(from Golden Memories of Lyle, page 22)

"The Fraternal Orders in Lyle, were M.B.A. Lodge, Willow Wood Camp, Knights of Pythias, the Railroad Order of Trainmen, I. O. G. T. and A. F. and A. M. Alma Lodge and the Royal Neighbors.

The Knights of Pythias is one of the oldest.

They received their Charter in 1899 as the original charter was destroyed in the big fire of 1891. They erected a two-story brick building of their own late in that same year which is still in use and only one of the few original buildings not destroyed by fire since its erection, but it was badly damaged by fire in late summer of 1960, but was then renovated. The first floor of their building for many years housed a drugstore."