Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-18

competition with other societies who
Spend hundreds of dollars where we
are not able To spend one, in adyertis-
ing, and you cannot expect to reach
the people today by hiding behind a
Chinese wall even if surmounted by a
Golden Cross.
Every death claim promptly paid,
every addition TO the order, our regu-
lar and special meetings, our degree
work, excursions, field days. location
and success of deputies should find a
place regularly and persistentiy in the
daily and weekly press 50 that our
friends ana everybody else will know
that we are still in business at the old
stand. Why not put the per CAPITA
back to dollar and try it for q yearp
$500 expended in this manner will
bring in a hundred new members that
would otherwise never hear of the
Cross and the moral advantage Would
be immea surable.
Work has been done in 16 Com
manderies and visitations in many
more with the following results; l6
communicates have made a net in
crease of 2l3. 81 have neither gained or
lost and 43 have made a loss of l22
leaving net gain for the year of 81
besides y transferred from the Home
Circle, making total gain Of 113.
The whole number of applications
received from Maine during the wear
WIS 504. of which number 456 were
sent in by the deputies and As from
various communicates independently
showing conclusively that when the
interest is thoroughly aroused by
faithful deputies it results in personal
work among the members of these
out of the field.
Therc are fnC" communicates with
over 100 members, two between 15 and
100, Il between 20 ana %, Ii between
- and 30 ana g. with less than Is and
the small communicates are being
built up Or transferred as fast as nos
sible under existing circumstances.
There are 10 less communicates
than by the report Jan. /, 1904, bat we
nave over 200 more members than
then ana Il much healthier condition
existing all over the SAT-" ana there
is no reason why this cannot continue
until all Of them have become vitalized
or transferred.
In August last the merger of the
Home Circle with the Golden Cross
was finally adopted and went into
effect by which 1893 members Of that
society Were transferred into the
Golden Cross although its effect upon
our jurisdiction was not as moment
Gus a.. there We're but two circles
numbering eleven each who are
located here"
The annual report Of the Grand
Keeper Of Records. Horace Mitchell of
kitt@ry was as follows:
April /, 1906, there We're 81 Com
manderies in Maine. Number dis
solved during past year, j; present
number. 81. One Home Circle added.
Membership: April /. 1906, 1855; Jan. 1.
1907, 1902; April l, 1907. 1893;
number Of deaths in Maine for
the year ending Dec. 81, 1906, As;
amount of insurance carried by mem
hers III Maine. 81 800, 600; amount of as
scss!aents paid to the Supreme Com
mandery by the Subordinate Com
manderies of Maine for the year ending
Dec. 81, 1906. $50. 0O0; amount paid by
oullt.It tDIlllllalItFE on account OF
deaths in Maine during 1906. $4,000;
amount paid for relief and sick bene-
fits during 1906 $175.
Cash Eeceipts-Cash on hand April
l, 1866, $3u0.42; received for per capita
tax, $2.149..0; Subordinate Comman-
dcries for supplies, etc, $17.19; total
$2,4GG.S1.
"Assets-Amout due from Subordi-
nate Communicates, 1854; supplies
and merchandise on hand, $500; cash in
hands of Grand Treasurer, $419; total
$747.34.
"Liabilities-Due for printing, etc,
$40; due G. c. Bangs, S357.46."
This completes the first part Of the
report ana it is followed by a tabula-
ton Of the number Of communicates in
Maine, the membership of each and the
amounts Of insurance carried.
The reports were all accepted and
acted upon. Pursuant with the rec
concentrations of Commander Bangs