Show of the state have big time on monday knights 0 of the from all I 1 over the state gathered at spring ville on monday of this week for the purpose of participating in an blab orate program which had been ar ranged in honor of the visit to utah of the supreme commander of the order D P markey tintic gintic tent no 13 of eureka was represented at this gathering by john ivey W D myers william Will lani button john person jos mccahey earl adamson robert adamson L S stewart edward longley edward cox conrad kopman rasmus nel son minor vinor peterson and william stocks the program which was carried out at Spring springville ville included a parade in which about were in fit line lille then brief exercises at the city park followed by the initiation af b candid candidates e the installation ot of of frers frohe for yie various lodges of the state and I 1 henin the evening a splendid in mii ii le I 1 program with a few short t talks prominent of the tile state stat the initia n of candidates was handled by t members of the prize degree team from rom park city which won ti tie 0 state flag and the 50 cash prize park city was also awarded the state banner which each year la Is presented preen ted to the lodge making the greatest gains in membership fo foi the past year or VA two a this banner has been een held by the eureka lodge and hobert robert adamson of this city made a ery eloquent and appropriate speech when the banner was darned over to park city the musical program in the even ing included instrumental numbers by prof roylance s orchestra and ir 0 ca 1 numbers number by a ladies chorus un der the direction ol 01 prof mark rob inson who was music instructor for the tintic schools last year and who vill serve in the same capacity for the 1916 1917 term the festivities at springville Spring ville doe clos d with an unusually fine banquet served under the direction or of one or of the ladies organizations of that city members of the local lodge who participated in the exercises state I 1 that the whole affair was carried out in a lery nery pleasing manner the ad dress dregs of welcome by mayor alleman was responded to by supreme corn com mander markey in bis his talk to the members of the order in the afternoon mr air markey stated that the maccabee lodge is in exceptionally prosperous condl tion utah made a net gain of members during the past year which gives the order 1400 members in this state |