Knights of Pythias Entertainment at Tempe
Some Grumbling Over Hotel Accommodations, But Affair Called a Success
A local lodge social at Tempe's Hotel Atwood drew a good crowd and a speech from a local judge, but guests grumbled about the hotel's service — a small slice of small-town social friction from 1900 Arizona.
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Mesa Free Press · June 1, 1900 · Page 1
1 min readKnights of Pythias of [...] invited Knights to have a grand entertainment last Saturday evening at Hotel Atwood, Tempe. There was a goodly attendance of the Knights and their friends at the place. Judge Webster Street made the principal speech of the evening.
There is considerable dissatisfaction expressed with the management of the hotel, and the accommodations did not seem to meet the standard desired by the Knights. There seems to have been a [...] somewhere, and criticism in some quarters is pretty [...] but all agree that everything was done to make the affair a great success.
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