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Lions meetings twice a month.
The Lioness Ladies also support numerous District projects as well as local projects such as Alcohol _and Drug Awareness, Hearing and Sight Conservation, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Senior Citizens, Needy Families, Student Aid, Blood Bank and Food Bank, Salvation Army, American Cancer Society, and collecting used eye glasses for the Maryland Eye Bank, among many others.
Campbell, Richard Grayson, George C. Hardy, Harrison Hardy, Tom Hardy, James Jackson, William Jackson, Adam James, a Mr. Scott, David Spriggs, and Bud White. OLD FRIENDS CLUB
Area veterans of World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam War organized in 1972 to form the Old Friends Club. Their nine members provide an annual dinner for Senior Citizens, send fruit baskets to the sick and to mourning families, and donate to families who have fines, among other generous activities. This group meets the third Saturday of each month at the Blue Ridge Grill, near Burkittsville, with no prior program except that of fellowship. For fund-raising they sponsor dances twice yearly at the Jefferson Community Center. A picture and article that appeared in the Frederick newspaper this year showed Clifford Morris and Bill Brown, treasurer of the club, presenting an exercise bicycle to Maxine Jackson who has needed to exercise since she underwent a spinal operation that left her with problems with her legs. Other members of the club include Earlston Fletcher and James Peters of Brunswick.
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LODGES OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
In the early 1920's, according to George C. Hardy, there was a black Knights of Pythias Lodge that met at the home of members. Henry Beard, Jim Beard (of Sandy Hook), George Albert Hardy, Charlie James, Grant McGee, and Sam Streams belonged to this group. They still own a property at "I" and Center Streets, where they had intended to build a lodge home. This property is still in the hands of the Grand Lodge in Baltimore. Since there were not enough to hold a charter, the members transferred to the Frederick lodge.
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MASONIC LODGE
MASONS
A group of Masons was started a tthe Third and Terrace A venues home of Grant McGee, with James Beard, George Albert Hardy, Charlie Matthews, and Sam Streams in attendance. They later moved to a lodge home on the second floor of a former blacksmith building, across a branch from the Frank Brooks home. (This building eventually became a transientcenterduring the Depression.) Eventually these members joined the Frederick Masonic group.
On January 14, 1892 a Masonic Lodge,acting on a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of Maryland, met in the old Red Men's Hall (then located at the Winebrenner Building/Gunther's Auction site) and held its first official meeting in Brunswick. At a meeting on May 26, 1892 the charter for Brunswick Lodge No. 191 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, dated May 10, 1892, was officially presented. The officers installed at that meeting were Z. T. Brantner, Worshipful Master, J. T. Martin, Senior Warden, J. T. Miller, Junior Warden, D. A. Barringer, Secretary, J. L. Jordan, Secretary, J. R. Himes, Senior Deacon, W.H. Whetzel,Junior Deacon,J. T. Kilham, Senior Steward, J. A. Nixon, Junior Steward, and J. W. Porter, Tyler. After searching for their own quarters over the next several years, arrangements were made on January 10, 1901 to lease the second floor of the Brunswick Savings Bank Building on the northwest comer of Maple Avenue and Potomac Street, constructed in 1900. The Lodge held its first meeting
ELKS
The Elks met in a rented building on Center Street where the Masons also met across the branch from the present Frank Brooks home. A new house now stands a short distance from this building. The group organized around 1928 and disbanded locally in the early 1940's, transferring their membership to the Frederick Elks. Local members who joined the Frederick Club were James Beard, Clyde Brooks, Walter Brooks, Albert Campbell, Garfield Campbell, Robert
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