Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-04-26
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Letter from Granger County.
MoRRIsr. WV, TENN, April %, 1877.


Editors EnorviUc tHTontcIc;
For the pleasure your many Masonic
readers take i'm the great Masonic enter
| prise of Tennessee, the Masonic orphan
| Home / will trouble you with few lines
giving them my progress since my en-
trance into your lovely and beautiful di-
vision of your great State. / left Chatta-
nooga on the 10th of this month. The
Lodge ut Chattanooga donated to the En-
dowment Fund 81 800; 5 brethren, $500
Chatata Lodge, S40O; Ooltewah, $500
Cleveland, 1000; LoudOn, 500; w: G.
Julian, j. o. Cameron, ID. II. May, S. T..
Blair, each, 500; Concord, 81, 900; Knox
vile, SO 600; Brothers II. NJ. Akin, Thos.
O'Conner, each, 500; New Market, $500 /;
Messy Creek ,S5 500; w. NJ. Branner, VIM.
Jones, w. w. Laurence, n. j.. NJ. Cand-
less and J. A. Branner, each, 500; Norris
town, $1,000; John +. Slower, Athens,
S100-making $4,000.
The vote of the Lodges was, in almost
every instance, unanimous, and with such
spirit that is ever refreshing to those
that have a heart for the helpless. 1t
makes me proud of such brethren.
This is my first visit to East Tennessee,
and Notwithstanding had been favorably
impressed with it from the many acquain-
tances had formed with her citizens, it's
Importance and beauty had not been half
imagined
Chattanooga, my beginning point, inn
pressed me that it was destined to be a ci-
ty of importance. lis now city of i'm
portance.
Ooltawah, likely to be the county site
of the county of James, is small town of
increasing interest, with fine school and
church.
Athens, with its fine schools and
churches, commends itself to the stranger
in strong language, that her people are
literally disposed, in favor of education
and Christianity, and necessarily refined
and cultivated.
Cleveland is a beauty spot" the most
beautiful l have yet seen III the State, fine
residences, some of them palatial, the de-
coration of yards and surroundings equal
in taste to any place in the land, consider
ing the size, the fine schools and churches,
refined, intelligent and clever citizens will
commend it to any one desiring home.
The little town of Chatata, six miles
this side of Cleveland, deserves special no
tice for a new place. The place and sur
rounding neighborhood has not a single
profane swearer or disipated man in it, the
ubiquitous saloon" is not there, the peo-
pie of all politics, are living with each
other in good neighborship. The large
fine school, with Prof. Cate at its head, as
sisted by three teachers one of music ian
intelligent LADY,, speaks volumes. The
children OF the county are educated tuition
free, those out of the county pay only s.
and $40 per session. Young men of limit
ed means can form q mess of four and have
rooms furnished free and cook and
supply themselves at a cost of SIS
per session, thus a poor man can
obtain a fine education, and two months
in the year to earn the money to pay his
expenses. Board can be had at the school
for two dollars per week.
Charleston and Calhoun, the Hiwasse
river only separating, have a fine and,pros-
porous school, known as "Calhoun::.Ma-
sonic Institution" under the professor
ship of Rev. DR.. Munsey, uncle of the dis
tinguished divine of that name, as | am
informed, his equal as scholar and di-
vine, about one hundred and forty pu-
pills, board ten to twelve dollars per month;
tuition only ten dollars per year; pupils of
the county unable to pay, gratuitous.
TOWNSEND a. THOMAS.