The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-10-25
Second Day of the Eleventh
Annual Session of the
Grand Lodge.
Interesting Addresses Of Wei
come and Appropriate Re-
sponses at. the Park.
An Elegant Ball and Banquet
Given in Their Honor
Last Night.
A List; Of the Beautiful Toilets
Worn on the Happy Oc-
caSiOn

In the BAzoo of last evening all that
had been done bv the Grand Lodge, X. of
p. prior to their march TO Sichers' park,
was given. after which the following inter
esting addresses of welcome and responses
we're delivered too late for publication
Yesterday.
On reaching the park, Mayor Cravcroft
delivered the address of welcome, as fol-
lows:
TIE ADDRESS.
Knights of Pythias, Ladies and Gentle
men:
In obedience to the call of your order of
this citv. and as one of its municipal Off
Gers. | am here to-day to extend 10 You lis
Inequalities and to bid Won welcome.
Your order, in one respect, Is like our
city, who you honor to-day by your pres
ence, young i'm wears, but vigorous and
strong, and with as bright future as ever
inspired man TO renewed energy and labor
The name of YOUR order is associated with
the
BRIGHTEST PAGES OF HISTORY;
and it takes but a glance at this audience,
composed of your order, TO convince me
that the name of the Knight will never be
.lishonored by Won, but that YOU will add
a new lustre to the name And though no
roval hand confers the power as in the
DAYS of old, vet the helmet and your ar
mortal bearings covers hearts as warm and
true as ever beat when the sovereign laid
the blade of the sword on the recipient OF
1he honor.
Again. gentlemen. with feelings OF pleas
IRE mingled with pride and admiration
for your order, bid YOU welcome TO our
young city.
Jude John 4. Lacy was the next speak
er and said:
Mr. LACY's REMARKS.
Grand Chancellor and members of the
Grand Lodge Knights OF Pythias OF
Missouri, Brother knights, ladies and
gentlemen:
The pleasant task has been imposed
upon me by the two lodges of Knights of
Pythias of bidding you i'm their name
sincere and heartfelt welcome. 1t would
almost seem to be work OF supereroga-
ton for one Pythian brother to attempt i'm
words to express the qualification he feels
I'm meeting and welcoming another
member of our beloved order, much less
its recognized head I'm this state, but it is
nevertheless oftimes good thing to utter
pleasant toast even though We NAV feel
fully assured of it beforehand, and above
all, the words that tell us that
WE ARE DEAR To THE HEARTS OF OUR
FRIENDS,
and welcome to their fresides, can never
become old or trite, or be too often re-
peated.
Bay deep mouthed welcome We draw near
home;
'Tis sweet to know that there's an eve will mark
Our coming, and look brighter when come
And therefore, Grand Chancellor and
brethren, it is with no ordinary feelings
that extend to you, on behalf of Sedalia
Lodge No. q, and Queen City Lodge No
-, true Pythian welcome to our city,
our Castle Halls, our homes, and our
hearts, feeling assured that our express
slOns of rejoicing at having you with us
will be truly reciprocated by those who
have been bound to us by the silver links
of Pythian brotherhood, and who have
been tested and found worthy TO wear the
high priced honor of the golden spur of
Pythian knighthood. There is peculiar
appropriateness, Grand Chancellor and
brethren, in our meeting together on this
day and rejoicing together on the prosper
ity of our order and its benefit to us and to
mankind. The order of Knights of Py-
thias is essentially
AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION.
Ii is the outgrowth OF our free institutions,
of our freedom of thought, speech
and action, and of those grand
principles of human right, Justice and
liberty, which We have demonstrated to the
world i'm our political history and life
Then, when on the far Atlantic coast, i'm
the Old Dominion, at the old-fashioned
village of Yorkstown, the nation is at this
hour celebrating the centennial anniver-
sary of that glorious day when the cause
of liberty finally triumphed, and the right
of free government by the people and for
the people, became an established fact In
the worlds history, let us also unite our
voices i'm shout of JOYOUS exultation that
We not only enjoy the political fruits won
by our forefathers on that glorious occa-
sion, but have also to celebrate the annual
gathering i'm this state of that brotherhood
OF true friendship which had its inception,
Its birth, and its growth i'm our land, and
was fostered by the institutions and
thought of
OUR GRAND REPUBLIC,
until il stands TO-DAY one of the great con-
SENATORS of peace, good feeling, brotherlv
love and true charity and benevolence be-
tween man and man in our country shedding
its benign and heavenly influence from the
ice bound regions of the North TO where |
old Neptune, rolling in his shell, sports
with his dolphins meath the tropic wave,
and from the bustling marts of commerce
and life which line our Atlantic coast, TO
those far away golden sands ceaselessly
washed by the heaving pillows OF the linn
itless Pacific. You have come here to-day, !
Grand Chancellor and brethren, for the
purpose of legislating for the good of our
order. Then let your aim and purpose be
to ever exemplify in the action of this
Grand Lodge the great principles under !
which We profess to live and work.