29 Sep 1898
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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1898
Page
1
The Interstate Association of Missouri and Kansas holds its third annual log rolling in Sedalia with strong attendance from Missouri Kansas Nebraska and Indian Territory. The event features the SenTinen reporters notes on pumpkins cider and social cheer plus races and purses including horse and bicycle events and notable owners and participants.
A Sedalia parade featuring over 3 000 men led by Chief Marshal Henry Knopfl and 19 heavy ox drawn coaches flowed through streets from East Fifth to the Park. Thousands watched as camp members police and bands joined a grand welcome at Liberty Park with speeches by Mayor Oversreet and J A Janson of Boonville and a later 7 30 band concert.
The Sovereign Visitor notes the order places a monument at each grave. It urges fraternal members to join, detailing age eligibility and the annual assessments rules. It mentions an epidemic or unusual death rate triggering more than sixteen assessments yearly with excess covered by the emergency fund.
The listing names multiple camps across Missouri with captains and staffed men. Notable entries include Ozark No 25 Captain Cone Springfield 24 men. La Due 250 Captain Dutro. White Oak 70 Captain A B Brie Galena 30 men. Oak Camp 53 Captain Gooding Jasper 40. Port Scott Kansas area Jabbott 120. Joplin 107. Jefferson City Hickory 73. many other camps and numbers noted in a dense roster.
Captain E W Stevens and Staff Captain B E Stevens head the park racing events this afternoon with Frank Kahler as secretary and assistant. Entries include horse races Free for all trot Star Bashaw owned by W H Powell Miss Rox Mae owned by M B Coleman Winnie Davis owned by R O Biereis for first and fifth for second and a road race Jim G by M B Coleman Robert Lee.
The text extols the social degree and charity fund of the Woodmen of the World. It notes that each chartered Camp has delegates to its biennial conventions and praises the certificate as a non contestable safeguard backed by loyal hearts to theDedication, declaring the protection of the order as certain as death.
Woodmen differ in inducements not to be found elsewhere. The order grows rapidly and gains universal approval. Nevada hosted a convention last year with June meetings planned. A Fort Scott session on June 9 chose this year’s officers and meeting place. The 1808 convention in Nevada will elect officers for 2899 and pick the next site.
The article lists nonstandard groups eligible for membership including marine divers, paid fire department members, railway workers, sailors, and soldiers, noting exceptions for agents and certain office staff. It highlights a progressive fraternal organization promising access to special features upon acceptance.
The record notes the June 1890 Omaha convention that founded the Woodcraft and the Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World, with charter secured January 1, 1890 in Nebraska. It cites 3,000 Camps formed, 140,000 certificates issued, 3,000,000 paid to beneficiaries, and 1,600 monuments, plus 87 assessments in 96 months. It mentions J. W. Kaiser as president of the Interstate Log Rolling Association, and details on log rolling origins and officials, plus note on certificates not exceeding 2,000 dollars for specific groups and various occupations in liquor trades.
Early in 1883 Joseph Cullen Root promulgated the first Order of Woodcraft of which he remains an honored member. He was elected by unanimous acclamation to exceed himself until 1890 when he declined to run. A convention of 700 Woodmen, representing 65 000 members, gave him three cheers and gratitude.
Notes of a meeting show Springfield Boonville and Gradies Mills contesting for the hand somest banner with a $10 prize. Boonville controls the largest delegation and a $15 prize stake.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company moved today and now occupies quarters in the Cassidy building on South Ohio.
The document names officers of the order including Joseph Root as Sovereign Commander in Omaha Nebraska F A Falkenburg Sovereign Adviser Denver Colorado John T Yates Sovereign Clerk Omaha Nebraska Franklin F Roose Sovereign Banker Omaha Nebraska H F Simrail Jr Sovereign Escort Vicksburg Mississippi.
The improved and perfected order of woodcraft ranks fifth in Amerea with 3,000 camps and 140,008 members. It reports paying 3,000,000 dollars, maintaining an emergency fund, and erecting monuments to cost protection at the world’s cost.
A fragmentary OCR item references Annie B with initials and a place marker. details are unclear but indicate a named person involved in a historical notice or social entry. Further context is unavailable in the readable text.
A short note reports a new line opening in Kansas City, marking a distance tele line debut. Details remain sparse in the readable text.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a performer named Cody appearing in Kansas City and later recovering. The text mentions Mata yin and an apparent town event, with unclear details about what was cured or how the recovery occurred.
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