The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-07

The total membership of the organ
ization is 60,702. 1t was 60,101 a
year ago. This is an increase of SCI
in the last six months and a net gain
of sol in the last year.
535 Subordinate Lodges.
There are 535 subordinate lodges
as compared with SAG a year ago.
Believing that the strength of the
order does not rest on the number of
lodges but rather upon whether or
not these lodges are active, seven
Consultations have been made in the
last year.
The consultations were as follows:
Pardee lodge No. &c with Friendship
lodge No. 5. of Atchison, under the
name of Friendship lodge No. 5; Cor
ricksville lodge No. 632 with Quinter
lodge No. 623. under the name of
Cuinter lodge No. 623; Labette lodge
TO. ASS with Oswego lodge No. So
under the name of Oswego lodge No.
20; Monument lodge No. 615 with
Oakley lodge No. 421, under the name
O. Oakley lodge No. 421; \thol lodge
NO. 579 with Kensington 10. ge No. 400
u-der the name of Kensington lodge
No. 409, and Prairie Center lodge No
ISIS with Eudora lodge No. AZ under
the name of Eudora lodge No. AZ.
The number of candidates initiated
in the last year was 3,995. Two new
lodges were instituted. Saline Valley
No. SIS, Beverly, Kan, was insti-
tuted April 10 and Prospect lodge No
676. Manhattan. was instituted Au
gust IT.
The entire property of seven lodges
was destroyed by fire. Grand Master
Fred w Knapp, of Salina. will rec
onamend at the session that six of
these lodges be granted new charters.
The other lodge was consolidated.
Candidates for the offices of the
grand lodge were nominated at the
annual session in 1921 and were
elected by ballot at meetings of the
various subordinate lodges this year.
Officers elected will be installed at
the session next week and candidates
for officers the following year will
be nominated.
Complete Election Returns.
The announcement of the complete
returns this year follows: Grand
Master Il. S. Hoagland. of Hutchin-
son, 1887: Deputy Grand Master, ]. P.
Cowen; Emporia, 1854; Grand War
den, ]. b. Wilson, Lawrence, 1901;
A. A. Dunmire. Wichita. 1,160; K. d.
Doyle, Wamego, 1858. and o. b. Young,
Ottawa, Gil; Grand Secretary, VIII
J. Russell, Topeka, 1921; Grand
Treasurer, H. C. Stevens. Topeka,
3,7S1; Grand Representative. w. F.
Jackson. Fort Scott, 3,7S5.
lola lodge No. 21, of lola, is the
largest lodge in Kansas with a mem
bership of 665. The other five largest
lodges are as follows: Lawrence lodge
No. 4, Lawrence, ga; Independence
lodge No. 60, Independence $40;
Queen City lodge No. 296, Wichita,
554; Reno lodge No. 90, Hutchinson,
$40, and Ell Dorado lodge No. IA,
FL Dorado. 512.
Topeka lodge No. 40 is the largest
subordinate lodge in Topeka with a
membership of 2SS. The membership
r.f 6n ofh iS oil
Shawnee lodge No. l. PCS; Oakland
lodge No. $40, IT'S, and Excelsior lodge
No. $40, 175.
The fifteen lodges making the larg-
est per cent of gain are: Santa Fe
lodge No. SCI Subiette, So per cent;
Traer lodge No. 674. Traer IS per
cent; Rexford lodge No. 529 Rexford
IS. per cent: Quinter lodge No. 62S,
Quinter. IS per cent: Allen lodge No.
452, Allen. 81 per cent; Lane lodge
No. 26s, Lane, IS per cent; Virgil
lodge. Virgil. So per cent: Eudora
lodge No. az. Eudora. 4S per cent;
Lindsborg lodge No. 546. Lindsborg
~ per cent; Horace lodge No. 317.
Horace. SO per cent; Nucleus lodge
No. 39S, McCracken. SO per cent;
Leon lodge No: 20s, Leon, 3s per cent;
Ellis lodge No. 146, Ellis. 35 per cent
and oxford lodge No. 1856, oxford,
"a per cent.
Honor Roll Lodges.
Lodges placed on the honor roll for
making a net gain of over thirty five
were as follows: Oswego lodge No. Sc,
Oswego. Sc; Western Star lodge No.
81, Augusta, 81; Eudora lodge No. ~.
Eudora. 4S; Santa Fe lodge No. sci,
Sublette, 46; Rescue lodge No. 39S,
Pittsburg. As; Lawrence lodge No. T.
Lawrence. Al; Grand Valley lodge No
1877. Florence, AZ: Quinter lodge No
623. Quinter, Il; Cherryvale lodge No.
L42. Cherryvale, 3S. and Paola lodge
Va. II, Paola, So.
J.. W. Fitzgerald and George A
Huron. of Topeka lodge No. 40. were
presented with fifty-year or honor4