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Ramah Lodge No. 165 Ancient Free & Accepted Masons (A. F. & A. M.) Ramah Lodge No. 165 Meets On The 2ND Monday Of Each Month At 7:30 PM |
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Works |
Works
(Degrees, Practices, Educational Classes, & Ceremonial Work) are
conducted as needed. Members will be notified of Works during Lodge and
by E-Mail to include their respective positions if any. Works is not limited
to the 2ND Monday of Month and may be done on another day at the
discretion of a suitable number of members of the lodge. |
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From The East |
Each
year is a new year with new events and changes to come to make it a
great year with your support. Join us! |
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Treasurer |
Your
Financial Reports are provided regularly during the stated communications and
discussed at that time. |
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Secretary |
Dues
and Per Capita are to be received NLT the first of January each year,
otherwise you are late. Please send your correct phone number and
address or changes so that we may update our roster. Those with
computer savvy, send your current or new e-mail addresses as well. Much
of our information is sent via the Internet, which has dramatically cut down
our postage expense. |
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History |
On
February 8, 1925, five Master Masons, Lem Gammon, Harry Gammon, Robert
Cameron, Ira R. Woodward, William Kloster, went to the ranch of Brother T. H.
Smith, about 16 miles north of Ramah, to discuss the possibility of
organizing a Lodge at Ramah. Several similar meetings followed with the
result that on October .31, 1925 a request for a Dispensation was taken to
Most Worshipful Grand Master Frank G. Mirick who granted a dispensation for a
Lodge at Ramah, with Abram D. Garriott as Worshipful Master and dated
December 25, 1925. The State Bank of Ramah was enlarged to provide quarters
for the new Lodge which held its first regular communication on January 13,
1926. Twenty-seven Master Masons signed the petition for a dispensation and
ten petitions were received at the first meeting. On
December 12, 1929, Brother William Kloster was elected Secretary
and served in that capacity for 31 years of continuous service. On
October 22, 1951 the Lodge celebrated its 25th Anniversary with 30 members
and 12 visitors present. Most Worshipful Grand Master C. Wheeler Barnes and
Grand Lecturer Giles N. Alkire presented inspiring addresses. Worshipful
Brother Abram J. Garriott, the first Master of Ramah Lodge No. 165, passed
away on February 21, 1957 at the age of 85 years and was laid to rest in
Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs. There
were 42 members who signed the charter. The
record of the Grand Lodge as of November 30, 1960 gives the present
membership of Ramah Lodge No. 165 as 102. Courtesy:
Saint Vrain Masonic Lodge # 23 (http://longmontmasons.com/) Source:
Grand Lodge of Colorado A.F. & A.M. (http://www.coloradofreemasons.org/) |
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Notes From The Web |
Did
you know there is another Ramah Lodge? It is
Roman Eagle Ramah Lodge #70, in Danville, VA (http://www.morgancomm.com/re122/ramah_page.php).
They
also meet the 2nd Mondays at 7:30 PM. Their charter was
established in 1888, and in 1933, they had 38 members. |
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Lighter Side Of Freemasonry |
UP IN THE WORLD
The
lodge with the highest meeting place on the globe is Roof of the World Lodge
No. 1094, of Oroya, Peru. The elevation of the lodge room in the Andes
Mountains is 14,167 above sea level. The closet competitor in the United
States is Corinthian Lodge No. 35 at Leadville, Colorado elevation about
10,200 feet. MOON LODGES A
century ago there were more than 3,000 Masonic lodges which can be described
as "Moon Lodges"; in 1954 there were fewer than 500. These lodges
meet on the day of the full moon for practical reasons; the brethren had
light to travel by at night. There may have been some symbolic meaning also.
The advent of electricity, street lights, and the automobile made the reason
for meeting on such nights antiquated through unique. Many Grand Lodges now
require lodges to meet on fixed days of the week. THE SQUARE AND COMPASS BRAND Montana's
first livestock brand was the square and compass; it is still in use. No one
knows when it was first used; but it was before May 25, 1872, when it became
necessary to date and register brands then in use. It was first owned by
Poindexter T. Orr of Beaverhead County, Montana Territory. THE LARGEST AND THE SMALLEST MASONS At
the time he was raised in Highland Park Lodge No. 382 in Los Angeles,
California, John Aasen was eight and a half feet tall and weighed 536 pounds.
Twelve craftsmen were required for certain parts of the ceremony. There were
1500 Masons present to observe the ceremony. Charles
S. Stratton, a midget, was made a famous by P. T. Barnum as "General Tom
Thumb". He was first presented to the public in 1842; at the time he was
two feet high and weighed 16 pounds. In 1844 he married Lavinia Warren, also
a midget. He settled in Bridgeport, Connecticut and was raised in St. John's
Lodge No. 3 on October 3, 1862. FEMALE TYLER OF A MASONIC LODGE The
first lodge in Kansas was Wyandotte Lodge. It met in the home of the Senior
Warden, Matthew R. Walker. Mrs. Walker, an Indian, acted as Tyler of the
lodge. Later Mrs. Walker became the first Grand Matron of the Eastern Star in
Kansas. |
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Stories To Inspire |
A CIVIL WAR STORY It
was a time not long after Fort Sumter and The War of Northern Aggression was
well under way. The Yankees, as they are still wont to do, had promptly
flocked to Hilton Head and Tybee Islands, the barrier islands on opposite
sides of the mouth of the Savannah River. The Savannah Folks didn't mind much
that the Yankees had stolen the good beaches, for the water was still a bit
cool for Southern preferences and, besides, they knew the gnats and
mosquitoes would teach the Yankees a lesson they'd never forget. So, the
Southerners, as Southerners are wont to do sometimes, just waited. They
didn't have to wait very long before the Yankees on Hilton Head sent out a
messenger under a white flag. It
seemed that the Yankees had among them a young fellow who had passed through
the Fellow Craft Degree before shipping out. The Yanks were just sitting
around slapping gnats when it occurred to one of them that, just maybe, there
was a nearby lodge that could test him in the Fellow Craft Degree and raise
him to that of a Master Mason. As luck would have it, there was indeed a
lodge in Savannah that would soon be having a Masters Degree. One
morning, not too many days later, a detail of Confederate Cavalry slipped
across the Savannah River into South Carolina and traveled through Bluffton
to the shore opposite Hilton Head Island. From there they escorted one Fellow
Craft Mason and, I believe, a number of Master Masons of the Northern
Persuasion, safely through the Confederate Lines and back through about 35
miles of Confederate defenses to Savannah where the candidate and his witnesses
were delivered into the lodge. The records note that this Brother was indeed
proficient in the Fellow Craft Degree and he was raised to the Degree of a
Master Mason. That
night another detail of Confederate Cavalry, no doubt Brothers to a man,
slipped back across the Savannah River and safely escorted their Brothers
back to Hilton Head. Anyway,
I have loved this story since the first time I heard it. It clearly
demonstrates that, at the darkest period in our national history, when
brothers were killing brothers, brothers could still be brothers. |
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