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Show United Order of Hope. This order, now nineteen months old, is enjoying a splendid boom. Since Jan. 1 100 applications have been, received in the fifteen lodges, aud'lively competition IS going go-ing ou for the (?old prizes lately offered by the supreme lod.ue. New certificates are being issued daily by t ho supreme secre-! secre-! tary, and from present indications the order or-der will double its numbers by January, next. Since its organization the order has paid to the beneficiaries of its deceased members $7,322. - An organization to be known as the United Order of Hope Building, Loan and Savings association is being organized in St. iiiuis. Already nearly enough stock to secure its incorporation has been subscribed. sub-scribed. It will be framed upon the most Kbei-al basis, mid ntrmV-rs and aon-mem-bers cau become shareholders. Blank applications ap-plications for stock can be had of the supremo su-premo and subordinate lodge secretaries. Arrangements are being made for a grand reunion of all the lodges in the near future. |