The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-08
Big Statewide Convention
Opens in Topeka Today.
Keynote of Patriotism SOun~-
ed at Opening Session.
CAN'T ExPEL FROM ORDER
Endorse Ruling of Grand Lodge
May Be Early Action.
Records of All Members Who
Join Army and Navy.

TODAY'S PROGRAM.
Department Council.
I. O. o; F. Hall, III West Sixth.
100 p. m.-Department council.
s 200 p. m-Militant degree at Hamilton
hall by Canton Topeka No. 3.
Grand Encampment.
10 100 a. m.-School of instruction.
2 90 p. m.-School of instruction.
s 100 p. m.-Grand encampment degree in
l. o. o. F. hall. III West Sixth
street.
TUESDAYS PROGRAM.
Department Council.
Z 80 a. m.-Meet at Barracks for Escort
s 100 p. m.-Meet at Barracks to appear at
Auditorium in full dress at o
o'clock.
Grand Encampment.
8 100 "A. m.-Grand Lodge session.
y 30 a. m.-Recess for program.
10 80 a. m.-Grand Lodge session
L oo D. m.-Meet at Auditorium for parade
at 80 O'Clock. You are an
important part of this.
ZOO p. m.-Grand Lodge session.
Z ;5O p pm.-Wfnfield degree team will put
on degree work
Grand Lodge.
(At Audiforium1
s 100 p. m.-Grand lodge degree
9:oO p. m-EnteFtainment in Auditorium.
Rebekah state Assembly.
Tuesday. October 9.
(Memorial Hall)
lo :Oo a. m. and 200 p. m.-School OF tn
struction-
700 m.-Assembly degree.
80 p. m.-Adjourn to attend entertain
ment at Auditorium.
Public General Assembly
Directed by Opal Glynn,. Ella Kimble.
3 100 p. IN. at Auditorium
Everybody Invited.
Pipe organ Recital-Miss Hazelrigg.
Fancy DrilimnBy, Staff from Capitola
Song-Mr. Tom Powell.
Vaudeville Act-Phillis and Joseph
x.
Song.Miss Isabel Hutchinson.
Whistling Solo-Mrs Maude Catren
Reading-Miss Ceora Lanham.
Solo-Mr. Karl Hummel.
song-,YFhe Flag That Has Never
neapolis.
More than half of the $500 dele
gates to the annual convention of the
four departments of the 1. O. o f.
lodge had arrived in Topeka this
afternoon and had sounded "A keynote
of patriotism which will be heard all
thru the different assemblies during
the four-dav meeting. After resoIu-
tions scheduled to be thrown in the
hopper have been passed Tuesday by
the grand encampment, and Wednes-
day by the Grand Lodge~and Rebek-
abs. the state and nation will have no
room for doubt that the Kansas Odd
Fellows are behind President Wilson
both as American citizens and as
members of their fraternal order.
At 8 o'clock Wednesday morning
when the Grand Lodge goes into for
nal secret Session at the auditorium,
one of the first things it will probably
do will be to endorse a ruling of the
Sovereign Grand lodge that no MEM
Der can be expelled from the order for
non-payment of dues while in the
service of the government during the
present crisis. Officers of the order
will not lose their positions while
serving Uncle Sam. Then the matter
of benefits for families of members in
the service will receive favorable at
tention.
Record of Soldiers.
Maintenance of a record of all Odd
Fellows and Rebekahs who are in the
service is not to be overlooked. Every
member of the lodge in Kansas who
is in the army or navy or other branch
of service will be listed and the rec
ords forwarded finally to the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge. In addition to
all this resolutions Of a more general
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