The lodge’s 1998 Christmas notice, published in the classifieds like a thousand notices before it, ends with an invitation of perfect domestic pride: stop by after dinner “to see our new carpet.”
Eighty-eight years after the charter came home from Waco, the lodge’s voice in the newspapers was unchanged: neighborly, practical, and quietly proud of its house. The building on Harvard Street began with exactly that spirit.
The source
Houston Chronicle, Dec. 15, 1998, Sec. E, p. 8: the Lodge Notices column with two Reagan Lodge No. 1037 notices. The “new carpet” notice quoted in this entry is from the same week’s columns and is not on this page.
