The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-10-26
REVIVE OLD ORDER
New Court Of Independent Order
Of Foresters to Be Formed
Here Friday Evening
HISTORY INTERESTING STORY

/ A local Court to be known officially
as Court Southport 981, Independ-
ent Order of Foresters, fraterna1
order with permanent insurance fea-
lures and with headquarters in Tor
onto, Canada, will be installed here
by w. A. Cronch, Jr., D. S. c. r.
The Independent. Order of Forest
ers was organized in 1874, in the state
of New Jersey. In 1881 Oronhyatekha,
NJ. D., the great Indian of Canada, be-
came interested in the organization
and induced it to locate in Toronto
and in 1881 became Supreme Chief
Ranger of the organization, which
place he still occupies, and was re-
elected for Supreme Chief at the SUI
preme Court meeting held at Alta
City, N. j.. in July 1905, making his
twenty fifth year at the head of the
order-O ronhyatekha believing that
fraterna1 insurance could be perpetu-
ated provided the life expectancy and
mortality tables we're reduced to a
science. By basing the rates on
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thirty-one years of existance the order
possesses a membership of 225, 1916,
December 81, 1904, and cash surplus
in the treasury September |, 1905, Of
SO, 215, 488.Oo.
This order has always charged a
fixed rate for its insurance since 1881,
and has never deviated therefrom on
the old members. The death rate of
the organization after thirty-one
years experience shows TBS per cent
to the thousand insured, or 40 per cent
below normal. Taking these condi-
tons into consideration and with the
|recent disclosures made relative to
the man cement and operation of the
old line companies and the number Of
|fraternal orders that are read ipsting
their rates leads those vitality inter-
tested in fife insurance for protection
ito believe that this organization is on
a safe and sound basis and it is at this
time attracting very favorable atten-
ton throughout North America.
The independents Order Of Foresters
is also occupying very advanced
field in fraterna1ism, they having a
Foresters Orphans Home located at
Foresters Island, Deseronto, Canada,
at the headwaters of the st. Lawrence
river in the beautiful bay Of Qumta,
in which the children of deceased
members are cared for, taking them
from infancy to the age of sixteen and
caring for them until twenty-one years
of age, giving them every possible
opportunity in the common school
branches and permitting them to take
collegiate work along any lines of
which. they may show adaptability,
including mechanical, civil or cleo
trica1 engineering, law, medicine,
music, art, etc, without any cost to
the student whatever. The mainten-
ance of the Orphans Home comes
from a contribution of one cent
month for each member, paid out of
the local Court dues.
The officers Of the High Court of
Wisconsin are: DR.. Geo. A. Heldretb,
H. G. R., Fond du Lac; B. E. Parker,
]. P. Fl. G. r., Milwaukee; Zeno NJ.
Host, H. V. G. R., Madison; ]. c.
Proctor, H. Sect, Madison; A. J. Nell
son, H. Treasurer, Racine; DR.. C. w.
Rode ker, H. Physician, Wonewoc;
w. w. Gilman, H. Counselor, Boscobel;
High Auditors, Osten Mathisen,
Marinette; E. ]. Henning, Milwaukee.
The I. O. F. is cosmopolitan, it
knows no politics, no creed, and there
is nothing in its ritual or practices
incompatible with or offensive to
their religious or political convictions.
Deputy Supreme Chief Ranger w. A.
Cronch, Jr., Of Detroit, will remain
here some time looking after the in
terests of the order.