Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-08-13
MEL!SH NAMED
COMMANDER
OF THE KNIGHTS
MAN SECURES HIGH
EST OFFICE AT TEMPLAR CON-
cLAVE; NEXT MEETING PLACE
NOT DECIDED.

Chicago, Jug., 1.-THE chief in.
terest in today's session Of the con.
clave of the knights Templar lay in
the expected report of the committees
on place 70. the mex encampment.
The election of officers was also held
today. Eminent Sir William B. Mel
ISL Of Cincinnati Icing unanimously
elected Grand Commander Of the
knights Tcmplar.
Other officers elected include:
Deputy Grand Master-Arthur Mac.
Arthur, Troy, N. Y.
Generalissimo-W. F. Pierce, San
Francisco.
Captain General-Lee Smith, Pitts.
burg.
The committee recommended Den
yer for the next triennial conclave of
the knights Templar.
Indiana Captures Drill.
Raper commandery, No. i, of Indian
apolis, captured first honors in the
competitive drill open to all COM
manderies outside of Cook county,
held in the National league baseball
park yesterday.
Hanselmann commandery, No 16 OF
Cincinnati, was awarded second prize.
and Oriental commandery, No. IS, OF
Kansas City, took third prize.
Raper's trophy is an immense silver
libation fountain with silver cups. The
Cincinnati knights will carry home
with them big silver loving cup and
Oriental commandery combination
centerpiece and candelabrum of silver.
s General George M. Moulton, chair
man of the drill committee, awarded
the prizes last night in Michigan ave-
nue., opposite the Congr hotel. All
the competing communicates were
drawn up in line with their bands
massed on the left of the line.
Detroiters Given Colors.
Prior to the awarding of the prizes
General Moulton, on behalf of the
Triennial Conclave, presented Detroit,
commandery, No I, Of Detroit, with
a stand of national colors. These were
presented the Michigan knights in re-
turn for the exhibition drill given by
them before the opening Of the COM
petitive drill yesterday morning.
Scores Are Announced.
Captain James B. sGOwan, r. e. In
gram and James S. Young Jr., officers
of the United States army, who acted
as Judges in the drills, late yesterday
announced the following scores:
Raper commandery, indianapolis,
age 92.3.
won the first prize.
Raper commandery No. 1, percent
Hanselmann No. 16, cincinnati, S7.3.
Oriental No. 81, Kansas City. 87.2.
Ivanhoe No. "a, Milwaukee, 85.5.
Kenosha, Wis, No. &c. $40.
Beauseant No. 6, Baltimore, 1913.
Mt Olive, Wichita, Kas., 1872.
Concordat Established.
The resolution unanimously adopted
establishing a concordat between the
knights Templar government bodies.
is said by masons to be the most i'm
portant step taken by conclave for
many years The concordat estab-
fishes amicable relations between the
knights of England, Ireland, Scotland,
Canada and the United States, and Is
an event which has been crystallizing
for many years. It's contamination is
said to be the chief object for which
the Earl of Euston, pro grand master
of England and Wales, visited the
thirty-first tri-ennial concl&e.
All the Knights Templar Of the
world are affiliated with the governing
bodies of one or other of the nations
and this legislation practically con.
solidates them into cohesive whole.