The Washington herald., 1921-06-26
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS UNITE
AT CHESAPEAKE BEACH
JULY l2FOR HUGE PICNIC
Tug of War Will be Feature; Council Notes
And Convention Plans Formulated.

All the Caseys Of this town are
keeping July IL open for the great
Catholic family reunion to- be held
at Chesapeake Beach. DIR. Charles
I. Griffith. grand knight of Keane
Council, is chairman of the general
committee on arrangements. Mau-
rice ]. McAuliffe, State deputy for
The District of Columbia, Is chair
man of the reception committee.
He will be assisted by the fve local
grand knights. One of the features
Of the excursion this year will be
an intercouncil tug of war. the
winning council to be awarded
handsome loving cup. Fitzgerald
Council, Knights of Columbus, as
well as the knights in Baltimore
have been invited to attend the
outing.
The athletic committee, under the
chairmanship of ]. B. Sweeney is
made up of the following knights:
Joseph Fitzgerald, Capt. Smith,
James Sweeney, Bernard Hayden.
Buck" Divers. Joseph Weeks. Ed
ward Repitti, George Hunt, @. e.
McFeeley. w. A. Mulligan, +. c.
Proderly, p. w. Sobraske, Joseph A.
Sullivan, Kenneth Ragan, Edward
Roach, William Walsh, Joseph J.
Dsgnan. Jack King and B. Gala
CHER.
The athletic events are as fol-
lows: Twenty-five-yard dash for
boys and girls under IL years Of
age. 50-yard- dash for boys and girls
over IL years of age. other races
will be potato race, sack race,
three-legged race, shimmy race,
needle race. peanut race, fitting
contest. half-mile relay race. flag
race, pig chase, egg race and a
score of others, both for boys and
girls, men and women. There will
be a pie eating contest. This will
be the biggest and best excursion
the knights have ever held in this
city. 1t is expected fully 5000
Catholic people will visit the beach
on July ~
The Catholic Daughters of Amer
lea. formerly the Daughters of Isa-
bella. have been urged to attend.
knights in Alexandria have also
been invited to take part in this
great Catholic family reunion.
Members of the fourth degree and
the Alcantara Caravan, Order of the
Alhambra have been invited to at
tend in a body.
James J. Lannon, of Topeka, Kan,
who, although an old man when the
United States entered the war
against Germany. was eager to
serve his country in some capacity
and became a Knight of Columbus
secretary at Camp Funston. was
buried at Topeka last Tuesday
from Holy Name Church. that city.
The funeral was attended by many
officials and members of the
Knights of Columbus from Kansas
and Missouri. Mr.. Lannon has been
faithful navigator of the fourth de-
gree assembly and grand knight
of Topeka Council for several years.
For thirty-five years Mr.. Lannon
had been a grocer in Topeka, but
had retired from business before
the world war. AS soon as troops
began to be gathered at Camp Fun
ston he volunteered as a X. of c.
secretary and continued in this
work for two and a half years. He
was well-known to all the army
personnel who served or trained at
Camp Funston, from Mai Gen.
Wood down to enlisted men.
CORNERSTONE LAID IN
SACRED HEART CHURCH.
Rev. P. C. Gaven, rector of the
Church of the Sacred Heart and a
member of Carroll Council, Knights
of Columbus, this city. saw the
cornerstone of the new church
put into place during the past week.
The ceremony was carried on by
the Rt. Rev. Thomas ]. Shahan.
rector of the Catholic University.
Bishop Shahan was escorted from
the church at Fourteenth street and
Park road by some 300 members of
the parish and local Knights of Co
| lumbus and number of priests
from Baltimore and this city. The
sermon was preached by Rev. 1g-
natius Smith, o. P, who spoke Of
the sacrifices made by the soldier
dead of the parish whose names
are preserved under the stone, and
whose memory stimulated the par
ishioners in the work of raising
1921 900 in a ten-day campaign. The