Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1894-10-20
fHaoues WEST VIRGINIA..
Our Local Editors Trip Through the
Mountain State

Our Local Editors Trip Through the
Mountain State.
The local editor of this paper was
a representative from Washington
Lodge Knights of Pythias OF this
place to the Grand Lodge, which
met at Huntington on October 9th.
Mr.. w. sR. Kline was the other rep
resentatiye. Our trip was made in.
the iiaost delightful season of the
year, and the weather was most fav-
orable. Leaving home on Sunday,
October I, Tie trip to Parkersburg
was made during the night, arriving
at that place abouts4 a. m. Monday.
At Hancock station, -Pawpaw, Key
ser, Piedmont, Grafton and all along
TIE line our, nucleus, of two, was in
creased by the addition of other rep
tesentatives all bound for the Grand
Lodge; AT Piedmont especially was
the pleasure Of the ride augmented
when Maner jenkins, Grand K. of r.
and s. and Brother Smith, Grand NJ.
of E. came on board and gave US
some preliminaries IS to the work
before, us. AS usual the trains on the
B. & o. were crowded, and eyen.had
we been able to sleep the mischief
stirring in some of the boys bent on
fun would have prevented US. At
Pafkersbprg, although the Ohio
River, Railroad is east of the Ohio
river, it runs byceheral time, which I
IS an hour earlier than the time by
our watches, and the B.o& o. train
on which we arrived there left an
hour before it got there. This fact
always kept us on the alerf. We
slept at Parkersbufg waiting the O. !
r.. r. r. train but our sleep was
broken for fear we would miss con-
'nection, and even then after hastily
eating breakfast and a run for the |
depot we arrived and saw no train.
Our watch showed after train time,
but the depot clock relieved us. We
were just an hour too early and the
train had not come yet. This anx-
iety as to the time, kept up all the
time we were in Huntington. Lodge
called at eastern time and We went
an hour, too early. We changed our
watch, and forgetting 5iabout the /
change we fingered about and missed
roll call. We hustled after Lodge to
get dinner or supper at the hotel and
sometimes were an hour too early or
an hour too late. We never felt at
home until we struck a home bound
train which moved on home time,and
then we ate and slept comfortably.
- Fhe Grand Lodge sessions were
of great interest and much import
ance. u AHhodgh many discussions
arose as to the matters before the
lodge'they were speedily and salts
faetorily settled. Out of nearly a
hundredllodges in this State allwere
represented save two or three. On
Tuesday afternoon a prize drill by
RaYenswood Lodge onThird avenue
was Witnessed by thousands of peo-
pie and at night even larger crowd
assembled to see the fantastic drill
by "Mephisto and his Imps." The
prize drill was like clock work, and
that ofethe I'm ps was even better.
"Mephisto" is Capt. S. B. Baker OF
Parkersburg, whose drill at Wash
ington during the Supreme Lodge
won for his company a $1,000 prize,
for himself $l00 emblem, and for
the regiment to which he belongs the
prize banner for the best drilled reg
iment. Is osa# s55 1ulrEu 37g-i
7l We have much praise for the city
of Huntington. Every street is laid
out alright an giles with the avenues.
they are brosdfr than ours, many of
them paved " JlI friedrich, street car
lines are running, excellent electric
lights light up the whole city, there
is aigeod police force, their city Off
GERS are hustle u.s. they have most
coinmendable market laws and city
regulations, the people are full of en-
ergy, 7hospitable and treat you roy.
ally. There is a slight depression in
trade, and the chief works of the city
are shut down. but the people keep |
up their spirits, and make the best
OF it and by holding together for the
common veal they are feeling the
depression less than other places.
50 Among Huntington's citizens we
met Mr.. f. D.. Boyer, formerly of
this city, who is now tax collector
at snug salary and is popular Of
ficer.5 Mr.. H. j. Homrich has fine
jewelry store and is most successful
in business. His wife (nee MissBer.
tha- Edwards, Of this city, likes
Huntington, and they are keeping
house in beautiful portion of the
city with Mr.. Homrich is Hunter
Barnett. He used to be a happy go
lucky boy, full of pranks, etc. but he
is now a staid and settled business
man. We also met Mr. j. Ell. Long,
one Of the editors and proprietcrs Of
the Huntington Herald, most ex-
cellent daily and a successful enter
prise. Mr.. Long and aourself were
born and partly raised inrthe same
town, knew each others friends and |
relatives very well, and only failed |
to know each other because we were
both so small whenwe left our COM
mon place Of birth. I'VE dined with
his family, and he took US to many
places of interest, oincluding the
theatre. Huntingtons opera house
is nothfngif it is not metropolitan. |
Ithas its parquet, its balcony, and
its gallery for the gods of the pea
mutt 1tahas eight boxes, and when
the Grand Lodge officers filed these
to see Ghas. IA! Loder in. 60, What
a Mighty they helped and the crowd
in hearty laughing. isGotas ui n3piI
ID On our return we came over the
O! a. o. r.. r., which road runs the
finest train service into Cincinnati. |
1t has steam heat, vestibule cars,
electric light, smooth road bed and
rapid transit, The train we travelled |
on Is scheduled at actual running
time tol45 miles an hour and it was
onltime at every station The couna
try through which it passes is GER
tainly Gods ieohntryaH Tunneling
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