Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1912 — NO CHANGE IN WOODMEN RATES [ARTICLE]

NO CHANGE IN WOODMEN RATES

pending Final Disposition of Question Policies Will Be l-nder New Plan. Rock Island, 111., Dec. 2.—lt was officially announced by the Modern Woodmen of America Saturday 'that pending the final disposition of the rate question in the last court of appeal'the old rates of the society will obtain and that no more policies under the new rates will be issued. The decree from Judge Shirley in the circuit court, of Sangamon county restraining the society from doing business under •the' new rate plan made it necessary tltat the old rates he applied. The problem that now confronts the society is the status of the 200,000 members who have left the order in protest against the new rates as adopted by the head camp at Chicago. Under a special dispensation they have 4int.ll Dec. 10 to get back into the order without being counted as lapsed members. On the other hand, there are 150.000 who hate either joined the- society since the new plan was adopted or who had their policies 'transferred from the old to the new plan. What is to be done with their policies and rates is another problem. The head officers assure the mem bers that pending the final settlement of the controversy an equitable rate will prevail for all these members of uncertain status and that no further effort will be made to force the collection of the new rates until their ( legality is finally decided on in the supreme court. _. The cold snap the weatherman had said would hit us last night did not materialize and today was during the early part of it the equal of a number of its predecessors. At noon it was somewhat cooler and the sky was murky with small clouds that only let the sun through in streaks and for little spaces of time. The weatherman now forecasts rain for tonight or tomorrow and don’t say anything about the temperature. It is probable, however, that a cold snap is not far ofT and it is almost always a sure thing that we get some zero weather along abput the middle of December.