The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06
Grand Lodge viii Convene In
Topeka Monday.
About 1 500 Delegates WIN Be
In the City.
A PUBLIC RECEPTION.
Visitors VIII Be Formally Well
coined Wednesday.
Meeting Win Be Held In the
Auditorium.

What viii perhaps be one OF the larg-
est conventions to be held in Topeka
this year VIII convene next Monday.
October s. and viii continue until Thurs
day. It Is the convention Of the Grand
lodge I. o. o. F. About 500 delegates
from the various lodges of the state viii
be present
This IS the 43rd annual encampment
of the Grand Lodge The officers who
were elected last May are. Grand mas
ter. John A Nsright. Topeka; grand sec
rotary. .. w. Kent. Topeka and grand
treasurer, L G. BeaI, Topeka
The meetings begin Monday evening
with a special session of the state grand
encampment. This meeting IS to be a
secret one and VIII be attended only by
the Patriarchs~ The regular sessions OF
this body begin Tuesday morning at
o'clock. Al the Temple, 81 Quincy street
On Tuesday evening a special session
for the purpose OF comforting the Past
Grand and Grand Lodge degrees on all
brothers who are qualified and who pre-
sent legal certificates viii be held at
RepreseEtative hall
The Shawnee Eucampment No. 3 viii
also on Tuesday night at q special meet
ing confer the Third or Royal Purple
degree for the entertainment of the
Grand Encampment- All Patriarchs Of
the state are invited 10 be present at
this meeting
Following the comforting of the Royal
Purple degree the members Of this order
viii banquet at the Fifth Avenue hotel
The regular sessions of the convention
begin Wednesday morning at 2 O'Clock
in Representative hall and continue
Wednesday and Thursday, October 10
and Il
Moses sarbach Of HoIton, chairman
Of the committee on credentials. viii be
n the Office OF D. W. Kent at the corner
Of Fifth and Quincy streets all day
Tuesday. October 9.
The headquarters Of the Grand Lodge
and the Rebekah State Assembly have
been established at the Copeland hotel
AS there VIII not be hotel accoKnmOda-
lions for all the delegates q local COM
mittee may be found at the headquar-
rars who viii assign delegates to the
various places in the city where they
may secure board and lodging
Wednesday evening viii ind the dele
gates with all their friends at the new
Auditorium on Quincy street. An enter
tainment has been arranged where
there viii be number OF short talks
and a general good time socially This
entertainment is open to the public and
all the friends Of the delegates viii be
made welcome
The Rebekah degree team OF Spring
Hill which has earned the reputation. Of
being the best degree team in the state
viii give an exhibition OF team work at
the senate chamber Tuesday evening
Several manufacturers viii have exhf-
billions Of the parap herualia used IN de-
gree work made by the respective fac
tories.
There are SIS lodges in the state of
Kansas. and representatives viii be here
from each lodge The lodge pays the ex-
penses OF ore delegate but anyone who
has acted As an officer of either the
Grand Lodge or a subordinate lodge or
any one who has ever held a seat IN the
previous conventions is entitled to a
seat IN the convention which cOnEeles
Monday. It is expected that from 500 to
loco Grand Lodge delegates wiz present
themselves as viii also about 500 dele
gates from the Rebekah lodges and
about POO in the Grand EncampTneut,
making a total Of from I. 500 TO / SEQ del
egates Who VIII be- IN attendance here
during the week
The only question OF any moment
which viii come before the convention
is the question Of representatives. to the
grand body.
The delegates to the grand body are
elected every two years. and It has al
ways been the custom TO elect a com
pleta set OF Rev delegates TO each sitting
Of the grand body
movement is on foot nov to remedy
this by holding the elections Of half Of
half the next year. each delegate Serv-
ing two years In this way half the
mem berS OF the grand body VIII be old
members and accustomed to the proceed
tugs and the convention viii not be trOu-
bled with the graan-horuisn that 1t now
is
1t Is proposed that the lodges bearing
an even number elect their delegates one
year and the lodges OF the odd number
elect the following year
The plan Is new and has only been
voted on IN a few states but every where
il has been presented a favorable action
has been the result