Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — K. of P. Meeting Was Well Attended [ARTICLE]

K. of P. Meeting Was Well Attended

The county meeting of the Knights of Pythias was quite well attended here Tuesday, there being about 150 Knights in attendance from the local lodge and from the lodges at Remington and Wheatfield. There were 36 here from Remington, 19 from Wheatfield and 10 or 12 from other lodges, besides the local lodge. Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal% Fred E. Wheaton gave the obligation of the rank of page to Fred Sheets of Remington and Will Waymire of Rensselaer, and then gave a brief talk on the founding of the order by Justice Henry Rathbone on Feb. 19, 1864, and of the famous Pythian Bible which was brought here for this occasion, this' Bible being the one used at the founding of the order.

At the afternoon meeting the county was organized for the next county meeting, which will probably beheld at Remington. The officers elected for the county organization were: W. R. Geier and H. A. Lambert of RemingtJt for chairman and secretary, respectively, and T. D. Wood worth of Rensselaer as treasurer. Each local lodge will select its own vice-president. The Rensselaer lodge selected W. A. Davenport for this position. A cafeteria supper was served in the Masonic lodge room at 6 o’clock in the evening, C. P. Fate of the College Inn furnishing the spread.