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The Lodge Cards, the Council's Date, and the Tests
Walkerton Lodge No. 619, F. & A.M.: the lodge cards, 1929 and 1932
AUDIT ROW #279 · THE TOWN PAPER'S OWN LODGE CARDS, READ THIS PASS
The Masonic lodge the register could not date is dated by the town paper's own lodge cards: working in 1929 and in 1932, with named masters. The Walkerton Independent of October 17, 1929 prints the lodge's standing card …
The Odd Fellows: two register lines, a hall over Bender's store, and the settler for the numbers
AUDIT ROW #280 · THE BANKED RECORD RESTATED AT ITS STRENGTH; GRAND LODGE SETTLER NAMED
The Odd Fellows stand on this ground in three kinds of record, and this article gathers their positions without inventing the lodge numbers the record does not carry. The town's founding generation gave the order a hall: the Odd…
The Red Men: a tribe tested for, and not found seated here
AUDIT ROW #281 · IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN — THE TEST AND ITS SETTLER
No tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men seated in Walkerton stands in the records reached — not in Howard's 1907 fraternal survey of the town, not in the register record, not in the town paper's lodge notices as indexed. The…
The assessment alphabet: the benefit mechanism, explained once
AUDIT ROW #282 · MACCABEES, MODERN WOODMEN, AND THE WOODMEN LINE THAT STANDS
The fraternal-benefit orders sold insurance by assessment: members paid dues and per-death assessments into a lodge fund, and the fund paid the dead member's beneficiary — the workingman's life insurance of the decades before…
The Catholic suite: Council No. 5709, dated
AUDIT ROW #283 · TODAY'S CATHOLIC, DECEMBER 1, 2017 · THE PARISH PROFILE
The Knights of Columbus council the register could only carry as a group-ruling line is dated by the diocese's own paper: Walkerton's Council No. 5709 "has very been active since the 1960s" at St. Patrick Parish. Today's…
The unchartered circle: tested, and not found
AUDIT ROW #284 · THE PARISH-AND-PAPER RECORD, TESTED FOR AN UNCHARTERED SOCIETY
The checklist's subtlest item — a mutual-aid circle that never took a charter, findable only in a parish profile or an obituary's aside — was tested against St. Patrick's own profile and the town's lodge record, and no such…
The later orders — and two negative tests, printed as tests
AUDIT ROW #285 · MOOSE AND EAGLES AT POINTER SIZE · PRINCE HALL AND KLAVERN TESTS
The twentieth century's two great lodge chains, Moose and Eagles, seat no lodge in Walkerton in the directory and register record as reached; their county homes are the larger towns', at pointer size. The Lions — the service-club…
Who still meets: the census, dated November 2026
AUDIT ROW #286 · THE CURRENT REGISTER AND PARISH RECORD, STATED AT THEIR STRENGTH
Dated plainly: of the bodies this section surveys, the ones the current record shows alive in and around Walkerton are the Knights of Columbus council at St. Patrick's, the Lions, and the register's surviving subordinate lines.…