Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-07-18
K. GRAND LODGE
KNIGHTS or PYTHIAs AND RATH
BONE SISTERS ARE NOW in 4
POSSESSION
OF DlcklNsoN- -LARGE GATHER.
I ING AND INTERESTING SEES
1 SION BEING HELD.

Os- i5L}ICNiNSON IN AfSGE GATHER
ING AND INTERESTING SEES
SION BEING HELD.
Dickinson, July 10 The city has
put on its festival clothes, the colors
of the Knights of Pythias are in evi.
.dence everywhere, and Dickinson sx-
poets to make the three-day stay Of
1.-THE visitors most pleasant.
The grand lodge for the state Of
North Dakota of the. Knights OF
Pythias convened in this city yester-
day. The trains yesterday were
Icrowded with delegates and by to.
night the local entertainment com
Inaittee expect the full delegate ION will
have arrived. Many of the delegates
brought their wives and the total
number expected is more than 500.
| Aside from the fact that the
knights of Pythias is a secret fra
Eternal Organization many are ignorant
of the proportions and purposes Of the
order. The lodge was organized in
1863 and at the close of the year 1864
1.-The lodge numbered Is members in
three subordinate chapters At the
close of the next ten years there were
1914 members in the 1923 sub
lordinate lodges established during the
first. decade In 1884 there We're 157,-
I133 knights and 2,277 subordinate
chapters. During the twenty years
Terminating in 1904 the society has
enjoyed a marvellous growth. s The
growth has been constant and great
icare has been exercised in granting
charters, but the Knights of Pythias
! has proved itself a fraternal order OF
the highest excellence and the APP
plications for charters have come in
! much faster than the order saw fit to
! grant them. Nevertheless the close
ttof the year 1906 shows that $50, 239
Americans have been initiated into
1.-the mysteries of this great brother
Ihood and that there are in existence
and mostly in a fourishing condition
'f75n subordinate lodges. ST The su.
Ipreme government Of the lodge EN-.
braces in addition to the usual duties
fof the highest executive ins secret
Iorders, an educational and insurance
! feature that is worthy Of the highest
confidence Of every Knight rs ,00(
members Of the lodge have awaited
| themselves of the insurance depart
tment and the protection now in force
J, is considerably over $500, 900. The
i Iorder has paid to benef1ciaries ovel
$2S, l50,O 900 since its organization
The declaration Of principles adopted
4 by the supreme lodge tell the reason
II why the Knights of 'Pythias hav.
grown from q mere handful of earnes
Imen to a mighty force IN such a stlor
number Of years. Pythian knighthoot
had its conception In the exemplifica
q ton Of the life test of true friendship
* existing between Damon and Pythias
Il Friendship or mutual confidence, be
ling the strongest bond OF union be
81 tween man and man, and only existin,
Where honor has an abiding place, i
: adopted as a foundation of principle
d AS the ideal knight Of olden time
was the personifc alton Of all the high
! Ter and nobler attributes of mans na
9 ture. the candidate for knighthood ha
{ to prove him sell orthy of accentanc
J by those who valued friendship
Z bra very, honor, justice, and loyalty.
i The order Of knights Of Pythias-
/. founded In Friend hip, Charity an
i I Benevol ence, which 1t proclaims as it
@ cardinal prfncipl les strives to gathe
d into one mighty fraternity worthy me
4 who appreciate the true meaning {
81 friendship who are cautious /
/. word and act; who love truth ]; VIII
!. L are brave in defending right who's
Y honor is untarnished; whose sense
q Justice will prevent, to the best
J. their ability, a personal act or Wor
z, injurions to the worthy whose loyali
81 to principle to family, to friends,
their country and to the constitute
y authority under which they enje
citizenship, Is undoubted !; and who
6 all times are prepared TO- do uni
= Others as they would that othei
I should do unto them w
4 Standing on these immortal prins
= pies the lodge has grown rapidly al
prospered since Its organization
IS the state of North Dakota. 1t no
Numbers about 8 900 members ana /
January first, 800, there were
Hbordinate lodges. The officers
the grand lodge are:
Charles A. Grow, O.. G., Minot.
Brown. Is ST Graz
q Forks.