The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12
HOLD BIC REUNION
Fourteenth to Nineteenth De-
grees Were Conferred Today.
Unity Chapter Knights of Rose
CrOix in Charge.
MANY KANSANS ATTENDING
Universally of FreemasOnry
Shown by Class of Candidates.
Feast of Maundy Thursday To
BE Held Tomorrow.
MANY KANSANS ATTENDING

The degrees from the fourteenth tc
the nineteenth were conferred today
by Unity Chapter Knights Rose Croi1
No 1 at the fifty-eighth sem1-annua
reunion OF the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite bodies of the Valley OF
Topeka. Orient OF Kansas
The nineteenth degree will be con-
ferred at the evening session follow
ing the opening OF the council of Ka-
dosh at 7-15 o'clock.
The universally of free masonry is
shown by the class of candidates. The
members are from all walks of life
Among the candidates are Bankers
nRer~. eSpressmen. civil engineers and
farmers Many Municipalities are rep
resented, including full blooded In
dian
f. II. Gades Directs Work.
Fred H. Gades directed the confer
ring Of the fifteenth degree. He was
assisted by Charles \ HARLAN. Ira b.
Hunt. Willis Coates. Frederick a.
Rehkopf.- Joe Nickel. Frank z.
I4eathernan. Frederick R. Miller.
Robert D. Blaine, Ferdinand Noiland
and Herman A. Jungk-
Frank L. Sturges was in charge OF
the comforting of the sixteenth degree.
He was assisted by Frederick A.
Rehkopf. Alfred a. Rodgers, Ernest
r. Ambrose, Flavius o. Burket, Mel
thai Guy L. Hursh. Kelsey H Petro,
Pardee A Howe. Thomas s Morrison.
Sadler J. Hodgins. Charles s Kistler.
Alfred Docking. Joe Nickel. Samuel
J. Whitmore. Homer w. Bomgardner.
Noah w. Null, Henry II. Welty. Grant
+. Kelsey. Herman A. Jungk. David
G. Bergundthal and Edwin F. Apitz.
Flavius o. Burket directed the con-
ferring Of the seventeenth degree. He
was assisted by Samuel Alexander,
Samuel L. Courtney. Frederick A
Rehkopf and David c. Bergundthal.
Moore i'm Charge of 18th.
The eighteenth degree was conferred
under the direction of Charles A
Moore. He was assisted by Fred c.
Holcombe, Charles A. HARLAN, and
George SorensOn.
The nineteenth degree conferred by
Willis Coates He Will be assisted by
William Horley. Hum phrey w. Jones.
James Nelson. Fred c. Fuller, Robert
b Hall. Hugh T. Fisher, Homer w
Bomgarduer. Mortimer Gragg. VIII
liam s Bergundthal, Louis ". Wilson,
and Ferdinand Voilaud.
The twentieth TO thirty first degrees
will be conferred Thursday Topeka
Conslstory No. will confer the thirty
first and thirty-second degrees. Fri
day
The obligatory feast Of AIaundy
Chapter Knights Rose Croix, No. 1,
at $50 o'clock. Thursday evening.
Music will be furnished by the Scot
tish Rite quartette- Toasts will be
stFen by the following persons John
Shaw Dawson, William Austin Tinker,
James Z Thomas. Frank s Crane,
owen J. Wood. and John Kinkle. a
vocal duet will given by Mrs Harlan
Ring and Mrs Nathan w McGrew.
Samuel Thomas Willard Will deliver
he faF FThrrwCdnNr n
The ceremony of extinguishing the
lights will De given by the officers of
the chapter, Thursday night. They
are: Alfred A. Rodgers Wise Master;
Early W. Poindexter, junior warden;
William Nelson. orator; William S.
BergundthaI almoner; James b.
Doncyson. secretary; William A
Tinker. acting treasurer; Louis r.
Vesper, expert; Frank S. Crane. as
sistant expert; Clement w. Seely
standard bearer; ], Frank farrell, cap
tain of the guard and William ]. Bond.
The ceremony of relighting the
lights will be observed Sunday morn
To Hold Election Friday.
The election OF officers of Unity
chapter No. l. will be held Friday
evening
Among the members of the Scottish
residing in other cities, who are in at
tendance are: Frank Leland. Whit
ing: y. r. Chitwood. Ozawkie; Alfred
Docking. Manhattan: J. B. Signor,
Atchison; Walter Larkin, Emporia; A.
3. Stewart. Hays; Frank F. Myers,
whiting: c. A. Lantz, Whiting; II. J.
Reverend, Florence; II. Allen, Will
liamsburg. William Harrison. whit
ing Ray H Erwin, Hoyt; Charles H
QUAINT. Kansas City; Bert NJ. Lauer,
CSa ue Cffv- g r HOlCOmbe From
tenac; Harry Ray. Guthrie. Okla. and
Ross W. Suggett. Tulsa, Okla.
Additional candidates are: Charles
Henry Booth. Topeka; William Carl
Topeka; Edward Frederick
Grote Topeka: Holmes Meade. To-
peka: Thomas Wesley Martin. Topeka;
Richard Edward Miller, Chanute;
Ralph Albert Obley, Topeka; George
T. swan. Topeka; Ralph Lewis Sinner.
Topeka; George W. SINNERS. Topeka;
Edgar Jacob Smalley, Topeka; John
Milton Tabor. Topeka; Perley S. Will
der, Topeka