Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1904 — Pythian Grand Lodge Next Week. [ARTICLE]

Pythian Grand Lodge Next Week.

The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Indiana, will hold its 36th annual session at Indianapolis on Oot. 4 and sth. It is expected that the attendance this year will be much larger than usual which has been about one thousand. The Grand Temple of Rathbone Sisters of Indiana meets in annual session at the same time and place. Though there are now 55,000 Knights of Pythias in Indiana, 6,000 of whom have been received into the ranks within the last ten months the heads of the order are today making the most heroic effort in the lodge,s history to make the increase this month the most memorable that any state has known in the history of Pythianism,