Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-18
TASK SOON BEGINS
Work Preliminary to Rerating
Woodmsn to be Taken Up
August (.
EXTRA HELP WILL BE EMPLOYED
Further Appointments Have Been
Made by Incoming Admin
istratiOn.

of rerating the entire membership in
accordance with the plan adopted at
the indianapolis head camp. To ac-
complish this it will be necessary to
increase the Office force temporarily.
1t is expected that the work will take
two or three months. Each mem
ber's new rating will go into effect
Jan. /, 1904.
All the appointments which have
been made so far by Head Consul \.
X. Talbot are in advance, as he does
not assume his official duties UNI
til Tuesday, when his predecessor Will
step out, but these appointments vii!
become formal then without further
procedure.
The New City Deputies.
The deputies for large cities, who
have become necessary through the
action of the head camp, Will be
known as supervising city deputies,
with the rank of state deputy head
consuls, but their salaries will not be
quite so large. Those appointed by
Head Consul Talbot are: John Il.
Newman, formerly state deputy for
Connecticut, To Milwaukee; John F.
Harris, formerly deputy for western
Pennsylvania, with headquarters at
Harrisburg, to North Chicago; o. f.
Avery, of Indiana, transferred to
| South Chicago; w. S. Johnston. for
mer district deputy at Kirksyillc, Mo.
transferred To st. Louis; \. NJ Fleisch-
auer. of Reed City, Mich, to Detroit;
NJ. Il. Putney, of York, Ncb., former
district deputy. transferred to Cleve-
land. Ohio; George T. Jacobs, of Will
merding. Pa, assigned to Pittsburg,
| Pa; William Il. Grant, former state
| deputy for North Dakota. transferred
| to Philadelphia, Pa, and =. G.. Sparks.
formerly a district deputy stationed
at Rock Island and later state deputy
for West Virginia, transferred to Gin
cinnati.
State Deputies Appointed.
In the states of Maine. Vermont
eastern New York. western New York
eastern Pennsylvania. Ohio. Minncso-
ia, South Dakota, Iowa. Missouri.
Kansas. Oklahoma Territory. Mon
tana, Washington and Oregon the dep
uties were reappointed. T. w. Bar
clay was reappointed for Idaho and
Utah and Nevada added 10 his juris-
diction, former deputy Linmorc
| i~itANt- VI I tan. IttlIiii8- w q. II. Nv v
/ cr, of Fthian, H., is appointed for
Il Illinois outside of Chicago. H. s. Oil
YER, of Lisbon. y. D.. is the successor
of W. X. Grant in North Dakota. the
latter going to Philadelphia. ID. l.
II Thornton. California state deputy. is
transferred to Indian Territory. and
is succeeded in California by j. O.
1 Davis, of Santa Cruz. NJ. NJ Pierce
of Providence, Il. L.. is appointed for
Il the states of Rhode Island and Con-
necticut, the territory of 4. W. New
man, who goes to Milwaukee. being
added to his jurisdiction. Albert
Schurr. of Newark, y. j.. is appoint
ed state deputy for New Jersey, Del
aware and eastern Maryland, j. T..
Gardner, of Maryland, and +. p.
Il Young. of New Jersey. retiring. G.. II.
Russell, a former Michigan man, is
/ given the District of Columbia and
western Maryland. J. NJ. Connolly, of
Parkersburg, succeeds s. G. Sparks
in western Pennsylvania.
Indiana Man for Kentucky.
4 Kentucky. one of the newly added
states. is given to an Indiana man.
i II. c. GambilI, of Duff. H. NJ. Wye
II hOll. OF -NtNtdSIlt. Is U1iue deputy
consul for Pennsylvania outside of
/ Pittsburg. John d. NoIz. of Indian
/ apolis succeeds o. +. Avery as state
deputy for Indiana. \. J. Billiard, of
l st. Johns, Mich, succeeds {. J. Byrns,
for Michigan. ID. 1. Thornton goes
from California to Indian Territory,
where he will succeed II. \. Hosey.
Contract Let.
II As was decided at the head camp,
Il the Modern Woodman, the official or
Il gan of the society will be published
in different form during the next two
years, patterned somewhat after the
| Youths Companion. In letting the
new contract for its publication this
fact was an important one and there
were several new bidders. The con
Il tract has been closed, however, with
the Nebraska State Journal company,
of Lincoln, which has been doing the
work
III Another change that was decided
upon is in the form of bonding the
camp clerks. In the past it has been
the practice to allow the clerks to
furnish their own bond. but with 22.-
600 clerks to look after it was i'm
the bonds and many of them were
worthless. Therefore it was decided
to place the matter i'm the hands of
a bonding company, the society stand
ing the cost. The National Surety
company was the successful bidder
for the risk for the next two years.
New Beneficiary Committee.
The directors of the Royal Neigh
bors completed their work yesterday
afternoon and adjourned. The most
important matter attended to was the
appointment of a new beneficiary
committee. the new members being
f. a. Enright, of Kansas City; j. \,
Lombard, of Grand Rapids, Mich, and
b. ID. Smith, of Mankato, Mimi, sue
ceeding Maj c. w. Halves and J. w
White, of this city, and j. G. Johnson
of Peabody, Kans. se se1