The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-24

stated Am compelled to be in JEFF
ferson City early tomorrow morning"
Mr.. Healy is prominent lawer OF Ft.
Dodge and is well known as force
full speaker. Mr.. McManus explained
that Mr.. Healy was engaged in an i'm
tportant law suit at Jefferson City, and
that he would be unable to arrive
there in time for the case IL he at
tended the banquet. The telegram
from Hon. E. G. Dunn of Mason City,
Iowa, who also enjoys nation wide
reputation as speaker, and who will
be remembered as the democratic can
didate for governor Of Iowa at the
last election, was then read. 1t stat
| ed: Laid up with a bad cold. Doc
tor won't let me come.''
| POSTMASTER McManus stated that
after receiving the telegram he had
phoned Mr.. Dunn and learned that
his illness was too serious to permit
him attending. A telegram was then
read from DR.. R. Emmett Kane OF ST.
Louis. DR.. Kane had been assigned
the subject, whittier He is known
all over the country as one Of the
lest speakers Of the day, and it was
with great regret that it was learned
that he would be unable to attend.
The telegram stated: Mothers sud-
den illness prevents me leaving city. Z
Introduces Mayor Norton.
Following the reading Of these tele-
grams, Toastmaster McManus stated
that only two of the speakers on the
original program were present, him
self and Hon. Frank G. Norton, OF
Burlington, but that they would en-
deavor to expand to the occasion. He
introduced Mr.. Norton with several
very apt stories.
Mr.. Norton's subject was. "a
knight and His Duty" He said that
the duty of the knight Of olden times
was very little different from that Of
the present day, and explained how
this statement applied.
! POSTMASTER McManus then intro
duced Mr.. F. J. Duball of Ft. Madison,
one of the initiates of the day. to
speak on the subject: Impressions
of the Day. This subject had been
assigned to Henry C. Smith of the
same city but Mr.. Smith had been
compelled to leave on the early even
ing train. Mr. Duball spoke of the
Impressions of the initiation and Illus
trated his speech with several good
stories.
( Toastmaster McManus then made a
short speech before the banquet came
to close. He spoke of how sincerely
I II was regretted that the principal
SPEAKERS had been unable to attend
the banquet, but stated that the real
work of the day was not at the festive
board. The initiation of fifty bright
young men had been great thing for
the order, he said.
1t was 1880 when the banque.
broke up. Most of the visitors from
Burlington and Ft. Madison returned
to their towns on the early morning
train.
] Music. !,
7 March-T emplar .... johnson
Overture Goodbye Boys .....
.............. H. Won Tilzer
Waltz-Faust ...... Gounod
Observation-Disclosures .. III. Afford
Evening Glow .... Duncan
4 From Foreign Parts Hungary
MOZkOWSR
Serenade-D' anon ... F. Won Blon
Callirhoe ............. C. Chaminade
4 Agnes orchestra.
Attend High Mass.
Three hundred and fifty knights
Eof Columbus from Burlington, Fort
! Madison and Keokuk, together with
several visiting knights from Chi
cago. Hannibal, ST Louis and Quincy
met yesterday morning in the Hote
Iowa and marched in body to at
1 tend services at St Mary's Catholic