The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-02-12 00:00:00

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tituibbick, Dere Bleadrord, February CA.
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RINGWOOD.

InDtimmonn OSUMI Or UODbILLOWS, " LOYAL
" Loma Ens officers ad brottireo of tn
prosperous bream of lb. lianchealer Unity, navies
received their Wad anonal report, we fess amoutscl Diet
eves., member sr!l be gretitied is,th the sautes& d
p. ugrnm mad* dation the year. I though the large
sae of £2BO 15s. 101. has beeu spent for Wog pay,
fun _rale, and medic.' attendamee, the capital of tee
maim to been incesased IA 4;3,219 3.. 71J., being an
Moms of £3126a. 91. The number of m ashen have
Moo increased to 370. The yeas 1833 will he •
memorable one la he snags of tee society. la May
mat • largely attended mooting of the " /yid
Marmot "Lodge was bald to consider a proposal to
form a superannuation fund with the er-plas capital
of the society, • whams strongly roccalateaded by
actearise and others, and foe welsh several of the
offirese were &drown, bat after tioesidereble dia
eagles the majority were is favour of devoting toe
surplus capital to Maine:ease of sick parr, aelogly
apphutioa wa• nude to the Board of Directors and
permission granted to appropriate £944 lu inn •
purpose. The division has since bees made
Dinneen those members who joined the society 1
previous to 1881, and various sums, from :
clO.. 101, downwards, have been placed to the credit
of toe members moorage_ to the time of maintierahap,
• pay, amitritd, Ito. This will, we bur, be paid
to member. only in filmes, or at desalt to We emambeee
n.p,ssa,tativo, advantage (orbit very few eadeties
osu °warr on their inemben. We imesidee each
mwriber of the log. woud • _t diameetly by bring.-g
this matter prominently sr Ore wait friends, and thus
toe usefulness and rim., ell position of tom eulogy
will be sery largely One laied. Another rossolaim
at the same meeting was to leave the Antelope Inn
the place where the lodge has out Mace Its forme-
ti .a), arid hold its future meatless at the Lecture
Men, which will eurely have a beneficial effect. Probably ,
many of the active meridiem have, when soliciting
thsir friends t j In, heard the objection Meal of
meeting in an ion; this objection has now been
removed, and am this is the only society In the town,
meeting in • private room, parents and guardians will
to well to induce their younger friends to join it, and .
thus Menlo de the spirit of providence mtd fore-
thought. The pultion of this lodge is unquestionable,
its affairs have been recently submittal to an emineot
actuary, and found to paean. • considerable
earldom capital, some of the members having a bonus
of £2 19s. 01. addil to the sum previ steely assured.
Toil lodge ha• five funds, viz., Sick and Funeral Fond
Management Fund, Surplus Capital, Visitors' Fund,
and • Benevolent Fund. Tip. capital of the lodge is
as follows : -Tbe value of Sick and Funeral Fend,
£22780. 41 ;ro Mansgentent Fund, El lia 1t 1.;
lo Smola. Capital, 1,937 is. 4 ;an 1 the Benevolent
Fund. in 11.. 11 I. ; making a grand t stal of
1.3,218 3s. 711., £3,110 of which Is invested In free-
hold securiti-e, yielding five per omit Intermit. The
sum of £15.5 2.. 5 I. was received al interest during
1883. 'rot. lode. has ever elected a good staff of
officers, and when our readers know that P.P.G.M.
Bro. W. P. Stickiest.' is the worthy secretary, they
will not be surpeised at the itlooooll of the lodge.