The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
Shawnee Lodge I. O. o. F. to
Celebrate Anniversary.
Oldest Odd Fellow Organization
in the State.
STARTED AT TECUMSEH
John Martin a Member Before
1t Moved.
Events of Interest of Secret So
ciety Workers.

| Shawnee lodge No. of the Independ-
| ent Order of Odd Fellows, will celebrate
the forty-fifth anniversary of the found
| ing of the lodge Tuesday evening. TIE
| lodge was instituted on March 2, 1857,
| at Tecumseh. 1t is the Oldest lodge in
| the state of Kansas and all of the char
| ter members of the lodge are dead. On ..
| ly one member who Joined the lodge
while it stin claimed Tecumseh as its
home yet lives. He is ex-senator John
Martin. The evening will be spent in a.
social way and in recounting old mem
cries and experiences by the old timers
A short literary entertainment will be
given and a supper will be the features
of the evening.
The Red Men met at the knights of
Pythias hall Thursday night.
Chas. Drew, of Burlingame, who is to
be General Metcalfs confidential clerk
in the pension office, drilled the degree
team of Naomi lodge No. 50 so that they
were able to carry off the first prize at
| indianapolis last season. 1t is antici-
pated that he will drill the team to en-
ter the contest at Des Moines next sum
mer.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows of
Oklahoma will meet at Durant, April 5.
Capitola Rebekah lodge No 219 will
give a social dance at the hall at 704
Kansas avenue Monday night, and
Naomi Rebekah lodge No. 95 will give
one Friday evening at Hudson's hall at
sos Kansas avenue
The Kinnebrew Comedy company
gave three act farce comedy entitled
hall Thursday night. Members of the
lodge attended quite largely
Capital Ark No. 60 degree team of the
knights of the Protected Ark began
drilling Tuesday night. The team will
enter contest late in the summer.
An Odd Fellow lodge was instituted
last week at Paradise, kas., and an
other will be instituted next week at
Yale. They are Nos. $50 and 537, re-
spectively.
j. B. White was initiated into the
mysteries of Valiant lodge No. 155,
knights of Pythias, Wednesday night
The Uniform Rank degree team did the
work admirably. Following the initia-
ton the Rathbone Sisters of Temple
No gave a banquet.
w. H. Kemper. secretary of the grand
lodge of Odd Fellows of Kansas, is send
ing out this week the following ami
Versary proclamationS:
To the officers and Members of Grand
and Subordinate Bodies of the INDIE
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and to
all Whom it may Concern:
In accordance with time honored Gus
tom and in obedience to the resolution
of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, /, A. c.
Gable, grand sire, by virtue of the au-
thority vested in me, do hereby enjon
upon all grand and subordinate bodies
under the jurisdiction of the order, to
take appropriate action for the due
COMMUNICATION of the twenty-sixth day
of April, 1902, it being the eighty third
anniversary of our order, by suitable
exercises in observance of the day and
by public thanksgiving to Almighty God
for His manifold mercies to US as indi-
viduals and as an order
Done at the city of Covington, Ohio,
this, the 18th day of February, A. D.,
sas, 1. o. o. F., Brothers:
1902, and of the order the eighty third
year.
Attest: A. c. CABLE, Grand Sire.
J. FRANK GRANT, Grand Secretary.
To all the Subordinate Lodges of Kan
In accordance of the above proclama-
ton of our Worthy Grand Sire, l. Geo.
w. Brown, grand master of Kansas, do |
hereby call upon all subordinate lodges