The Kansas Fraternal Citizen from Valley Falls, Kansas • 5

THE SECRETARY'S PAGE Minutes of the Regular June, 1917, Meeting of the Executive Council. Exhibit of Funds May 31, 1917 Investment: Bonds $28,000.00 Certificate Deposit 3,916.11 State Exchange Bank 2,736.67 Fourth National Bank 479.81 Farmers National Bank 1,011.05 State Bank of Zenith 1,001.70 Citizens State Bank 1,000.68 Cash in Office 59.20 $38,205.22 General Fund 1,327.72 Paper Fund 657.59 Benefit Fund 4,279.23 Emergency Fund 31,940.68 Medical Examination Fees Dr. T. E. Horner, Atchison 6.00 Dr.

V. H. Bantleon, Kans City 17.00 Dr. G. T.

Faussett, Kans. City 12.00 Dr. E. J. Broderick, Dodge City 21.00 Dr.

J. O. Smith, Norcatur 5.00 W. R. Pennington, Ottawa 7.00 Dr.

N. E. Melencamp Dodge City 3.00 Dr. C. W.

Robinson, 7.00 Dr. H. O. Hardesty 2.00 Dr. H.

Marshall, Herington. 14.00 Dr. O. E. Robinson, Yates Center 1.00 Miscellaneous Expenditures.

Western Litho. Wichita, printing 2.70 Hutchinson O. S. Ptg. Hutchinson, Sup.

Ptg 7.95 M. A. Keen, Ottawa, Ptg. Receipt Books 4.50 Columbia Carbon Dayton, Ohio, Ribbons 9.50 H. A.

Brown, Hutchinson, Janitor Work 8.00 L. A. Bunker, Hutchinson, Office Rent for May 50.00 Contingent Fund, contingent expense for May 11.20 $38,205.22 Membership Statement April 30, 1917 Certificates in force, April 1, 1917 5,324 Certificates issued April, 1917 97 Certificates renewed by reinstatement 22 $5,443 Total $2,298.07 Certificates terminated by death 3 Certificates terminated by cancl. 7 Certificates terminated by susp 92 102 Official Paper Fund Geo. Harman, Valley Falls, May salary as Editor 25.00 Harman Pub.

Valley Falls, Ptg. Official Paper for 115.00 Total $140.00 and warrants ordered drawn on the General Fund for the same: General Fund Salaries and Expenses Dr. Allaman, Atchison, salary for May 83.33 Dr. G. W.

Allaman, Atchison, expense for May 29.19 Dr. G. W. Allaman, Atchison, steno. salary for May 25.00 N.

A. Campbell, Hutchinson, salary for May 100.00 R. W. Hemphill, Norton, salary for May 50.00 R. W.

Hemphill, Norton, expense for May 53.02 L. R. Thompson, Zenith, per diem and expense 46.56 Robt. Hertel, Leavenworth, per diem and expense 45.15 W. O.

Worswick, Oskaloosa, per diem and expense 48.17 Dr. B. P. Hatch, Lebanon, expense for May 4.75 Dr. B.

P. Hatch, Lebanon, Med. Exam. Fees 21.25 Mary Rabun, Hutchinson, salary for May 60.00 Rhoda F. Campbell, Hutchinson, salary for May 40.00 James B.

Blazer, Hutchinson, salary for May 150.00 James B. Blazer, Hutchinson, expense for May 127.60 Commissions E. U. Larkin, Hutchinson $114.75 H. B.

Slaymaker, Norton 142.75 J. G. Kerns, Atchison 56.00 M. S. Cornelius, Kansas 154.40 M.

O. Scott, Osawatomie 100.20 R. II. Foulk, Pittsburg 46.00 A. G.

Johnson, Pittsburg 44.75 Virgil F. Webster, Canton 9.40 L. A. Eyman, Girard 4.75 J. T.

Sharp, Wichita 13.00 Robt. L. Davis, Wichita 10.00 J. W. Trowbridge, Iola 4.50 Adam Hartsook, Eureka 7.80 Cecil Stout, Iola 1.90 J.

R. Neff, Glen Elder 4.35 Charlie C. Flower, Udall 1.00 H. N. Jones, Lebo 23.20 Margaret Trew, 5.00 J.

S. Calder, Glen Elder 95 C. E. Granger, Glen Elder 50 Geo. W.

Smith, Lebo 1.45 Clara Barnett, Arkansas 3.50 W. W. Black, 2.00 C. E. Stellenberg, Atchison 10.00 O.

P. Simons, Udall 1.10 John Hamilton, Ottawa 44.25 M. A. Keen, Ottawa 35.75 Anna Holtzclaw, 2.20 M. F.

Seevers, Eureka 11.60 J. P. O'Donnell, Kansas 14.00 C. E. Mack, Eureka 6.30 F.

A. Soderstrom. 2.00 Nora Cannon, Arkansas 1.90 Geo. B. Kanauer, Wichita 18.50 W.

S. Noel, Coffeyville 1.50 Davis Wolf, Iola 6.00 W. P. Jenkins, Kansas City 2.80 G. W.

Shriver, Uniontown 7.60 Jennie Muck, Glen Elder 4.60 J. D. Shedden, Formoso 42.25 Sallie B. Thompson, Zenith 2.75 Cread E. Souders, Eureka 2.00 J.

G. Clark, Pittsburg 1.00 Mary B. Harris, Iola 50 Ivan Sheets, Iola 50 Chas. Cliff, Glen Elder 50 II. S.

Carmichael, 3.50 J. C. Martin, Welda 72.80 B. J. Taylor, Udall 50 Laura E.

Jones, Sylvia 90 Mary Hertel, Leavenworth 2.00 Com. to Secys. for reporting no suspensions on Pass Reports 173.75 Hutchinson, Kansas, June 8, 1917 1000 a. m. Council met in the office of The Kansas Fraternal Citizens, meeting called to order by President Allaman.

Roll-Call: Present G. W. Allaman, R. W. Hemphill, Robert Hertel, L.

R. Thompson, W. 0. Worswick and N. A.

Campbell, Secretary. Minutes of last regular meeting in course read and approved. Moved by Thompson and seconded by Worswick that the Editor of The Kansas Fraternal Citizen be instructed to revise and bring up to date his mailing list and submit a copy of it to the State Secretary to be checked up and that he give his personal attention to mailing the papers so that he may know that each issue of the official paper is mailed to every member of the Society according to the laws of the Order. Carried unanimously. Moved by Thompson and seconded by Worswick that the State Secretary be instructed to write the Secretaries of the Local Assemblies to furnish the mailing addresses of every member of their respective Assemblies.

Carried unanimously. Moved by Thompson and seconded by Hertel that $11, being the amount M. (). Scott of Osawatomie admits owing Ottawa Assembly No. 26, be withheld from any commissions due him from the Society and that an amount equivalent to make the total $14.00 be allowed said Assembly by the Society.

Carried unanimously. Communications from Friend Hugh Ooyan of Fort Scott Assembly No. -52 to President Allaman and Friend L. R. Thompson were read.

Moved by Thompson and seconded by Worswick that the death claim of Friend Richard J. Waugh, member of Almena Assembly No. 124, Almena, Kansas, claim No. 148, certificate No. 4169 for Friend Carrie M.

Iden, member of Parsons Assembly No. 17, Parsons, Kansas, claim No. 149, certificate No. 4875 for Friend Samuel C. Strunk, member of Hering-ton Assembly No.

49, Herington, Kansas, claim No. 150, certificate No. 3142 for Friend Henry T. Brown, member of ElDorado Assembly No. 68, ElDorado, claim No.

151, certificate No. 2269 for and Friend John G. Wolf, member of Atchison Assembly No. 15, Atchison, Kansas, claim No. 152, certificate No.

752 for be allowed and ordered paid and the State Secretary directed to draw warrants on the Benefit Fund of the Society in payment thereof. Carried unanimously. Adjourned until 1:30 p. m. Afternoon Session, 1:30 p.

m. Present, same as at morning session. Moved by Worswick and seconded by Hertel that General Attorney Hemphill be advanced $25.00 expense money for the month of June. Carried unanimously. Moved by Worswick and seconded by Thompson that 20 of the amount collected from the May assessment be apportioned to the General Fund and the balance to the Benefit Fund.

Carried unanimously. The following bills were examined by the members of the Executive Council, same were on motion allowed Certificates in force April 30, 1917 5,341 Applications Approved May, 1917. Assembly No. 1, Kansas City 18 Assembly No. 4, Wichita 1 Assembly No.

9, Arkansas City. 1 Assembly No. 15, Atchison 11 Assembly No. 19, Pittsburg 14 Assembly No. 20, Dodge City 1 Assembly No.

25, Yates Center 1 Assembly No. 26, 7 Assembly No. 34, Great Bend 2 Assembly No. 49, Herington 10 Assembly No. 50, Mankato 2 Assembly No.

82, Welda 6 Assembly No. 116, Eureka 1 Assembly No. 118, 1 Assembly No. 120, Kansas City 4 Assembly No. 145, Ottawa 1 Assembly No.

146, Osawatomie 1 Assembly No. 149, Wichita 5 Assembly No? 100, 3 if! 1 Meeting adjourned to meet July 10, 1917, at 10:00 a. in the office of The Kansas Fraternal Citizens, at which time the Executive Council shall sit as a Canvassing Board to canvas returns of referendum votes. N. A.

CAMPBELL. State Secy-Treas. FINANCIAL STATEMENT May 31, 1917 Cash balance May 1, 3,213.77 RECEIPTS Assessments 7,219.15 Per Capita 526.80 Certificate Fees 1.00 Lodge Supplies 2.35 Buttons and Badges 1.00 Interest on Deposits 10.60 $10,974.67 DISBURSEMENTS Commission 769.10 Premiums to Secretaries 280.70 Officers' Salaries 278.33 Officers' Expenses 227.92 Office Employees 125.00 Janitor Work 8.00 Deputies Salary and Expense 533.55 Ptg. and Sta 53.61 Postage Teleph. and Teleg.

i. 59.20 Official Paper 173.63 Death Claims 2,000.00 Contingent Fund 42.02 Office Rent 50.00 Medical Exam. Fees 84.50 Total 90 Table Showing Membership, Suspensions and per cent for April, 1917 1 Pioneer, Kansas City 337 17 5 4 Wichita 205 19 9 6 Olathe 62 2 3.2 7 Grandview, Ks. City 236 12 5 9 Arkansas City 113 1 0.9 15 Atchison 112 10 9 16 Galva 26 2 7.7 40 Iola 127 3 2.3 43 Towanda 33 1 3.3 44 Norton 207 7 3.3 45 Girard 64 1 1.5 62 Columbus 46 1 2.1 73 Downs 35 1 2.8 74 Winchester 9 1 11 86 Leavenworth 41 2 5 87 Washington 15 1 6.6 91 Woodston 15 1 6.6 103 Augusta 34 2 5.8 106 Che'rryvale 20 1 5 121 Oberlin 73 1 1.3 122 Harper 26 2 7.6 127 Florence 5 1 20' 130 Neal 14 1 7 149 Sunflower, 14 2 14 4,685.56 Cash Balance May 31, 6,289.11 State Exchange Bank 2,736.67 Fourth National Bank 479.81 Farmers National Bank 1,011.05 State Bank of Zenith 1,001.70 Citizens State Bank 1,000.68 Cash in Office 59.20 92 Total 6,289.11 X-.