The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-21
Scottish Rite Bodies to Meet in
Topeka Next Week.
Secretary Expects ESQ Candi-
dates to Take Degrees.
BIG BANQUET FRIDAY EVENING
Reception for New Thirty-Sec-
Ond Degree Members.
Clement Smith To Be General
Director of Work.

Registration will open Monday aft
ernoon and continue in the evening at
the Masonic temple for the fifty-ntnth
semi-annual reunion of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite bodies
of the Valley Of Topeka, Orient OF
Kansas, which will be held Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
One hundred petitions have been
received by James B. Doncyson, sec
rotary, and it is expected ESQ candf-
dates will receive the degrees
feature of the reunion program
will be a reception and banquet at
$50 o'clock Friday evening rendered
by the Consistory to members OF the
rite. who have attained to the thirty
second degree.
will be general director of the work.
and Fred = Fuller. thirty-third de-
gree, will servc as assistant director.
The associate directors of work will
be: Frank 8. Crane, thirty-third de-
gree: Chester B. Reed, tnirty-third de-
gree: Clement W. Seely, thirty-second
+ degree, X. c. c. H, and Ferdinand
Voiland. thirty second degree K. c.
c. H.
The stage assistants will be: Fred
erick W. Strives, Arthur L. Thomas.
Alpha E. Sutton and George w
will serve as class director, assisted
by George E. Seybold.
Begin Work Tuesday Morning.
Thomas G. Fitch, Of Wichita, SOW
ereign grand inspector general of
Kansas; James E. Thomas, thirty
third degree, deputy of the Valley OF
Topeka. will be the two most impor-
tant officers il. attendance
The comforting of the degrees will
begin at $50 Tuesday morning fol-
10 ling the opening of the Lodge OF
Perfection. Frank S. rane will be in
charge of the comforting of the fourth,
fifth and sixth degrees at tEis ses-
sion.
The fourth 1egree will be conferred
BY Samuel L. courtney. Edwin E
Brookens. Frank A. Moss, Ira E.
Henry, william c. Cartilage. Samuel
A exander. Dean S. Smith. Richard
Wilson Andrew Vester. Nicholas r
EAster. George E. Seybold and Noah
W Null.
The fifth degree will be conferred
by Frank Z. Parr. Harry w. Wright.
Frederick W. Rehkopf, John W
Newell. Homer A. Claussen, Arthur ]
Whitmore, Arthur w. Freeman, Noah
W. Null, Richard Wilson, Donald D.
LOngeQecker, Charles Swearingen,
Andrew Vester, Nicholas r. Foster,
Dean S. Smith, Willar A. Mattmiller,
George Z. SeyboId, George Sorenson
and James A. Bostic.
Walter l. Payne, Ira e. Henry and
i rank e LGdLuGTIldn Will COIlLeT Tic
sixth degree.
The seventh degree will be con-
ferred at the afternoon session con-
Nen.ng at l o'clock by members resid-
ing at Hoyt, Kan
The eighth, eleventh, twelfth and
thirteenth degrees Will be commune
Gated this session by DR.. Edmund J.
Kulp, pastor of the First Methodist
church. The ninth and tenth de-
grees will be communicated. The
fourteenth degree will be conferred
at 1880 O'Clock Tuesday evening.
The chapter of Rose Croix will be
opened at s;45 o'clock Wednesday
morning. The fifteenth and sixteenth
degrees will b conferred. The sew
enteenth nd eighteenth degrees will
be conferred at the afternoon meet
ing, which opens at 1:15 o'clock.
Friday Last Day.
The council of Kadosh will be
opened at 7:15 o'clock Wednesday
evening. The nineteenth degree win
be conferred.
The twentieth degree will be con-
ferred at o'clock Thursday morning.
Thursday afternoon, the twenty first