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Show I MISSOULA, MONT. I 1 Missoula, June 27. Beginning with special services in St. Francis Xavier church and closing with a banquet at a local hotel tonight, the celebration of the fifth anniversary and a big class initiation of Missoula Council No. 1021. Knights of Columbus, w as attended at-tended by. big delegations from every city in Montana. The first degree was conferred upon seventy-five candidates in I. O. O. F. hall in the morning. The knights then marched to the church, where Rev. Father Purcell of Coeur d'Alene City preached an approprate sermon. The second and third degrees were conferred in the afternoon and the banquet followed. The postprandial post-prandial exercises were greatly en-Joyed. en-Joyed. D. M. Durfee of Phillinsburg was toastmaster. Of all the brilliant speakers . included in the list, none made a more distinct success than Hon. Charles P. Nevin of Butte, whose toast was "The Ladies." The speakers were: Invocation, Rev. M. M. Moran. Philipsburg; "Christopher Columbus," Daniel L. Ohern, Missoula; "Mother Church," Rev. A. F. Trivelli, S. J., Missoula; "The Ladies," Hon. Charles P. Nevin, Butte; "The Triumph of Truth," Rev. T. Phelan, Plains; "Impressions, "Im-pressions, Old and New," S. W. Alexander, Alex-ander, Bonner; "The Knights of Columbus." Co-lumbus." Joseph R. Jackson, Butte: "The Clergy," E. D. Phelan. Helena; "Our Country," John H. Tolan, Anaconda. Ana-conda. Butte Miner, June 27. |