The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-10
CAMP FIRE BURNS
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD MEET
AT MAGUIRE'S.
CONSUL FALKENBURG SPEAKS
Addresses Large Audience on the Order
He Represents and A. B. Keith
Makes Some Remarks.

With camp fire burning in front of
the building people crowded into Ma
CURES opera house last evening to at
tend the rally given in honor of Head
Consul F. A. Falkenburg of the Wood
men Of the World.
The members of the Anaconda lodge
of the organization came over on a spe-
cial train. The stage was lastly dec
GRATED and ]. w. Jaquette, consul COM
mander of camp No. 1853, presided at the
meeting
The program was opened by the or
chestra, and then followed song by the
Woodmen. There was other music,
which was we'll received.
A. b. Keith was introduced by the
chairman, and in a brief talk described
the beautiful fraternal features of the
order. Miss Hannah rendered violin
solo, and was warmly encored.
Speaks en- the Order.
Mr.. Falkenburg was introduced by the
chairman, and for an hour and half
spoke eloquently on the order of which
| he is the head consul. He said in part:
when the order had 10000 members
! T felt that was a good deal of a fellow,
was pretty sharp, really shreWd. but
! now when there are 5000 campfires burn
! ing on this continent, and a quarter of
million of men marching under the ban
| ner of Woodcraft, which with their FAM
| flies represent over million people
under the protection Of this grand hu-
manitarian ORDER I feel that some
higher power has been guiding the des-
| TIMES of this great organization.
| Sovereign Consul Roote and myself
have paid out more than $1O,OO0,O0O to
widows and orphans during the past 10
| years. and during that time there have
| only been two lawsuits and no COM
| promises
"Not even the exchange has been hello
| out of a single widow or orphans draft.
They had to have it, every cent.
] '"rhose are some of the reasons why
the order of the Woodmen Of the World
has become so near and dear to the
hearts of the masses.
10000 Members.
"At the age of II years no other order
has had over 10000 members; this order
went it 100000 better
| eff this order has three times the
| membership at the 11-yt\r age, pray
where will she rank when she is ~
| years old?
1--WE have been climbing the height
| in the western section Of this country,
| climbing numerically.
! when Mr. RoOte and / organized the
| order in Omaha in 1890, and a few weeks
| later I organized the Pacific jurisdiction
| in Denver, some of my friends asked me
| if. I thought the organization was safe;
that If they were to join and later die,
| If their beneficiary would get the insur-
| ance I answered I felt confident that
| they would, although when | took out
my certificate, which was the first one
| issued, and paid my $3.50 advance as
sessment, if I should have then died it
did not look as though my wife would
have received over the $3.50 which
had just paid in.
But today, neighbors and friends, l
| can truthfully say that If you are a
member of our order and in good stand
ing, if you die I feel pretty sure your
widow and orphans would get every
cent your policy calls for.
Many in Good Standing.
| cat the first meeting of the head
camp of the Pacific jurisdiction,
promised that we should have 5000 mem
bers in the jurisdiction at the next BIZ
ennial meeting to be held at Portland in
1894. When the meeting did occurs there
were $500 members in good standing.
AT that meeting | promised we
: should have membership OF 2O,OOO at
the next biennial meeting.
when we met at your capital city,
the city of Helena, in 1896, the report
showed 21,555 members on the books in
Il good standing.
4 IT then made the statement that whe~.
=. we should next meet again there would
/ be 10000 Woodmen to answer to the
i, rollcall.
AT the San Francisco meeting in
1890 the books showed 35,S60.'