Texas Freemason Magazine

By: James C.   “Chris” Williams IV, Staff Writer I called John to make sure he was not going to come the week I was going to be on vacation.   He wanted to know where we were going and what we were doing.   I told him we were taking a road trip through East Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, back through Oklahoma and down through north Texas.   Our final stop would be to visit the Lodge that my Grandfather was Master of in 1942 to see his picture on the wall of the Lodge and then come back home.   He realized that the Lodge I was going to visit was about fifty miles from his Lodge and immediately wanted to come and visit the same night I was there.   I told him that would be great and said I would meet him there.   I had been communicating back and forth for about a year with Brother Donnie, the Secretary of the Lodge so I called and made sure it was OK if John came with me to visit.   Donnie said he’d been reading the newsletters for the last year and if they could p

APPLICATION FOR DISPENSATION TO FORM A LODGE AT COBLENZ, GERMANY From the Report of Grand Master D. F. Johnson December 1922 Shortly after my installation as Grand Master I received an application from American soldiers of the Army of Occupation, located at and near Coblenz, Germany, asking for the right of forming a lodge at that place, this petition was signed by eleven brothers, holding membership in Texas, and by seventy-nine Masons holding membership in various lodges scattered over the United States. After many days and nights of consideration and taking counsel from some of the best informed Masons in Texas, I wrote to the Masonic Club at Coblenz, that I would grant them a dispensation when they had conformed to certain formalities required by the Constitution and laws of the Grand Lodge of Texas. On February 22 nd, these brethren wrote me as follows: "To tell you that your letter of January 16 th brought joy and happiness into the hearts of all American Masons