From the Wor. Master

 

Brethren;

 

We are into the last quarter of the year.      

Time travels faster than you an ever imagine.  I am pleased to say that lodge attendance is up but should be a lot higher.  Thank you to all those who have been in regular attendance and helped with the work we have had this year.  We are going to have a 3^rd degree on November 17^th and are again in need of your support.  Any brother who wants to participate is to contact Chuck Weickhardt @ H 524-0843 cell 252-6167 or myself @ H 521-1488 cell          597-0438.  Please come if you an.  I would like to extend a great welcome to our new members both those who were raised last month and those who have moved into the area.

 We are happy to have you and look forward to a lifelong fellowship.  I would also like to thank Wor/bro Norman “sonny” Gay for donating the riding mower to the lodge.  It was well needed.

 We will be having practice for the degree on Manda Nov 8^th @ 5:45 p/m.  Please come if you are able to support the degree team.  I would like to remind all that nominations for lodge officer’s is coming up. 

We need your input so come out and join us in the upcoming election of officers in December..

 

Fraternally;

Sam Domby WM

From The Secretary

 

Brethren:

 

  We have enjoyed a good year thus for having a good amount of work to perform.  Our next special communication is set for Wednesday November 17, 2004 and is a Master Mason degree.  We would like to have as many of the craft in attendance as possible.  December 9, 2004 will be our last Regular Communication of the year and elections will be held.  Please try to assist your officers in making our lodge more active and better attended.

 If you have not paid your dues for the 2004 or earlier (see your mailing label on the Newsletter) you have been dropped as NPD.  Please remit your dues ($50.00) before Dec. 31, 2004 and you may be reinstated without any further complication.

DUES INCREASED for 2005.  The dues will increase to $54.00 for the year 2005 and will continue steadily increasing through 2008 as was decided in Grand Lodge March 2004.  Our by-laws state that when Grand Lodge Per Capita changes our dues will change to match the increase or decrease.

  Thanks you for allowing me to serve as your Secretary.

 

Fraternally,

Kevin Ennis P/M

From The Editor

 

Southern Wisdom

 

 Don’t name a pig you plan to eat. Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.  Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.  Keep skunks insurance, salesmen, lawyers and bankers at a distance. 

 Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.  A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.  Trouble with a milk cow is, she won’t stay milked.  Don’t skinny dip in the cow pond with snapping turtles.  Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.  Meanness doesn’t happen overnight.  To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.  Never lay an angry hand on a kid or an animal, it just ain’t helpful.  Teaches, bankers, and hoot owls sleep with one eye open.  Forgive you enemies.  It messes with their minds.  Don’t sell your mule to buy a plow.  Two can live as cheap as one if one don’t eat.  Don’t chase anything meaner than yourself into a corner.  You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, that is assuming that you want to catch flies.

  Man is the critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.  It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

  Don’t go huntin’ with a fellow named Chug-A-Lug.  You can’t unsay a cruel statement.

  Every path has some puddles.  Never wallow in the pigpen with the pigs.  You’ll just get dirty, and the pigs like it.

  The best sermons are lived, not preached.  Most of the stuff people worry about, never happens anyway.