The masonic lodge at Grand Ledge which procured a charter at the recent session of the Grand Lodge, on Saturday evening last elected and installed its officers for the ensuing year, as follows:
George W. Thomas, W. M.
James McMillan, S. W.
Wm. F. Jenison, J. W.
P. Tinckham, Treasurer.
H. Cole, Secretary.
John Rall, S. D.
T. Boyer, J. D.
Cyrus Beach and Eli Gallup, Stewards.
E. Russell, Tyler.
The Lansing Journal published through January 1911. On January 23, 1911, it merged with the Lansing State Republican to form the Lansing Journal-Republican. Shortly thereafter, on February 13, 1911, the newspaper was renamed The State Journal, and it eventually became known as the Lansing State Journal on August 25, 1980.
Floyd Smith Arrested as Accessory Before the Fact to the Murder of Henry Morris and Wife MASKED MEN WAYLAY HIS CAPTORS AND RESCUE HIM Special Dispatch to The Detroit Free Press DOWAGIAC, December 18. — It is rumored that a man named Smith, a tenant of M. D. Matteson’s, was arrested at Decatur last night, charged…
GRAND LEDGE LOSES A GOOD CITIZEN BY DEATH OF SAMUEL CHADWICK. Secretary of Masonic Lodge Thirty-Six Years. By the sudden death of Samuel Chadwick, which occurred at his home on East Jefferson St., Monday evening last, our city loses one of its oldest pioneers and a highly respected citizen. He was born in Monroe Co.,…
Rob’t Morris, L. L. D.. the veteran traveler and Masonic lecturer, addressed the Grand Ledge lodge last Saturday evening on “Freemasonry in the Holy Land.” Sunday Eve. he spoke at the Congregational church oo the evidences in the holy land of the truthfulness of the Bible. He was attentively listened to by a large audience,…
-Cool, pleasant weather. -New legals this week. -Recent arrival in town-the measles. -Mrs. Mary E. Tuttle is the newly appointed postmistress at West Windsor. -L. H. Wilcox is building a large barn on his farm in Roxand. -Born, the 15th inst., to Mr. and Mrs. Willis P. DeWitt, a ten pound boy, -A. J. Dayton,…
Hugh Rossman Was One of Grand Ledge’s Earliest Merchants Hugh Rossman was born in Madison, Lake County, Ohio, February 2, 1839, and passed away at his home in this city June 15, 1911. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the 14th Independent Light Artillery. About 1867 he came to grand ledge and learned the…
WHOSE DEATH OCCURRED WITHIN THREE DAYS. All Had Done Their Share Toward Making This Country What It Is. This week it Is our duty to chronicle the deaths of three of the pioneers of this section, all of whom had done his and her share of the work incident to settling a new country. To…
