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Show K. of C. Take Fourth Degree. Sixteen members of the Denver council coun-cil No. 539, Knights of Columbus, left Tuesday evening for Chicago to be initiated into the fourth degree. The ceremonies took place on Thanksgiving day at Medinah temple, where nearly 500 knights were assembled to participate partici-pate in the exercises. From the councils coun-cils throughout Illinois. Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Colorado Col-orado delegates were sent, and the asr sembly was marked with great eclat. The degree was conferred in the afternoon aft-ernoon and' wa3 followed by;a banquet ban-quet at the Auditorium hotel in the evening.' Although it. is a rule of the organization to allow but ten menfbers to--aterid from each , council. Denver, obtained a special -dispensation to go beyond that limit. To receive the fourth and last degree of the Knights of Columbus it is required that two years shall have elapsed since the members were, initiated in the third degree. It -was on Nov. IS, 1900, that Denver Council No. 539 was instituted and the three degrees were conferred on that dav. It is. therefore, just within the required limit. The sixteen members of the Denver council who received the highest degree de-gree will be known as Denver Assembly, As-sembly, and are empowered to confer the last orders on all other members. Denver will then become the center of the order in -the west, and to rece:'-e this last degree it will be necessary to send the representatives from other councils to this city. The Denver men who were initiated are: John H. Reddin, F. J. Kramer, Daniel B. Carey, Dr. Edward Dele-hanty, Dele-hanty, Hon. John I. Mullins, Joseph Newman, Frank J. Cavanaugh, Charles J. Dunn, John Murphy, William T. Davoren, Rev. Thomas H. Malone, Thomas W. Carroll, E. P. McGovern, Charles A. Nast, Rev. William O'Ryan and William Sayer. |
