The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-09-03
GRAND LODGE IS
WELL ATTENDED,
IOWA KNIGHTS OF PYTHlAS
SWARM TO oSkALooSA.
FEATURES OF BIG MEETING.
Opened With School of instruction at
Grand Opera House - Candi
dates for Office at To-Mor- s.
rows Election.

| The thirty ninth Annual Convention
of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias
of Iowa, and the Eighteenth Annual
Session of the Grand Temple Pythian
Sisters of Iowa are now in session in
Oskaloosa. The attendance already
has exceeded the most sanguine ex-
pectations and the guests in the city
tomorrow, including delegate Knights
and Sisters and visitors will number
| fully two thousand. The delegations
from all over the state have been ar
irving constantly today since the
earliest trains this morning and the
registration committee have been kept
busy. In fact the official register has
been in such constant use as to pre-
vent a count of the delegates who
have arrived but it is thought that
practically all of the 1856 lodges in
the Grand Domain of Iowa are now
represented by delegates in the city
Visitors See oskaIoosa.
At 100 o'clock this afternoon the
Iowa Brigade Band appeared in full
uniform in front of the Lacey Hotel
where an excellent half-hour concert
was rendered bebfore a vast throng
of appreciative listeners in the hotel
lobby and in front of the hotel build
ing. The music was continued while
the hundred or more of automobiles
and carriages were collected in n
line along SCUM Market street. When
all was ready the drive was started
and practically all of the visitors were
given a glimpse of the city and a
, pleasant drive through It's principle
streets. 1t was necessary for some of
the automobiles and rigs to make
more than one trip to accommodate
all of the guests and the feature was
highly appreciated by the visiting
Knights and Sisters. The entertain
ment committee are to be congratu-
lated upon the success of the event,
for it was a big undertaking.
Schools of instruction.
After the drive around the city
the Knights of Pythias gathered in
the Grand opera house and the Pyth-
ian Sisters in the X. of P. club rooms
for their respective meetings and
schools Of instruction. At 200 o.
clock the Grand Temple was called
to order by Grand Chief Mrs. Mary
h. Johnson, of Boone, and after the
roll call and the confering of the
Grand Temple degree, the reports of
the grand officers were read. At the
close of the session an informal
school of instruction in the secret
work of the order was condusted by
Mrs. Del p. Glazier, p. G. c.
The school of instruction in the
Knights of Pythias work was opened
in the Grand opera house at 3 O'Clock
by the Past Grand Chancellor Ferris,
of Sioux City. 1t was attended by
several hundred Knights and repre-
Isentatives and members of the Grand
Lodge
Tonight in the X. of p. hall there
will be exemphfication of ritualistic
work by officers of Hermion Temple,
No. 2, Oskaloosa Pythian Sisters, and
a degree staff of Grinnell Temple, No.
1913, of Grinnell. A Des Moines team
will conduct third rank work in the
Knights of Pythias order at the Grand
opera house this evening.
Sioux City Makes Strong Plea. g.
Past Grand Chancellor Ferris, of
Columbia Lodge, Sioux City, who is
conducting the X: of p. school of in
lstruction this afternoon, came to the
city at the head of large delegation
of Knights and Grand Lodge repre-.
lsentatives from that city who are de-
termined to secure the privilege of
entertaining the Grand Lodge in
1909. The Sioux City lodge is equip.
ped with about the finest quarters in
the domain and with the excellent
hotel accommodations and railroad
facilities the city offers it is quite
proable that it will be looked upon
with favor by the Grand Lodge as.
sembly when the time comes to act
upon the invitation. The westernIy
location is more than Offset by the
reputation of the X of p. lodge there
and the accommodations the city
offers.