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Show KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Items of Interest from Many Parts of tho Country. In 1875 the supreme lodge of Knights of the World had H9 in its treasury, aud in 1S5U it had about $.'15,000. The banner presented to the Pratt division of Onhkosh, Wisconsin, by i (icorgo W. Pratt, after whom the division was named, is the finest ever made for a division o! the uniform rank, costing over 1500. Indiana claims t o bavo the tallest and shortest knight in tho world. The former is 6 feet i4 Indies, and the latter U feet 1 inch in height. The grand keeper ot. records and seal has completed the statistics, as shown by tho sumi-unnual report, uf subordinate lodges for Deo. 31, ltisu, und finds thu present membership 7,405; the increase from initiations, initi-ations, deposit of cards and reinstatement, 871; the suspension and deaths, 403, leaving leav-ing a net gain of 4oS for term. The Knights of Chicago presented to Warde, the tragedian, a jeweled sword not long ago while he was playing at the Hay-tnnrket Hay-tnnrket Theatre. There is a strong probability of the organization or-ganization of a new German lodge in Kansas Kan-sas City. The constitutions printed in that language have been received and good i results are expected among the Teutons. Architects are busy with plans and spe- J ciiications for the new Pythian castle hall at Toledo, Ohio, and bids will shortly bo ndvertised for the construction of the building, which will be the handsomest and finest building owned exclusively by the order in the world. The increase in membership in the state of Georgia during the past year will equal ita per cent. One lodge has mado a gain of 76, another has made a gain of 44 members mem-bers in the last eight months, and another 20 during the your, and this is the general report from all over the state. Fifty-four divisions of the Uniform Rank have been formed during the month of February, March and April. Sixty-five Knights of Pythias lodges have been authorized in Ohio since the adjournment adjourn-ment of the grand lodge, one year ago. The new K. of P. Castle hall to be erected by Crescent lodge, No. 33, of New Castle, Ind., has been begun. The cost will be about ao,ooo. At the recent session of the grand lodge of Missouri the ladies' rank, known as the Pythian Sisters of the Order, was indorsed by that body without one dissenting voice. The total membership of Ohio is 95,300, an increase of 2,533 for the year. The printed proceedings of the 1889 convention con-vention of the grand lodge Knight of Pythias of Pennsylvania is a pamphlet of about 350 pages, showing a membership of over 40,000, and about $100,000 in the treasury. |