The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-15
80 BANDS In CITY
Music, Parades and Entertain
ment for X. of P. Convention.
5000 Delegates Arrive-MOre
COming-FOreigners in Town.
K OLE P. PROGRAM.


The program for the entire week of the
Knights of Pythias convention has been
announced as follows;
delegates. Committee meetings at legisla-
No%DAY NIGHT-Public reception to
grand lodge at the city auditorium. Gov.
Henry ]. Allen will give the welcoming ad-
dress for the state and Mayor H Cor
wine will deliver the WELCOMING S911ii az ADDRESS
dresses by the distinguished delegates to
the convention.
TUESDAY MORNING-Opening session
of the supreme lodge and the supreme court
TT 'ESnAY NIGHT-Grand Pythian Pa
triutic Mardi (iras Halloween aud ID. O.
X o. Dramatic parade. Nine prizes to he
given away in three classes. First, second
and thS gPTAssYs in sFfFERMooN1nspec s9sF slsSe
ton and review uniform rank at Camp
John f. Lewis at the Free Fair grounds,
WEDNESDAY NIGHT-Dance at Garfield
park pavilion ana vaudeville at the city
THTRSDAY NIGHT-Grand reception
and military dance at the auditorium.
FRIDAY MORNING-Giant street parade
with eight thousand in line.
FRIDAY NIGHT-PriZe drill, class A.
r and C, and band concert at the audi
saturday, at 80 p M, the uniform rank
encamped at the fair grounds will break
camp in preparation for embarking for
their homes.
The headquarters of the supreme
lodge of the knights of Pythias of
Kansas was busy place at 10 O'Clock
this morning. Delegates from all
parts of the world were arriving and
registering. After registering the del
egates were assigned to rooms among
the homes where arrangements had
been made by the grand lodge for ac-
commodations for the visiting Pyth-
ians.
Delegates from the following states
arrived this morning: Tennessee sent
six companies under the command of
Gen; Preston Taylor; one drum corps
accompanies the Tennessee delega-
tion; Indiana sent four companies.
commanded by Gen. w. J. I. Reed;
four representatives from Missouri
have registered, A. W. Lloyd, grand
chancellor and supreme representa-
tive, DR.. T. A. Curtis, William NJ.
johnson and DR.. w. H. Sexton; West
Virginia sent one company in COM
mand of Col. c. G. Wanzer The dele
cation from Boston is composed of E.
B. BarcO, grand chancellor. DR.. w.
A. Thompson, A. NJ. Cockrill, N. N.
Reynolds. Mrs Cora E. Burke, Mrs.
Clem A. White, Mrs D. R. Colemand,
, Miss Emma 10 Cockrill, and Mrs.
Kate Wilson; Julius A. Brown, grand
chancellor of South Carolina, arrived
| TINS morning accompanied by four SUI
preme delegates. Alabama is repre-
oShtSu ny II. a DluII, RranQ cndnCe1-
lor; NJ. J. Moore, endowment secre-
i tary; DR.. U. G. Mason supreme medi-
cal registrar; W. E. Foster. A. C. Ben
nings and Mrs Carrsie E. Tuggle,
grand worthy councillor of the court
| of Calanthe. There is also a delega-
| ton of twenty-five members of the
Alabama lodge, who accompanied the
! representatives. Gen. ]. c. Smith and
one company from Washington, d. c.
arrived this morning.
BY Tonight, 5000.
1t is estimated that approximately
five thousand delegates, including the
members of the uniform rank will be
in the city by tonight and several
thousand more are expected to arrive
tomorrow. Delegates are registered
from the British West Indies, Panama,
and Liberia. Africa.
The business program outlined for
today Is as follows: The supreme court
met In legislative hall at 10 o'clock.
Also there was a meeting of the com
mittee of rules.
Ernest G. Tidrington of Evansville,
md who is the supreme worthy coun-
clIlor of the supreme court, arrived in
Iopeka, Sunday. He is bitterly op-
posed to the Ku Klux Klan, and has
oeen making every effort in his power
TO enlist the aid of the federal gov
ernment and congress in breaking the
power of that organization. Tidring-
ton denounces the Klan as "un-Amer-
! lean and menace to the life liberty
and property of citizens of the United
States"
All business meetings will be pre-
SIDED over by Sir S. w. Green. who is
the presiding officer of the supreme
lodge
More than thirty bands will be, en-
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