The border vidette., 1915-05-15
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.
Many of Our Citizens Join NogaIes Council.

record. the Ladies' Auxiliary of l the Santa Cruz Club again prov ed it's gracious hospitality, and Captain Mix won the hearts of the visitors And last but not | least the Knights of Columbus of Arizona carried away with | them the warmest feelings for Nogales and it's people and left behind them sincere apprecia- tiOn.
 It was the occasion of the in stitution of a council of the Knights of Columbus in Nogales.
 The special train from Tue son. bearing five hundred Knights and ladies, arrived at the local station at few min utes before ten o'clock Sunday morning and when A. M. Philip son, District Deputy of the Knights of Columbus, alighted from the platform he was met by Capt. Mix, who as mayor of Nogales, presented to him a huge golden key-the freedom of the city. Compliments were exchanged between the leading citizens of NogaleS and the head of the Knights, and then the Reception. Com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce and the ladies of Nogales, took the wis iting ladies under their guidance and tine Twelfth Infantry Band and the local Knights led the visitors in procession to the Ma sonic Hall, where throughout the day they were busy with the exemplifcation of the first, sec ond and third degrees of the order
 While the Knights were en- gagged at the Masonic Hall the visiting ladies were taken in au tomobiles on a trip through the main streets of Nogales and its sister city across the interna tional boundary line and were subsequently, feted with lunch at the Santa Cruz Club by the Ladies' Auxiliary of that organ ization.
 The degree work occupied the whole of the time up to eight o'clock in the evening, with the exception of a brief intermissiOn for lunch. There were forty 1.-two candidates initiated into the First and Second Degrees and over fifty received the Third Degree. All of the candidates, with the exception of half a dozen from other parts of the State, chief among whom was Representative William P. Ma honey of Mohave County, were residents of Nogales. The No gales candidates were the fol | lowing:
 F. J. Duffy, Francis Duffy, J. Cotter, Wm. Cavanaugh, F. Van Mourick, Antonio Proto, Gerardo Castro, William w. Hart. James D. Barry, Harry B. Chenoweth, Grover Marsteller, Phil Harold. Otto Herold, John J. Rafael, Jr., Frank J. Ogle. Antonio Terrazas, | Angel Miranda, Joseph w. Han dy, John w. Bourg, Eugenio Peltier. Francisco Peltier, Key naldo Rivas, Andrew Bettwy. Lorenzo N. Villa. Manuel Esca- lada, Carl Thompson. Raul Mon tano, Frank Suastegui, Joseph J. Mcintyre, Peter Munch, R. G. Giraud, Manuel F. Pesqueira, Hector Varela, Jose M. Munoz, Alejandro Carpena, Robert E. Lee, Massillon Marsteller, James Breen, F. J. Luken, Harry A. Hines, John Sugrue, James A. Mckay.
 After the initiation a banquet was held in the Masonic Hall where songs were sung and speeches made until midnight. Frank J. Barry was the toast master and speeches were deliv- cred by Hon. Henry F. Ashurst, United States Senator, R. W. Kremer, A. A. Philipson, and others. A feature of the ban quet was the presentation to Father Van Goethem of hand black ebony, silver mounted cane, by A. M. Philipson, of Tucson, in appreciation of his successful efforts in organizing the Nogales Council.
 It was midnight when the visitors boarded the special train back to Tucson. It was a great day for Nogales and the local Knights say they will never for get it.
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