The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-04
PLAN LANDING DAY BANQUET
Extensive Preparations Made for Ban
quet of Kenosha Knights at Germa-
MIA Hall, Wednesday, Oct. 10 -
Officers for Year Installed.

The demand for war funds has been
tripled but | am confident that Wiscon-
sin Knights of Columbus and members
OF the Kenosha council will meet the
issue, = were the stirring words of
State Deputy James Higgins to the one
hundred and fifty Kenosha knights at
the banquet which followed the install
lation Of officers for the local council
at the K. Of G. Hall Tuesday evening.
The national war fund Of the order has
been recently increased from $1,000, 900
to $3,000,000 as explained by the state
deputy and Wisconsin knights must
give literally, as they will, if this state
is to furnish its quota of 100000.
The banquet followed the installa-
tion ceremonies in which Joseph Tully
became the grand knight Of the Keno
sha council for the ensuing year. Past
Deputy Higgins, retiring Grand Knight
Frank G. Isermann and Past State
Deputy Walter Burke were prominent
in the installation ceremonies which
placed in Office the leaders of the Ke-
nosha council for the ensuing year. At
the banquet following short speeches
by the newly elected officers and by
prominent members Of the order out
lined the work Of the Kenosha council
for the year.
Grand Knight Joseph Tully stated
that he hoped to make this year the
most successful in the history of the
order in spite of the fact that the war
would make great demands upon the
local knights. Past State Deputy Wal
ter E. Burke, a member of the Wiscon-
sin War Council of the Knights of Co.
lumbus, explained in detail the work
which was determined upon in camp
and trench to provide for the moral
and religious protection of the soldiers
in the American armies. The work
which is similar to that of the Y. M. G..
A. will provide temporary chapels with
priests to offer religious advantages
for the Catholic soldiers at the front;
it will also provide social centers open
to all and supported entirely by the
funds raised among the American
Knights of Columbus.
The banquet was enlivened by sew
eral very entertaining readings by Mr..
Ritter, Chicago entertainer of great
wit and personality and by several mu-
steal numbers by Howard Sershon. The
meeting was one of the most enthusi-
astic in the history of the order and
promises well for the work which will
be done during the coming year.
The close of the evening was given
over to the plans for the most extern.
sive landing day banquet that Kenosha
has known. It is to be held at Ger
mania Hall on Wednesday evening De-
tober 10th, instead of Friday, October
18th, the exact date Of Columbus land
ing at San Salvador and is to be at
tended by a large number of the
Knights of Columbus and their friends.
Many prominent men from different
cities in Wisconsin will be present and
address the assemblage; among those
will be State Senator Roy E. Wilcox of
Eau Claire who will discuss s'Why We
are at War;" and State Deputy Will
liam Doherty whose subject has not yet
been announced. The banquet will be
followed by a dance, which will be in
keeping with the other features of the
evenings program.