Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-09
SHRINERS TAKE
IN LARCECLASS
WE'RE SHOWN THE WONDERS OF
THE ORDER LAST NIGHT AT
ARMoRY.
IS WERE INITIATED
unlucky Ten Paraded About Town in
Police Patrol and on Top of
Water Wagons and Finally
Arraigned Before Judge

From Thursdays Daily.
After a careful inventory today the
ten young men who viewed the won
ders of the Mystic onrine as masters
for the class of twenty five last night
were accounted for and able to carry |
on their occupations Following their |
arrest yesterday afternoon and a.
raignment before Police Judge Kirby |
the operation on the hNnch COM
menced at 1880 o'clock and continued
until II o'clock when about the wear
lest ten imaginable had successfully
passed through their ordeal and were
ready for the spread placed before
them.
The following men are now full
tledged Shriners and are already anX-
ious to get chance at their unso-
phistlsated brother who may desire to
tread the wonderland Of the order.
The Candidates.
Edward D. Fowler, Ottumwa.
Hugh Robert Hillhouse, Ottumwa.
Edward L. Hirsch, Burlington.
Lemon w. Teeple. Charlton.
Fred g. Weeks, Rock Island.
William Thomas Wilson, Ottumwa.
Carl j. Skinner, Milton.
Jessie r. Jolley, Milton.
Samuel Howard ROLAND, Milton.
]. E. Swanson, Lovilia.
Wallace Conroy, Foster
Herbert Edward Rees, Keosauqua.
William Riley Davidson, Keosauqua
j. G. Upp, Ottumwa.
Andrew D. Lumsden, Ottumwa.
Frank Bruggeman, Ottumwa.
| P. G. B. Murray, Ottumwa.
Charles Edward Ford. Ottumwa.
Don A. Poole, Ottumwa.
Frank Lawrence Wall, st. Paul.
Carl A. Hoagland, Chicago.
Joseph Park, Ottumwa.
Jesse Ausby Doolittle, Ottumwa.
John p Reese, Abba.
Daniel A. Emery Ottumwa.
FUSS and Confusion.
People doing shopping and trave.s-
ing the business thoroughfares Of OF
tumwa late yesterday afternoon won
dered in amazement at the reason for
all the fuss and confusion.
whats this? What is the band out
for. and the policemen and who are
those white coated fenows in the po-
lice patrol and on top of the waite.
wagons and all those outlandish Gov
tunes 2"
why, that's the Shriners,' was the
, reply.
OF all the outlandish costumes and
regalia worn by the shriners in their
parade, maud No. 23'' was the limit
, Maud was there and so were the ter
4 candidates who occupied the police
: patrol and the uppermost points OF
two sprinkling wagons. The candj
dates were not graced with regalia
further than long white linen coats
which showed them pure of heart AMI
fitting candidates for the degree abou
,. to be conferred upon them.
t Parade Formed.
The parade formed on Fourth stree
J. at the new armory and was headed b,
e Mayor Phillips and Chief Of Police Gal
g lagher and eight patrolmen. Follow
n ing the police came the members o
g the Fifty-f fourth regiment band an
D. then the candidates, with Maud. The
came score or more Of costume
gentlemen representing the degre
e team from Davenport. In the rea
e Of the illustrious potentate and tn
u MOBILES in line were many Mobiles G
7. the Ottumwa shrine, half plying All
e half envying the attention given thei
pTOCuST lOWASulSu WHO were dpOuL
go through the most strenuous nigh
: of their lives.
III All wore the famous little red fe
~ with a black tassel If not otherwis
" crowned. Following the walkin
I'd Mobiles came a dozen automobiles fl
e ed with visiting and local Mobiles.
The line of march was up Fourt
street to Marion, down Marion to Sc,
ond, back on Second to Court an
e, down Court to Main, thence east o
| Main to Jefferson thanna To Senan