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Show ROYAL ARCANUM. Preme Regent Watts on the Prosperity of the Order Notes. supreme Regent Watts, of Portsmouth, 1 . )n his annual address to the latest rcting of the supreme council, said: The year just closed has been one of d progress. Everywhere the order s grown with a healthy and steady ""th, and its influence for good has been ;;ely increased. The increase in mem-ntip mem-ntip during the year 1889 was the larg-1 larg-1 m onr history. On the 31st day of De-nbw, De-nbw, 1888, we numbered 86.99L During e yw 13,228 were initiated, giving us a Embership, deaths and suspensions de-1CH de-1CH of 97,957 Dec. 81, 1889, or a net gain W.W members. Since Jan. 1, 1890, the fessions have numbered 6,451, giving the of over 100,000. The financial exhibit ivea more gratifying. The total amount fcath benefits paid to May 1, 1889, was 'M'OO; amount paid since that date to jyl, 1890, $2,399,878.20, giving a total of -K578.30 paid since the institution of 'order in June, 1877." to Point of membership New York heads 16 hst of states with 15,831 members. '-Massachusetts is next with 11,213. The noer of deaths in the order during the ar was 748. J1)" supreme secretary reports having Wlved from the grand jurisdiction of acnusetts during the month of March '.applications, during April 132, and 'nng May no, with a grand total as fol-WS: fol-WS: March, 2,014; April, 2,120; May, 1,678. |