Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-14
PYTHIANS PARADE.

Elaborate Plans For Next
Weeks Meeting.
HUNDREDS OF KNIGHTS TO MARCH.
Opening Day to be Naked ~ One Of the |
History-seeond Avenue to be Coavsrssa |
Into IN Illuminated Arehway.
Monday of next week Knights
of Pythias from all sections
Of the great state Of ILL.,
nois will begin to assemble in Rock
Island for the meeting Of the grand
lodge. which opens the following DAY
at Harper's theatre. In the forenoon
Of the opening day there will boa
grand parade. in which hundreds OF
Knights from the three cities and
surrounding localities will partici-
pate.
Capt. j. NJ. Beardsley will be mar
shall of the day, his aides (mounted)
from Rock Island being: DIR. G. l..
Eyster. Maj W. T. Channon, DIR. j.
4. Hollowbush, Robert Wagner, j.
j. Kelly, John Ohlwei er. C. j.
Searle, J. L. Wright. Charles Nc
Hugh, c f. GAZETTEER, j. Wizard, Ut.
O'Connor. William Stewart, II. Det-
jens. Horst Won Koeckritz. +. Hol-
dorf, Lee Pau: Moline, George Gould
and NJ. Henderson.
| The order of the march will be:
| Platoon Of Police.
Marshsl and Aides.
Executive Committee.
| Beuer's Band
| St. Paul Lodge Rock Island.
Metropolitan Lodge. Rock Island
| Damon Lodge. Davenport
| Columbia Lodge Davenport.
| Coer DeLeon Lodge. Davenport
Davenport Lodge. Davenport.
| Light Guard Band
| St George Lodge. Moline
Surrounding Lodges and Visiting Knights
| Otto'> Band
IGrand Officers with E>cCIt Garfield Division
| Uniform Rank. Davenport
| Line Of March.
The procession will form on Nine.
teenth street, right resting on Sec
ond avenue. and move west on Sec
ond to Ninth street. south on Ninth
to Third avenue. east on Third To
Eleventh street, south on Eleventh to
Fourth avenue, east on Fourth to
rwentieth street, north on Twen-
tieth to Second avenue. west on Sec
ond to Nineteenth street. where II
will halt. reverse order and forward
west to Harper's theatre.
Second avenue from Sixteenth
to Nineteenth street will be elabor
ately attired in the colors OF the
ordered, yellow and blue-whici
will be strung across the thorough.
fare with the assistance Of the trolle,
wires. presenting one Of the grsndes
\ and most impressive scenes ever oc
curing in Rock Island. The avenu,
between these points will be con
verted into one haring archway,
with Pythian emb,cms standing out
: conspicuously everywhere. The
local committee had dickered will
the Chicago Decorating company I,
furnish the material and do the work
but considering its figures too great
the Rock Island knights have under
taken the job themselves.
Every one is laboripg diligentl
to make the grand lodge meeting
success. and to that end the tw
lodges urgently request people alon,
the line Of march to decorate such 8
they never decorated before-a
there seems to be no question bu
what the forthcoming gathering o
Illinois Knights will be one of tn
biggest affairs which Rock Islam
lever handled.
Wednesday Evening's Ball.
Wednesday evening q grand ball
to be given at the industrial home
observance Of the Pythianism in Ill
nois, the affair to be under the Join
auspices of St. Paul lodge 101, an
Metropolitan lodge 47I. One thor
sand invitations have been issue
and it promises to be one Of th
: browning social events Of the season
and will be made especially attractiv
in view Of the presence Of the visi
ing knights.
The committees in charge Of th
, ball are:
A-raugements-Sam Arndt,
r. Wright, Lee Pfsu.
Reception-C. W. Negus, HERNIA
Detjens, W. W. Bowlby William
Wins. A. ID. Huesing. +. w. ThomI
son, Eli Mosenfelder. J. +. wagne
. DR.. J. F. Myers. John W. Ward. job
W. Potter, Louis GlockhoG, T.. "
, Hurst. Nj. II. Sexton, J. T. Eel
worry. Dr. }. r. Hollowbush, Char !,
McHugh. S. l.. Affairs, II. G. Cleay,
land, r. I. Aldrich.
Floor-Capt. %. y. Mc';inle,
Michael Higgins. William Hair
james Darnell. I. =. Donohue. +. .
Conpelly, William Hartz. Willis
Lamont, William Stewart, Jam,
IO'Connor.