Decatur Lodge 571, F. & A.M.
205 South 2nd Street
Decatur, Indiana 46733
Tuesday, November 9 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, November 16 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... Tuesday, December 14 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, December 21 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... For meeting times and more detailed information on events shown here, see 'Lodge Calendar' below......... Tuesday, November 9 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, November 16 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... Tuesday, December 14 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, December 21 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... For meeting times and more detailed information on events shown here, see 'Lodge Calendar' below......... Tuesday, November 9 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, November 16 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... Tuesday, December 14 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, December 21 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... For meeting times and more detailed information on events shown here, see 'Lodge Calendar' below......... Tuesday, November 9 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, November 16 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... Tuesday, December 14 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, December 21 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... For meeting times and more detailed information on events shown here, see 'Lodge Calendar' below......... Tuesday, November 9 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, November 16 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... Tuesday, December 14 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, December 21 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... For meeting times and more detailed information on events shown here, see 'Lodge Calendar' below......... Tuesday, November 9 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, November 16 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... Tuesday, December 14 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, December 21 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... For meeting times and more detailed information on events shown here, see 'Lodge Calendar' below......... Tuesday, November 9 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, November 16 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... Tuesday, December 14 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, December 21 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... For meeting times and more detailed information on events shown here, see 'Lodge Calendar' below......... Tuesday, November 9 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, November 16 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... Tuesday, December 14 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, December 21 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... For meeting times and more detailed information on events shown here, see 'Lodge Calendar' below......... Tuesday, November 9 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, November 16 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... Tuesday, December 14 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, December 21 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... For meeting times and more detailed information on events shown here, see 'Lodge Calendar' below......... Tuesday, November 9 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, November 16 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... Tuesday, December 14 - Stated Meeting.......... Tuesday, December 21 - Third Tuesday Social night.......... For meeting times and more detailed information on events shown here, see 'Lodge Calendar' below.........
Words from "The Old Tiler"
The Old Tiler first appeared in print in August, 1921 when the first of four hundred and fourteen "Old Tiler Talks" were printed in the Fellowship Forum, a fraternal newspaper published in Washington, D.C.
In 1925 the publisher (The Temple Publishers) asked the author to select a few of the best of the talks and thirty-one were accordingly made into a little volume, copyrighted in that year. The book, which sold for a dollar, ran into two editions of five thousand copies each.
By the time they were all sold the Fellowship Forum ran head on into the depression and disappeared and with it the Old Tiler.
His homely philosophy, sharp tongue and common sense, however, had made a place for him in the hearts of readers; demand for the book has never ceased, although it has lessened in the twenty-four years since the Old Tiler first spoke from between the covers.
At long last the Old Tiler sits again before the door of his lodge, there to repeat the tales which made him liked so long ago, and, from the wealth of material of his hundreds of homilies, make thirty-nine talks new to the book, a total of seventy in all.
These have been roughly classified under seven headings (Shekinah, Black Sheep, Lippin All!, Under the Rose, Were Fiddle-Dee-Dee!, All is Fish, and Root of All Evel). To offer in defense of his fanciful classification the author has no other alibi than the weak statement that the Old Tiler is himself a fancy!
The portrait of the Old Tiler on the book jacket is the loving work of Brother Frank A. Stockwell of Buffalo, New York, who has (at least to the author's eyes) succeeded in getting the biting sarcasm, courage and philosophy of the Old Tiler into his kindly face.
The author does not always agree with the Old Tiler - perhaps it is the Old Tiler who disagrees with the author! Some to whom that statement is made make answer: "Why don't you make him say what you think? You are the boss man!"
All who have written know that, if they live, pen and ink characters have minds and thoughts of their own, sometimes to the benefit, sometimes to the grief of their fathers!
Therefore, with what is hoped is becoming modesty, this invitation is extended: whatever you like in the Old Tiler's talks, credit it to his creator; if his sharpness or his ideas offend, blame the Old Tiler and not...
The Author
Old Tiler Talks by Carl H. Claudy The Temple Publishers, Washington, D.C. 1949
Click here for all seventy of the "Old Tiler's" tales... we hope you enjoy reading them!
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Found on a cup in a Lodge in Ireland
"OLD MASONS NEVER DIE, BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO JOIN TO FIND OUT WHY"
Worshipful Brother Theodore Glenn “Ted” Hill, 82, of Decatur, IN passed away on Saturday, October 30, 2010 at his residence. He was born on July 2, 1928 in Decatur, IN to Glenn V. and Marie (Rowley) Hill. He married Marian K. (Bashara) Giessler on August 16, 1975; she survives in Decatur, IN.
There will be NO public visitation or funeral service, per his request.
Memorials may be made to The Shriners Hospital for Crippled and Burned Children or The Alzheimer’s Association, through Haggard & Sefton Funeral Home, 225 W. Adams St. Decatur, IN
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Grand Master's One-Day Class will be held at Scottish Rite in Ft Wayne on November 6
For the second consecutive year the Scottish Rite will host a Grand Master's one-Day Class on Saturday, November 6, 2010. The EA and FC Degrees will be offered before lunch followed by the MM Degree after lunch. The Masonic degrees will be followed by the Scottish Rite 4th and 14th further degrees and finally the Mizpah Shrine Ceremonial.
MWB Ken Willis, Grand Master of Masons in Indiana is scheduled to attend as is Brother Paul Page who is still known as "the voice of the Indy 500", filling in as Master of Ceremonies.
More information is available by contacting the Scottish Rite at 260-423-2593 ext 29.
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