The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-28
Sunday They VIII Have Great AS-
sembiaae of Members from
Many Cities Here to
Exemplfiy Degrees.
rs A TRI- CITY INITIATION
Assembly, Mass, Sermon, Ceremonies
of the Order and Big Banquet
are Parts Of Program of
the Big Day.

| Keokuk will be In possession OF
| the Knights Of Columbus Sunday,
when members of that order come
| from all the surrounding cities TO
give degrees to hundred candidates
| for membership from Keokuh, Fort
! Madison and Burlington.
The program of the day starts at
9 O'Clock in the morning and ends
late at night, when the postprandlal
speakers at the big banquet conclude
their eloquent addresses.
Headquarters will be at the rooms
OF the Industrial association, which
have been rendered the Knights OF
Columbus for the day. Somebody
! will be there all the time, and any
body desiring to get in touch with
! them may telephone that office, NO.
1885.
Coming From Many. Cities.
Hundreds of knights Of Columbus
from out Of town will be here, In
Guiding members from Burlington
Fort Madison, Quincy, Galesburg'
Cedar Rapids, Davenport, and all the
smaller cities of this section.
The first degree will be given the
candidates by their home lodges. and
this evening De la Sale council, OF
Keokuk, will confer it on about sixty
| neophytes.
The second and third degrees will
| be given Sunday afternoon at the
| big convcation in the Da la Sane
! council chamber AT o'clock the
second degree will be conferred by
! the team of Gallatin council, OF Fort
| Madison, and Immediately thereafter
| State Deputy J. H Deyaney and staff
will exemplify the third degree.
| Church, Degrees and Banquet
| The knights -of Keokuk and the
visitors will assemble at the Hotel
Iowa at 9 O'Clock and march from
there to St Peters church, where,
at 1890 o'clock, high mass will be
celebrated by Very Rev. James w.
| Gillespie, and Rev. Francis Philips
will preach the sermon.
| Luncheon at noon will be at the
Hotel Iowa, and at 1870 O'Clock the
knights win all assemble at the hal
of De la Sale council, at Fifth ano
Main streets. The ceremonies there
will occupy all the afternoon and
will be very impressive.
| The program OF the day closes
with a. big banquet at Woodman hall,
Sixth and Main streets, at 1870
O'Clock in the evening. Many toasts
will be offered, and these occasions
are always rich in eloquence.
One Of the Largest Ever.
This will be by far the largest
gathering OF the knights OF Column
| bus ever in Keokuk, and one of the
greatest occasions ever held here BY
any secret order.
Much work has been done on the
plans and the entertainment of the
| visitors, all the arrangements for the
| ceremonies being under the direction
of Grand Knight Chester B. Schou
| ten, who is assisted by number OF
committees, all working hard for q
week or so.
The Joint initiation of the three
| cities is the first exempGfication II
| this city of the degrees in the cam
paign for a million members in 1919
| which Is now on.
The order of Knights of Columbus
! is growing like green bay tree
| due largely to the prominence !
gained by its splendid patriotic wort
| for the soldiers and the country dur
| ing the war.