People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP. [ARTICLE]

INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP.

Advance Guard of A. P. A. Delegates to Supreme Council at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wis., May B.—The meeting of the supreme council of the A. P. A. will be the largest which has been held. The increase in membership has come principally from the South and the New England states. The question of affiliation or consolidation with the Canadian Protective association will be one of the important questions which will come before the council. On account of the mutual interests of the American Protective association and the Canadian Protective association It was deemed best to unite the councils of both countries. It is said the Canadian Protective association controls the Canadian elections. Secrecy will not be removed from the work of the order by this council, although the subject of making the ritual public will be discussed. It is expected the business of the session will be completed in three days. So far as can be learned there has been no talk thus far about the probable successors to the present officers.