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Moose, Eagles, Prince Hall, and the Klavern Test — the Fraternal Leg's Back Page

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Three tests the fraternal leg had never printed are run here together: the two great unexamined orders, and the two shadow tests the checklist insists stand in the open.Prince Hall: no Prince Hall lodge seated in Lakeville appears in the record reached; the town's Masonic record is Lodge No. 353's alone, and the parallel tradition leaves no Lakeville line in the sources opened. The klavern test, printed because the checklist requires it printed and not because the record invites it: no Lakeville unit of the Ku Klux Klan appears in the press record reached — a negative stated at exactly its strength, search strength, with the grand lodge directories and the press record named as the standing settlers for all three limbs. The Grotto, this section's one register-strength positive beyond the lodge and the Star, stands as banked — MOVPER at 67551 Lake Trail, ruling of October 1940 — and is not disturbed. The back page closes mixed: the tests are run and printed, and their strength is search strength, named on the face of each.

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Source: Moose, Eagles, Prince Hall, and the Klavern Test — the Fraternal Leg's Back Page, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/secret-societies/moose-eagles-prince-hall-and-the-klavern-test-the/