Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1917 — KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS ENJOY CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS ENJOY CONVENTION

Remington Lodge Delightfully Entertained Knights of Pythias County Association. Thursday was a gala day with the Knights of Pythias of Jasper county. A large number of tite members of the Rensselaer lodge attended the sessions Thursday afternoon and evening and all pronounced it one of the best meetings they had ever attended. Schuyler Lodge No. 58, of Remington, is a live-wire lodge and a bunch of mighty fine fellows and as hosts They are not only jolly fellows but they confer the ranks of Knighthood in a most excellent manner. In the afternoon they conferred the rank of Esquire and they did it in a -manner that was not only impressive to the candidate but was pronounced by the visiting brothers to be as good as they had ever witnessed. After this rank was given the brothers spent the afternoon-in social entertainment. * At 6 o’clock about one Hundred hungry Knights were escorted to the dining room of the Presbyterian church, where a delightful dinner was served. This dinner consisted of chicken pie and all the good things that -go with it. The good ladies of this church are not only experts in preparing but also iii serving and not a single Knight was able to get out of the dining room without exhausting completely his capacity for good things to eat.

This strenuous task having been completed, the brothers again retired to the lodge room and indulged in the Joseph Hammond pastime until the Remington lodge was reconvened. The Remington lodge then conferred upon five candidates the rank of Page. This work was beautifully and impressively given and the great lesson of this rank was indelibly stamped Upon the minds of these candidates. At the completion of this ceremony the Hon. A. 'M. Hall, of Indianapolis, was introduced and delivered a speech on the subject of fraternity that was pronounced by every Knight present to be tihe greatest oration they had ever heard on this subject. Brother Hall is a gifted orator and possesses a very broad scholarship and his address was in a class by itself. Following Mr. Hall, quite a number <rf members were called upon and made short talks praising. Hie address and the Remington lodge and the Presbyterian ladies. The most interesting short talk was given by Brother*Myrt B. Price, who is a member of the Remington lodge but attends the Rensselaer lodge. Myrt spoke in a most affectionate way of the tender memory associated with Remington. He also told of his appreciation of the good fellowship shown, him by the brothers of the Rensselaer lodge. District Deputy Binkly, of Gary, gave, some very interesting suggestion* that were appreciated by all. The officers of the Remington lodge then gave way to officers .of the county association and Brother W. R. Geier, president, presided and H. A. Lambert, the county secretary, made the record of the meeting. The officers for the next year were selected from the Wheatfield lodge with th understanding that the next meeting will be there. The following were named: President, S. D. Clark: Secretary, George Ferguson; Treasurer, J oseph Hilliard. —A - vice president from each lodge will be selected at the next meeting of the several lodges of the county. A motion was carried asking that the next meeting be held in (the month of November. The business of the convention having been completed, a few nouts of social entertainment were enjoyed. This meeting will be a booster for Pythianism in the county and the Remington lodge deserves our heartfelt thanks for an occasion of splendid entertainment and instruction.