The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-11
VIII Be Held in Pittsburg Three
Days Next Week.
MANY WILL ATTEND.
Topeka May Be Permanent Meet
ing Place of Encampment.
Would Be Held During the Hol-
iday Season.

Pittsburg will be the scene next week
Of the state gathering of the Independent
Order of odd Fellows and the assembly
of the Rebekahs. the wonan's auxiliary
Of the same. On Monday evening Will
commence the grand encamonenf. CON
tinuing until Tuesday night Inen pc
ginning Tuesday night the grand lodge
will be in session until Thursday night
Wednesday morning VIII see the open
ing of the Rebekah assembly, which VIII
last also until Thursday night. Inc
general reception to the visitors will be
held Tuesday evening in the Pittsburg
auditorium. Wednesday 1ight TIE past
presiding officers banquet Will be held,
and the preparations Whlch are pelng
made Cor it are most elaborate The
parade will take place "Wednesday
afternoon at 4 o'clock. There viii be no
competitive drill in military tactics TINS
season.
of Topeka have great expectat tons and
a large number OF them already have
expressed their intention Of ATTENDING
So far as is now known the following
from this city Will go to Pittsburs:
w H Kernper and Mrs. Kemper, john
A. Bright and Mrs. Bright. H. c. Ste
vens, S. F. Stevens. Miss Emma S1eV-
ems. J. J. sWehe and Mrs. WeI1e, Mrs. u.
NJ. Steele T. H. Balm, A. G. Soule, j. >.
Everett, c. H Matthews. A. E. Jones,
D. W. Fraser. Mrs. L. K Akin. Mrs
Robert Cofran. Mrs. e. E. Fisher. Mrs
George Elliott, Judge George Huron, j.
j..
party will leave over the Rock Island
Monday morning. going to Kansas City
From there along with other delegations
from this section of the state and IRON
Kansas City they will occupy special
car over the Kansas City Southern
railroad from Kansas City to Pitts
burg.
Sunday afternoon a party of the fol-
lowing five people will come down from
Horton and will accompany. the Topeka
crowd the next morning; G., w Beard,
W. G. Kelly. James BraleY. Miss Ida
Barrett. and Miss Bertha Kelly.
One of the most important matters
to come before the grand encampment
this year will be the question of chang
ing the time of meeting from october
to the holiday season between Christ
mas and New Year, and what Is Of es-
pecial Importance to Topeka, is that
the matter of making the state capital
The permanent meeting place IS q part
of this proposition. This is favored be
cause that is an acceptable time for
people to leave their homes and at the
same season the cheap rates for the
State Teachers association are on, and
/ it would be possible to take advantage
4 of these and apply them to the Odd Eel
! lows gathering The Odd Fellows
lodge is one whose favors should be Gull
tivated, in a matter of this sort, for the
reason that it brings more money into
the town where the meeting is held than
most of such orders. The representa-
tives from each local lodge receive a
per diem. and besides this they are a
well-to-dO class of men and women who
have money aside from that which the
brotherhood furnishes them. Naturally
they combine business of a personal ma
ture with their lodge duties while at
tending the meeting and make such
purchases as they need that cannot be
/ secured in the smaller towns and the
villages near where they have their
/ homas.
One of the imrortant meetings of