The Mason Lions Club met Tuesday, January 24th, for it’s weekly luncheon meeting. There were 32 members and no visitors in attendance. “Boss” Lion Jess Irwin said on this day in 1848 that: Gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill near Coloma in California, in 1935 beer first appeared in cans, (since then more than 105 billion cans have been sold), and in 1972 the last Japanese soldier from World War 2 surrendered.