The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-08
MAS0NS ARE HERE
Fall Reunion of Scottish Rite
Opens.
Have 100 Candidates to Initiate
in Three Days.
STUBBS TO SPEAK.
Governor VIII Address the Glass
This Evening.
He Is a Member of the Topeka
Consistory.

The fall reunion of the Ancient and
| Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Ma
sonry, Orient of Kansas. Valley of To-
oeka, commences at the Masonic tenn
pie today. This reunion will be held
in Topeka for the next three days
| including Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday.
1t is expected that at least 100 can
| didates are in the city for the pre-
| l:minaries today. The candidates are
coming from all parts of Kansas and
hey will take degrees in the Scottish
| Rite from the fourth to the thirty-sec-
| end. Some will take all of the degrees
and others will take part of them
| This thirty-third semi-annual gath
ering will be a sort of an anniversary
| affair and is especially for the work in
the degrees from the fourth to the
thirty-second. The jurisdiction of the
| bodies meeting in Topeka today extends
all over Kansas with the exception of
Sedgwick, Saline, Bourbon, Wyandotte
ind Douglas counties.
Tonight at o'clock supper is
given to the candidates by the consis-
tory after which the fourth, fifth, sixth
ind eighth degrees will be conferred.
Governor Stubs. who is member of
| the Topeka consistory, will address the
classes some time this evening.
Each day of the reunion dinner, sup
per and luncheon will be served.
thursday evening the big reception
and banquet will be held and it prom
ises to be one of the biggest events of
its kind in the history of the Scottish
Rite.
The complete program for the week
is as follows:
MONDAY, NOVEMBER s. 1909.
Morning and afternoon, registration
CT class.
1880 p. m.-Fourth degree, Secret
Master, conferred.
500 p. m.-Fifth degree. Perfect
Master, conferred.
9:15 D. m.-Sixth degree, Intimate
Secretary, conferred.
9:45 p. m.-Eighth degree, Intend
ant of the Building, conferred.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1909.
900 a. m.-Ninth degree, Elus of
the Nine, conferred.
1915 a. m.-Seventh. Tenth, Elev-
enth and Twelfth degrees communi-
Gated.
10:45 a. m.-Thirteenth degree,
Royal Arch of Solomon, conferred.
1880 p. m.-Fourteepth degree, Per-
feet Flu, conferred.
4:O6 p. m.-Fifteenth degree,
Knight of the East, conferred.
7:15 p. nn.-Sixteenth degree, Prince
of Jerusalem, conferred
$3.50 p. m.-Seventeenth degree,
Knight of the East and West. con-
ferred.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10. 1909.
900 a. m.-Eighteenth degree,
Prince Rose Croix, conferred.
1880 D. Enthusiastically, twentieth,
twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty
sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty
eighth degrees communicated.
200 p. m.-Twenty-second degree,
Knight Royal Axe, Prince of Libanus,
conferred.
800 p. m-Twenty-f1fth degree.
Knight of the Brazen Serpent, con-
ferred.
400 p. m.-Twenty-nint degree,
Scottish Knight of Saint Andrew, con-
ferred.
7:15 p. m.-Twenty-first degree,
Noachite, or Prussian knight, con-
ferred.
$50 p. m.-Thirtieth degree. Knight
kadosh, conferred.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1909.
900 a. m.-Thirty-firSt degree, In
rector Inquisitor. conferred.
300 p. m.-Thirty-second degree,
Master of the Royal Secret, conferred.
$50 p. m.-Reception and banquet.