The Masonic Lodge held a conclave in their hall, Wednesday afternoon and evening, when several candidates were initiated. The ceremonies occupied the afternoon and evening session, intervened by a supper at 6:30, at which about 100 people were served. Neighboring lodges were represented.
The Grand Ledge Independent was founded in 1871 and published through 2018. After more than a century of serving the community, the newspaper's closure marked the end of an era for local news coverage in Grand Ledge, Michigan.
Mayor Edwards and Alderman Tucker with their wives will go to Detroit Sunday, where they will join a party of 150, composed of Masonic Grand Lodge officers of Michigan, their wives and friends, and will go to Washington, D. C., by special train for a week’s recreation and pleasure. Another of those pleasant annual gatherings…
Henry Morris and Wife Called From Their Beds to be Ruthlessly Shot.Some Very Peculiar Circumstances in Regard to the Transaction.ACCOUNTS FROM THREE DIFFERENT PLACES.Suicide of a Well-to-do and Well-Known Brewer.A COLLECTION OF OTHER ITEMS FROM JACKSONState News of Great Interest. Double Murder In Cass County –A Man and His Wife Shot Down In Their Own…
Obituary. Hiram Shipman was born in 1834, in Saratoga, N. Y.; moved to Michigan in 1856; was married to Miss Ethel D. Smith in 1860. Died Sept. 1887. He had early learned the art of industry and the value of character, and was an unselfish worker. He was deeply interested in ail that was vitai…
Card of Thanks We wish to thank the kind neighbors and friends, for their kind assistance and flowers during the death and sickness of our daughter and granddaughter Geraldine Lillian Rider. Also we wish to thank the Masons of Lansing lodge No. 33, the Grand Lodge Chapter of Eastern Star No. 14, and the Oneida…
Was a Respected Resident of That Township Fifty-eight Years. Brief mention was made in the columns of the last edition of the Independent of last week of the death of Stephen M. Howard, one of Eagle township’s most respected pioneers, at his home on Friday morning, October 11, 1907. Mr. Howard was born at Clarendon,…
-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,…
