Cassia-Mount Horeb Celebrates 150 Years

A visitation on April 5 by the R.W. Grand Master and the Grand Lodge Officers keynoted the 150th anniversary of Cassia-Mt. Horeb Lodge No. 273, Ardmore. Cassia Lodge was Warranted in 1853 and in 1987 the merger with Mount Horeb-Phoenix Lodge No. 432 occurred. During the Anniversary Meeting in the Lodge, Grand Master Cunningham and David K. Beaulieu, D.D.G.M., 6th Masonic District, presented Emblems of Gold for 50-Year Members and gave a Grand Master's Medallion to the Worshipful Master, Winton E. Hewitt, P.M. Along with the recitation of the history of the Lodge, reference was made of the well-preserved 149-year-old Bible that was presented to the Lodge in 1854 by the wife of Elisha Worrall, the first Worshipful Master of Cassia Lodge. (Grand Master Cunningham and Worshipful Master Hewitt are pictured with the Bible.) In the evening, the Brethren were joined by their ladies at a gala banquet at Llanerch Country Club when the Worshipful Master presented to the Grand Master a $1,000 Gold Book Society contribution for the "Preservation of the Heritage of Freemasonry."