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History of Unity Lodge, No. 36,
F. & A. M., Jefferson, Ga.
(History of Unity Lodge, No. 36,
from its organization to the present
date, prepared and read at a recent
meeting of this Lodge by S. J. Sud
dath, Secretary):
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Unity Lodge, No. 36 F. & A. M.,
Jefferson, Georgia, was chartered
November 6, 1844. This charter
was delivered into the koeping of
Augustus Alden, W. M.; B. H. Over
by, S. W.; H. C. Carter, J. W. The
officers of the Grand Lodge of Geor
gia at this time were W. 0. Davison,
G. M., John Hunter, D. G. M., and
John S. Wright, G. S.
The officers of Unity Lodge, No.
36, on its first report to the Grand
Lodge, were B. H. Overby, W. M.;
A. DeLaperriere, S. W.; William
Lyle, J. W.; J. H. Strange, S. D.;
H. C. Carter, J. D.; J. H. Hayes,
Secretary; and William Bacon, Ty
ler. The other charter members
were William Gilleland, Russell
Parks, 11. Pendergrass, John Ven
able, Robert White, Moses Nunnal
ly, W. H. Thurmond, H. M. Thur
mond, William White, and M.
Strickland.
The following have been Masters
©f Unity Lodge, No. 36: 1844, B. H.
Overby; 1845, Augustus Alden;
1846, 1847, 1848, no record; 1849
and 1850, Rev. H. C. Carter; 1851,
1852, Middleton Witt; 1853 and
1854, Robert White; 1855, S. P.
Thurmond; 1856, N. H. Pender
grass; 1857, 1858 and 1859, D. L.
Jarrett; 1860, Robert J. Milligan;
1861-2, no record; 1863, W. J. Gille
land; 1864, W. A. Worsham; 1865,
F. S. Hinton; 1866, no record; 1867,
1868 and 1869, John B. Silman;
1870, 1871, A. C. Thompson;
1872, 1873, John Hunter; 1874, and
through 1882, H. W. Bell; 1883, W.
C. Howard; 1884, 1885, H. W. Bell;
1886 and 1887, J. A. B. Mahaffey;
1888 and 1889, F. L. Pendergrass;
1890, 1891, H. W. Bell; 1892, 1893,
1894, J. C. Turner; 1895, H. W.
Bell; 1896, John N. Ross; 1897, J.
C. Bennett; 1898, John N. Holder;
1899, J. S. Ayers; 1900, John N.
Ross; 1901, J. C. Turner; 1902, F.
L. Pendergrass; 1903, W. H. Smith;
1904-1905, J. C. Turner; 1906-1907,
John N. Holder; 1908 and 1909, J.
C. Bennett; 1910-1911, S. J. Bell;
1912-1913, J. C. Turner; 1914-1915,
W. W. Dickson; 1916-1917, J. S.
Ayers; 1918-1919, C. L. Bond; 1920
through 1923, J. C. Turner; 1924,
S. J. Nix; 1925, G. W. Westmore-,
land; 1926, S. E. Smith; 1927, V. C.
Jennings; 1928 through 1932, J. C.
Turner; 1933, C. B. Lord; 1934, J.
C. Turner; 1935 and 1936, H. L.
Purcell; 1937, G. W. Westmoreland.
Brother J. C. Turner has served
Unity Lodge as Worshipful Master
for eighteen years. Brother H. W.
Bell has served Unity Lodge as
Worshipful Master for fourteen
years. Brother T. T. Benton has
served as Secretary of Unity Lodge
for fifteen years. Brother W. W.
Dickson has served as Secretary of
Unity Lodge for thirteen years, as
well as several years as Worshipful
Master.
The early home of the Lodge was
in the second story of the school
building then known as New Aca
demy, and was located on a plat of
ground where, in later years, the
Baptist Church was built, and is now
owned by Mr. Ed Martin.
On the 4th day of May, 1849,
Unity Lodge purchased this second
story of the Academy school house
from Middleton Witt, as evidenced
by a deed from said Middleton Witt
to H. C. Carter, W. M., Middleton
Witt, S. W., and J. H. Hayes, J. W.,
for a consideration of three hundred
dollars.
Records of 1870 show that the
Lodge at this date had thirty-one
members in good standing.
Even in the early days of our
Lodge, it appears that the con
venience of its members was consid
ered. The minutes of October 4,
1870, show that a committee was ap
pointed by the Worshipful Master
to ascertain where and on what
terms a lot might be obtained to ac
commodate the horses of brethren
who attend the Lodge.
In the early days this Lodge met
each first Saturday afternoon. On
January 4, 1872, the time of meet
ing was changed to the first Tues
day night in each month. The min
utes of May 3, 1874, show that our
oldest brother, C. T. Storey, Sr.,
was raised to the sublime degree of
a Master Mason.
It was in 1879 the by-laws of the
Grand Lodge was changed requir
ing any brother before being past
or raised should stand a satisfactory
examination in open Lodge. After
the Lodge room burned in Decem
ber, 1884, Unity Lodge rented Ran
dolph Hall, located over store of
Stunley & Lay, known as the Mc-
Lester store house, for three dollars
per month. They remained there un
til February, 1887. The Lodge room
was moved from Randolph Hall to
two rooms in the F. M. Bailey Build
ing, which place they occupied till
March 4, 1890, when they moved up
stairs over tiie N. N. Pendergrass
store.
On March 3, 1890, Brother J. C.
Turner, the man who had served this
Lodge as Master for eighteen years,
was raised to the sublime degree of
Master Mason.
April 1, 1890, the building com
mittee reported they had contracted
with J. E. Randolph, Sr., to build a
Masonic Hall on the C. T. Storey
shop lot, fronting on Washington
St., for the sum of eight hundred
fifty dollars. On the fourth Satur
day in July, 1890, the Lodge attend
ed the laying of the corner stone of
Unity Lodge, No. 36, F. & A. M.,
in a body, with Dr. J. W. Oslin, of
Gainesville, Georgia, as principa.
speaker.
October 7, 1890, a committee,
composed of W. I. Pike, R. S. Mc-
Garity, J. E. Randolph, Sr., and H.
W. Bell, were named by the Wor
shipful Master to buy suitable furni
ture for the new hall.
November 6, 1897, Brother J. E.
Randolph was authorized by the
Lodge to join the wall of the new
building to the wall of the Maconic
Hall.
The following is shown in a rec
ommendation to the Grand Lodge,
dated September 3, 1895: “It is the
expression of this Lodge that a suit
able home be purchased for poor
and indigent Master Masons, their
widows and orphans, when the sur
plus in the Grand Lodge Treasury
accumulates to such an extent as
will warrant the purchase of such a
home.”
One of the unusual things in the
history of this Lodge was recorded
in October, 1898. Dispensation re
ceived from J. W. Tyler, Grand
Master, for the State of Georgia,
authorizing this Lodge to confer the
Entered Apprentice, the Fellow ]
Craft and Master’s Degree at one
and the same meeting. Brother
John N. Holder was Master at this
time, and Brother W. T. Sherard
was the candidate.
In November, 1907, the end wall
back of the Worshipful Master,
in the East, was set back to join the
wall of the Kelly Building, thus com
pleting the size of the hall as of to
day.
In just a few years our Lodge will
celebrate its one hundredth anni
versary, and we hope this will be
done with fitting ceremonies.
During the almost one hundred
years our Lodge has been operating,
we have made steady progress.
Starting with only seventeen mem
bers in a small rented hall, later this
same hall being bought, on time.
The records show that this Lodge
has ever been ready to give assist
ance to any needy brother Master
Mason, their wives, widows or or
phans, and has often donated to the
building fund to help other Lodges,
and has had the misfortune of being
burned out twice; but after all of
this, we own this beautiful, well
furnished hall which we now occupy.
We have sixty-five members in good
standing, are out of debt, and have
some money in the treasury.
From Unity Lodge, No. 36, has
gone out into the world some of the
best men ever reared in Jackson
county, to different positions in life,
such as ministers, lawyers, doctors,
school teachers, bankers, business
men, farmers, and other work.
This Lodge has had the honor of
having two of its Past Masters as
officers of the Grand Lodge of Geor
gia: Brother J. C. Bennett, who
years ago was awarded a
medal for having attended more
than twenty-five sessions of the
Grand Lodge; and our present Mas
ter, Brother G. W. Westmoreland,
who is at this time Grand Marshall
of the Grand Lodge of the State of
Georgia.
THE TEACHER
I give instruction—educate;
I unlock Wisdom’s golden gate.
A friend, a counselor and guide—
I am the guardian of your child.
—Alethea M. Bonner.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
A FINE PEN PICTURE OF
COUNTY FAIRS
(By Bruce Catton)
Some of the leaves are already
turning dull brown and red and
gold, fluttering from swaying limbs
like invitations to a preview of au
tumn. Indian Summer and all its
cheerful promises can’t be far away.
And with the fall comes the op
ening of school, the kickoff, chilly
mornings, the yellow harvest and its
yellower moon, bonfires and county
fairs —most of all county fairs.
Few things are as remarkable in
this age of rural developments, ra
dios and fast transportation as the
survival, even the steady gain, of
the county fair. Essentially it
hasn’t changed very much from the
first event of its kind ever held in
this country—back in 1810 when El
kanah Watson, a “gentleman farm
er” in the vicinity of Alanby, N. Y.,
conceived the idea of a Berkshire
cattle show.
A show that began as a display of
cattle broadened to take in other
products of the farm and inevitably
grow into that item of American
life that is probably better known
and more typical than any other to
day.
It spells demonstration barns lined
with pens of grunting, over-weight
hogs, moody-eyed bulls, grousing
cows and proud percherons; long
cages of wattled turkeys, srutting
roosters, inquisitive hens, noisy ducks
and geese. It recalls whitecovered
tables with heavy cargoes of cakes,
layer, chocolate, angel, and inevit
able marble; open pies and closed
pies and pies with crusty lacing over
the top.
Two decades ago it was wagons
and buggies with enough cold fried
chicken to last four days while the
hapless hired hand stayed at home
to do the chores and steal a nap at
high noon. Now it is bulky trucks
and shiny sedans, with a 30-minute
drive home in the evening. But it’s
the same fair, then and now.
The midway hasn’t changed. The
same barker is just as fascinating
and the same prizes have the same
usefulness. The two-headed calf and
Little Egypt, (did you ever see your
mother put a plate of jello out on a
cold frosty morning?) are there, or
their counterparts. The roller coast
er and the ferris wheel and the mer
ry-go-round may have a coat of
paint, but that’s all.
There are 300 state, district and
county—mostly county—fairs held
in the United States every year.
Some of them, like the February
carnivals of Florida and the July
fairs of California, aren’t held in
the fall. But those are just off
shoots of the original autumn-bear
ing perennial. To most of the pop
ulace, the first brisk, nipping fall
wind will bring memories, and you
can just about wager the memories
aren’t far away from the county
fair grounds.
NEW COTTON PICKER IS
INTRODUCED BY RUSTS
Praises of anew mechanical cot
ton picker have been sounded in
part of the southern cotton belt by
the Rust brothers who created a
furor in the agricultural south with
demonstration of their similar in
vention last year.
John Rust rolled out the huge
new machine he and his brother,
Mack, have completed, and an
nounced it will answer objections to
mechanized pickers they demonstrat
ed last year.
The picker is a larger, improved
version of the machine demonstrat
ed last year. It has double the
picking units and is equipped with
electric lights for night work.
“The machine will pick cotton
more cheaply than hand labor and
pluck as many bolls from the stalk
in five minutes as an ordinary work
er could pick in an entire day,”
John Rust declared. “It will be
placed in operation on a Mississippi
plantation within two weeks for ex
haustive field tests.”
The picker is self-powered. One
man can handle it. As it moves
down the rows of cotton the stalks
are compressed into a channel
against hundreds of moist spindles
tw'irling on revolving drums stag
gered tandem fashion. The spindles
of one unit pick from the right side
of the stalk and the other from the
left.
Anew type doffer—to prevent
clogging—strips the cotton from
the spindles and drops it into two
receptacles, from which it is blown
through two pipes into huge cotton
bags hung on the rear of the ma
chine.
Some articles crowded out of this
issue will appear next week.
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Good pasture.
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225 acres, 4% miles of Jefferson.
Good buildings, good pasture. Land
good state of cultivation.
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Good buildings; near good school.
Terms 1-5 cash, balance 10, 15,
20 years, 5% interest.
S. KINNINGHAM
Phone, Jefferson, 183.
Phone, Gainesville, 1061.
THE CONTRACTOR’S WILL
“Judge,” said the contractor to
his lawyer, “doctor says that I got
but a month to live. I want to make
my will.”
“Fix lit so my overdraft in the
bank goes to my wife—she can ex
plain it to them . . .My equity in
my automobile I want to go to my
son. He will have to go to work
then to meet the payments . . .
Give my unpaid bills to the bonding
company; they took some awful
chances on me and are entitled to
something . . . That new-fangled
machine on the job, I want the resi
dent engineer to have. He made
me buy it; maybe he can make it
work. My retained percentage give
to the state. I never expected to got
it anyway. My equipment, give to
the junk man. He has had his eye
on it for several years . . . My keg,
I want to go to my bootlegger, I
hope it costs him as much to keep it
wet as it has me. I want you to
handle the funeral for me, judge.
Any undertaker will do, but I want
these six material men for pallbear
ers. They have carried me so long
they might as well finish the job.”
—Arizona Highways.
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“ST. LOUIS BLUES” BRINGS
NEGRO COMPOSER $20,000
Twenty thousand dollars in royal
ties, radio and movie rights each
year indicates that the popularity of
“St. Louis Blues,” written in 1914
by the now famous negro composer,
William C. Handy, has not diminish
ed.
A bald, dignified man with gray
ing mustache, looking more like a
church deacon than a jazz composer,
Handy, now 64 years old, was
awarded a plaque in appreciation of
his song by the national association
of negro musicians last week.
Handy often has been quoted as
saying he liked “Memphis Blues”
best of all his compositions. That
may be true, but he says “when a
song’s made you as much money as
‘St. Louis Blues,’ you’re bound to
like it a lot.”
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