WAUPACA COUNTY NEWS

October 27, 1921

 

KNIGHTS TEMPLER FORMED

 

            Last Friday was a great day in the annuals of masonary at Clintonville.  During the morning hours the Most Eminent Commander and other officers of the Wisconsin Knights Templar arrived in the city and instituted Clintonvile Commandery of Knights Templar also installing the officers of that body.  The Clintonville Commandery is one of three such bodies established recently in this state.  Frank Gause was installed as commander of the local body which will be known as No. 44.  Clintonville is probably the smallest town in the state to organize and maintain a lodge of Knights Templar.

            The Grand lodge of the state of Wisconsin, F. & A.M. laid the cornerstone of the new Masonic temple which is being erected by the Masonic bodies of that city.  Three hundred wearers of the square and compass from this and surrounding lodges were in the line of march, to the site of the new temple where the exercises were held.  One hundred Knights Templar in full dress served as an escort to the Grand lodge.

            The new temple will cost approximately $50,000.  The building is three stories in height and is 54 feet by 100 feet in dimensions.

            Those from Waupaca who went to Clintonville in the afternoon to be present at the cornerstone laying program were E.A. Hannon, A.P. Hannon, M.B. Scott, Halbert Swenson, Fred Rosche, Henry Christianson, Frank Stratton, C.M. Boyles, George Nordvi, George Skinner, and Robert H. Wright.