Johnstone PO Directory in 1901

The lodge met in the Cross Keys Hotel, High Street at this time. Slightly surprising is that no Free Gardeners were masons in the above group, but all Oddfellows were members of 242. Possibly because the Gardeners were a successful, benevolent organisation whose demise was the introduction of the NHS. Bro. John Gilmartin JW became master of 242 then founding master of 1042 in Linwood.