The first report in any newspaper currently available in a digitized version of either of the two Kelso lodges is in the Newcastle Courant of Saturday, 3^rd July 1819 which is a report of the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone for a monument to the memory of the Scottish poet James Thomson.

James Thomson was a son of a Scots clergyman Thomas Thomson and Beatrix Trotter Thomson of Berwickshire, and was born on September 11, 1700 in Ednam and died aged 48 on 27^th August 1748 in London.   Thomson is best known as a poet and playwright, with The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence being his best known works.  He is also credited with the authorship of the lyrics of “Rule, Britannia!”.    The Seasons published as a complete work in 1730  was an extremely influential poem, and stimulated works by Joshua Reynolds, John Christopher Smith, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough and J M W Turner.  A German translation of The Seasons was used by Haydn for his oratorio The Seasons.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-thomson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seasons_(Thomson)

It’s not known if James Thomson was a Freemason but it would not have been uncommon at that time for the laying of a foundation stone to be undertaken with full Masonic ceremonial and honours.   There is no mention in the Lodge minute book of The Tweed Lodge of Kelso No 261 of any preparation for, or participation in the ceremony, but there is a record of the ceremony in the minute book of The Kelso Lodge No 58, from where it would appear that The Tweed Lodge was represented.   It would therefore seem that the reporter was unable to distinguish between the two Kelso lodges as the participating lodge is identified as Kelso Tweed!