Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1908 — KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS PLAN BIG TIME [ARTICLE]

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS PLAN BIG TIME

Will Play Ball With Remington and Have Hebron Here To Confer Degree Work. The band will be out next Tuesday. ' The Remington Knights of Pythias lodge will be here to play ball and the Hebron Knights of Pythias lodge will send a large crowd of their members here to aid in degree work that night it is probable, in view of the friendly joshing preparatory to the selectlon of a date for the ball game, that the Remington lodge will bring along a large crowd of rooters, and Bion Zimmerman, who has the arrangement in charge, is sparing nothing to make the event a pleasant one socially.

There will be work in the sea nd degree Tuesday night and the Hebron lodge is coming here to perform It, and the Remington Knights will remain for the work. A refreshments oommlttee has been appointed and the visitors will be treated to a lunch after the degree work is completed. The local members had their first ball practice Wednesday evening and indulged in a game of scientific muffs and misthrows. But after they had practiced a short time they began to limber up and every once in a while some one would catch a ball. The contest should furnish a gfeat amount of interest and abould attract a large crowd to the ball park. In order to prevent darkness from stopping the game It is expected to get It started at 2 o'clock. An admission of 25 cents will be charged to pay for (jhe hand and defray other expensea. All Knights and their wives are expected to torn out at the ball game and the Knights will be welcomed at the lodge room that night..