Modern Woodmen of America and Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society was (is) a fraternal society offering insurance and other benefits and activities. It was very popular as a form of insurance protection in the timeframe that you mentioned. It also sponsored youth activities for it's members. I have a picture of my father, John Posey (1893-1942) circa 1908-1915 with a drill team from Merrill that was sponsored by the Woodmen in some competition in Toledo, Ohio. The men were all dressed in uniforms and were brandishing axes, as men from a logging community would. The name of the team was something like Woodmen of Jenny. Margaret Posey Nelson