The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-05-17
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
| HARD HIT BY rain "A |.
| |N.CONCLAVE HERE. !!
Parade to Be Held as Sched-
uie This Afternoon De-
spite Weather

detrimental Il effect upon the forty
eighth conclave of the Grand Com
mandery. Knights Templar8 and ap-
pendant orders of West Virginia.
1t had tendency to keep down tne
big crowd anticipated from many
OF the cities not SO Tar olstdnt !.
Delegations felt the harmful et-
fects Of Jupiter Pluvius, the weath-
er man. who failed to deliver the
right brand for the affair
Parade Formation.
The parade will form about 4
O'Clock this afternoon. and late this
afternoon it was declared that the
procession would move as sched-
uled. Should the downpour be
heavy, there is a possibility OF the
route being shortened, but every e1-
fort will be made to carry out N 2
original arrangement
The chief marshal of the parade
is Harry F. Smith, FARM mont. grand
recorder and a former grand com
the chief Of staff The aides are
Robert M. Brown Of Cyrene Com>
mandery, DIR. o. w. Burdatts of
Wheeling Commandery, II. S. Da-
wilson OF Morgantown Command
erv, Robert Wilson Of Calvary Com
mandery, D. E. Leatherman OF
Pennsboro Commandery, and Rob
ert Love of DeMolay CommanderE.
Original Formation.
The various commanderies were
assigned places in line as follows:
Wheeling Commandery, Wheeling;
Palestine Commandery. Martins
burg: Cyrene Commandery, Park
ersburg; Cyrene Commandery,
Wheeling; st. Johns Commando cry
weston; DeMolay Commander
Grafton; Clarksbure Commanders.
Clarks burg Sutton Commandery.
Sutton; Morgan town Comm and
ery. Morgantown; Bluefield Com
mandery, Bluefie1d; Pennsboro
Comnandery. Pennsboro: Pilgrim
Command cry, E1kins; Mt. Hope
Commanders. Mt. Hope; Damas
Gus Commander, keyser: Buck
hannon, Commandery, Buckhannon !:
Crusade Commandery, Fairmont.
Up until 1 o'clock, a number OF
the delegations had not arrived. OF
in some instances were confined to
very limited numbers.
The VIII ceiling Commanderv ar
rived in the city today with fifty
sir knights. Cyrene Commandery,
the other commandery of Wheel
ing, is also represented. but there
are proba bly, less than twenty-five
here.
calvary Commandery. Parkers-
burg, arrived here shortly before
noon today with forty sir knights
and ladies'. They came by interur-
ban car from ClarksburG, being con
veyed in a special car.
Buckhannon Commandery arrived
shortly before noon with twenty
five Sir knights. and Damasc
Commandery of Keyser has eight
sir knights here.
There is a scattering from the
other communicates of the state.
which are as follows: Kanawha
Commanders. Charleston: st,
Johns Commandery, Weston; Hunt
ington Commandery, Hunting gton !;
Tvanhoe Commandery. BramweN;
Hinton Commandery. Hinton
| Mountain State Commandery. Sis
tersville: Greenbrier Commandery,
Lewisburg; Sutton Commando cry
Sutton; Franklin Commandery,
Point Pleasant: Bluefield Com
mandery. Bluefield: Pennsboro
Commandery, Pennsboro: PilEran.
Commandery, Elkins: Mount Hope
Commanders, Mount Hope.
Escort Delegations
Despite notwithstanding weather
and Intermittent showers, thirty
Knights 5Templar and the Greater
Fairmont Band acted as escort tc
receive the visiting Communicates
which arrived principally at the b.
& O. station throughout the morn
ing. The escort was in full TEN?
liar uniform, and the visiting
knights we're accompanied to their
various headquarters in the city.
The Delegates
Lawrence NJ !. Cunningham head
ed this committee. The headqua--
were as fi1Iows: Wheeling-Fair-
mont Hotel; Clarksburg; Watson
Hotel; Morgantown apd Cadet
Band, Y. M. c.. Al; ParkersburE
|-Y. NJ. &C. A: Buckhannon ~
Heintzelman Post Club House:
Weston -Heintzeln1an Post Clun
House: Keyser-Heintzelm Post
Club House; Grafton-Heintzelm
Post Club House.
The West Virginia University
Cadet Band. which accom- panied
the Morgantown Commandery will
take supper at the y. w. c.. A.
,rhe C1arksburg and the Grafton
bands will lunch at the =. W. G.
"a. s,a
Grafton Here First
Delegations that arrive here
from the early morning proved
that the assem- b1age would not be
as large as had been expected. The
representatives of Demolay Com
Smandery of Grafton was shaded
some, butSnotSa large as some OF
the others. G grafton has 9 sir
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