The Oklahoma Workman (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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inUi 1/IViiAllWJin Munnman.
The Oklahoma Workman.
GUARANTEED CIRCULATION 7.IHK)
Published Monthly by Grand Lodge of
Oklahoma A. O. U. w.
S. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
Okmulgee, I. T.
B J. CLARDY, Asst Editor.
SHAWNEE. OKI.A
Subscription price 25c per year. Free to
all members of the Order
in Oklahoma.
Entered at the postoffice at Guthrie
Oklahoma, as second class matter,
October 5, iqoo.
Important to Recorders.
Kn«h month we send a PRINTED
! 1ST to the lodge containing narr.e
■iid address of each brother. Examine
his =lip carefully, and If any correc-
•lons or additions are to be made make
ame on the printed list and return to
•his office PLEASE NOTE—DO NOT
TRITE the entire membership over
'•lit make all corrections necessary on
♦he PRINTED SLIP SENT.
Do not report temporary suspensions,
hut strike from the printed sllp^ only
hose members who are DEAD. WITH-
DRAWN TRANSFERRED. EXPELL-
ED or UNDER SUSPENSIONS FOR
"•'HREE MONTHS.
OFFICERS OF THE GRAND LODGE
OF THE
ANCIENT ORDER UNITED WORKMAN
OF OKLAHOMA.
Past Grand Master Workman
B. J. Clardy, Shawnee, Okla.
Grand Master Workman
John S. Allen, Norman. Okla
Grand Foreman
E. O. Flood, Lawton, Okla.
Grand Overseer
H. E. Rakman. Sapulpa. 1 T.
Grand Recorder
W. R. Welch, Guthrie, Okla
Grand Receiver
j. e. Sater. Stillwater .Okla.
Grand Medical Examiner
H. L. Share, Kingfisher. Okla.
Grand Guide
J, E. Johnston, Alva, Okla.
Grand Inside Watchman
j. o. Daniels. Cleveland. Okla.
Grand Outside Watchman
I. S. Schmidt. Muskogee, I. T.
Grand Trustees:
J. F. Gates, Talihina. I. T.
W. N. Elliott, Purcell. I T.
R. W. Higgins, Hartshorne, I. T.
' Finance Committee:
H. D. Todd. Guthrie. Okla.
E. H. Howell, Enid, Okla.
J. S. Royd, Oklahoma City, Okla
l aw Committee
S H Reld. El Reno. Okla.
\ R. Quarry, Tulsa. I. T.
Dudley Maden. Tecufseh. Okla.
Supreme l odge Representatives:
P J. Clardy, Shawnee. Okla.
R C Dickensheets. Fnh', Dkla
S 1 Johnson, kmulgee. I. T.
C.rand T.odge meets at Tulsa I T..
first Tueesday in February. 1906.
PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES.
The following Is a list of supplier
kept on hand in the Grand Recorders
office, rl«o prices on the same
These supplies will not be sent out
unless the rash accompanies the order.
So remember In the future when order-
In supplies, please semi the price with
the order and it will receive prompt at-
tention.
Ritual' each $100
1 inanciers Receipt Rook, each .. 25
receivers Receipt Rook, each . . 25
Recorders Warrant Rook. each.. 25
Receivers Record each 75
Receivers Cash Rook, each 75
Application Cards, per 100 50
Semi annual P W Rook, each .. 1.00
Mounthly Report Book, each . . 1.00
Buttons, per dozen 50
Medical Examiners blanks, free
Clearance Cards, each 10
Ode Cards, each 02
Officers Bonds, each .05
Constitution and By-laws, each .. .10
Traveling Cards, each .05
Lantern and Slides each $35.00
W. K. Welch, G. K Guthrie. Okla
New Lodge at Ramona.
The organization of a fraternal in-
surance and benevolent order in Ra-
mona is worthy of more than passing
mention. It is to be hoped for the good
of the community, that the new lodge
will succeed. Every such organization
rightly conducted, is a benefit to the
town. As a means of home protection,
it is unexcelled. With a small sum put
aside each month, a man may leave
his family comfortably provided for, in
the event of his death. The sum thus
provided is considerably more than the
average workingman is likely to ac-
cumulate in an average lifetime.
OFFICERS RAMONA LODGE.
Chas. J. Shively, M. W.; Alonzo G.
Edwards, P. M. W.; John J. Reed,
Foreman; Clarence B. Davis, Overseer;
John Clark, Guide; Samuel H. George,
Recorder; Edgar R. Dallas, Financier
and Treasurer; Jacob D. Newport, I.
W.: Arnie E. Edwards, O. W.; Dr. C.
K. Tillison. Medical Examiner.
Third District Notes.
(W. L. Hewitt, Chief Deputy.)
Let us then be up and doing.
With a heart for any fale,
Throw away that rag you're chewing
Hustle and get a candidate.
Enid expects lo meet in their new
hall soon and then watch out for Enid
No. 21.
Kingfisher No. 2, is doing work ev-
ery Monday night. Glad to hear it.
Let the good work go on.
El Reno recently had a carnival in
tHe interest of the A. O. U. W. and I)
of H., which certainly goes to show
that they are live ones.
Jefferson, No. 26 doubled their mem-
bership in Otobecr and still more to
follow.
Pond Creek, No. 91, took in a class
during November and are now whoop-
ing it up for more.
Lamont, No. 71, increased their
membership with a class of seven dur-
ing November and the Degree of Hon-
or re-organized, which means more to
follow.
I am pleased to note of the 33 lodges
in the Third District that 1!1 of them
have initiated candidates since March
1st. as follows:
Chickasha No. 52, 38 members
Kingfisher, No. 2 32 members
Duncan, No. ofi 15 members
Anadarko, No. 11, 13 members
Jefferson. No. 26 11 members
El Reno. No. 3 10 members
Lawton. No. 15 10 members
Waton a, No. 29 8 members
Terril. No. 74 .♦... 8 members
Lamont, No. 71 7 members
Mountain View, No. 81.... 7 members
Pond Creek, No .91 7 members
Enid. No. 21 ti members
1 ahoma, No. 9tS 5 members
Hobart, No. 86 3 members
Marlow, No. 57 3 members
Okeene, No. 34 1 member
Cropper, No. 45 1 member
Ural, No. 49 1 member
Hennessy, Alva. Woodward, Cloud
Chief. Waukomis, Medford, Elk,
Weatherford, Hunter Bridgeport.Hitch-
cock. Augusta, Sterling and Ryan, have
not reported anything yet, but we look
for an increase there before next
Grand Lodge.
If every Grand Lodge in the Dis-
trict would put in at least one candi-
date in December it would mean an in-
crease of 33. Let's do it.
Any member of a Local I odge in
the Third District, who will secure
Ihree (3) candidates and have same in-
itiated before January 20th. 190C, I
will present with a solid gold lapel
button or pin. value ll.Gfl. Any broth-
er who enters al ove contest will send
names <>'' candidates to me not later
than January 2.">th, 1906 to my ad-
dn s. lock box No. 97, Kingfisher Ok-
lahoma. under seal of lodge and sig-
nature of recorder.
Only nine assassments this year.
I i t's keen hustling and sec if we can't
cut off one more.
Ask your neighbor to join the A. O.
IT. W.
Tell your sons to join the A. O. U.
W , and make your assessments fewer
in number.
If Kingfisher keeps going she will
have second place.
•^0 Bob Vaughn and some more of 56
must have taken off their coats from
the increase in September.
Bros. Poole, Yatman and Darnell and
all the rest of Chickasha will tel!
you how to do it if you will write
and ask them, but I think all they did
was to HUSTLE!
jefferson. No. 26, came over to Pond
Creek and put in a class for the chief
deputy and then went down to the
restaurant to an oyster supper. The
Jefferson boys can certainly put on the
work and they say Pond Creek are
royal entertainers. Let's do more vis-
iting. That's what advertises the
Order.
If some good brother who knows of
a location for a new lodge in the
Third District where one could be put
in. I would like to hear from him.
Where, Oh where is my big salaree,
Where, Oh where can it be.
Is the cry of the Old Liners.
Since the investigation started.
Try to separate a dog from a bone,
and see what a fuss it starts.
Hey, King Grafters.
Fraternal it am bully,
Fraternal it am fine,
1 t.'inks I ought to know it,
For I carry it all the time.
Well, boys, only two more months
till Grand Lodge. Let's make one more
big pull before then so we can go to
next Grand Lodge, with 4,000 strong.
More anon.
W. L. HEWITT.
Chief Deputy 3d district Kingfisher Ok
hard times. Hard times keeps every-
one poor.
Keep your nickels moving. Enjoy the
comforts and pleasures of lite. Help
along every good aud worthy object.
Pay for what you get and get all you
pay for. Don't let your extravagance
run you into debt.
Sermon for WorKmen.
ECONOMY IS WEALTH: Brethren,
you have heard that advice preached
since you were knee high to a grass-
hopper, have you not? And you be-
lieve in it, don't you Of course.
That's why so many of you are
wealthy today. You have been denying
yourselves every luxury, every enjoy-
ment and many comforts, all through
life, so that in your old age you might
have a vine and fig tree of your own
to sit under. One for your boys and
girls to chop down when you are gone
—or sooner!
Now, there's your neighbor, Brown
He doesn't seem to economize at all.
See how well his family dresses! Th°
way that family spends mcney is a
caution. Don't seem to deny them-
selves anything. And they do sa •
Brown's going to have an auto. Well,
so might you, if you wanted to be as
extravagant as Brown is. But you're
not. You're just soaking the ground
around that old vine and fig tree with
the waters of economy and big beads
of sweat drops off your brow to help
along the irrigation.
Meantime, over in Neighbor Brown's
yard his vine and fig tree seem to flour-
ish just the same, or a little more so.
It may be there when Brown dies, or
it may not. "Anyway," says Brown,
"we'll eat the figs and grapes while
we're here."
And when Brown passes in his chips
look at the funeral he'll have! And
the flowers! And the long line of car-
riages! And a fine casket with silver-
plated handles!
And how about the Brown family?
Will it have to "move out?" No, in-
deed. One of Brown's extravagant
ideas was to belong to several frater-
ral protective societies, and one or two
old line 'g'asretfr.ncnfwypetaointaoin
old line "grafters." So the family
went rU'ht on eating figs and grapes
and riding in its own auto.
Brethren, economy is a good thing:
but the man who invented the proverb
that "'economy is wealth," died a Ion?
time ago. He knew nothing of the
luxuries, the comforts th-1 opportun-
ities and possibilities of the Twentieth
Century. The chances are he died a
poor man. He was so busy saving pen-
nies that he had no lime to make dol-
lars.
This vrorld is full of good things.
Reach out and pick 'cm. Don't spend
all your time eating specked apples
while the sound ones start in to rot.
Life is very much what we make it.
The man who cries "poverty" will al-
ways be poor. One seldom hits a
mark higher than he aims. If he does,
it's the fault of the gun, and not of
the shooter.
Too much economy stagnates busi-
ness. And a stagnant business makes
It is childish to talk of old line life
insuranae as an investment. It is mere-
ly admitting that other men's brains
are better than yours in investing your
money. For you are paying a portion
of the salaries—president, $150,000 of
the men who make your investments.
They aren't doing that just for the
tun of the thing, you know. In the
fraternal class, there is 110 investment
in it. You are simply buying, from
month to month, protection 011 your
life, just as you would buy fire insur-
ance or newspapers or any other com-
modity. And every day you live you
have had your money's worth in pro-
tection and you're that much better
off than you would be dead.
The Ancient Order of United Work-
men and the Degree of Honor do not
give certificate holders a promise that
in ten years or twenty years any por-
tion of your mcney paid in will be re-
si ored; the fraternal plan does not
give back, because, to begin with, it
does not take the money that it. does
not need. The fraternal order doe?
not take from its members three or
lour times as much as is needed to
pay the death losses, and squander the
large percentage of that money 111
gambling on the market fluctuations.
It does not spoil several hundred dol-
lars every day for the luncheons 01
its clerks. It doesn't pay its chief of-
ficer $150,000 per year as salary and
each member of his family corre-
spondingly extravagant amounts out oi
the funds provided by the members,
who are paying their hard earned
wages for protection.
There is an old-time time-worn joke
that many a man takes pleasure in
getting off when he talks of insurance
he is carrying or is being urged to car-
ry. It is generally put in the follow-
ing language: "1 ife insurance for my
wife! Uh-huh! So that she can catch
another husband when I am dead and
cone!" Just consider that question
seriously for once. There are a thous-
and other thoughts it may bring up to
your mind, according to the circum-
stances. A good looking or young
widow is always liable to a second
marriage—just admit that for the sake
of argument. Now, if she has a little
money to live on, is she not liable to
look around a little longer than if she
is in need of a home or the comfort of
ilfe? Would not a little insurance then
allow you to rest easy in your grave
just a little longer than if you let her
in a position where she would have to
either work for herself and the
little ones or accept the first
man whether she liked him or
not, who came along and offered
her a home in the place of
the one your selfishness and death de-
prived her of? If the wife is old or
not very attractive, but you are al-
ready well to do, a few more hundred
dollars will not make much difference
either way.
Thomas W.'Lawson, of "Frenzied Fi-
nance fame, is not satisfied with his
fight on the "System, Standard Oil
and Amalgamated," but it is organ-
izing to make a fight, on the big rob-
companies of New York. He has asked
panies of New York. He has asked
the governors and representative men
of several states to constitute a com-
mittee to take over these companies,
reorganize them on an honest basis
with men who will conduct them
honestly, and also prosecute and pun-
ish the old officers after they have
been forced to make restitution of
what they have taken from tthe policy-
holders. This is a sweeping proposi-
tion. but Mr. Lawson has the name of
knowing how he is going to accomplish
a thing before he goes into it.
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As individuals, we may be proud
and strong today. There may come a
dark hour when we need help. How
comforting that we can reach out and
touch everywhere the outstretched
hands of our brothers.
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