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Show iiu GFnjijj One Hundred and Forty Wb0 Members Are Added 'to WM Order. Mfaft ADDRESS IS DBMYERBD WftG BY HEAD CONSUL BfflpfciH Refreshments aud YaudjL II' Entertainment Are Alsowjfo Pleasant Features, m-le Une hnnd red and forty new WooMui of Ihe World were, made Wcdmj'jfc night at n bip initiation m irliip JT'. of the camps in Utah part iolnalcd. sHe: l.han oOO Woodmen from the diff JfLt ' citiea of the state were at the initio which bciran last evening and contuwlHIlij until nearly midnight. K!rf I. I. Boalf, head consul of the Pam$ .jurisdiction, comprising niuo wcaMS.it stales, came to Ball Lake from llcfljgjl81 aud look charge of tho initiation. 'Ktltf lowing the initiatory ceremonies, CdJLvf1' Iloak gave an interesting talk onMSr' principles of Woodcraft He EOBiBfflkf Ogden this evening to initiate unoJlt1 class, and from there to Lngnn. "Wris Mr. Bonk complimented the X7m mon of I;tah on their extraorditMEjSti growth. In Fait Lake City tlierojf l' more than HOUO members of tlio oimj&k and there are large camps in cSLiWt town in Ihe stale. Those undated Tif tV ncsday event rm will he members ofmjflS three Ball Lake camps, and ilic caBS of Bingham. CJarlield and 0'pilcnrf SieJ Following Mr. Honk's talk, refjK'V incuts were served und an impronBaftf.k vaudeville enlertainnienl was (hUk Congratulations to the members ofKifl' .Sail Lake camps who did the (lcjKjiiF work and words of welcome to tlio.Miife members kepi ihe Woodmen in tlioHJjis mory hall until after midnight lnSaj' a d dress Mr. Bonk traced from theB3ei ginning the wonderful growth orEijtk Woodmen of the World. Jm0ft Mr. Boak's Address. fBJalk ,cTen vears nrro." he said. "wnBPili .jusl breaking even. What wo colleSi from members as due? we paid onMfS next day in benefits. We just mauMJEfc to keep even. But wc grew. anKSjj kept growing. Today ye arc tivj iMSc stronger, numerically; live times 'tB cr, financially; live times safer, anBT protection which wo offer to our'Hi bers is five times greater than ,;B sVe tire growing, not gradunlliBwj phenomenally. We are the sfroiP fraternal organization in tho TJB States, both numerically and iS fin Hy. lu the Pacific .iurisdictibBJ have a surplus invested of $2,00B(!f ' This is all invested iu municipal iflfff in our territory. No investment Jst'f in bonds of any city of less than lKL inhabitants, or with assessed valiilHplH of less than $ 1.000,000. 'miu "Not long. ago I was in nttendE- on the meeting of the sovereign comPJ' for the' eastern .jurisdiction. Thc'iBKi crn .iurisdict ion comprises all QMEae states of the Tnilcd StatcKKtl included, in Iho Pacific jurisdiBS which includes our nine wcE; states. There tho orators of thsvK?! were explaining the great work1 'H3 were doing, telling of the striyifrt.p the order in the cast and sotith.R'" Tells of tho West. JEk "Finally, at the conclusion of iE talks, I arose to report the progrpBL'j the east upon its great work, hiuH&. minded' them that while tlicv worBjjr ing so much work in Ihe cast. we';MSK doing a little something out herjM': the mighty west. 1 took up theirVuj, urcs and showed them that out of'lHRrtl 50,000,000 people to draw from tlif'yjf " but 070, members for every l,OpO.0A. , population, while in our jurisdiclB 1 with 6.000.000 people scattered abonBRs sparsely settled localities, we had 2lB to members for every 1,000,000 populatBpM T showed them ihat for each 1(100 au, illation they had less than seven nilS'i bers, while we had 210. slmwcd iWi, that their capital was about -OSir, member, while our's was $30. vMn "Yes, we're! growing, and wo djBitv' want; to stop growing. Whiln 'JHi-T Dl are boosters as loyal as thrrc.MB& Palt Lake wo are going lo coiitialBL,, phenomenal growth. K year aB?B5Z! made a readjustment of "bur ratwET" expected to io.se 10.000 of 75,000 iBNm bers affeCjtcd. Imagine onr sniML when wc found that wc lost only jH'jv'' And we're getting them all hacKI hundredfold." fr. Pioak closoil by urging all offlH members to work hard for the ordcrWl " asked that each of the fUU WondraeBt the ineeting bring in a new nicmbcrB," fore 1JH0. Ho suggested that 'cBL. be. sent to every person iu Utah CRI to membership inviting each one tti'MR For the initiation at Ogdcn toniH a special train will be run ovcr-vjn Oregon Short Line, leaving Snlt IM at 7 o'clock this evening and rc'Hl lug at 11 o'clock. 3Ir. Bonk nndHjJ members of the Salt Lake canipS.'JBl assist in the initiation. hK |