Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-06-30
Friday evening; work expected
Knights should attend the command,
large numbers.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.

Some excellent reasons can be given
persons desiring to leave gift n q ]
wives and dependents after death sb..I
join the Order of Knights of Homo,
First-Because every member ,,:.
with the Order procures protection =.
surance at actual cost by contribuf,.
80 much as is needed to pay death bs s % i
thereby obtaining insurance at aetna
Our experience in the Order has A..
strated that we furnish protection A. 1'
of one-fOurth of the amount reonir.s
regular insurance company for our -.
fund is in the pocket of each memb..
Second-The possibility of perpetT.s
institutions like the Knights of bo-.
now conceded by all; even old linz
panies are forced to admit it. Were y. w
cease admitting new members. tbs -
would come when the last survive, VI W
receive no benefit, but in reguls, ~
snce companies you would fars M b- -,
By constantly recruiting orr menbs. et's'
we maintain an average age, and 49,
bound to exist as long as We ob,si.' AZ
members. Our order has reached
mum age, as is evidenced by the INIT.
ity of our death rate foI several yesrs y,
Societies similar to ours have evists5
England for centuries snd are STRONGER 4
day than they we're hundred wears o.
While regular insurance companies and 4
sessment associations have collapsed -
failed by the score, not similar frsts,.
society, patterned after our plan and I,
aged as is ours, has ever gone out Of h
ence. These are etubborn facts and \,
not be refuted.
Third-It is a noble order both h. Pr
and poor, and the well-to-do Should N
the order to enable then !,
the least cost to do greai gool
Besides securing for their family a
certain provision paid Immediately s0,,
death, and not depending upon or wsit,,
a settlement of your estate, you conri
ute TO a benevOlence, the like Of whI
has no equal. Every time any membe
the Knights of Honor contributes one C.,
and One-third, you place two tboua,
dollars in the hands Of a widow, enabh
her to raise her helpless children 81
bring them up without charity, into go
men and women. And no man, deper
ing upon his daily labor, should hesit
to join the order. Besides helping othe
you provide for your own family. EY
if you are required to pay two dollar
month for two assessments, you would ha
to be a member eighty-tbree years a
four months to pay in as much as "
family will receive on your death. A Fl
ing OF fifty cents a week will make yC
family comfortable when you are gone.
you Fay you cannot afford the expen
how will your family get along if you
Suddenly taken away? Therefore let th
who desire to leave something for th
loved ones, delay no longer, but act
once, and it will prove an act your deBs
dents will never regret. T.
Alpha Lodge Notes.
At the regular meeting of the Lotvr
Wednesday evening last there was a % "a.
did attendance of the brethren, and tha
was an extra amount of smiling all aroun.
for all seemed to be in happy mood, o
casioned somewhat by the efficient Wol
of the brethren who had been the meal
of bringing in four new applications
that meeting. LIST the good work 10 O
brethren, until all our friends have be,
induced to make provision for the prote
ton of their families, that when they a
called to their eternal b me. we may ha
the pleasure of carrying TO their wido
and orphans the benefit they so wise
provided for them.
How nre yoG fellows" mas become
by-word among the regular members vi
attend the Lodge, but none can speak
out with such frsternal vim as our taha
So say we all.