The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-25
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR WILL ASSEMBLE IN ANNUAL CONC[AVE
Two Thousand Members of Alabama AsyIums To Be
 Here Wednesday

Two thousand Knights Tempiar are expected to be in attendance at the annual conclave at the Grand | Commandery of Alabama. which will begin at noon Wednesday in the asylum of Woodlawn Commandery No. 3l and continues through Thurs day. Many delegates were present for an entertainment Tuesday after noon in the Woodlawn Methodist church, given by the Wodlawn membership, when the following program was carried out:
 "Star-Spangled Banner Boys In- dustrial School band; My Country 'Tis of Thee" audience. band accom- = paniment; invocation, Rev. G. c. Hal liburton; song, Miss Mallam's studio; reading. Master Charles Zwiester; song, Masonic chorus: reading, Mrs. Horace Wilkinson; Miss Mallam s studio. "A Few Bars In Key of G2,' Mrs. E. c. Jordan; song. Masonic cho- rus; postlude, Boys Industrial school band.
 Parade Wednesday.
 A big parade to be staged Wednes- day morning forming at Sixth ave- nue and Nineteenth street, north, at lures. Invitation has been extended as follows:
 "To all Knights Templar In the Birmingham district, greetings:
 You are urgently requested to be present in full Templar uniform at Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street on the morning of "Wednesday, April ticipating in the parade of the grand commandery of Alabama which will take place at 9:20 a. m. Do not fail.
 "J. A. Pearson, commander, Cyrene commandery, No. 10; R. L. Strong, commander, Woodlawn commandery, No. 91; J. L. Hagy, commander, Bir- mingham commandery, No. 42; C. B. Crull, commander. East Lake com mandery, No. 43; Willard Drake, com mander, Wahtuma commandery, No. A; Ed Whisper, commander, Ensley commandery, No. 35,'
 Parade forms on Sixth avenue at 9 a. m, head resting on Nineteenth Twentieth street. down Twentieth street to Tutwiler hotel, where grand commandery will fall in; forward on Twentieth street to Third avenue down Third avenue to Nineteenth street, on Nineteenth street to Second avenue, up Second avenue to Twenty | first street, up Twenty-first street to First avenue, down First avenue to | Nineteenth street, up Nineteenth street to Second avenue. Street cars will be parked on Second avenue; all will enter and proceed by cars to Woodlawn. Arriving at Woodlawn, parade lines will reform and march 1 to WoCdlawn Methodist church, where the grand commandery will be opened with church services, con ducted by Eminent and Reverend Sir James Wilson Johnson, grand pre- late.
 Conclave Program.
 Official program of tho conclave follows:
 Wednesday, April 25. 12 o'clock l noon, opening of grand commandery address of welcome, by Rev. Roy G. | Hershey; response by Rev. Sir Fred Wall of Athens; announcement oi l committees; 1: :30 o'clock, luncheon
 served in temple by ladies of East
 ern Star; 2:30 o'clock, business pro- eeedings resumed; o'clock, adjourn ment to next morning; 6:l0 o'clock, 1 dinner served in temple by ladies oi Eastern Star.
 Thursdays business sessions open l at 9:30 o'clock, followed by installa- ton of officers at 12:30, and final ad- 1 journment at l o'clock. Luncheon by the ladies of the Eastern Star will be served in the temple after ad- journment.
 Church services will begin at Il o'clock Wednesday morning with sermon by Rev. James Wilson John- son, grand prelate. Other Christian ministers have been invited to assist.
 Automobiles will be at the disposal l of visitors who care to visit points of interest in the city from e:3o to