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Masonic Hall of Hiram Lodge No. 21, of Colfax; of the Masonic Temple of Port Angeles Lodge
No. 69, at Port Angeles; of the Scottish Rite Temple at Hoquiam; of the Roosevelt School at
Tacoma; of the Masonic Temple at Roslyn; of the Union Congregational Church at Granite Falls;
of the Masonic Temple of Green Lake Lodge, No. 149, at Seattle; of Temple Beth Israel at Tacoma;
of the High School Building at Toledo, Lewis County; of the High School Building at Toppenish;
a church at Kennewick; of the High School Building at Naches; and of the Masonic Temple at
Okanogan.

During that same period he constituted the following Lodges: Robert Burns Lodge, No. 243, at
Alderwood Manor; Joseph Warren Lodge, No. 235, at Tacoma; Hunters Lodge, No. 236, at
Hunters; Maritime Lodge, No. 239, at Seattle; Daniel Bagley Lodge, No. 238, at Seattle;
Ridgefield Lodge, No. 237, at Ridgefield; Queen Anne Lodge, No. 242, at Seattle; Coulee Lodge,
No. 233, at Coulee City; Lafayette Lodge, No. 241, at Seattle; Methow Valley Lodge, No. 240, at
Twisp; and York Lodge, No. 234, at Spokane.

He also granted dispensations for the following new Lodges: For a new Lodge at Des Moines, to
be known as Des Moines Lodge; for a new Lodge at Spokane to be known as Manito Lodge; for
a new Lodge at Seattle, to be known as Friendship Lodge; for a new Lodge at Burien, to be known
as South Gate Lodge; for a Lodge at Richmond Highlands, to be known as Richmond Lodge; for
a Lodge at Millwood, to be known as Concordia Lodge; for a new Lodge at Camp Lewis, to be
known as Henry A. Greene Lodge; for a new Lodge at Seattle, to be known as George Washington
Lodge; and for a Lodge at Connell, to be known as Connell Lodge. His was indeed a busy year.

On May 22, 1926, in Spokane, Most Worshipful Brother John Gifford drew aside the "sable
curtain" and with "faith and confidence" turned his eyes on the "opening scenes of eternity."