The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-03-08
HEAD CAMP u OF ". 0. ".
TO MEET HERE TUESDAY
Second DAnnud Meeting Of WOOdmen Of World To Meet Court
House WOOdmen Circle The Ladies' Auxiliary Will Also Meet


Head Camp of the order of the Wood
men of the World of the State of
Kentucky, will convene in this city
Tuesday morning at the court house
at 10 o'clock.
The Woodmen Circle, which is the
ladies' auxiliary OF the order, will
hold their annual meeting here at the
same time and each incoming train
Monday to the city. has. borne dele
gates from all parts of the State,
and by the time the meeting is called
to order Tuesday morning, there will
be fully 800 delegates in attendance.
The court house has been selected
as the place for holding the meetings
and the Odd Fellows hall will be used
as the meeting place for the ladies'
auxiliary.
The meeting will be called to order
promptly at 10 o'clock by Col. j. Ii.
Brewer, of Louisville Head Consul of
the State. Following will come the
roll call of officers and he invocation
by Rev. c. f. Grafton Of the Wash
ington Street Presbyterian church
and the address of welcome by Prof.
r. M. Shipp, Superintendent of the
Public Schools and the response to
the address of welcome by Hon. Ran
ey T. Wells, of MURRAY, Kentucky.
The music for the opening ceremonies
will be furnished by the children OF
the city schools. The meeting will be
open and the public is extended a
cordial invitation to attend.
After the opening exercises the va
rious committees will be appointed.
and the meeting will then adjourn
until , o'clock in the afternoon when
the regular routine of business viii
be taken up.
The crack w. 0. w. degree team
of the State, of Louisville, will arrive
Tuesday at noon for the purpose of
exemplifying the amplifed protective
degree which will take place in the
court house at s o'clock in the eve
ming. All the delegates and members
will be in attendance at this import
ant degree meeting.
The election of Head Camp officers
will be held at 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning and the public installation
will take place at 8 O'Clock in the
evening at which the public is cord
tally invited to be present. County
School Superintendent Tanner, who
is a member of the Committee on Res
oIutions and chairman of the Com
mitee on Arrangements says that ev-
erything is in readiness for the meet
ing and it promises to be one of the
most ENJOYABLE meetings that has
ever been held in the State.
A few facts regarding the growth
and wealth of the order Of the Wood
men of the World, will not be sfount
to be uninteresting, in connection
with this story.
A wonderful increase in the mem
bership Of the order in the State
since the last meeting Of the Head
Camp, which was held in Paducah in
March, 1907, has been noted, there
being $40 members being introduce,
-;,oo tho tt;,,,o ,,J ,,,oro tbon % 00(
since the order was first introduced
in the State in 1897.
The Sovereign Camp jurisdiction
has membership Of over 100000
with an emergency fund of nine mil
hon of dollars invested IN govern
ment, school and municipal bonds
with an earning capacitv of $405, 00(
annually. II is said that there is nc
other order in America that has made
the progress in the past nineteen
years that the Woodmen have.
The Woodmen Circle, the ladie.
auxiliary of the order, has . mem
bership of over 10000 and a 81 200
900 emergency fund. 1T, like the
Woodmen Of the World, ereets a mon
ument at the head of the grave OF
each of its deceased members in ad-
dition to paying all other claims. |
is the only ladies' order in the worlC
that allows none of their members t.
rest IN an unmarked grave.
Mrs. Emma b. Manchester, of ON.
aha, Neb., the matchless leader o.
ladies fraternities Of the world, is tn,
Supreme Guardian.
Col Brewer says that he is yer,
much pleased with the work that i.
being done in the State and spoke il
very glowing terms of the local camp
He says they are sturdy, enthus
iastic lot of choppers and was gla'
to know that they would soon inst
tute Uniform Rank here