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Show ROYALLY EfffERTl HEAD CONSUL BDAK Members of Camp 53, Woodmen of the World, Qualify as Hosts. TV". O. V. camp 33 proved its efficiency effi-ciency in entertaining ita esteemed bead consul, Neighbor T. I. Boak, who recently recent-ly paid their camp a fraternal visit, March 1Z, when the members met and enjoyed one of the largest gatherings or "choppers" for many a day. The hall was gorgeously decorated suitable suit-able for the occasion, representing a typical typ-ical forest scene, accompanied with patriotic patri-otic emblems galore. Lessons of Woodcraft Wood-craft were dwelt tpon by Neighbor Boak, exempli fying its teaching motto and financial fi-nancial standing. Neighbors who were absent missed a. schooling of instructions that will long be remembered by those : presen t . We were proud to have our esteemed executive among us in the ! clearing, as the forest seemed so much i easier to clear with his presence. The following camps were represented : Ogden, Bountiful, Murray, Midvale, Magna. Mag-na. Provo and Portland, Ore. More than 37o "choppers" rallie;i to tho support of our "Big Timber" and a general good time was enjoyed around our campfire. Choice selections were also rendered by Neighbors C'annlgater and Crowley, who were encored repeatedly. Speeches of an oratorical nal ure were given by 1 Neighbors Heagren and Reese of camp , Neilson and Fitz Gerald of 406, Goff I of 74, Neighbors Mines and Mines of M urray. Neighbor Darling of Provo and i the clerk of Bountiful, known as "Wa-J "Wa-J termelon Bust." Music was furnished by i our Professor Neighbor Kolb, with a full orchestra of enchanting and patriotic airs. .Five applications for membership " were j received ajid acted unon ; one , neighbor , was received by transfer card. Neighbors, the campfire is burning bright! Notify all "choppers" to be on hand March 19 and bring their wives, sweet hea rts and prospective candidates, and join our clearing, have a good time and participate in all the latest dances. Talk about moonlight dances at Saltair ! You will forget, them if you ever attend one of our campfire socials. Under the supervision of Neighbors Oglesby. Hall and Tuckett. the entertaining committee. The entertainment committee appointed appoint-ed by E. C. Allen, consul commandr for this brilliant gathering, deserves the highest high-est of praise from all "choppers," as they !ft nothiner undone for the reception of Neighbor Boak and visiting neighbors. The committee in charere was Taw Law-son, Law-son, Brigg Rjdd and Tom Hobday, assisted as-sisted bv Pain. Hall. Newton and Jones. Camps 40 and 333 joined with us, using their committeeman, therehv making the ; forest ring with the echoing voices of i "choppery" in the clearing, who came j from afai to clasp the neighbors hand, j I. I. Boak. The contest for the silver trophy is on , in earnest, with a neck-and-neck race i between S3 and 33S. 406 is not far be- j hind, and the prospects are they will ; come in for their honors when the race Is finished. They have a fine set of officers of-ficers and are entitled to all support possible pos-sible by their members. ' ! Our camps have not as yet received any news concerning our enlisted neigh- j bors, and we ask the Almighty to spare them and return our "choppers' back , safely to camp, while they are absent; on a merciful errand In defense of home , and country. Utah camp 33S, Woodmen of the Wrld, held Its banner meeting last W ednesday j night, being honored by a visit from the ; esteemed head consul. I. I. Boak. There ; was an initiation. The ritual was ex- ; emplifled and was highly commended by the head consul for the creditable manner man-ner in which it was rendered. New applications are coming in. but not fast enough. Neighbors, get busy and add your name to the honor roll of the camp as being one of the live ones. Do not forget your presence at the meetings is essential, as the service flag of this camp has about 12-S stars on It, very nearly one-sixth of the membership, are ! in the service of the country, so it la imperative that you attend the meetings, j The clerk's office of camp 33S Is now located at 417 Felt building, nearly opposite op-posite the postoffice. His office hours , are from 0 'a. m. to 5 p. m. , Deseret camp 406, W. O. W.. held its usual weekly meeting last Thursday evening. eve-ning. Several preliminary applications were received and a class initialed into full membership. An hour of songs, piano music and recitations completed the programme. pro-gramme. Next Thursday evening there will be a short business session at 7:30, and the members will then go to Murray to viett Mahogany camp; the other ramps of the city will also go. We enjoyed the meetings meet-ings during the w-eek attended by our head consul, and believe that his visit was a profitable one for Woodcraft. Modern Woodmen. The service flag of the Modern Woodmen Wood-men of America contains 20.000 stars forty-four of them from Utah a goodly percentage of its 1,000.000 membership; and scores more to draw from, as evidenced evi-denced by our head consul, A. R. Talbot's, j prediction. The fores! ers of our order, i 100,000 nicely uniformed, well-drilled 1 young men, will prove a. valuable asset t to President Woodrbw Wilson in his determined de-termined effort to make the master stroke , for a lasting peace for ail humani ty. i Our sanatorium at Colorado Springs. , Colo., having rendered valuable service j to over 3000 of its members for tubercu-i tubercu-i losis to date, is now in pari: offered to the notional military-naval division for the treatment of sailors who have become be-come afflicted with tuberculosis, and we know that the careful attention of Dr. Rulledge, with the immaculate surroundings surround-ings of the nanatorlum. will restore the U. S. X. boys In a short time and have j them back on the firing line. Dr. Rutledge writes Excelsior's clerk. Rothwell. that it might be possible for him to he present, April 2, when Camp 10S92 will put on its class of twenty or more. He says he wants to go the limit to support our state deputy head consul, John E. Swanger. Well, that is our motto! And why not, as it was he who paved the way for this fine class coming to us at this present time. Excelsior camp had a fine dance at Us hall last Tuesday night. Neighbor La Mont's orchestra delighted the dancers, and, too. the Girls' chorus, composed of daughters of Modern Woodmen of America Ameri-ca members, gave several pleasing songs. The Royal Neighbors of Salt Lake Valiev camp and a fine representation from Great Salt Lake camp 30071 wore present, adding no little to the evening's pleasure. Two popular young men present Willis Wil-lis Chugg and Mr. Grim signed up for membership, one to the credit of Consul Adams's team and the other to Advisor Graham's. Our contest is going on lively. Keep boosting. Chief Forest er Carter gained another recruit. Neighbor L. J. Coies. Ho will be with us next Tuesdav night to don ihe uniform and practice with all the officers for our adoption : ceremonies on April 2. NeiKhbors Henry Dupaix. Charles Free and J. F. Jones did so well in the management man-agement of the dan---e last Tuesdav that they have decided to have another one on April 16, and just wager we will ail be there! Fraternal Congress. A well-attended meeting of the Utah chapter of the National Fraternal Congress Con-gress of Amen-a was held in the New-house New-house bniidine Wednesdav evenir.cr. March 13. Representatives were present from all the nrciers and societies In the state which are afriliated with the Utah chap- j ter. The committee on by-laws, through ! I its chairman. Jl. J. Fitzgerald, reported : and the laws were ordered printed in ( . time for distribution at the state mpet- : J ing. which is to be held at the Hotel Utah ; ! on Friday, April fS. A splendid programme fnr this convention is bmg arranged by . the following committee, appointed at ; i Wednesdav night's meeting: Dr. J. C. i Hanchett.'H. J. Fitzgerald. W. H. Mines i and Mrs. D. M. Sweeney. Associated : ! with the committee are President John ; James and Secretary Mary Baer. The j full programme will he announced next ; : week. At the April meeting a delegate ; from Utah is to be named to attend the national convention, which will be held in Philadelphia the last week in August. ; At noon on Thursday members of the Utah chapter and their friends entertained ' at luncheon at the Commercial club the; Hon. I. T. Boak of- Denver, past president i of the National Fraternal congress and at present a member of the national com- 1 mittee, and who. for years past, has held ; S the important ofiice of head consul of the . Woodmen of the World. Following the ; I luncheon, those present adjourned to the assembly room of the Commercial cluo, where they listened to a highly interest- ! ing and most instructive address by the j guest of honor. He was presented by j President James, who. in a few brief remarks, re-marks, told of his acquaintance with Mr. Boak during his incumbency of the oftice of insurance commissioner. Mr. Boak said that fully one-half of those who are in the service of Uncle Sam are afriliated with one or more fraternal or beneficiary orders or societies. Continuing, he said these members of fraternal organizations "learned the lessons of patriotism, loyalty, loy-alty, demoeracv and fraternallsm alike at the altar in the lodge room, and thev learned It so thoroughly that they will never forget it. no matter where they go or how trving the conditions to which thev mav be' subjected. With them, ail the hallowed associations which cluster around the home are also embodied m our beloved country and its sacred institutions, insti-tutions, which make for and upho'd all i that is really worth white in this land of ! freedom and opportunity. i "At this time, when the very foundations founda-tions of law, order and civilization Itself are rocking, fratemalism is the refuge of safetv for the worth-while people ot all the world. It was not by more accident, acci-dent, therefore, that President Wilson, Secretarv McAdoo and the other officials intrusted with the mighty responsibility of keeping the ship of state in safe waters sent for the fraternal leaders, and. after consulting them with a freedom and openness possible only in a spirit of absolute abso-lute confidence and brotherhood on the part of both, adopted and promptly acted upon their advice and disinterested counsel. t "The world has never seen a greater or more noble snetacle. and it means that, to a very large degree, the responsibility respon-sibility of steadying the rocking world rests 'on fratemalism and the teachings of ity Founder. That they will stand In this crisis in much the same category as did the knights in the dark ages is certain. cer-tain. "This ia why it is imperative that, the celebration and fraternal jubilee in Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, in the last week of August, 191?. shall be made a world event worthy of the occasion and the cause as well. "The great conclave at Independence hail on one dav during the conventions of the National Fraternal Congress of America and the National Press association, associa-tion, and the presence of vast numbers nf fraternalists from all sedions of the countrv, as is sure to be the case, will be a world event of the first magnitude and importance. This will be true whether there is war or peace at this time. "In view of the whole-hearted manner in which President Wilson has received and consulted the fraternal leaders, be will, of course, be asked to- be the guest of honor and principal speaker on that occasion. L . "President Gerard, Secretary Futcb and the other officials of the congress, as also the fraternal press and the officials of all fraternal and beneficial orders and societies in this country, totaling fully 10 000.000. with 50.000.000 dependents, are all splendidly enlisted in the noble effort of making of the forthcoming occasion in Philadlephia, in the last week in August, Au-gust, all it should be." Accompanied by piobert F. Runzell, district dis-trict manager of the Woodmen of the World. Mr. Boak left late Thursday afternoon after-noon for Ogden, where, the same night, he addressed the two Woodmen camps at that place. From the Junction city ho goes to the coast, expecting to reaen Denver, his headquarters, about April 10. Maccabees. All loyal members of the W. B. 'A. aro requested to help make "Maceahee day" at the American theater, Monday, March 25, dav and evening, one long to be remembered re-membered in the patriotic service. The management of this popular picture house has generously donated the use of the house, the service and their own pictures pic-tures free to all holding Maceahee tickets, tick-ets, and, in addition to this regular programme, pro-gramme, will run the reels showing the decicatlon of the new Maceahee temple building at Port Huron, Mich., at which time the supreme lady command. Miss Bina M. West, donated her gift of 2"00 stiver dollars as a cornerstone for the foundation of a patriotic service fund for the relief of our American boys now. and also to establish a fund for their relief when they return home, helpless, after the war. It Is truly a noble work, and the Maccabees urge their friends to give them their liberal support. Only the Mac-1 Mac-1 cabee tickets count, so be sure and se-S se-S cure vours of some member, as no Mac-I Mac-I cabee" tickets will be sold at the theater, nor in the lobby, but every loyal member will assist in the wcrk. All money received re-ceived for the sale of these tickets has oeeri generously donated by the management manage-ment of the American to our cause. American Yeomen. Members of the Rowena circle. Brotherhood Brother-hood of Americnn Yeomen, 1132, were entertained at tho home of Mrs. Emma Cnshman, 533 South First West street, Tuesdav afternoon, there being considerable consid-erable business transacted. A cut glass vaee filled with pink carnatlonsformed the centerpiece for the luncheon table. St. Patrick's decorations were used also. A crowd of Salt I-ake Yeomen Trom 1132 went to Sandy Wednesday night and helped to put on the Initiatory work, there being a lar?e class accepted. The Sandy homestead had prepared a tasty lunch, and after partaking of same the crowd danced the remainder of the evening. eve-ning. The regular lodge meeting was fceld at the Moose hall Friday evening. Several new members were given the Initiatory work. A largo number were present, as a surprise party was given in honor of j Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Vick, who have been ' faithful workers for so many years. A committee had an interesting programme and refreshments were eerved. All en-Joyed en-Joyed a good time. Knights of Pythias. A very interesting meeting was held by Rocky Alountain lodge No. 3 last Thursday. Thurs-day. Five more of our members are now obeying the call of their country-Our country-Our chancellor commander. F. E. Davis, left Friday for Fort Logan to join the heavy artillery. While we will greatly . miss him, we highly commend his offer to the service and wish him Godspeed and a eafe return. Brother Wilson has joined tne Canadian forces. Brother Cohpn. who Is now in Boston, has been notified to hold himself in readiness. We ! have now fourteen members who are in i the service of our country and allied j countries. I Supreme Representative R. N. Ran-j Ran-j do'ph was elected vice chancellor and ! will act as chancellor commander during the remainder of Brother Da vis's term. A very enjoyable dance was given laet Tuesday. All absent brothers are urged to attend lodge and enjoy our Interesting sessions. Pythian Sisters. A larre attendance welome-d Grand Chief Sister Juhn.on and the grand temple tem-ple officers' official visitation to Her-mion Her-mion temple No. 8 on Fr;dav nichL Several Sev-eral sisters from Sandy, Macna. Mldalf. Garfield and Onen w-re prf.-'ent. Aiso P. G. Chief Goff, Sup: cme Rjpre; cuta- tives Mary Holman and Louise Kitter and Supreme Representative Wertz of Colorado were present. Knlchts K. I.. Allen and Aaron Da via and Grace Davip were initiated. Reports on the dance of Tuesday nig-ht indicated that a very pleasant time was had. Our M. of R. and C, Mary Holman. has gone to Los Angeles for a visit of a month. |
