CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-05-29
The
Modern Woodmen
OF
America
By L S. Bailey.
Venerable Consul Camp No. 1890

can pay out no money except on an
order singed by at least three members
of the board of directors, the head
consul and the head clerk.
Modern Woodmen of America paws
all its expenses of management out of
per capita tax of 81 per year.
From the fund thus collected the
management saved enough in the year
1895 to erect a magnificent home office
building costing sl5O,OO0 at Rock
Island, Illinois. Ground has been
purchased for an addition to this
building, almost equaling the main
structure, which will be erected in
the same manner, without any special
tax
While the benefit Tor insurance)
feature of the NJ. W. A is commend
able, yet the fraternal feature, the
applied doctine of the Savior, that
all men are brothers, is in reality the
basal stone of the society's existence.
The world needs more genuine fra
ternity. There is power of comfort
in tender sympathy extended in time
of distress { The kindly visit and
solicitude of a neighbor for one laying
on bed of sickness is appreciated.
The aid freely extended to our families
when we are so unfortunate as not to
be able to help them ourselves, is
truly Christian like. None of us are
so strong or so fortunately situated
that there may come no dark hour,
when we cry for assistance and SYM
pathy. Ii is comforting TO know that
in such an hour we need not appeal
for charity, but may command the
kindly ministrations of our fraternal
brothers - our neighbors of the
Modern Woodmen ofAmerica. They
solemnly obligate themselves to ex-
tend such aid, and if you are mem-
in need. II is a grand thing to be one
of a fraternity of over zoo, 900 neigh
bors, bound together as with bands
of steel, for mutual benefit and pro-
lection
You should beco,ne a member in
the NJ. W. A. because YOU protect
your family at the lowest possible
cost. You are not called upon to pay
assessments into an accumulated fund,
nor assessments for accident. You
simply secure, at cost, for the benefit
of your family, to be paid promptly
after your death, the sum of your
benefit certificate, in the largest fra
ternal benefit society in America A
society that has never defaulted on a
single legitimate obligation and is to-
day regarded As one of the strongest
institutions in the land, both numeri-
cslly and financially.
If You are in good physical con-
dition and of good habits, your whole
duty TO your wife and your little ones
is not done until you have done all
You can for them, until you have
guaranteed them from want after YOUR
death.
But while Modern in all things
else in their fraternal relations with
their fellow neighbors, the members
of the Modern Woodmen of America
are guided by the teachings of the
sermon that has reverberrated in in
creasing volume down the ages from
Calvary's Mount, the spirit of which
is embodied in these words: The
full and complete Brotherhood of
man.
The officers of the camp here are:
L. 5. Bailey, Nenderable Consul.
W. Q. Huntoon, Worthy. Advisor.
Q. L. johnson, Banke-
W. ]. Maddox. Escort.
Il. W. Mattoon. Clerk.
z. L. Flesher, watchman.
]. E. Doty, Sentry.
\. l.. Taylor, A. L. Earl, and w. f.
Curry. Managers
Pitt A. Wade and L. +. MeDouysl
and c. II. Wilkinson. Physicians.
The Royal NeighSors of America is
the women's auxiliary of the M.w.A.
and is great strength to the woodmen.
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