The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-03-09
REDMEN'S DAY
IN 0SKAL00SA
Iowa Tribe No. 4 is Entertaining the
Great lncohonee To-day
WILL ADOPT A LARGE CLASS
Seventeen Tribes Will Participate in
the Work congratulations
tiers at Lacey Hotel--Ban-
quet at Dolls.


This Red Mems Day and the Ioway
Tribe No. and the city OF Oskaloosa
lis specially honored in the presence
OF the biggest man In the order. the
Great lncohonee Mr.. George b. Griggs
of Houston, Texas, who is making a
trip about the country in the interests
of the order
The Great Incohonee came to Iowa
TO confer with the officers Of the Iowa
state organization and see number
of tribes, hut determined to make a
Statue of Chief Mahaska of which he
has heard so much and which has
made so great an impression through
out the Red Men world. And loway
TRIBE is pleased to extend hospitality
and good fellowship to the great lead
er. This is the first time in the history
of the city that its hospitality has
! been extended TO the highest officer
of a national lodge organization and
the honor is duly appreciated by both
citizens and lodge members. The peo-
iple of the city in general have taken
as great interest in the coming of the
Great Chief as have the Red Men
themselves.
Mr. Griggs is accompanied on the
visit here by Herman Rosch, of Coun-
ell Bluffs, Great Sachem of the Great
Council of Iowa and by Frank A. Day,
of Des Moines, Great Chief of Records
OF Iowa
The party arrived on the Burlington
passenger al HOO o'clock from Bur
lington where Mr.. Griggs was present
at big meeting last evening. The
party Immediately repaired to the
Hotel Lacey where the headquarters
for the day were established and
where the officers held an informal re-
ception during the day. Mr.. Griggs
was met at the station by George w.
Whitehill, a past chief of the Ioway
Tribe and one Of the Great Council
officers, and taken to the hotel in a
carriage.
The party was shown over the city
about in automobiles.
A banquet will be served in honor
of the Great Incohonee this evening
at 6:45 o'clock at the Doll Cafe on
High avenue west, at which tOasts
will be responded to by Mayor l.. NJ
Bacon, H. w. Gleason, Major John F.
Lacey, and by the Great Incohonee,
George B. Griggs.
The evening will be given over to
a class adoption at the Redmen hall.
Seventeen tribes neighboring to Oska-
loosa have been invited 70 participate
and several hundred visitors are eX-
pected in the city for the occasion.
Some of the tribes have sent word
that they are coming in force for the
great event. The Redmen everywhere
are greatly DESTROYS of seeing and
meeting the Great Incohonee, who is
proving himself the greatest officer
the national organization has ever
had
Arrangements have been made for
the initiation of large class OF Red
men, but the number will not be def
nitely known until this evening, when
credentials are properly made ont and
presented. Another feature of the
evening program will be an address
10 the assembled Redmen by the
Great lncohOnee.
The coming of this great chief con.
stitutes one of the greatest events in
the history of loway Tribe as we'll as
in the annals Of the state organization
and the Redmen generally appreciate
the honors conferred in the presence
of this great officer and man of ma
tional prominence
From Oskaloosa the party will go
10 Marshalltown and on the following
days 10 Muscatine and Clinton and
Moline. Mr.. Griggs then crosses the |
state 10 be in Sioux City and he
closes his Iowa visits at Des MOines