y (BRE Entered as second-class matter, September 2i, 1911, at the postoffice at Rock Island, Ml., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879 A a ec Volume XVIII, NOVEMBER, 1917 Mee i Number 11 , ee. QARSESUCREC STRESS RS SRR RASC ARREARS CORRS) i ee. eC a C Royal Neighbor S20 CSREES SEAR OOS CRE ER RE ORS RS RE Re Notice of Levy of ‘‘Special (Patriotic) War Tax.’’ Rock Island, Illinois, November 1, 1917. To All Beneficial Members of the Society, Royal Neighbors of America. Notice is hereby given that according to the resolution adopted at the Supreme Camp of the Society, held in Buffalo, New York, in May, 1917, author- izing the Executive Council and Board of Supreme Managers to provide means whereby a “Special (Patriotic) War Tax” should be created for the payment of death claims that may be occasioned by the death of beneficial members of the Society that enter into the military or naval service of this country in the present war with the German government, a Special War Tax in the amount of 50 cents has been levied upon all beneficial members of this Society for the purpose of establishing said “Special (Patriotic) War Fund”; 25 cents of this amount to be paid to your local Camp Recorder with Assessment No. | 1, levied for the month of November, 1917, and 25 cents with Assessment No. 3 payable in the month of March, 1918. All beneficial members in good standing November 1, 1917, must remit this tax of 25 cents to. the local Camp Recorder together with all moneys due and payable during the month of November, or stand suspended. All members accepting their benefit certificates during the month of - November will be liable for the “Special (Patriotic) War Tax.” HADA M. CARLSON, Authorized by the 1917 Supreme Camp and the Executive Council Supreme Recorder and the Board of Supreme Managers, Royal Neighbors of America. Pioheewdena) Mit Mo aa lalalalaialaie ialalataiata taille alata etal elit ttt | | | | fi