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Excerpt from Souvenir: A Brief History of the Ridgely Lodge; No. 74, I. O. O. F., Manchester, N. H.; Including the First Anniversary Address, Delivered February 17, 1888; And Higher Life, a Poem Delivered at the Fifth Anniversary Meeting, February 19, 1892
To-day is the first anniversary of the institution of Ridgely lodge. One year ago it came into organized being. It was no puny infant calling attention to its advent by incoherent cries and frantic struggles, - awaking commiseration by its utter helplessness. Spurning the swaddling clothes of infancy it sprang forth in the full ?ush of vigorous life, assuming at once all the responsibilities of manhood, bringing to the per formance of its duties on the very day of its institution a brilliancy and power as gratifying to its-friends as they would have been mortifying to its enemies, if any it had. Portu nately, however, there were none who were not pleased to welcome it and wish the young stranger a long, a successful, and an honorable life.
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