Three officials of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan will address an open meeting in the Odd Fellows’ hall, over Yorke and Rogers, on West Trade street, Monday night at 8 o’clock.
In keeping with the custom of the order, the names of the speakers were not announced, but their positions were specified as Imperial lecturer from the Imperial Office at Atlanta, and the Kling Kleagle and Grand Dragon of North Carolina.
The principal address will be delivered by the imperial lecturer. He will speak on the invisible empire. His lecture will be followed by short talks by the kling kleagle and grand dragon.
“This meeting is of great interest to every native-born American,” reads a notice of the meeting which has been sent out. “You are invited to come and bring your friends who can qualify.”
The local klan now has between 200 and 300 members, according to an organizer, who has been here for some weeks assisting in preliminary work of organization. Congratulations to the local klan for the success attained in organization work have been extended by Imperial Wizard W.J. Simmons of Atlanta.
Announcement also was made of the formation of an order known as Knights of the Air and the acceptance by Colonel Simmons of the leadership. His acceptance was in response to a petition signed by 700 prominent citizens throughout the country, including Major General Charles T. Menohor, chief of the air service of the United States army, and General John J. Pershing.
The petition was presented to Colonel Simmons at a closed meeting of the Ku Klux Klan held in the Atlanta theater recently. The Knights of the Air, the petition specified, is intended to guarantee forever to the United States supremacy in the aerial field. It has the endorsement of government officials interested in this phase of national development.
From the church news page of The Charlotte News, May 15, 1921
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