South McAlester Lodge, AF&AM #96

01/30/2025

01/05/2025

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving Brothers !!!

06/06/2024

Take note.
June 6th

05/30/2024

When asked how he came to be a Mason, President McKinley explained:
"After the battle of Opequam, I went with the surgeon of our Ohio regiment to the field where there were about 5,000 Confederate prisoners under guard. Almost as soon as we passed the guard, I noticed the doctor shook hands with a number of Confederate prisoners. He also took from his pocket a roll of bills and distributed all he had among them. Boy-like, I looked on in wonderment; I didn't know what it all meant. On the way back to camp I asked him:

'Did you know these men or ever see them before?'
'No,' replied the doctor, 'I never saw them before.'
'But,' I persisted, 'You gave them a lot of money, all you had about you. Do you ever expect to get it back?'
'Well,' said the doctor, 'if they are able to pay me back, they will. But it makes no difference to me; they are brother Masons in trouble and I am only doing my duty.'
"I said to myself, 'If that is Masonry, I will take some of it myself.' "

04/04/2024

Stated meeting tonight at 7

03/31/2024

Happy Easter Brothers!

12/05/2023

Regularly scheduled meeting at South McAlester 96 Thursday December 7th. We will also have election of officers and installation of officers the same night. There will be Christmas cookies hot chocolate cider and coffee. No dinner.

11/14/2023

Please come to the fundraiser tonight to benefit Shared Blessings and habitat for humanity. It will be at St John's Catholic Church 300 East Washington avenue McAlester. Be there around 5:30. They will have an excellent spaghetti dinner. If you have a Lodge shirt wear it. Thanks

10/21/2023

We need all available help Sunday at 4:00 to set up the Scottish rite Temple for the Haunted House.