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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 — meetings the first Thursday of each month — with Ralph N. LaFeber (the historian's father) as Worshipful Master and Roy W. Gindelberger as Secretary; the Independent of September 1, 1932 prints the same card with Claude E. The lodge's charter date itself is not printed, because the record reached does not carry it — No. 619's position in the Grand Lodge of Indiana's numbering puts the charter in the 1890s sequence, but a sequence is not a charter, and the Grand Lodge's own records are the named settler. The item's second limb, the York Rite above the lodge, is tested and answered plainly: no Royal Arch chapter and no commandery seated in Walkerton appears in the grand-body records as reached — the floor's instances (a chapter whose own date the city paper of record never prints; a commandery with its pole-to-pole line across a state line) belong to other grounds, and the rite's bodies for this county seat in its larger towns, at boundary size. The item closes mixed: the lodge dated at press strength, its charter and the rite open under their grand-body settlers.
& A.M. (charter); Grand Chapter and Grand Commandery of Indiana (the York Rite limb).