The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-26
PANAMA MARCH
ENLIvENS TRIP
OF NAzIR BOYS
Prophets Couldn't Wait to Get to
Tri.Cities to Tell World How
Glad They Are.

ed at 7 o'clock this morning, leav-
ing Canton yesterday afternoon at
o'clock The band numbers 35
pieces, and the patrol 40. The
delegation is composed of 1875
Buckeyes Five Prophets of Baku
grotto. Mansfield, Ohio, accompan-
led Nazir. II. G. Bruner, mayor of
Mansfield, and former newspa-
per man, is member of this dele
CATION. The Nazir and Baku boys
were sleeping soundly at an early
hour this morning when the train
reached South Bend, Ind. At this
point the Avalon grotto delegation
with its band entrained, and routed
out the Buckeye Prophets, who
staged pajama parade on the plat
form of the South Bend railroad
station about the time the cocks
were growing The Avalon grotto
numbers 100 in it's delegation, with
its band and patrol.
ZOhak grotto, Decatur, ILL.,, also
sends five Prophets to the meet.
They arrived at 500 o'clock last
night.
Charles E. Abrams. monarch of
Iran grotto, Troy, New York, ].
G. Caddic, chief justice and John
Smyth. marshal, comprise a trio
from the headquarters of the col
lar industry in the United States.
In their party are j. S. Taton, mon
arch of Gehomecobe grotto, Schen-
eCtady. n. Y. and Willard d. My
ers. chief justice.
Saba grotto. Tulsa, Okla, so
strong, arrived at $50 o'clock this
morning, leaving Tulsa at 8 o'clock
yesterday morning. p. d. Barr is
monarch, and T. c. Hopkins, ma
jor of the drill team. Coming in a
special car from Tulsa, they joined
grotto special at Kansas City
"Cy' Kendall is lieutenant of the
military tactics.
Otis NJ. Smith, 33d degree. and
monarch of newly organized got
to at Ardmore, Okla, is the sole |
representative of his organization |
at the big meet He will ask the |
Supreme Council for a charter for |
the baby grotto which will be call |
ed Aahmes. and it will begin its |
official life with 81 members.
Hated grotto, Ottumwa, Ia. $50 |
strong arrived at o'clock yester- !
day afternoon. Its band will give !
Il concert tonight at Eighteenth |
street and Second avenue between
1870 and $50 O'Clock tonight.
How Many Monkeys in Cagel
Grottoes from New England and
New York will arrive at $50 !
o'clock tonight.
Amra grotto, Knoxville, Tenn, !
100 strong with band. drill corps !.
lud everythin' spent a day and a |
hight in Chicago enroute. The |
boys accuse their monarch, P. f. !
Leake, of seeing a quartet Of |
monkeys in cage in the Lincoln |
park zoo when there was only one |
in that particular stall.
Amra's band gave a concert at !
the Eighteenth street stand at 9
O'Clock this morning but they are !
very much awake They have with /
hem the official flag of their city,
ard the flag of their state, its three !
stars standing for eastern,
western and middle Tennessee.
them that James F. Hickey, record
err of Rock Island commandery. No.
IS. Knights Templar. was a former
and a good-sized dele
cation called on Jim and told him
everything which had happened in
the old town since he left for I'LL
nos.
The pleasing task of welcoming
Srottoes upon their arrival, as
signed to the hospitality committee
OF which Otto Priester, past mon I
arch of Amoo, is chairman, was be-
gun Yesterday afternoon when Shop
penagon. Bay City, Mich, and Mer-
in, Saginaw, Mich, pulled in at 2:10
o'clock
Early arrivals today were Amra
grotto. Knoxville. Tenn, Saba
grotto. Tulsa. Okla, Avalon grot-
to, South Bend, Ind. Ma-ha-di gro
too. Elkhart, Ind. Islam grotto.
Pa, Shalimar grotto,
New Orleans, and Al-Sirat grotto, ,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Aryan, Chicago. arrived at LAO !
O'Clock this afternoon, Kishma, '
Flint. Mich. and O-Ton-Ta-La, To-
ieuo' ONO, at 2:1O O'CLOCK, ana CY-
rus, Hutchinson, Kans., at 4:10
o'clock, and Alhambra, St. Louis, !
al $40 o'clock.
"GloOmy Gus, Is Here.
Ararat grotto. Atlanta, Ga. is {
by Past Monarch c
Johnson, known as Gloomy Gus" {
by his intimates because he is of
sunny disposition, N J. Wright, t
thief Justice. and Joseph Buchanan, c
master of ceremonies. They reach e
I'd Rock Island at 2 o'clock yester 7
lay afternoon. much to their re- b
greet, too late for church services.
Prophets who are occupying b
heir parked Pullmans in the "city s
IN rails" say they are real com [
" There are four cars installed S
With baths, IA baths to, a car. ht