Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-26 | Page 2 | Modern Woodmen Combat Bankruptcy

MODERN WOODMEN COMBAT BANKRUPTCY CHICAGO, March 25. A conventioito save tlie Modern Woodmen of America from bankruptcy met here today. A. -R. Talbot, head consul, described the situation situa-tion as critical. In October. 191b, he said, the society had a general fund of $10,000,000 in securities. This has dwindled dwin-dled to $640,000, owing to the ravages of influenza and pneumonia, he explained. War claims alo figured. Dining the war the society by a special assessment raised a fund of $6,000,000 out of which all war chums were met and thero remains in this fund 53,000,000, the speaker stated. The war claims, he said, were as nothing compared to those due to influenza and -pneumonia.