Was it a Klan cross? 1915
New Egypt Press 15 Nov 1923
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KKK of Ocean and Monmouth, 1930
The following article appeared in the New Jersey Courier on 14 Nov 1930: SIMMONS, KLAN FOUNDER, AND BELL, KLAN OFFICIAL, SAID TO BE NEW ORGANIZERS There is a story about the counties of Monmouth and Ocean, based on an account printed recently in the Asbury Park Press, that an effort is being made to create a new organization with the same aims and purposes of the Ku Klux Klan, but with different methods. The Press recently told of a meeting in that county addresed by William Joseph Simmons, founder of the Klan, and afterward deposed as its head, and by Arthur H. Bell, the Grand Dragon of New Jersey in the days when the Klan was in prosperity in the state. It was said that both these men talked on the new organization, the White Band. Residents of Lakewood Road, between Toms River and Lakewood, near where the cross road turns off to the Klan hall on Whitesville road, say that numerous cars traversed that road on Sunday afternoon, and from that it is assumed that Simmons and Be...
JUNIOR KKK
from the New Jersey Courier 19 Oct 1923 JUNIOR K.K.K NOW Branches of Junior Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which recently had its inception in Indiana, are being organized in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. The work has been in progress in this section about three weeks and already it is said about 500 youths have been enrolled. Boys between the ages of 12 to 18, sons of the members of the K.K.K. or sons of the Royal Riders of the Red Robe are eligible to membership, the latter, of course, if they have been born in this country. The boys have a regalia said to be somewhat like that of the K.K.K.