Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1920-10-01
SHRINER'S DAY
Thousands March at Brunswick
Big Class Initiates
Fatal Accident


the event at Brunswick Tuesday
far exceeded the sanguine ex-
pectations of citizens and
Shriners alike. The number
wearing the Fez must have been
at least 1900 and the sight. seers
more than double that number
There were on hand sixty nine
fer initiation, fine band, splen-
did drill corps, bottled pranks Of
various sorts and a comaraderie
known particularly among these
with rights on THE Playground
of Masonry"
Brunswick business men and
their wives and friends assisted
the women connected by mar.
riage with the Shrine in making
of the best preparations for the
event ever made by the residents
of the city for any thing which
had gone before. Decorations in
the colors of the Shrine were
everywhere and the dinners in
the churches were simply superb
and at reasonable charge to all,
free to Shriners. The banquet
at the conclusion of imitation
ceremonies in the early evening
was one such as had never been
excelled in the history of the
city and the management of the
affair was complimented by all,
especially those who have at
tended such feasts all over the
country. Plates for nine hundred
and perhaps the places filled
three times before the crowd
was fed with fried chicken, at
least a third of a chicken to each
diner, potatoes, tomatoes, salads.
beans, turnips,. pie, cake and
cream and only a few exceptions
among the drinkables, was some
proposition to handle with the
precision noted on this occasion.
The concert by the Shriner's
Band from Kansas City was all
too short for the delighted crowd
but the fun bursting from every
nook and corner of the main
street and side streets and alleys
compensated to some degree for
the deprivation in the music
particular.
All day the boys wearing fez
kept the fun on the move. Busi.
ness men were arrested and taken
before the Kangaroo Court, the
mayor not escaping a fine,
grotesque costumes and rigs and
Hon. Fritz Sasse defending him
self against a charge of MASKING,
in fact, no one susceptible to fun
escaped the vigilant eyes of the
jolliest set of fellows on earth.
Even a few who had made appli-
cation for membership but hid
out when they saw what might
be in store for them later on,
were hunted down, placed in
Shriners Hospital under guard
and held until the fateful hour.
After the noon lunch various
forms of amusement were put on.
among them a number of men
holding'a big Marmon car tied
to o three hundred foot rope.
The car was stalled and nearly
all the men let loose the rope.
One man tied to the other end of
the rope from the car, was thrown
and dragged and when he struck
another and upset him on the
pavement, the head of the man
bumped into was fractured and
he died a few hours later. Ac-
count of the unfortunate accident
will be found in another column.
1t appeared that Sumner and
vicinity turned out more men for
initiation and already wearing
the Fee than any other place in
proportion to the population but
Brookfield, Marceline, this city
and Salisbury were well repre-
sented. A special train from
Kansas City brot in more than
800 and there were q number