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…
The Williamston Tragedy Seth Kent, who was shot by his brother Simeon Wednesday evening, at Williamston, is still alive, and as the gun was loaded with small birdshot the doctors have some hope of his recovery. When questioned about the matter, Simeon said: “I have done something; I don’t know just what.” He would say…
Birthday of Great Emancipator Fittingly Observed The Lincoln Day banquet given by the Masonic orders of the city at their lodge room last Thursday evening proved to be one of the most enjoyable affairs of the season. After the supper J. Mason Soper, chairman of the entertainment committee, stated that Masonic bodies never commenced business…
At a regular meeting of Grand Ledge Lodge No. 179 of F. A. M., Dec. 15, 1877, the following named persons were elected officers for the ensuing year: Hugh Rossman, W. M., Marvin T. Streeter, S. W.; Isaac M. Brown, J. W., Samuel Chadwick, Sec’y; Francis M. Kent, Treas.; Albert Newkirk, S. D.; Henry M….
A woman disguised herself as a man and clerked in a store for a year and then applied for membership in the Knights of Pythias and was initiated. During the work of the third rank her sex was discovered. It seems that in the third rank they have an india-rubber rat and celluloid snake, which…
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…
