Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-14
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
WILL BE ROYALTY
ENTERTAINED HERE
Two Hundred Expected
to Attend Annual
Conclave
BEGINS HERE THURSDAY
Fine Program Prepared
by Local Commandery
for Visitors


Knights Templar, will be host next
week to the twenty-eighth annual
conclave of the grand commandery
of knights Templar and appendant
orders of Florida. Two hundred or
more delegates are expected to be in
attendance when the conclave con-
venes on Thursday.
Official announcement Of the pro-
gram has just been made, and it
embraces many social activities for
the guests while here, including
banquet. On Thursday morning the
delegates will begin to arrive. They
will be met at the trains and boats
and escorted to their hotels. Thurs
day afternoon the visitors will be en-.
tertained at the Grand theater from
2:45 to 5:45 p. M, Manager Kalb-
field arranging special program
for the occasion. Is
The official reception to the.
guests will be given Thursday eve
ming at the Masonic temple. From
6 to 8 o'clock light refreshments will
be served in the banquet hall and
parlors. From 8 to 9 o'clock the re-
ception of the grand officers will
take place. Beginning at O'Clock
there will be musical program by
the High School orchestra and the
visitors will be welcomed by Com
mander Sir Warner 7. Hamm, of the
Palatka commandery. The response
will be made by Grand Prelate Sir
Dorsey H. Rutter, and songs will be
rendered by Sir Lester A. Lucas, of
Ocala. From 1880 to $3.50 there will
also be band concert by the Palatka
band on the lot at First and Lemon
streets.
Big Parade Tuesday. @4
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock the
big parade will form on the west side
of First street north of Lemon, COM
manderies in numerical order, and
proceed up Lemon street to head
quarters of the grand commandery at
the Martin hotel, thence on Lemon
street to Fourth street to Oak street
to Sixth street to Lemon street to
Fourth street, on Fourh street past
reviewing stand and on to Reid
street to Second street to Lemon
street, and on Lemon to the Masonic
temple. At IL o'clock the opening
ceremonies of the grand commandery
will begin.
Sessions of the grand commandery
will be held in the afternoon at
which the order of Knights Templar
will be confirmed and exemplified by
the Palatka commandery. From
2:45 to 5:45 the knights will attend
special program at the Grand thea
ter.
On Friday evening at 8 o'clock a
banquet will be served the visitors
oy the Palatka commandery at the
Putnam House, with the following
program:
Invocation-Rev. Sir Knight J. F.
Savell.
Banquet. Music by Putnam High
School orchestra--G. M. Shearouse
1irector.
Solo, xylophone-Master Louis
Kalbfield Newton.
Song, selected-Sir A. Lester Lu-
,as, of Ocala.
Dance, seleeted-By Miss Clarice
Newton (Florida's Pavlowa).
Address : Grand Chaplain Sir
Knight D. H. Rutter, Daytona Beach.
Recitation, selected-Past Com
nander Sir William G. Tilghman, Pa
latka.
Song, selected-Sir Knight A. Les
ter Lucas, 0cala.
Saturday morning the business ses-
sions of the grand commandery viii
be continued at o'clock, At 10
o'clock the visitors viii be taken
for an automobile ride over Palatka
and thence to Hastings to view the
potato fields.
In the afternoon there will be
business session and closing Of the
annual conclave. after vaich there
will be another entertainment at the
Grand theater.