The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-03-14
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD
STATE CONVENTION IN SESSION
AT BATON ROUGE.
e.
An Interesting Record of the Progress
of This Order-Review of the
Last Several Meetings.

Woodmen of the World, will be he'll
at Baton Rouge, La, on Tuesday
March Id, 1905, at which officers for th'
new head camp will be elected and bus
mess Of much importance transacte1 j
says the Picayune.
The convention will be called to orde1
by Harry J. Root, son of Sovereign
Commander Root, who comes direct
from headquarters in Omaha, and will
preside until the corps of officers are
elected to manage the affairs of the ju-
risdiction
The Woodmen of the World is strict
ly of representative form of govern
ment. 1t is made up of Camps, Head
Camps and Sovereign Camp. On JAN
uary I, 1905, there were $40 camps, If
head camps, and only one sovereign
camp. The local camps elect delegates,
according to their membership, to the
head camp, which meets once in two
years, and it elects delegates to the SOW
ereign camp, which also holds biannual
sessions. The head camp is composed
of delegates from the camps of single
State Or group of States On the sec
ond Tuesday of February, 1897, the rep
resentatives from the camps in Arkan-
sas, Louisiana and Mississippi met at
Vlcksburg. Miss, to organize Head
Camp F. There were about seventy
delegates present. The membership of
these States at the time were as follows:
Arkansas 1888, Louisiana and Missis-
sippi 4,23I, total of 6,6o6. As evidence
how the order has grown in these States
in the past eight years, the present mem
bership in these States are as follows:
Arkansas 1887, Louisiana o,o42 Mis-
sippi 1910, with a total of 3o,I3I.
At the Vioksburg meeting H. F. Sim
rail- of Vicksburg was elected Head Con-
sui. Little Rock was selected as the
next place of meeting There were very
few delegates from Louisiana in this
meeting The one who attracted most
attention and quickly won for himself
The good will Of all was J. F. Ariail of
Alexandria, La. He was elected to rep
resent Louisiana in the Sovereign
Camp, which met at St. Louis the fol-
loving month. The session that was
held in Loittle Rock, February, 1899,
was largel yattended It was presided
oyer BY Head Consul H. F. Simrall.
At the Little Rock convention there
we're ffty-fve delegates from Louisiana,
he city Of New Orleans sending only
three, A. E. Lewis of Hickory Camp
No. e. J G. Norton Of Tulane %, and
{. Sidney Weber of Live Oak 50.
The New Orleans delegates succeeded
n getting the next head camp conven-
ion, for the Crescent City, where be-
.Ween $50 and 900 delegates assembled
from the various States represented in
he jurisdiction.
Sovereign De E. Bradshaw, promi-
lent attorney of Little Rock, Ark, was
elected Head Consul, and T. Sidney
Weber was elected on the Board of |
Head Managers, and later elected its
chairman ]. F. Ariail was reelected
delegate to the Sovereign Camp without
Before the meeting Of the
Sovereign Camp, two months later,
loWever. Mr.. Ariail died from cold con-
.racted at the Little Rock meeting, and
Sovereign Levy Of Plaquemine, his al |
ernate, attended the meeting of the
Sovereign Camp, held at Memphis.
In February, 1901, two years later,
he Heap Camp met at New Orleans.
The convention was largely attended, |
'one GOO delegates being ID attendance.
Much important business was trans
lcted and the delegates were rayolly en-
ertained by the local sovereigns The
was complete success in
very sense OF the word.
There were five aspirants for the po-
;ition Of Head Consul and T. Sidney
Weber was elected on the first ballot BY
n overwhelming majority.
One year later, Mississippi, having ac-
luired sufficient number of Woodmen
q establish head camp Of its own, was
et aside as Jurisdiction NJ, which met
t Meridian. Miss, in March. 1909. The
elected as Head Consul Coil
mel ] E. Watts Of Meridian.
Head Camp +, comprising the States
f Louisiana and Arkansas, met at Hot
,prings, Ark, and was largely attended,
y delegates from both states. Sovereign
Sidney Weber, elected Head Consult
| the New Orleans convention, presid-
q. An elaborate and comprehensive
eport was submitted 81 Head Consul
Neber. in which he sta1ed. that he st1c-
eesed 1t the meeting Of the Sovereign
amp held at Colunbus Ohio. ID 1901,
! haxissg the araotnt u tie ertifcates
kl.;s rieied terrliitoxy
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