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  • Eastern Star members.
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  • Large group of men, members of the "We Will" Class of 1923 of the 32nd degree Scottish Rite Masons, at the Lake Worth Consistory.
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  • Crowd gathered to watch the cornerstone laying ceremony held for Stuart High School on 17 November 1922.

    According to the Stuart Messenger (23 Nov 1922), a cornerstone laying ceremony for Stuart High School, held on 17 November 1922, included Masonic rites officiated by the Masonic Grand Master of the State of Florida, Charles M. Ketcham. Local figures involved in the (Acacia Lodge 163) Masonic ceremony were J. N. Youngblood, George W. Parks, J. N. Newnham, G. S. Moore, Edward Mapp, A. T. Hogarth, H. W. Sankey, Max Sirkin and Eric Schroeder.
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  • Jack L. Coleman was the Acacia masonic lodge master in 1951. Coleman owned the Firestone Store in downtown Stuart. He also served as a Stuart city commissioner and mayor in 1946.
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  • Group portrait of Acacia Masonic Lodge (No. 163) officers. James Foster (front row, center) served as the lodge master for 1962.
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  • William S. Robson was the Acacia masonic lodge master in 1969. He was an orthodontist.
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  • William S. Robson was the Acacia masonic lodge master in 1969. He was an orthodontist.
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  • Several men take part in a cornerstone laying ceremony for the new Acacia Lodge No. 163 temple on Osceola Avenue in Stuart. The ceremony was held on Saturday, 10 Sept. 1949.
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  • Group portrait of new Acacia Masonic Lodge (No. 163) officers. According to the Stuart News (13 Dec 1951), the new officers installed in December of 1951 included E. M. Higbee (worshipful master), R. F. Wortham (senior warden), V. V. Wortham (junior warden), A. C. Courson (treasurer) and Charles H. Rue (secretary).
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  • Photo published in The Stuart News (Sun, Mar 12, 1967) with caption reading "Unity Chapter No. 37, Order of Eastern Star, officers who were installed Friday evening, March 3, at the Masonic Temple on Osceola St., are, left to right: front row, Clarence Hosley, association patron; Ethel Dempster, association matron; Lucy Anderson, grand installing chaplain; Sonoma Woodruff, grand instructor officer; Meinzie Swigart, worthy matron; Ann Swigart; Ira Swigart, worthy patron; Lois Rue, organist; Olive Cizek, treasurer; Velma Higbeem grand instructor marshal; Orien W. Lewis, assistant grand instructor officer; second row, Chalice Moss, warder; Dorothy Johnson, association conductress; Mary Rice, Electa; Cecia Mae Greene, Martha; Helen Schulz, Esther; Grace Wolfe, conductree; Hazel Kotze, secretary; third row, Jean Pries, Adah; Thelma Williams, marshal; Marie Kincaid, chaplain; Charles Rue, sentinel; Ruth Weston, Ruth. Photo by Morton Foster."
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