The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

be doubled to 1000 candidates. So far
756 have been secure and a month yet
remains to secure prospective candi-
dates. knights of Pythias will assem-
bic from both Kansas and Missouri to
witness the gigantic ceremonial and the
galleries of the large hall will be
crowded. The team from Cameron, Mo.
consisting of 81 members, together with
the band of So pieces will put on the
work fer the class. L. NJ. PenWell pro-
poses to attend with Gala company No.
of the uniform rank. from Topeka.
Following the immense initiatory exer-
cises the D. o. K. K. of Missouri will
hold a banquet the announcement for
which states that the business of the
meeting will begin at 2 a. m. on Novem-
Der 30. That happens to be Sunday.
At the annual meeting Of the Ohio
association last Monday night the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Harry Wright;
vice president Harry Lang; secretary,
John A. Alexander: treasurer, Walter
competition for the election to the
presidency, but on the first ballot,
which was proposed to be informal,
Mr. Wright received a majority of all
the votes cast The remaining three or
four candida ties Immediately withdrew
from the race. The Topeka orSaniza.
ton is the strongest of its sort in the
state. 1t has grown in membership
WITH remarkable TdDlQ1JY ana QdS
passed a very successful career. Our-
ing the coming year it is expected that
a state organization will be formed SO
that state conventions can be held. Mr.
Wright proposes to commence CORE
spOndence with other organizations to
this end, and anticipates a ready re-
Spouse to the idea. Among the nu-
merous Ohio associations now existing
in Kansas are those at Ottawa, Ma
rion, Clyde, Clay Center, Burlington,
and Wichita Most of these have al
ready been in correspondence with each
other upon various subjects and the
Topeka and Ottawa associations have
interchanged picnics and excursions.
Shawnee camp No. 2S00, M w. A,
initiated six new candidates for the
first degree last Wednesday night and
has four more ready for initiation
During the coming six months there is
expected to be great activity in mem
bership getting among the Woodman
organizations throughout the United
States as a result of a dispensation an
nounced by the head camp. The stand
ing offer has been made that each
member of the Modern Woodmen who
shall secure three new members
through his own efforts shall receive
a ticket which will admit him daily to
the St. Louis worlds fair during the
Woodman week in September. For
each additional three members secured
another ticket will be allowed 1t is
expected that this order will result in
the doubling of the 100000 membership
of the Woodmen during the coming
yea-.
The editor of the Western Odd Eel
low, which also gets all the news worth
having about the affairs of the order in
this world, prints in his paper a com
munication From Paradise" in which
the correspondent says:
I'VE have not had any work to do
since last spring and have been sleeping
all summer. but think we will be soon
aroused by knockings at our door by
two or three good applications, and 1
hope the lodge will have a better at
tendance than it has this summer"
This is a cheerful if unexpected con-
firmation of the old theory that Paradise
is quiet and restfuI place. but it has
been generally understood that the APP
plications, if not the admissions to its
asphodel scented confines were more
frequent than is intimated in the let
ter. The hot weather of the good old
summer time may have had something
to do with the lack of activity around