03/17/2020
Curious as to what Montana lodges did during the WWI / 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic? Well, if you were Butte, you OPENED a new lodge in defiance of the order to curtail public activity and meeting. Butte lost over 1,000 citizens to the flu across Oct, Nov, and Dec 1918. Click through to read: "Flu situation still rather bad in Montana and it has put a quietus on lodge meetings for two months..."