The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-10

a Methodist, but was invited to
speak at the banquet and to repre-
sent Burlington. Mr.. Miller was at
his best last night He has gift of
repartee that is wonderful, a sar-
casm that bites with the grip of a
steel trap, and kindrness that at
tracts him to every one. His inimit-
able mannerisms are ike good whfs-
key, they are good at FIRST hand. and
a mere reporter isn't going to try to
spoil them for the crowu which heard
Miller by even trying 70 reproduce
them.
Mr.. Miller spoke or the stand
which the Knightss are making
against red flags and oolshevism and
commended them for their christian.
ity. He declared that he thought
there was room enough in the world
for both Catholics and protestants.
He spoke in most biting sarcasm of
the libel that has been cast upon the
church in the charge that 1t was not
loyal and he told of the hundreds
Of Catholic boys who huu gone from
his county to serve in the army, and
the fact that many or them just as
there were many protestant boys,
failed to come back They had made
the supreme sacrifice ror their coun-
try. He lauded the WORK OF two or
Washington's nurses, both Catholic
girls. He spoke Of the girls he had
known who had taken the veil, and
he declared with fervor that any
men who dared to say diabolical and
libelous words against these girls
was IAN Internal liar ana the truth
wasn't in him.
He paid his compliments to the
Menace and the Appeal to Reason,
and called them disgrace to the
journalistic profession. He paid
tribute to the work or the order IN
the war, and urged the standing to-
gether of all people, with christian
ity to guide them. He declared that
churches and newspapers should
work together for decency, order
and tolerance.
Father Cleary Of Warsaw, Father
Landreth of Carthage, Or. G. Walter
Barr, Ed. S. Lotion, John G. Scott
and Edward W. McManus were call
ed upon for impromptu remarks. and
responded.
Music by keokuk Artists.
The musical program during the
evening was most enjoyable. Mrs.
Leo B. Gredell sang two songs in a
very charming manner. Anthony
George sang couple of Irish songs
which were well received and he
was called back for an encore. John
BRASIL entertained the guests for a
few minutes with some of his best
and song stunt.
During the orchestra program
which was played by agnes must
clans, it was announced that COM
position of Miss Catherine Reidy's
would be played. This was a very
pretty waltz song composition en-
titled, That's the Least That You
Can Do" This composition led Alex
Miller to remark that this was an
other item in his booster talks for
Iowa Now he could say that Iowa
has real musician VINO composes
real music.
Services at ST. Mary's.
A large delegation of Keokuk
knights met at the Iowa hotel Sun
day morning and marched to the
station to welcome their Burlington
and Fort Madison brothers. The en-
tire Keokuk Concert pand accom-
panied the men to and from the
train. At $3.50 o'clock, all of the
knights assembled at the hotel and
marched in body to ST. Mary's
church where high mass was held.
This procession was led by Mayor
Ed. S. Lotion and the band.
The six hundred members of the
K. C.'s were ushered into the center
aisles Of the church and occupied
nearly threetfourths of the entire
The band played with the
choir. The Very Reverend Father
Giglinger conducted high mass and
was assisted by twelve servers. At
the close of the services, the knights
returned to Hotel Iowa, accompanied
again by the Keokuk Concert band
and disbanded until 1870 in the after
noon at which time they met at the
X. C. hall for initiation ceremonies.
Second and Third Degrees.
The sixty-five candidates for the
second and third degrees, from Bur
lington, Fort Madison, Warsaw, Mt.
Sterling, Galesburg, Nauvoo and
Keokuk, were ready for work at Q
o'clock Sunday afternoon. The sec
ond degree was exemplified by the
Burlington team, with Fred Weller.
the grand knight, and his staff do
ing the work.
At 4 o'clock the third degree was
given, and finished up at 6:45. The
work was done by Hugh Stewart, of
Dubuque, and his staff from Daven-