Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-08-08
X. OF P. HAVE
MANY VISITORS
POcahOntas Lodge Sends Large
Delegation to Banquet at
North Tazewell--Work of
Expert Degree Team.

The castle hall of North Tazewell
Lodge, No. 131, X. of p, was thu
scene last Tuesday evening of one of
the most delightful and enjoyable oc-
caslons. The occasion was visit of
the expert team from the Pocahontas
Lodge, which conferred the third de-
gree on four young men. There were
also number of visitors from Blue
field Pythian Lodge, who dispute the
claim of Pocahontas to the best work
ing team in the Southwest, claiming
that their team also know few
things about the degree work.
The affair was in charge of Can
tain Jack w. Witten, Grand Chan
ccllor of the Pythian Lodge of Vir-
ginia, and it is not necessary to go
further into the details of the ban
quet and good cheer that prevailed
throughout the evening. Fried chick
en-, pickles, bread, cake, ice cream,
Was-cott ginger ale and other ac-
cessories were plentiful, and the best
the country affords. The cakes were
contributed by the wives of the men,
bcrs, and were most delicious
The Pocahontas team were on their
good behavior, and conferred the de-
grees on the waiting candidates in Il
most impressive and spectular mann
er. Captain j. R. Young, of Poca-
hontas, was in charge of the outfit,
and carried through the work with
case and dignity. The team is COM
posed of the following members of the
Pocahontas Lodge; Captain, ]. r..
Young; Monitor, w. r. Pcery; Path
agoras, j. R. Peery; King, +. Il. Wag-
ner; Senators, r. N. Bowen, w. r.
Peery, w. f. Shumate, L. Lublimer.
Morris Magrill, j. r.. Young. Ed.
Owens, DR.. N. NJ. Counts, j. II. Rye;
Master at Arms, A. IT. Draper;
Herald, Saul Miller; Attendants. j.
b. Whitehead, c. c. Bowen; Hedge
man. j. w. Higginbotham. Other
members of Pocahontas Lodge pres
ent were: l.. Magrill, l.. Raffei, A.
v. Sproles, w. A. Pybass, A. j.
Thompson, Conley Peircc, Mark Ref
fel, Sidney Crouch, ]. Il. Keesling,
p. j. Martin, John Harris, Charles
Butts, Harry Morrisette The visitors
from Blucfield were headed by At
torney 7. II. Scott, chancellor Com
mander of the Bluefield Lodge.
At the conclusion of the initiatory
work lively discussion ensued over
the rivalry existing between the work
ing teams of Bluefield and Poca-
hontas. Challenge after challenge
were issued, and wit and humor bub-
blcd forth as from the mountain
spring where the Was-Cott ale comes
from. In the midst of the excitement
DR.. Witten rushed on the scene and
exclaimed that the chicken, ice cream
and cake had become impatient. and
to cut out the wind-jamming for n
season until the inner man could be
provided for, which was done, as is
everything that the doctor wants. A
number of the huskies passed arounc,
the feed, and all partook of large
potions. After the refreshments had
been partaken and the ale drunk,
trouble broke out again between
superiority of their teams. Captain
Scott, in a most solemn and serious
shed his gloves and gave
vent to the feelings that had smol-
dered in his breast, which emotions
had not been in the least tempered
with mercy by the passage of chicken,
ice cream and cake into his bread
basket. He kept the large crowd in
an uproar for half an hour, and final
ly concluded by giving wide open
challenge to Bluefield to meet his
team anywhere in the United States
to give an Exhibition of competitive
work
Dick Bell, of Staunton, Fisher,
manager in Virginia Of the Pythian
Insurance Department.; and DR.. w.
e. Ritter, of Whitewood, also spoke
on various and sundry subjects. Bell
is secretary of the grand lodge OF
and stated that the past
fiscal year of Pythianism had been
the greatest in the history of the or
ganization.
There were about ah undred men,
bers in the meeting at North Taze-
we'll, and every one of them felt good
that he was there.