Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-16
Modern woodm.n of America.


Omaha and Council Bluffs camps composing
the transmississippi conference committee
held a meeting on last Wednesday evening
The committee has had under consideration
the matter of arranging for the reception
and enterta nment of the Nebraska and west.
ern Iowa delegates to the next head camp
of the order. The delegates will assemble
in Omaha on Saturday evening, May %, and
reception will be rendered them at the
Commercial club rooms. Refreshments will
be served, and the visitors will be entertained
by fraternal speeches and good music. On
Sunday morning the delegates will attend
in body and listen to sermon by Rev. S.
Wright Butler at the St. Mary's Avenue Con-
gregatiOnal church. On Sunday afternoon
they will be given a trolley ride about the
city, particularly to the grounds of the Trans
mississippi Exposition. They will leave at
) O'Clock in the afternoon for Dubuque, 60
ing by way of Galesburg, where they will be
Joined by the Missouri and Kansas delegates
going thence to Rock Island where a short
stop will be made. going thence to Fulton,
H., where they will stop for about an hour.
During the stay at Fulton the Missouri, Kan
sas and Nebraska delegates will be shown
through the Office of the head clerk Here
the delegates may see how the books and
| records of the order are kept and ascertain
how the business is conducted After leav-
| ing Fulton the delegates will go direct to
| Dubuque arriving about noon Monday.
The session Of the head camp will open
| Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock and will likely
continue in session about four days. There
| will be in attendance twenty-one head Off
GERS 2S1 delegates and nine members Of
| standing committees. The local Woodmen o.
| Dubuque are making extensive preparations
| for the reception and entertainment of tn,
head camp. On Thursday they will have tn,
| big day, on which they will have a grant
| Modern Woodmen picnic.
| Thn tpon ct,,icc ci. mi pnnfa mil
| tee has been considering the advisability o.
| having Modern Woodmen headquarters OF
| the exposition grounds. The committee has
had plans for building prepared and there
| will be representatives to present the matter
to the head camp for consideration. Severa
of the head officers and many Of the dele
gates to the next head camp have expressed
themselves az being in favor of having head
quarters established on the exposition
grounds. The headquarters will be place
where the Modern Woodmen may meet, be
como acquainted and get information as t
all matters concerning the exposition.
When the head camp of the Modern Wood
men met in Madison, Wis, in June 1895,
had q membership of 140 000 During tn
past two years the order has had marvelou
growth and when the head camp meets Il
| Dubuque June l the membership will be, Il
round numbers, 240, 900, showing an increas
of 100000 This is far ahead of the increas
of any other fraternal order during the sam
period,
The law committee for the next head cam
consists OF Charles G. Laybourn OF Mime
apolis, Mimi, Il. e. Murphy Of Leavenwortl
Kan, and j. W. Houder Of this city. 1t ha
| completed it's report and it Is now bein
printed and will be distributed previous t
the session. The committee recommend
several changes Of considerable importanc,
Some of the changes recommended are: Ii
crease of territory. bonding Of the officers
indemnity and guaranty companies, II
creosing the number of prohibited occupa
tions, changing the law regarding discipline
5 changing the arrangement of the laws, ha,
( ing the section numbering run consecutivel
4 through the laws and changing the phra.
eology of many of the present laws.