The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-10-09
HIGH OFFICERS
OF MACCABEES
Mrs. Barnes and Dr. Holden Pay
Visit TO Local Hives oe the
Ladies' Of the SEaccabees.
y TOLD OF SUCCESS
OF This Great and Rapidly Growing
or-der, and Noted Visitors Z
Leave For FairmOnt.

Mrs. Frances e. Burns, Great
Commander for the Ladies OF the
Modern Maccabees, of st. Louis,
Mich, and DR.. Isabella Holden,
Great Medical Examiner. of Port
Huron, Mich, were guests OF the To-
cal Hive of Clarksburg today. The
ladies addressed a public meeting
this afternoon and left on the late
afternoon trolley for Fairmont,
where they win hold another meet
ing this evening. Mrs. Burns has
been Great Commander for the
Ladies of the Modern Maccabees for
eleven years, and is most enthus-
iastic in the work accomplished by
this pioneer order to give insurance
exclusively 10 women. Tue order
is of national origin and was organ
lied 81 years ago at Muskingum.
Mich. an auxiliary of the knights
of the Modern Maccabees. Today 1t
ranks among the first organizations
of women in the world. It has a
membership OF 5000 with over
$60,000,0o0 in outstanding certif-
Gates. Mrs. Burns proudly boasts
of the fact that the order has never
violated one provision of its contract
and is today paying in full the death,
disability and old age benefits prom
ised to the early members of the or
der. Over thre and one-half mil
lion dollars death benefits have been
disbursed by the ladies in the past
21 years, and nearly two hundred
thousand dollars in disability bene-
fits.
The order works in 20 states OF
the Union and has It's headquarters
in Port Huron. Mich, where it oc-
cupies the second floor of the beau-
.tifu1 s15O,00o Temple which was
erected by the knights of the Mod
ern Maccabees year ago.
DR.. Holden has the proud distinc-
ton of passing upon $4,000 appli-
cations in the last year and of los
ing but three of the newly approved
applicants by death during that time,
a record that 1t is believed has never
been equalled by any supreme med
ical examiner. The ladies have
been in attendance at the meeting
of the National Council of Women,
of which Mrs. Burns is the record
ing secretary, which has been hold
ing its meeting for the past week in
the Auditorium building, Exposition
Grounds, jamestown. This great
national council is composed of twen-
ty of the national organizations of
women such as the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Association, The
Suffrage Association, The Florence
Crittendon Mission, National Peace
Society, National Woman's Centen-
airy Association, Christian League
for the Promotion of Social Purity,
Ladies of Modern Maecabees, Pyth-
Ian Sisters, the National Association
of Colored Women, the woodmen's
Circle, the Women of woodcraft,
Ladies of the Maccabees of the
World, Young Ladies National NUT
ual Improvement Association, and
many others. Eleven local councils
- ~ 0ASO oAA1AdlGuy WHICH are the
councils of San Francisco. Indian
apolis, Cleveland, Detroit, Provi-
dence, R. l., Portland. Me-, Union
City Ind. Minneapolis MINI, North
Family of Shakers, Mt. Lebanon, N.
Y, and Quincy, III. The national
council is one of the councils OF
twenty-four countries which hold
their meetings quennially, and whose
next meeting will be held at Toronto
in June OF, 1909. This is the great
est worlds meeting of women which
held their last meeting at Berlin and
which was greeted with such inn
pressment by the Kaiser and tho
Empress. The American women are
looking forward with the greatest
interest to the great meeting com
ing to American shores.
Mrs Burns and DR.. Holden will
hold meetings at Warrington and
other parts OF the State before Ieav-S
ing for Michigan.