Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-19
Hawkeye Commercial Mems As
ISOLATION Launched at Meet
ing Held Here
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Charter Will be Applied for and As
ISOLATION Will Incorporate Just as
Soon as Necessary Legal Stops Can
be neutrality-suspicious. for 458
Charter Members Received.

With the applications Of 45S for char
ter membership the first definite step
toward the formation of the Hawkeye
Commercial Mems Association was
taken at a meeting of travelling men
held in the council chamber Saturday
afternoon. Officers and board of dl-
rectors We're elected at that meeting, a
charter from the state will be applied
for, and the association will be incor-
porated just as soon as the necessary
legal procedure can be complied with.
The headquarters of the company will
be in this city. The officers elected
were:
President-A. G. Johnson, MARSHALL
town.
Vice President-V. A. Brundage,
Grinnell.
Secretary and Treasurer-W. j. Van
Derveer, Marshalltown.
Direetors-For five years. A. A. An
derson, Dubuque; f. w. Archer, Mar
mems, Cedar Rapids; c. Fl. Cleaver,
.huISIletlltoWiI, lol LII t ScdIS, w. IL.
Darner, Des Moines; l. Il. Forbes,
Marshaltown; for two years, Charles
H. Bingham, Waterloo; A. II. Simon.
Marshalltown; for one year, A. S. Tif-
fanny, Davenport; E. T.. Downing, Mar
shalltown.
Associate Vice Presidents-E. NJ.
Wentworth, State Center, George NJ.
Parker, Sac City; Andrew Ruchte,
Dubuque; John w. Kizer, Waterloo;
]. e. Rowley. Sioux City; G. c. Roper,
TT. Dodge; John Miner, Carroll: II. c.
Stems, Mason City; George Carr, Des
Moines; G. r. Wilson, Des Moines;
Fred Able, Boone; and S. M. Robert
son, Oskaloosa.
Directors Frame Constitution.
Following the meeting in the council
chamber the board of directors met to
prepare constitution and bylaws
which will be submitted to meeting
of the members to be held here on
Saturday. March 3. E. w. Archer was
made chairman of the board. Under
the supervision of the company's at
torney articles of corporation are being
prepared and formal applications OF
members are being secured. AS soon
Officers state charter will be applied
for. This will probably be done i'm
mediately after the meeting Of March
g.
BY the provision Of the constitution
and bylaws, the terms of the officers
are to be three years in length, altho
the terms of the first officers will be
for five years. For the first two of
these five years, however, the officers
are to receive no salaries. A lease has
been signed for quarters in the First
National Bank building, and temper
arily, until the business of the COM
pany warrants Mr.. VanDerveer devot-
ing his entire time TO it, Mr.. I. L. Cady
will have charge Of the office. Another
provision of the constitution is that
the salary of the secretary shall never
exceed $500 year.
Features Of the Insurance.
The company is to be purely mu-
tual accident association, with fun
eral benefit for natural deaths. 1t pro-
yides for $25 weekly indemnity, $4,000
in case of accidental death; $4,000 for
loss Of both hands of both feet; $4,000
for loss of both eyes, $4,000 for loss
of one hand and one foot, $3.50 for
loss Of one hand, one foot or one eye,
and 5000 funeral benefit in case of
death by natural causes.
Starting With Rush.
The new insurance venture started
with a rush after the Saturday after
noon meeting land by night formal APP
plictions were prepared and were being
mailed broadcast to applicants. Only
about one-fourth of the applicants for
membership are from this city, and at
the meeting Saturday 1t was voted to
allow A. A. Anderson, Of Myers Cox
& Co., of Dubuque, because he deliver
ed the applications Of sixty Dubuque
men, to have the honor Of having is
sued to him policy No. l. 1t is the
claim of those who are interested that
the company will have a membership
of 1000 before sixty days have expired.