The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-06-03
K. {. COUNCIL
INITIATES
MANY IN
ORDER
BANQUET AT GOLDFTELD HOTEL
PROVES TO BE- MEMOIR
ABLE EVENT

IA JOlht VI IN
and Goldfield councils, Knights of
Columbus, was held I'm Goldfield
yesterday, and the day, from the
arrival of the visiting members of
the order in the morning to the
singing of Columbia by Ed Walsh,
in which all the banqueters joined,
the last number on the program at
the banqet given in the Goldfeld
hotel last night, the day marked one
of the most successful joint initia-
tions eve held by the councils of
the two towns.
Including the ladies who accompan-
led the members OF the Tonopah
lodge, rs attended from the silver
camp. Among the Tonopah delega-
tion were: Grand Knight Dennis
Nolan, Deputy Grand knight Frank
p. Kearns, Warden T.. u. Either,
Chris Barney. Financial Secretary
William Roach and Recorder John
O'Hara.
On the arrival of the Tonopah del
tSdIloll, thC W. y Ii iiiiSN Is
procession ut Knights of Colur has
hall and marched to Sacred Heart
church, where high mass was cele-
brated at 1920 by Rev. Father
Dermody, who spoke on the prog
ress of the Knights of Columbus in
features and other beneficent results
being accomplished.
In the afternoon at 100, the On
ferring of the minor degrees was
started in the Elks' lodge rooms,
under the direction of District Dep
uty p. J.. Reilly. and with the fol-
lowing officers of Goldfield council
No. 1912 present: Grand Knight
NJ. H. Lynch, Deputy Grand knight
E. C. Walsh, Warden p. McAuliffe,
Chancellor p. J.. Somers, Jr., Treas
urer p. ]. Reilly, Financial Secretary
p. II. Dermody, Recorder John r.
Daley and Advocate Dan Tenant.
The first degree as conferred by
officers of the Goldfield council, To-
nopah officers conferred the second,
III nv Va uCSICC was uiiotA tbS
supervision of Past State Deputy
Joseph Scott and Past State Warden
Phillip O'Brien OF the California
state council, members of the Los
Angeles council. The past Califor-
mia state deputy is a prominent at
tOrney and a potent factor on the
Pacific coast in the knights of Co
lumbus.
In all, Is candidates were given
the various degrees, IL from Gold
field and six from Tonopah. The
Goldfeld candidates were: H. G..
Mcmahon, George d. Connolly, John
H. McNeny, James c. Mcnamara,
Anthony Perez, Joseph Pelose. Ed
ward S. Harvey, Frank M. Maloney,
Charles Schimmer, Dennis O'Meara.
Roy S. Madden and Nicholas Jano-
vich. The Tonopahans who took
the degrees we're: J.. A.. Cassidy,
James Dunno, Martin LAWN, Leo NJ.
Harrington, James NJ. Kerns and
Bernard Flood. The degree work
occupied until eight in the evening
and later the knights and their la
lies. with members of practically all
guests, sat down to the sumptuous
banquet.
The walls of the banquet hall
were decorated with American flags
and the tables with purple and
white flowers, the colors of the or
Io- cot in a nod IF farms Music
for the occasion was furnished by
Mrs. Anderson and Mr.. Marshall.
The committee on arrangements con-
sisted of E. c. Walsh, Raymond A.
Catalan and Frank Mcnamara. The
hall was filled to its seating ca
pacity by 200 b~anqueters when the
POSTMASTER. Grand Knight M. H.
Lynch. rose to deliver the address of
welcome to the guests and called
upon Father Diss of Tonopah to saw
grace.
The principal speakers were
State Deputy Frank T. Dunn, Rev.
Father Diss and Thomas Lynch, of
Tonopah; Hon. Joseph Scott of Los
Angeles; Adams F. Brown, Lieuten-
ant Governor Maurice j. Sullivan,
Rev. Father J.. B. Dermody of Gold
field. F~raternalism, patriotism, re-
ligious liberty. tolerance and the
universal brotherhood of mar were
the themes from which all the adj
dresses were developed, and there
was full and unanimous and en-
thusiastic approval from the ban
queters.
Mr.. Scott. who vas apparently
the ''orator of the feast" fully JUS
tilted the wisdom of his selection. A
feature of his address was an elo-
uuent review of the work of the
Spanish missionary fathers of the
southwest. His comparison of the
work they performed with that of
the pilgrim fathers in the east was
unique. forcible and enlightening,