The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-04
GIVES IT A PUSH.
Topeka Commandery knights
Templar Votes $4,000.
Their Share Toward the New
Masonic Temple.
MEETING WITH FAVOR.
Success of the Plan Is Now
Assured.
There Will Be No Mortgage on
the Building.
MEETING WITH FAVOR.


No. knights Templar held last night
It was unanimously voted that the COM
mandery should take the 100 shares as
signed that body by the ways and
means com mittee of the Masonic tenn
pie.
The commandery received the report
of the committee, adopted it and i'm
mediately agreed to assume the re-
sponsibility of raising $4,000 toward the
proposed $4,000 Masonic temple.
I'VE hope to begin work on the
Masonic temple by March 1 and to
have the building completed and ready
for occupancy by December 1, 1907
said Colonel T. w. Harrison this morn
ing. THE building will be four stories
in height and will be devoted exclus-
lively to Masonic purposes. The temple
will be erected without a mortgage on
it and provision will be made that at
no time can an incumbrance be placed
upon it"
The report of the ways and means
com mittee has so far been presented to
the Chapter and the Comm andery and
has been unanimously accepted by
both. The report will be submitted to
the Scottish Rite. Sloan lodge, To-
peka lodge and Orient lodge for their
approval. The report of the committee
on ways and means is as follows:
To the Masonic Board of Control:
Your committee of twelve, to be known
prepare a proposition for raising funds
for the erection of a Masonic Temple in
fully submit the following. plan which. in
ogp gnS arred nto ap Would
result in the speedy erection of a Ma
sonic Temple which would forever be free
F'irst-We recommend that the sum of
$4,000 be raised for the erection of such
seeond-In order to raise said sum Of
$1,000 we reeommend that each Ma5 sonic
bonds in the sum of 800 each, to be
known as Masonic "A 21d Temple pie bonds
shall issue only such number of said
bonds as will be its proportionate part of
said $4,000, based upon its present mem
FouTth.,A brother hold only one one
ing. which is Emitted to issue SUCH bonds.
may be paid all cash. or quarterly, or in
monthly payme5ptS Of so "a mo mSnth, ioa and
Sixth-When a brother who has sub
scribed. for for bond shall have paid the
to one such bond, which shall mature
upon the death of such brother and the
diately pay to the family. of such deceased
mem6er or to such 6enecar rs as t he mng
of 800 without any question whatever.
have pad ths su n0o Of soo in f9 he sha
be entitled to a bond and his name shall
be inscribed u 5e "a r9 Of homer nor On
pie and on which, in alphabetical order,
shall be inscribed the names of the orig
bond he shall be exempt from the regular
annual interest on such bond to be in
lieu of all annual dues of said member
EighthNIf during the lifetime of a
brother holding such BONO y, he sna II de-
but only through the body issuing the
same, and when a bond is SO transferred
stored at once to his liability for the pay
mspt Of abn1al dyes IL n s seSh bo 09dy
toned to each of the bodies under this
plan shall be as f95l ;3e 800 honas ana no
TO Topeka lodke No. II. 1o1 bonds. and
TO Orient lodge No. 81, "a bonds. and no
70 Sloan lodge No 225. sc bonds. and
To Topeka Chapter No. 5. 1o1 bonds. and
To Topeka Commandery No. 5. Sc bonds.
and no more.
have subscribed for the number of said
bonds SO apportioned to SAID BODY, no
more of said bonds can be allotted to such
body and thereafter such bonds can only
be obtained in that body when vacancies
have fnatured, the continuance thereof
for the benefit of other members shall be
at the pleasure of the body issuing the
same and when reiSSued. shall be in
the order in which applications shall have
been filed therefor; and said Masonic
Temple shall be forever free and clear OF
ali mortgages and other liens.
Teuth-And we submit herewith a form
for subscriptions to said bonds to be used
in each of said bodies and we recommend
that each of said bodies appoint ten Of
its members best adapted to that work
to secure at once the necessary quota
of subscriptions for that body.
And from the assurances We have re-
ceived and the pledges already rendered,
we feel warranted in saying that the 100
bonds will be subscribed without any de-
Law as soon authority therefor is given
nv the respective bodies, and we are as
sured that if the contracts could be let
and work commenced the Temple by
March l, 1902, that the building could be
completed and ready for occupancy by
December l, 1902
we therefore most urgently recommend
that immediate action be taken in the
several bodies interested upon this propo,
sition and soon as the same is rat1fied
by all the bodies that the taking of sad
subscriptions be commenced and carried
promptly forward to completion to the
end that actual work may be commenced
upon the Temple by March 1, 1902.
All of which is respectfully and frater-
nally submitted -
Dated at Topeka, Kan, Nov. 80, 1901.
(Signed1