Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-09-25
MEMBERS To DECIDE.
Will Vote by Camps
Whether Society Shall Have
Emergency Fund.
ACTION BY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Verdict to Be Recorded at First
Meeting in December
Other News.

At the meeting of the Modern Wood
| men executive council last week q
resolution was adopted ordering q
vote of the mem bership of the society
next Decem Der on the question of
changing from the present plan and
establishing a reserve or emergency
fund.- This action was taken in obedi-
euee to the resolution adopted at the
Kansas City head camp meeting, read
ing as follows:
Resolved, That there be submitted
to the mem bership of this society. in
like manner as four years ago, the
question as to whether this society
shall adopt at its next head camp
some plan of reserve or emergency
fund, and that the head clerk shall
report at that time the action of the
mem bership on said proposition.
The direction of the foregoing reso-
luton. 50 far as the executive council
is concerned, has been compiled with
by ordering a vote of the member
ship in Decem Der. The resolution
adopted by the executive council
reads:
Resolved, That the executive coun-
ell at this meeting request that the
mem bership of the Modern Woodmeu
of America. at the first meeting of the
several local camps in the month of
December. 1900, take vote upon the
said proposition submitted by the
head camp. and that the clerks of the
local camps report, upon blanks to be
provided by the head clerk, the result
of said vote; and at said local camp
meetings the question shall be as fol-
lows: Shall the St. Paul head camp,
to be held in June. 1901, adopt some
plan of emergency or reserve fund
And the vote shall be Yes or No -
1t will be up to the mem bership.
therefore, next Decem Der, to decide
this very important question. and
their decision will in all proba bility be
accepted as a positive instruction by
the St. Paul head camp meeting.
Growth of Society.
The mem bership statemen for the
month ending Aug. 81 has been is
sued. 1t shows a net gain in benefit
mem bers for the month of August of
7,199. carrying 81, 592, 600 insurance. 1
The total benefit mem bership in abso-
luIC SObO as 1OO' 6-c, C1I-
ryipg $9I7, 57S, 900 insurance. The
total social mem bership was 81, $50 |
Total mum Der OF local camps was = |
COS. Counting the 5000 certificates
upon which adoptious |
had not been reported, and the grand |
total mem bership of the society at the
beginning of the present month was
J4S, 5S1.
At the last meeting of the board of
directors 1S1 death claims were al
owed aggregating 1922, $50. Among
he mum Der were % accident claim -
IN unusually large number. Thirty
six deaths resulted from constitution
Il diseases; 35 from zymotic or germ
diseases; 10 from circulatory trou-
oles; 1 from genito-urinary troubles;
from respiratory causes; 81 from di-
FESTIVE trout les; 8 from nervous dis
asses, and the balance were from var
Gus causes, including the 20 acct
Tents. Among the accidental deaths
we're six from being struck by light
ling; two from sunstroke, and four
rom railroad accidents. II
General fund bills to the mum Der of ,
16, aggregating SAP, 524.46 were al
owed by the directors. The three
lrgest items were field work, $l4,-
81; publishing Modern Woodman, 6
6, 4O3.94. and clerk hire in head S
flee. SIS, 1880. t