The Dispatch – (between May and Dec, 1910)

BEAUTIFUL GIFT IS MADE

Mrs. Marks Winner to Donate a Magnificent Bronze Fountain

to the Mississippi Masonic Widows and Orphans Home.

A LOVELY TOKEN IN MEMORY OF M. WINNER

A Gift From a Widow of a Deceased Mason That Will Be Generally Appreciated – Fountain Will Arrive Next Week – Picture of Same Published Elsewhere.

In honor of the memory of her husband, the late Mark Winner, has decided to donate to the Mississippi Masonic Widows and Orphans Home a beautiful fountain, the picture of which is given in The Dispatch this morning.

It was a noble and generous sentiment that prompted Mrs. Winner to make this gift to the Widow’s and Orphan’s Home.  It is within keeping with the life and character of her good husband, who departed this life April 21, of this year, for one of the most prominent characteristics of this noble man, who always lived a Godly life, was his good deeds; the helping hand that he extended to the poor.  He went about doing good not letting his left hand know what his right hand had done, but his benefactions became so well-known that the people were loud in their praise of the many courtesies and kindnesses extended by this truly good man, who has now gone to his last long reward. 

The picture shows that the fountain will be a handsome and costly one.  It has been ordered through the Firm of Meyer & Schamber and Mr. Schamber thinks it will arrive some time during the next week.  Soon after it reaches Meridian, it will be placed in front of the main building of the home where it will be a great pleasure to the inmates and all visitors who go to see the institution.

Another thing which Mrs. Winner thought was very appropriate was the giving of the fountain to an order with which her deceased husband had been devoted to for many long years.  Mr. Winner became a Mason while living in Texas and later transferred his membership to Meridian where he was identified with all movements looking to the good of the order.  He was faithful to his lodge obligations, as he was to all other obligations, and it is indeed fitting that his life companion should have erected a bronze fountain in front of the home of those whom the order, which he loved, is trying to benefit.

The fountain will have the Masonic emblem, the square and compass, on it, and also Mr. Winner’s name.

It is a beautiful tribute to Masonry, in which Mrs. Winner has portrayed one of the noblest characteristics of her late lamented husband.

The picture of this beautiful fountain will be found on another page of this issue of The Dispatch.

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