The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-09
Topeka WANTS IT
Capital City Would Have Head.
quarters Fraternal Aid.
Burlingame Band and Grand
Officers Here for Event.

Eighty persons will be initiated into
one fraternal order In one big class
tonight at Security hall. The Frater-
nal Aid Union is the order which Is
growing so rapidly that classes OF
eighty are initiated at one time. There
are already eleven hundred members
of the order living In Topeka. and To-
peka has ambitions to have the home
office located here. At present there
are two home offices. one in Denver.
Col, and the other at Lawrence, KAN
A double equipment OF home offices
is due to the fact that less than year
ago the Fraternal Aid, a national or
der with home offices at Lawrence,
and the Fraternal Union, also a ma
tiOnal organization, with home offices
at Denver. Col, consolidated. After
the consolidation the two offices were
maintained. pending a decision by
members Of the order on the location
Of one big. home office.
The location of this office will be of
commercial Importance to any city
selected. At the present time the
rivalry is between Lawrence and Dem
yer. Topeka members of the order,
while DESTROYS of having the office
brought to Topeka, will nevertheless
give their support to Lawrence SO long
as there is a chance for Lawrence to
land the prize. In return they will
expect Lawrence supporters to throw
their support to Topeka in event 1t
appears unal Lawrence Will not De
able to carry out her ambitions. They
figure that Lawrence members, if they
can not have the home office in their
home city, will prefer to have it in
Topeka rather than in a more distant
city.
Sixty per cent of the $4,000 mem
bers of the order live within a radius
of 500 miles of Topeka decision
on the location of the home Office will
be made at the quadrennial meeting,
which win be held in July.
Four strong and growing lodges of
the order exist in Topeka. At the
meeting tonight the supreme officers,
who attended a meeting of the direc-
tors in Lawrence Monday, will be pres
ent. The order issues both disability
and life Insurance.. Its assets are one
million dollars. Since its organization
more than eleven million dollars has
been paid in claims.
The supreme executive officers here
today are.
Supreme president. " A.. Young
Denver, Colo; supreme vice president.
II. M. Wartng, Lawrence, Kan; su-
preme secretary l.. d. Roberts, Law
renee, Kan; supreme treasurer, r. j.
physician. L. D. johnson, Chanute,
Kan; assistant supreme physician for
the states of Iowa, Nebraska and
North Dakota, M. A. Hoover, kearney,
Neb
Burlingame Band.
The boys band of Burlingame,
which two years ago was made the Of
fetal band of the Fraternal Aid union
is in Topeka attending a meeting of
the order at which 80 candidates will
be initiated tonight. The band num-
bers 80 boys from to II years in age.
c. E. Bratton is director. The band
was organized by the Saturday After
noon club. women's organization Of
Burlingame and is maintained by the
citizens of the city. 5tesa5 .ssr
Quite treat is in store for the boys
next summer, the Fraternal Aid union
having decided to take the organiza-
ton to California to attend the quad
rennial meeting of the order. They
Will have an opportunity to see both
the San Francisco and the San Diego
expositions. The band gave a street
concert this afternoon. and proved it's
worthiness of being taken to the coast.