time now from Montclair to New York is forty-two minutes.


THE NEW YORK, MONTCLAIR AND GREENWOOD LAKI. RAILWAY grew out of some dissatisfaction with the titue and the accommodations given by the Bloom- field road. The incorporation was in 1867, and the incorporators were Albert Pearce. Henry t. Spalding. Samuel Wilde, Joseph B. Beadle and Julius H. Pratt. The proposal to bond the towns along the line of the road was resisted by Bloomfield, whose people were more naturally interested in their own road. As the two strong centres of population at West Bloomfield and Bloomfield were now ripe for separate organization. the disagreement in respect to the railroad was the o en. ion of the erection of the township of Montclair. The new township was erected the next year, the bonds were issued, Bloomfield having been exempted in the act which authorized them.


The terminus was at first fixed at Montelair, but the road was afterwards extended to fireenwood Lake. The road was completed in 1572, and its good effect was at once seen in the rapid development of the n rtl rn part of the new township, and in the in- provement of the old road, in its better facilities and quicker time.


The road h's come recently into the possession of the Lake Erie and Great Western Hallway, and now


has two stations in Belleville, one in Bloomfield and three in Mon elair.


Since the completion of this railway the passenger transit on both the roads has greatly increased and the sparsely settled lands of both towns are rapidly becoming filled with avenues of tasteful suburban houses.


THE NEWARK. BLOOMFIELD AND MONTCLAIR HORSE CAR RAILROAD obtained its charter in 1867. It was originally built from the Bloomfield Cemetery along the west side of the Park, down the old road, or Franklin Street, and passed into a new avenue opened by the road to the north end of Mount Prospect Ave- nue, in Newark. The route proved too crooked and the time too long, and the rails have been since laid from Mount Prospect Avenue, directly up Bloomfield Avenue, to the west end of Liberty Street. David Oakes, Warren S. Baldwin, Robert M. Henning, James H. Clark, G. Lee Stout, Charles Akers, William Ilar- ris, Edward S. Wilde, Philip Weaver and Julius H. Pratt werethe original corporators from Bloomfield.


The extension to Montelair has not been undertaken.


THE WACHUNG BRANCH of the New York. Montelair and Greenwood Lake Railway passes through the southern part of the township. It connects the west end of the city of Orange, with the main road at ex- treme northern end of Newark.


THE MONTCLAIR GAS COMPANY has the gasometer in the lower part of Bloomfield. The gas lamps have been introduced into the streets of the two towns.


THE WATER SYSTEM of Bloomfield was laid, with hydrants, in the year 1884. It is connected with the Orange water-works. near the ancient "boiling springs," which divides the towns.


THE POST OFFICES of the town now are four, Bloomfield. Brookdale, which is the ancient Stone House Plain, Watsessing and Glen Ridge.


CENTRES OF POPULATION .-- Besides the principal centres of residence around the Park several subordin- ate centres have a special interest.


BROOKDALE OR STONE HOUSE PLAIN Still con- tiues to be the staid home of the Holland descendants.


THE MORRIS NEIGHBORHOOD is, as it has been from the beginning, a family cluster of houses, and may be said to include the store of James W. Baldwin & Brothers, and its adjoining residences on the ancient Baldwin tract.


WATSENSING has grown into a distinet settlenient, with its two small churches and post-otlice, and with the extensive manufacturing of organs by Peloubet & Co., and the manufacturing of hardware goods by R. S. Grummon, touching its northern border.


In 1867 Mr. Robert Pale purchased fifty-six acres of field land, in the northwest portion of the town, on which he has since erected twenty-seven dwellings on four new streets. This development of an unoccupied portion of the town has stimulated additional build- ing, and a wide tract of residences now extend up- wards to the Ridgewood Avenue.


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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP.


GLENRIGHE occupe the slope and crest of the wooded ridge on the west border of the town. The ridge itself has also an avenue running a mile northward with beautiful sites and tasteful residences. From the crest, the houses look down upon both the village of Bloomfield and the valleys of Montelair, and aero s to the Montekur Mountain. The spires of the city and the waters of the bay of New York may be seen.


The original attractions of this portion of the town are much enhanced by the taste ful residences which are rapidly increasing.


STATISTI S. - Relative Areas of the towns in the original Bloomfield:


Square Miles.


Squire Seres.


1 6X 1 -. 4


1-65-1 -1


4.11. M


1×3-15 1


1,000 2


The oule | Bramfeld . . . 1712-1 39


20) 2


13.112


The original Bloomfield comprised about two-fitths of the original Newark tract.


THE Progress of POPULATION .- The county of loses was formed in Jos2 Three years later, George Scot, in his " Model of the Government of the Province of East New Jersey. estimated Elizabethtown and plantations at four thousand acres, and Newark and plantations at five thousand acres. This coull hive been only the limited territory around the two selle- ments, but this territory contai rel most of the popu- Dition of the ancient Essex County. The population was reckoned at one hundred families for Newark and one hundred and fitty for Elizabeth, which gave three thousand five hundred people.


One hundred years later in 1790, the population of Essex County was seventeen thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and Essex was the fourth county of the State . The population of the original territory of Bloomfield was, in 1580, fifteen thousand five hundred and sixteen. nearly the empty population of one hundred years ago.


In twenty years from 1790 Essex had become the first county of the state. The movement of popu- lation was in the four lea ling counties.


1.


Hanterion


1 21.211


(1 _1, .


9 19, 500


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Bloomfield became a township in 1512. The popu- lation within the original boundary from 1520 has moved as follows :


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1-20 15


1,30


4.79


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3.1-44


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Franklin 1420)


1,61%


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Societies.' BLOOMFIELD Love, No. to F and .V. M -Over sixty years ago a pumper of Masome brethren met at the house of JJoseph Mun i, at West Bloom field Low Montelair , for the purpose of form- Ing a Masonic lodge. C'apt. simon Bablyu was appointed moderator and Ephraim I' Stile secretary. This was on July 20, 1524. A ledge was e tablishe 1, which was known as Bloomfield Lodge and a com- mittee was appointed to procure a suitable room and furniture. A room in the house of J oph Munn was obtained at a rental of twenty dollars a year, and the furniture of Chatham Lodge , then suspended was se- cured. A committee was appointed to make aph- cation for a dispensation from the Most Worshipful Grand Master until the me ting of the Grand Lodge. and the following officers were elected. Strom Bald- win. W. M. : Daniel D Beach, S. W. Joshua smith J. W. ; Ephraim P. Stiles Sec. ; Z emas & Crane Treas. ; Matthias Taylor, S. D. ; John Robinson J. I). . Lions Baldwin, Tyler William Frame. M off'.


The following names appear upon the minutes of that date as the charter member . M. tthi South, D. D. Bea h. J hn Robinson, Joshua Smith, J nathan Stephens, Linus Baldwin, Benjamin Reynolds, Mat- thias Taylor, Christopher frarrabrant, William Frame, John Mann, Thomas Spear Jr., Simeon Baldwin. Zenas &. Crane, L. F. Lewis Mitchell, Joseph Munn, Nathanie! H. Baldwin, John Aikins, Aaron B Hard, Robert Aikins, Peter Poremus. Thema- Reland, William Young, John Moore, Hugh Borgs, Henry Stanley, Ephraim P. Stiles.


By-laws were at once adopted, and here it may be observed, in inculcating every moral and seci d virtue among the brethren, the originators framed a law which, if generally adopted now, would prevent many a domestic broil for which the lodge is often made to be:r the blame. It was laid down in these by-Inw < that the lodge meet once a month, and heopened at seven o'clock from the vernal to the auteminal qui- nox, and at six o'clock from the autumnal to the vernal equinox, and shall at all times ch se at tn o'clock. The first regular communication was held on the 15th of September, 1524, when Mest Worshipful Grand Master Jeptha B. Muun installe 1 the officers named above, and at the close of the ceremonies ad- dressed the brethren in very complimentary terms on the material of their lodge.


The lodge was duly warranted, and was designated as No. 45. It prospered and increased in membership until the cold wave of the anti Mon ov tome t struck New Jersey, when Bloomfield Lodge wisely determined to surrender their charter, regalia, etc .. until more auspicious times. This action was taken Ang. 26, 1%25, and in December of the same your it was resolved to sell the furniture and divide the fund- among the members.


The lodge lay dormant for twenty-eight years. On


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l'eb. 19. 1556, many of the old brethren meet again at Odd Fellows' Hall, and resuscitated it under the title of Bloomfield Lodge, No. 10, the old warrant being reissued to them by Grand Master Stewart, with the n w derree of authority indorsed on its back by the Grand I uge officers in the preceding .January.


The officer- of the revived lodge were installed by Past Grand Master Jephtha B. Munn. April 1. 1856, as follows : Simeon Baldwin (the first master). W. M. ; J hn 11. Ehlers, S. W. ; Charles Smith, J. W. : John 11 Cadmus, Treas. ; Riley W. Bond, See .; M. W. Smith. S. D .; Sylvester Slater, J. D. ; Peter Speer. Tyler.


On Aprl 1, 1561, the lodge removed to a room specially fitted for them in Archdeacon's Hotel, in the centre of Bloomfieldl, where it continued to hold its fraternal gatherings until 1871, when it removed to its present location, Masonic Hall, in Corby's building, Glenwood Avenue. Regular communications are held on the first and Third Tuesdays of cach month.


From its organization, Sept. 14, 1821, to its dissolu- tion, Dec. 2. 1.28. the Past Masters were Simeon Bullwin, 1824-26; Daniel D. Beach, 1827; simeon Baldwin. 1825. From its resuscitation in 1856 the l'ast Master- successively have been as follows : Simeon Baldwin (one year), Hans Ehlers (two years), Angus- tu- Baldwin |1859 , Simeon Baldwin (1860), Augustus Baldwin (1861), Joseph D. Evans (1862). Wright F. Conger (three years), Thomas W. Langstroth (four Folsom (two years), JF. Banks Reford (two years) John F. Folsom, Charles Il. Bailey, James A. Hledden (IS79), Walter S. Freeman (two years), Charles S. Squire (1851-84).


The officer- for 1584 are Charles S. Squire, W. M. ; Thomas F Hayes, S. W. ; Robert B. Harris, J. W .; William Cadmus, Treas. ; George W. Cadmus. Sec. ; J. Banks Reford. S. D. ; Moses Davis. J. D. ; Thomas Moritz, Walter Freeman. Master of Ceremonies ; John sherman, JJohn G. Keyler, St wards ; JJohn B. Giritlith, Tyler. The membership in December, 1853, was seventy -tight


WILLIAM S. PIERSON POST, NO. 58, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, is comparatively a young organiza- tion, but has a good working membership of about fifty veterans of the late war. It was organized Ort. 13, 1451, with the following officers: A. J. Marsh, Commander : William B. Sheppard, Senior Vice-Com- mander : J. 11. Cockefair, Junior Vice-Commander ; S. M Hulin Adjutant ; Enoch Chatterton, Quartermaster, D. W. Gregory, Chaplain ; J V. Smith, Officer of the Day ; who, with the subjoined, comprised the charter members .- R. D. Brown, C. S. Robotham, Horace Dinld, Daniel Delbagen, W. C. Johnson, P. M. Jacobus, William J. ballwin, G. W. Cadmus, A. P. Banta, J C. Ward, T. L. Brandreth, Aaron P. Quimby, J. E. Hampson, William J. Raab. JJ H. Price, Thomas Sector, Louis Schaup. J. (i. Kodber, Frederick IVorus, Richard JJacobus, Charles Batchelor, Francis Moran. (. L. Voorhees, G. W. Taylor, John Gottschalk,


Richard Powers, P. Cunningham, William M. Sand- ford, Eli Drew, John Rushton, Charles Sebatler.


The Past Commanders of Pierson Post have been A. d. March, William B. Sheppard, J. H. Cockefair. and C. L. Voorhees.


The officers for 1884 were William B. Sheppard, C .; William J. Raab. S. V. C .; A. Cadmus.]. V. C. ; John Brown, Chaplain; AA. J. Marsh, Adjutant ; G. W. L'admus, Quartermaster ; J. Il. Cockefair, Otheer of the Day ; F. Florus, Officer of the Guard ; C. Batchelor, Surgeon ; G. A. Wheeler, Sergeant-Major ; John Rushton, Ontside Guard.


The post meets each Tuesday evening at Unangst's Hall.


EXCELSIOR LODGE, NO. 2342, K. of H, was or- ganized Jan. 5. 1881, with Emmons B. Corby as Dictator : William Il. Dodd, Vice-Dictator ; James 1. May, Assistant Dictator; George Slater, Reporter; Charles H. Farrand, Financial Reporter : John H. Brown. Treasurer, David E. Ward, Chaplain ; Thomas S. Brandreth, Guide; Daniel HI. Peil, Guar lian ; R. W. Farrand, Sentinel; and thirty-one charter mem- ber- in addition tothe above.


The present officers are Diet., Thomas Monk ; Vice- Diet., John Jenkins : A -istant Diet., Lyman B. Clap- per ; Reporter, David W. Gregory : Financial Repor- ter, C. L. Voorhees; Treasurer, George M. Cadmus; Chaplain, Willis II. Cadmus ; Guide, T. S. Brandreth ; years). James A. Hedden (three years), John F. I Guardian, F. Florus ; Sentinel, J. N. Delhagen.


The present number of members is seventy- five. The lodge has a neatly furnished room in Spragg's building, Glenwood Avenue, known as Knights of Ilonor Hall, and meets every Wednesday evening.


BLOOMFIELD LODGE, NO. 2908, KNIGHTS OF HONOR, was instituted Feb. 8, 1883. This is a German organ zation numbering twenty-seven members, and works in the German language. At its organization it was composed of twenty members, with Adam Metz as Past Dictator, and Henry Menser Dictator. The officers for 1884 were Adam Metz, Dictator; Henry Meuser, Past Dictator : John Kircher, Vice- Dictator ,John Schneider, Assistant Dictator; John Herrman, Financial Reporter; Reporter, Henry Schwartz ; Treas- urer, John Jager; Guide, George Hetzel; Inside ('uardian, Henry Brickler; Outside Guardian, Louis Schlaef; Chaplain, John Guethmueller.


The lodge meets in the hall of the Knights of Honor on the second and fourth Thursdays of every month.


THI: FREUNDSCHAFTS BUND, or sick benefit society, is a popular institution among the German residents of Bloomfield. It gives a weekly sum to its members in ease of sickness, and on the decease of one of the society each surviving member is assessed two dollars for the widows' and orphans' fund, or one dollar on the death of a member's wife. The society was organ- ized Nov. 5, 1870, in the lecture-room of the German Presbyterian Church, and was then composed of four- fe n members.


The first officers were John G. Keyler, President ;


BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP.


Philip Bernhard, Vice President ; Jacob Fornell, C'. Marr, Joseph H Erlend, Wardian K. Williamson, Treas; Charles Muller, See. ; Adam Wiener, Peter Fornoff, Gustav Ane, finance committee.


The officers for 1884 were John Hernan, President ; Otto Mans, Vice-President; Jacob Myer, Tres .; Hours Menser, Re. Sec. ; Fried. treib, Fin. sec. ; John Meus r. Fried. Riemer, George Buchner, Financel'om- mittee.


The society meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month at Odd Fellows' Hall. Its present membership is sixty-three.


OLIVE BRANCH LODGE, NO. 51, 1 O. (F.O. F., WE chartered Feb. , 1817, an I first out in a room u the corner of Bloomfield Averue and Fulton street, West Bloomficil now Montelair). It tiest officers aod charter members were as follows: John Hill, S. ( : John I. Robinson, V.G. : Edward Der mus, Warden' John G. Stanley, Rev. Fre. : Joseph B. Ball, Perm. Ser. John N. Biddul, h. Treas. ; Joseph Wilde, R. S. A. G .; D. N. Smith, L. - N. G. ; Abraham Zek. R. > V. G. J. Commie, L. S. V. G. ; S. Carlo, Jr., I. G. Val D. torby. O. f .; John C. Doremus and M. W. Smith,


After working for a period of ten or twelve your the lodge became weak both in membership aol finances, and it was decided to close its career in West Bloomfield. The lodge furniture and effects were sold to the Masonic lodge Cien meeting in the same room. Vamt a dozen members retained the charter and re- moved the Lodge to Bloomfield, meeting in the latest of Frederick Gilbert, one of the members, and there and then coctel officers and so kept the lodge alive under its old charter. Three months later a room was secured to a building adjoining Archdeacon's Hotel, where the by then held their meetings for several years. Su equently they removed to Baxter's build- ing, noir the corner of Bloomfield and Washington Avenue, but here they were disturbed by the Fox " unity Rond Board, who, in the widening of Blood- fiell Avenue, woceremoniously of the lodge-room in two, and it was f und absolutely necessary to varate the premises, although they had a five years leas of the sme They then loegied (1573 in the present lodge-room , on Glenwood Avende, where they have neat and finely -furnished rooms.


The last of Past Grands includes the following n mies: John Hall, Edmund Doremys, S. L. Robinsom, II B. Robinson, John I. Robinson, John ti. Hanley, Joseph Moon Baldwin, John S. Bildulph, John D. Brock, Joseph E. Ball, M. W. Smith, R. C. Putts, Sehen Pergunte, A. A. Sanford, Samuel Carl, El- warl Wille, John D. Taylor, John t'. Doremus, Charles P Sanford, Sardine Stewart, Riley W. Bond, Jan - Randall, William Sharp, tirant A. Wheeler, I. 1. Quald, Frederick Gilbert, Charles Gibert. Hony I. Robinson N. I Dodd, T. E. Hayes, John d. Key- ler. I len F. Folsen, J. Banks Reford, I zal T Hayes, Joseph Fairbanks, Charles F. Underhill, Thomas K. Brown, Theodore Cadmus, Joseph Carter, Alexander


Robert D. Brown, John H. Lu kwned, France Dan- bacher F. Derst cher, Charles M Lockwood, Edward Yereunce, William Bok, Williams Dodd, Emmons B.


The present officers of the lodge are Willing H. Podd, N. G ; James IT. Wilde, V G .; William 1. When, R. S .: J. Banks Heard, P. S : \ HI Dall, Treas; John C. Keyler, Conductor; The mar Mort- boer, Warden ; John R sbach, I. G. ; L wi- Lind. 0G., William Hotline, R. S. N. G .; Willing Cook, 1. 5. S. G .; Elmer Carter, R & S ; Ja th Meyers L. S .; Eug ne Yeresnce, R. S.V. G. ; Elias Chitterfine, 1 .. . V. G.




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