Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-10-19
Col. S. A. Poster Promoted to
the Grand CHARACTERISTIC.
OFFICERS ADVANCED.
Everyone Well Pleased With
the Celebration.
From Fridays Daily.

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GINA closed last evening with the
completion ofgrand lodge business.
The occasion has been peculiarly
happy one, albeit numerically con
sidered the general expectations as
to visitors and participants were
hardly realized. But everything
in connection with the convention
has passed off very pleasantly, and
without the least friction in any
particular, and this fact is a salts
factory offset against disappointed
hopes in other directions.
The city is now nearly cleared
of its guests. At every train which
carried the visitors to their respec
tive homes, the Review reporter
overheard our city's hospitality ex'
tolled in highest terms. Words Of
praise were on the lips of every
parting guest, each one We'd with
the other in commencing the treat
ment received at the hands of their
hosts.
At o'clock yesterday afternoon
a large crowd concentrated at the
reviewing stand at the corner OF
Charles and Water streets. to view
the competitive drills. Only our
Edward Dalton company entered
the lists. The Wheeling company
for some reason did not wish to
compete and their backwardness de-
tracted somewhat from the interest
in the exhibition. The judges were
Capt. H. A. Stead, Of Sistersville;
Major Leo Schaffer. of Sewell and
Lieut.. II. w. Bloss, of Huntington.
The Dalton company were drilled
FIRST. They easily scored aboye
their competitors in general appeal
ance and alignment, but were great
ly inferior in drilling efficiency.
This was, of course, expected as
the members OF the company have
not had sufficient practice to insure
excellence, and furthermore, make
no pretensions to especial merit in
that direction.
The Ravenswood company fol.
lowed the Sistersville Knights, and
they performed the drill in a fault
less manner. They are easily the
"crack" company of the order in
this State, and have never yet failed
to land first money at Grand
Lodge meeting. The judges gave
this percentage: Edward Dalton
Company, IS; Ravenswood Com
pany, o81a. This is reduction of
three-quarters from the percentage
received by the victors last year at
the Grand Lodge meeting at Char
lesion.
By this decision the Ravenswood
Knights won the tidy sum of SI85,
of which the Grand Lodge gave
$40 and the subordinate lodge
SIS. Sistersville received the Sec.
ond prize offering SOS, the Grand
Lodges donation Of $40 and SIS
from the blue lodge.
A larger crowd than that of the
afternoon met to see the exhibition
drills, advertised for s o'clock in
the evening. But the rain mau or
dained that this event should not
take place.
At the appointed hour heavy
rain began falling and in an in
credibly short time there was not
one of the large crowd in evidence.
Those in the reviewing stand did
not even wait to have their money
refunded.
In the meantime the Ravenswood
company in white coats and spikes
in their helmets, instead of plumes,
had reached the corner of Diamond
and Water streets, but decided to
retrace their steps as the rainfall
increased in volume. The exhibi-
ton drill would have been more in
teresting than the competitive drill
as more intricate movements and
maneuvering are introduced.
In the evening the grand lodge
completed its labors. The follow
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