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AUDIT ROW #282 · MACCABEES, MODERN WOODMEN, AND THE WOODMEN LINE THAT STANDS
The fraternal-benefit orders sold insurance by assessment: members paid dues and per-death assessments into a lodge fund, and the fund paid the dead member's beneficiary — the workingman's life insurance of the decades before commercial policies reached him, run through a tent, a camp, or a circle instead of an agency.The checklist's other two named orders were tested at the same strength: no Maccabees tent and no Modern Woodmen camp seated in Walkerton stands in the records reached, and the register's alphabet for this ground runs IOOF, Woodmen, Lions, Eastern Star, and the Catholic council instead. The tents' and camps' settler is the orders' own state records, named here so the negative's strength is exact: register-and-press strength, not charter-roll strength.
Principal sources: this history (the Woodmen line, ruled December 1941; the register alphabet), pointed to and restated at its strength; settlers named — the Knights of the Maccabees' and Modern Woodmen of America's state records.