Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1916 — Indiana Pythians Will Big Class. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Pythians Will Big Class.

The grand lodge meeting of the Knights of Pythias will be held Oct. 3, in Indianapolis and grand lodge officers are making extensive preparations for the entertainment of the visitors. The supremo officers, wno will participate in the Fraternal Day parade to he held Oct. 2, in connection with the Indiana Centennial celebration, will remain over to have charge of the intiatory exercises to bo held in Tomlinson hall. This ftfapg. which Pythian's expect to be the largest in history, will be known as the' centennial class. The bible of j. H. Rathbone, founder of the order, a, ill be used in administering the obligation. This bible was used at the first, initiatory class of the Knights in Washington, D. C., Feb. 19, 1862.