Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-22
GRAND LODGE Maine
ANCIENT ORDER OF
UNITED W0RkMEN

Holds Annual Meeting
on Thursday in Au-
gusta, with Good At
tendance-Roscoe w.
Hanson of Waterville
Is Elected to Office of
Grand Master Work.
man
The 18th annual session Of the
Grand Lodge of Maine, A. o. u. W,
was held Thursday at the Augusta
House, with a good attendance from
all parts of the State.
Officers Elected
Charles I. Flynt of Augusta de-
clined reelection as grand master
workman and Roscoe w. Hanson of
Waterville was elected to that Office.
The other officers elected We're as
follows: Grand foreman, Ralph H..
Sprague Of Pressure Isle; grand over
seer, Thomas H. Flanagan of Bangor;
grand receiver, Charles +. Roberts of
Portland; grand recorder. J.. Warren
Jones of Hallowell; grand guide, Fred
l.. Sparks Of Old Town; inside watch,
Fred Z. F'risby of York Beach; out
side watch, A. M. Bickford of Oak
land; grand trustee, Judge Fred En-
cry Beane Of Hallowell; member of
finance committee, O. Q. Cross of
Waterville; grand medical adviser,
DR.. j. Frederick Hill of Waterville;
advisory council, l.. L. Walton Of
Skowhegan. representatives to Su-
preme Lodge, Judge Fred Emery
Beane of Hallowell, Charles +. Flynt
Of Augusta, and DIR. ]. Frederick Hill
of Waterville.
Report of Grand Master Workman.
The annual report of the grand mas-
ter workman, Charles F. Flynt Of Au-
gusta, was in part as follows:
We meet for our annual conference
under very unusual conditions in State
and nation. War has laid it's powerful
grip on our whole country and condi-
tloIlo at pitSchI nave lO COiipdi lSSii
with those Of past years.
Every member of our order has been
greatly affected by the unusual condi-
tons imposed, and it has been a mat
ter Of surprise and congratulation that
so many have been able to meet their
financial burdens in our order.
Our executive board deemed it I'M
wise to attempt vigorous activities un-
der the circumstances. feeling rather.
that a conservative course was safer
and saner, during the continuance OF
the war. | think that every thoughtful
member Will approve this course.
Twenty new members have been
taken into our order during the past
year. SO deathS have been recorded, and
I121 have been suspended for non-pay-
lment OF assessments, making a net loss
in membership of 1874.
Dur average age, January l., 1917,
was Sc years, FIVE months; average
age, January /, 1913, 81 years. one
month: average age OF members taken
in. Il years, four months; average age
OF those suspended, As Years, eight
months: average age Of deaths in
1917, So years; average G of deaths
in 1916, CT years, five months.
Claims u%napproved and unpaid De-
cember 81, 1917, nine. amounting to
$12, 434.72. We have taken from the re-
serve fund during the past year for the
payment of death benefits, SIS, 500. The
cash assets, Janaury l, 1918, were
$1S7, OTIS 81 while the cash in the hands
Of the lodges Gone assessmenD was
S 7,599.41, making a total of 194,677.2S.
In addition to the above cash items
should be added accrued interest due
on half cash loans. $6,121.25 and the
amount of loans on half cash options
lS152.70S, making total assets Of $685.
506.53.
We have adopted rates which are as
| low as the law Of experience shows to
be safe. These rates allow for a re
serve fund to take care of the In
creased deaths from advanced age.
This reserve seems to be justifytng the
claims made for it by its advocates
and provides that element OF safety
necessary in a mutual insurance obi
CATION. Our financial standing is now
established. and every member should
have confidence in the ability of our
! order to meet its obligations.
feel that something should be done
to cause our different lodges to hold
regular meetings. Members should be-
come aroused to the great need Of
regularly attending their lodge meet
ings. 4 proper attendance would
necessarily stimulate n more active in
terest in the membership, and that in
terest once properly aroused would
quickly bring TO us a material increase
in our membership each year. 1t Is a
duty which each Of us owes to the or
der to do what we can to create a
greater interest among the members,
and in working for the A. o. L. w. we
are also devoting our time to the well
fare of our own firesides.
Report Of Grand Trustees.
Fred Emery Beane of Hallowell pre-