East Somerset County Register, 1911-1912 - Athens:  SOMERSET ACADEMY.
Compiled and Published by CHATTO & TURNER
Auburn, Maine
Clarence I. Chatto
Clair E. Turner
pages 33-34


SECRET ORDERS.

I. O. O. F.

Wesserunsett Lodge No. 113 was instituted Jan. 19, 1886.
The first meetings were held in Wad and Ware Hall, which 
was located in the place where the present I. O. O. F. Hall now
stands.  The first hall was burned in the fall of 1888.  The 
present building was put up soon after by the Athens Hall As-
sociation the shareholders of which were all Odd Fellows and 
within the last year, the lodge has brought up all the stock so 
that it now owns the building as an order.  The Past Grands of 
the lodge are as follows:  Charles Emery (1886), James W.
Bixby, Llewellyn Stinchfield, Joseph S. Tuttle, J. F. Holman,
L. C. Williams, F. G. Greene, J. E. Corson, William H. Tib-
betts, Fred P. Collins, Geo. F. Ayer, Geo. C. Hight, A. E. Bos-
worth, N. N. Cook, A. W. Eaton, William Roberts, L. C. El-
liott, H. N. Flanders, H. S. Elliot, E. C. Trafton, E. H. Tib-
betts, Lee W. Foss (present Noble Grand.)

The lodge at present is in a very prosperous condition.  Its 
home is a three story building, the first floor of which is oc-
cupied by Sanders and Flanders, on the second floor is a pleasure
hall with a capacity of 250 people.  The lodge room is on the 
third floor, as is also a dining room with a seating capacity of 
72.  The membership at present is about 90.

Athens Grange No. 257, was organized in 1883.  The first 
home of the order was Wesserunsett Hall, the old hall which was
burned about 1889.  There were 18 charter members:  R. 
H. Boothy and wife, Eben York and wife, C. B. Wade and 
wife, C. P. Knight and wife, F. P. Barker and wife, Mrs
Olive McIntire, Mrs. M. G. Dunton, Mrs. Anna Tuttle.  The 
present membership is about two hundred.  The first master
was F. W. Barker.  Other masters have been:  Bros. Dore,
Boothby, C. H. Jones, B. L. Flanders, Frank Page, J. F. Cor-
son, F. P. Collins, Mrs Ellen Jones, the present master.

After the burning of the old hall the grange met in McIntire
hall across the street until the new Odd Fellows Hall was built.
Since that time they have met in the lower hall in this building
until the present home of the grange was finished in 1907.  The 
new hall has a seating capacity of over 200 people with a dining 
room below capable of seating 100 people and was dedicated in 
Nov. 1907.


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