The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-28
A SPLENDID BANQUET
GIVEN AT HOTEL, PHOENIX BY
WINSION-SALEML LODGES
In Honor of the Visiting Knights
Music by the Orchestra-The
Splendid Toasts.

"ehu-SDiSnOlu IO0StS.
Thursday night at the Phoenix Hotel
there sat down TO bountiful banquet
a large number of Knights of pythias
and Il few invited guests. The ban
quet was complimentary to the Grand
Lodge and was gwen by Damon Lodge,
No. Al, of Winston, and Salem Lodge,
No. IS. The event has been looked
forward to for quite a while and tie
occasion was proof of well directed Ell
forts.
During the evening the Salem Or
chestra discOursed the sweetest of
music and evoked the unstlnted praise
of all visiting Knights.
The menu served under the direc-
tlon Of Manager Kittllc was as follows:
MENU.
"Snigualas' Queen Olives.
Tomato Chutney.
Cold oI Ferrs Fff Ham Cold Sin Smoked IfTSm Tongue
Baltimore Deviled Crabs.
Chicken Salad-Plain and Mayonaise.
Potato Salad,
Saratoga Potatoes.
Beaten Biscuit. Sandwiches.
Philadelphia Fruit and Iced Pound Cake.
Ladies Fingers. Macaroons.
Iced Drop Cakes. Vanilla and ginger WATERS.
Tutti Fruit and Vanilla lee Cream.
Pine Apple Shcrbet.
Oranges bananas Figs
Whitman's Philadelphia Bon Bons,
Mixed Nuts and Raisns.
French Coffee. Van IlOutcn's Cocoa.
Ice Tea
The toaSts were unusually good and
scarcely one was open t0 the occasion
al objection as to length. The re-
sponses were al in good taste and the
best of sentiments pervadcd them.
Mr.. f.. a. Ebert, as postmaster, was
very tclicitOuS.
The flrst toast. ''Our Guests" was
responded to 10y Rev. r. T.. Caldwell,
and worthily did he express the hospi-
tality of the local lodges toward their
visiting brethren.
Mr.. Thomas ID. Meares, of Whining
ton, responded TO '"Thc Past Grand
Officers" lie took occasion to refer
to the spleudid growth OF the Order
in this State, which Jurisdiction now
| has ~ lodges and 1900 members, and
| spoke of the PasU Grand Officers under
whom this growth had been attained.
Unto that rank of Past Grand Oni-
GERS" said the speaker, ''we welcome
| one who has accomplished more than
has been done IN all the years prcced-
| ing, and whose name will live for
years to come in every Pythian Lodge
| in North Carolina"
| Inc neAU bOdSD, ne lGGScDb ItduU
| OiicerS,' was a running cnc0mium 10y
| w. 5. Cook, of Fayetteville, of those
officers who were IahoriDg ZealOusly
| for Friendship, Charity and l5cncyo-
| lence.
Mr. Washington Catlett, of Will
| mingtan, made IN eloquent and patri-
otic response to North Carolina"
| In the absence Of Mr.. Theodore F..
| Kluttz, of Salisbury, Mr.. S. L. Telfair,
| of Raleigh, responded to the "KnightS
Of Pythias." His words were apt and
his diction eloquent.
The response to "Their Wives,
| Daughters and Sweethearts" was by
Mr.. p. a. Cummings, of AsheVille,
who took the place Of Mr.. George ID.
| Bradshaw, of Ashboro. His remarks
were timely and well adapted TO the
| sentiment.
| After the conclusion of these regular
| toasts there we're sundry remarks by
Messrs. Holton, Webb, Gilmer McDuf-
| he, Bell and ThGlcr. Several OF these
were not inferior in interest to the
| more formal speeches.
| Good fellowship prevailed through
out, and fine sentiments were the or
der of the evening. At an early hour
of the morning this most enjoyable
| event came to a close.