Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
DELEGATES ARE
ARRIVING FOR
LODGE SESSION
Knights of st. George to Open
Convention With
Parade

Delegates began arriving to-day
for the seventh annual directorate
meeting of the G, r. c., Knights of
st. George, which will be opened in
this city tomorrow. The delegates
were registering to-day at the con-
vention headquarters In the Penn
Harris hotel.
To-morrow's program will open
with a parade following the arrival
of Lebanon Cadets belonging to the
order. Mayor Daniel l.. Keister will
deliver an address of welcome at a
preliminary meeting in st. Francis
Catholic Church, to which District
Deputy John Czerisnki will respond.
Bishop Philip r. McDevitt will be
escorted from the Episcopal resi-
dence to the church where solemn
high mass will be celebrated. The
Rev. Joseph Murphy, pastor of the
church, will deliver the sermon.
In the. afternoon business sessions
will be held. In the evening at 7.3e
o'clock the directors will attend YES
pers and benediction of the Most
Blessed Sacrament in st, Patricks
Cathedral. Through the courtesy of
George A. Shreiner, Superintendent
of Public Grounds and Buildings,
they will be taken through the Cap
itol afterward.
The sessions will continue until
Tuesday morning.
The object of the meeting is to
carry out the constitutional re-
quirements by holding this annual
session at which the delegates Will
have submitted to them the annual
reports of the supreme president,
supreme secretary, supreme treas
urer, supreme medical examiner, su-
preme board of managers, knights
of st. George Cadets, the various
district committees, auditors report
and much other business that will
be interesting and have great
bearing on the future of the organ
iZation.
Among the immediate problems
to be discussed will be the improve
ment of the sick, accident and dis
ability fund of the order and add
ing to it an endowment or extended
sick fund protection of the age of
65, it will make it still more at
tractive than heretofore. Also, the
working out of plans for the build
ing anu eQulppluB VI &" hSiliS ASi
old members of the order, buying
the necessary land required.
1t is to the great credit of the or
der that over 10000 volunteered in
the service of the Army and Navy,
of whom eighty-nine have brought
the supreme sacrifice and that the
order and members as a whole were
active in every line of war activity
in the Red Cross, United War
Workers campaign, the various SELL
ing campaigns for thrift and saving
stamps and that they invested a
quarter million dollars of our sur
plus funds in United States govern
ment Liberty Loan bonds. The order
is composed of 2S5 branches and is
now operating in four cities, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and West
Virginia and has a total member
ship of $4,000 active insurance
members and many social and pas
sive members.
A splendid auxiliary organization
is to be found in the Knights of ST.
George Cadets, of which company
exists in Harrisburg, one at Steel
ton. another at Lebanon. These boys
are taught the lessons of patriotism
and loyalty to their country and to
the flag and improved morally,
physically and given the proper
cadet training that will be of great
benefit for their future well being.