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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
1936
Aug. 26-Buckner. Fifty-ninth Masonic District. Basket picnic and out路 door meeting on grounds o-f public school. Sept. 10-St. Louis. Conference with R. W. Brother Warren H. May, D. D. G. M., 16th District, and representatives of Perseverance Lodge No. 92, and Temple Association, Louisiana. Sept. 12-Hope Lodge No. 251, Washington. Accompanied a team from St. Louis Chapter No.8, R. A. M., and raised the candidate. Sept. 14--Troy Lodge No. 34, Troy. Twenty-ninth District meeting. Good attendance. Brother John E. Richards, 91 years old, has been a regular attendant for 69 years. Sept. 19-Pomegranate Lodge No. 95, St. Louis. Twentieth Anniversary. R. W. Brother Robert C. Winkelmaier, D. D. G. M., is a useful member here and has given good service in the 33rd District. Sept. 21-Cornerstone Lodge No. 323, and Masonic Temple Association, St. Louis. R. W. Brother Karl M. Vetsburg, Grand Junior Deacon, who has contributed so much to Freemasonry, is a Past Master of this Lodge, and President of the Temple Association. Sept. 22-America Lodge No. 347, St. Louis. A young but energetic Lodge. Sept. 24--Columbia Lodge No. 534, Pacific. The brethren of this Lodge never do things by halves. Sept. 25-Santa Fe Lodge No. 462, Santa Fe. Seventeenth District meet路 ing. True Masonic spirit is to be found here and this Lodge deserves the good report it has received from R. W. Brother Charles S. Hicks, D.D.G.M.
From the foregoing it will be noted that I have visited eighty-one Lodges or Masonic meetings in forty-three Districts. VISITS TO OTHER GRAND JURISDICTIONS
On December 3 and 4, 1935, accompanied by our Grand Secretary, R. W. Brother Arthur Mather, and at the invitation of M. W. Brother John H. Crooker, Grand Master, I visited the Grand Lodge of Texas, at Waco, on the occasion of its One Hundredth Communication. We were most cordially received, and had an excellent opportunity to view the workings of this Grand Lodge with its vast territory and its 120 Districts. On February 18, 1936, at the invitation of M. W. Brother Harry B. Wright, Grand Master, and accompanied by R. W. Brother Mather, and R. W. Brother George W. Walker, Deputy Grand Master, I visited the Grand Lodge of Maryland, at Baltimore. M. W. Brother Wright and 1\:1. W. Brother Harry C. Mueller, Grand Secretary of Maryland, who had accompanied R. W. Brother Mather and myself from St. Louis to \Vaco, on our visit to the Grand Lodge of Texas in December preceding, gave particular attention to our comfort. A special Communication of King David's Lodge No. 68 was held for our especial benefit and the 3rd Degree was conferred by officers of the Grand Lodge of Maryland. This was a meeting to which I had looked forward for a long time as I have been the Grand Representative of