Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-03-14
MIR. and Mrs. Kiskaddon
At Masonic Home


At Masonic Home
Mrs. Llewella Mcdonald received
La letter recently from Mrs. j. l..
Kiskaddon, in which she stated that
they were at the Masonic home at
lEliZabethtOwn, Pa. They have
been there for several months.
For a number of years the Kiskad-
dons were residents of this place,
and after leaving here made Pitts
burgh their home. The many
friends here of Mr.. and Mrs. Kis--
kaddon will be pleased to learn how
pleasantly they are located.
| Mrs. Kiskaddon's letter to Mrs.
Mcdonald follows:
My Dear Mrs. Mcdonald: We
were more than glad to hear from
you folks again. There have been
many, many, changes since l last
wrote you. Yes we got the paper
you sent us telling about your dear
mothers death, and we were more
than sorry. for we were very fond
| of her She was a dear soul. in
tended writing just at the time, but
we were in the midst of getting
ready to come to our new home.
There were SO many things to at
tend to, and plenty to do. And both
of us a little under the weather, and
worried. just did not get it done.
Mr. Kiskaddon was only able to go
half day, and then was pretty
| we'll done out, so we decided the
| best place for us was the Masonic
| home-if we could get in. So we got
| a lot of red tape about affairs of
| this kind, but we made the landing,
and here we are, happy and con-
tented and nothing to worry about,
| fixed for the rest of our lives. |
only weighed 135 pounds when we
came here in May-looked pretty
thin Have picked up quite a bit.
Mr.. Kiskaddon was down to 100
now 1904 7 tell him he is getting
too fat We have a wonderful home
here OF course it is different from
a private home. More like big
hotel-all eat in one large dining
room. Nearly 400 every meal
have round tables seat eight at Il
table. Have girls from outside to
wait on tables-men to cook, por-
ters to do all cleaning each one
takes care of her own room. Once
a week the porter puts the electric
sweeper on. Have real nice rooms.
The building we are in is for the
married couples | think we have
60 couples now. Other buildings
are for widows and widowers. l
think there are about 10 daugh-
ters Of Masons, but they don't take
them in any more, as it would
crowd out widows and couples.
There are two buildings for girls,
and two for boys; have about $50
boys and girls. The youngest is a
dear little fellow not quite four, the
oldest about It, and all a fine
healthy bunch. So far have not had
a death among the kiddies. Of
course these are Masons' children,
and one parent is dead And l tell
you they have the fine homes, and
all seem so happy. All are enjoy
ing the snow, all have sleds and a
good place 20 use them would like
to go out myself, but it might
shock some of the old folks to
death, and that would be dreadful
thing. The children attend school
at Elizabethtown. We are a mile
out from town. We walk over most
every week in good weather-not a
large town; have a few stores and a
five and ten-that's where / do my
shopping. My, but we were sorry
to know your son Fred was 50 close
and we did not get to see him; was
only IS miles to the homes from
Lancaster. if he gets out this way
he must be sure to come over and
see us. Wish you all could come
over some time | know you would
enjoy seeing this lovely place. And
how we would enjoy seeing you
folks. The homes have / 900 acres,
over ten miles of lovely drives,
beautiful flowers, and shrubbery, in
the spring and summer; over 5000
chickens, many fine COWS, and loads
of hogs. Fruit orchards of all
kinds. And bees, BIS b's-loads OF
honey this year, 900 pounds. We
have lots of it to eat. Have our
own eggs, butter, pork, beef, chick
ems, all kinds of garden stuff in
season, and fruit. We have the best
kind Of meals; have ice cream twice
a week; loads Of fruit-canned and
fresh; pie twice week We had
wonderful Christmas and New
Years dinner-turkey and all the
good things that go with it-even
to plum pudding with hard sauce.
Have picture show every Satur-
DAY afternoon for the old folks-at |
night for the children. We don't |
as we have subWays between build |
ings. We all have to go over to the |
Grand Lodge building for our
meals. Will enclose a few cards |
showing some of the buildings, so |
you can have little idea what it |
is like. The tables in the dining |
room are round, and fill the room |
eight at each table. We have a nice |
room facing one Of the parks. Have |
white twin beds, two dressers, two |
rocking chairs, one table and table |
chair for writing desk. Have a few
of my own pictures on the wall
one of the old Muskingum, so you
see we have a little of good old Nc