St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-10-04
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Some Preliminary Notes ON the Coming
Convention Here.

COnvemnOn hheres
The eleventh annual convention of the
Grand Lodge, Knights OF Pythias of Yer
mont, and fourth annual field day of the
First Regiment, Uniform Rank, Knights
of Pythias, is to be held at St. Johnsbury
next week, October 10th and 18th.
The occasion will be one of especial
interest owing to the fact that the Grand
Lodge was organized here and the first
company of the Uniform Rank to be
organized in Vermont was that at st.
Johnsbury, the former eleven years ago,
the latter, five. There will be at least
$50 Knights in attendance and probably
nearer 400, including Supreme Lodge
officers and Grand Lodge officers from
other states.
The visitors will be welcomed Tuesday
forenoon by the st. Johnsbury Band,
who give a concert at the Railroad
street park. At 2 O'Clock p. M, the
parade will form as follows: First
division, st. Johnsbury Band, the staff
and companies of the First Battalion OF
the Uniform Rank of Vermont; Second
division, Lodges of the order and visiting
Knights and members of the Grand
Lodge; Third division, carriages with
officers and members of Supreme and
Grand Lodges. The line will form on
North Railroad street, proceeding from
Railroad street to Eastern avenue, to
Main, to Church, to Summer, to Mt.
Pleasant, to Main, to schoolhouse
common, where the procession will be
reviewed by the Supreme and Grand
officers, and where will also occur the
Dress Parade, Battalion Drill and Prize
Drills. Supper will be served in the
Guards Armory to all members of the
order at 6 o'clock.
A public meeting, to which most
cordial invitation is extended to ALL
will be held in Music Hall, beginning
at O'Clock; music, orchestral and
vocal, will be included in the programme,
and the address of the occasion will be
given by DR.. R. L. c. White OF Nashville,
Tenn. He is native of Tennessee; wasa
soldier in the Confederate army, and at
the close of the war accepted the situa.
ton and is today and long has been
patriotic American citizen. He has been
for many years a member Of the Order of
Knights of Pythias, and for 12years has
been the Supreme Secretary of the order.
He is not only splendid speaker, but is
a scholar, wit and poet. That his
address will be an able and most interest
ing one goes without saying, referring as
it will to the important questions of the
day, Americanism abroad. Following
the exercises in Music Hall will be a
reception in the Fairbanks Museum to
the officers of Supreme Lodge and Grand
Lodge, and the public are also invited to
be present on this occasion.
Exemplication of the Page Rank by
the Rank Staff of Apollo Lodge will take
place at the Armory after the reception.
Wednesday morning the Grand Lodge
convention occurs at O'Clock.
The business places and residences
along the route Of the parade will be
decorated on Tuesday morning.
The headquarters of the Grand Lodge
and local committee of arrangements
will be at the Avenue House, in parlor
No. 46.
The committee of arrangements wish
to emphasize the invitation for the
attendance of the general public at
Music Hall, Tuesday evening.