News Article October 1924

KU KLUX KLAN, HAMPE

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/22/2006 at 15:43:29

October 1924

The unimproved Hathaway tract of practically 50 acres changed hands this week. This ground was bought a few years ago by a committee named by the Comus Club to secure land for a golf course. It paid $10,000 for the land, to hold it for golf purposes. However, it was never used for golf; the golf club, when it organized, rented other land.

The Ku Klux Klan had a klonvocation, as advertised, in Rock Rapids Tuesday evening. A parade started from the fairgrounds about 8:30 p.m. The line of march was through the business district and back to the fairgrounds. It was part of the agreement on which the parade permit was secured from Mayor Hampe that the klansmen should march without masks and they did so. The number of klansmen, klanswomen and children in the parade was about 340.

About 150 depositors of the Iowa Savings Bank, which failed to open its doors July 10, 1924, gathered at Lyon Theater last Saturday afternoon to hear the details of a proposed plan to organize a new bank using part of the assets of the old bank and to name a committee of depositors to work out the liquidation of the balance of the assets, doing away with the present receivership.