. THE Yj Yj / | = . y Us Dl aN A VT jf Pi Wey) v7 EDITORIAL OFFICE VOLUME IV. ) ROCK ISLAND ILL” SEPTEMBER, 1903. PUBLICATION OFFICE, LINCOLN, NEB. NUMBER 9. FROM HERE AND THERE Items of Interest From Various Parts of the Jurisdiction Mrs. Louise Gustin, recorder of Camp 1930, Burtrum, Minn., writes: “Our camp had a dance July 31. A good time was had and $12 cleared. It was a regular Royal Neighbor crowd. I heard somebody say that about all that was needed to bring out a crowd was to say that the Royal Neighbors were at the head of it.” Mrs. Adele Brown, recorder ot. Camp. 501; :Cunton,-- Ia., writes that their camp takes up a penny collection every meeting night for the pur- chase of flowers sick Neighbors. She also writes that Mr. A. W. Gosch appre- ciates the promptness with | which our society paid the cer- tificate held by his late wife. She was buried on July 3, and July 23 he had an order for his money. He also feels grateful to the members of Olive camp for the flowers sent to his late for wife during her illness. The Royal Neighbors partic- ipated in the Thayer county Woodmen picnic held at Ches- ter August 6; the Chester Her- ald says of them: “The Royal Neighbors of Chester deserve the commendation also of the association as the only camp | of ladies in the county who | had the ‘courage’ and_ the ‘modesty’ and the ‘endurance’ to work days and nights to prepare for the putting on of a drill suitable to the occasion and worthy the acceptation of the order in general and they appeared before the company dressed in white and royal purple, and put: on a most perfect drill which delighted the audience, and the ciation did the right thing in presenting them with a $10 prize.” asso- Mrs. Rebecca Carman, re- corder of Camp 796, writes from Rotanna, Mich.: “I wish to thank the Royal Neighbors who so kindly responded to our call for aprons and to let them know that we had a royal good time. We had set July 7 for our apron bazaar, but it rained that evening, so Wwe postponed it until July 30, which proved to be a very nice evening and we_had a large attendance. We sold forty-nine aprons and they brought $14.30. We served a supper. Each lady brought a ball of carpet rags with her name on the inside. The balls were sold at auction and they brought us $10.83, so altogether we did very us ‘ ~ ’ conundrum well. After all expenses were paid there was $20.59 to put in the general fund. All seemed to _ en- joy themselves. I will close by wish- ing the sister camps success and pros- perity.” F. O. Howlett writes from Mil- waukee, Wis.: “Mrs. Viola Newman, of Burlington, la., tendered her resigna- tion as deputy for the first district Royal Neighbors of America in that state and will soon move to Milwaukee, Wis., where she will once more become associated with them, in the auxiliary to Goodfellowship Camp of Milwaukee. Mrs. Newman has been deputy for the Royal Neighbors of America for some time, being deputy for the state of Connecticut and instituting a new camp in that state, and has also insti- tuted several new camps in Iowa. She instituted Camp 2368, at Burlington, and has builded it up to one of the most active camps and one of the agement. the first, as we had six Woodmen for charter members. Now we have eight Woodmen in our camp. We meet the second Thursday of every month, and at the close of the regular work we have a short literary entertainment. It makes it more pleasant for some who bring their wives to the meetings and are not eligible for membership, as the doors are thrown open and all are then invited to come in. We have They have been with us from a good many hustlers in our camp, | THE THREE FRIENDS largest in the state, organizing a de- gree team that has carried off several prizes at different drill contests, and the Neighbors will all feel that they have lost a good worker and a faith- ful Neighbor.” “A Charter Member” writes from Withrow, Minn.: “Victoria Camp 2155 completed its organization in April, 1903, with a charter membership of twenty. Deputy Supreme Oracle Maggie Cushing, of St.. Paul, was presiding officer. We have eight new members, and one more to be added to the list at our next regular meeting. Our success in starting has been owing to the help of the Modern Woodmen, who gave us great encour- and hope in the very near future to bring our membership to fifty.” A member writes from Campbell Hill, Ill.: “During our regular meet- ing last Monday night we members of Campbell Hill Camp 7426, Modern Woodmen of America were very pleas- antly surprised by a delegation from Juniata Camp 847, Royal Neighbors, unceremoniously ushering themselves into the hall and announcing that they had prepared a supper for the Wood- men at the home of Neighbors Edward Knapp and wife, and requesting that everybody repair thither immediately after adjournment. The announce- ment was received with loud afd long continued applause, and within a very brief space of time after the ladies had retired from the hall the Woodmen had completed the business before them and were on their way to the banquet. Arriving at the home of Neighbors Knapp, all were invited into the dining-room, where they were re- galed in royal fashion. It was a very enjoyable occasion, and we believe it had the effect of binding the tw ‘amps more closely together and of inspiring both the Woodmen and the toyal Neighbors with increased zeal in = the work of promoting the in- terests of their noble orders. In behalf of all the Woodmen of Campbell Hill Camp we doff our hat and give three cheers for the Royal Neighbors of Junita Camp 847.” A member writes: “Lily Camp 3242 was organized Oc- tober 6, 1902, at Camden Place, Minn., with a member- . ship of twenty-two, and now boasts of forty-five members with several to adopt. We have ups and downs the same as other camps, but as we have had more ups than downs so far we are well sat- isfied with our work and live One great drawback with us is, we are not good financiers. We have given several entertain- ments, but never realize from them. our in hopes of doing better. We gave an ice cream social, had good crowds and only made between six and seven dollars. Probably be- cause we served too large dishes of cream. We comfort ourselves with the thought that all were satisfied and we'll do better next time. Neighbor Gale donated a sofa pillow and we gave a raffle and dance that was somewhat of a success. From the money realized from that we bought a Bible for our camp, and the rest going to fund. Qur recorder has never our general missed attending a meeting Our Royal Neighbor paper comes since we were organized. regularly and we enjoy read- ing it very much. Camps just organized should not be dis- couraged. Let me give them an idea of our third meeting. There were five members present, the oracle being one of the five. of the others were officers who have stations near the oracle, leav- ing her for audience one lone Neighbor, a Woodman, and he _ sat in the corner just as near the door as possible. -If other camps meet with like fate don’t become discouraged and you will be all right. We have a good attendance now, a good time and about every meeting night something good to eat.” Three Royal Neighbors are participating in many Woodmen picnics. This is as it should be. We help the Woodmen and in return they aid us. The two socie- ties are working together harmonious- ly, the same as before, as we remain the Woodmen auxiliary and are proud of the relationship.