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CENTER JUNCTION CLAY WORKS.
This industry was established in the spring of 1904 by James Leech. Mr. Leech had become satisfied from his own experience that the clay on the hill southwest of the Milwaukee depot, would make good tile and building brick, and to better satisfy himself, he had the clay tested by competent parties. The plant was erected and the work began, and the quality of the product vindicated in every particular, the judgment of Mr. Leech in establishing the clay works. Mr. Leech operated the plant until early in 1907, when he sold a half interest to M. G. Alsever. Later in the same year, Mr. Leech transferred his remaining half interest to Thomas Dawson. In the winter of the same year, Mr. Dawson became the sole proprietor and has since operated and yet owns the property.
A forty horse power engine furnishes the power for the operation of the plant. Three inch, four inch, five inch and six inch tile are manufactured, and also brick of the best quality. The plant has a capacity of six thousand three- inch tile finished product per day, and twelve thousand tile per day of the raw material. Two large kilns are in daily use, one with a capacity of twenty thous- and tile and the other with a thirty thousand capacity. Seven men are given steady employment. Even when running at full capacity, the clay works is unable to fill all its orders. The industry is an important one for Center Junction.
THE TELEPHONE COMPANY.
The first telephone company in Center Junction was under the management of a few of the town's people and business men, the franchise being granted in the spring of 1902. Later the farmer' lines installed a switchboard in town, and about this time, the local organization began to lose its identity, the farmers company gradually absorbing the local company and assuming control of the business. The Midland Mutual Telephone Company is the name of the present organization with central and switchboard at the home of Mrs. C. Moses. Other farmers' lines also connect, and the switchboard and expenses of opera- tion are sustained mutually.
CENTER JUNCTION ORCHESTRA.
The best musical organization in the town is this orchestra. At one time the town enjoyed the distinction of having a cornet band, but on account of the
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members moving away, the band ceased to exist. The members of the orchestra are : violinist, O. O. Watson; clarionet, E. W. Beck; cornet, Edward Tomlinson; piano, Gustie Dreibilbis.
CENTER JUNCTION SCHOOLS.
The public schools of Center Junction, though perhaps not as large as the schools in the larger towns, are doing good work without any boasting and without apparent display. Little has been written in history of the schools of this place or in Madison township.
The old records have been destroyed and contradictory statements been given as to the first school work in this place. As far as can be determined, the first school was held in an old log house near the present home of Frank Peterson in 1858. The following year, school was held in an old house belong- ing to Thomas Lyans until a building was erected near the site of the present ward school in 1858. Thomas Lyans was subdirector at that time. Miss Liv- ingstone was the first teacher, but during the winter of 1861, M. O. Felton was the "country schoolmaster." It was then the "banner school" of the township, having an enrollment of nearly fifty pupils. The names of the teachers after this time have not been determined.
During a part of this time, a select school had been held in town in a vacant building on Main street. In 1872, the old Ward school was moved to the site where the opera house now stands, the intention being to use the building for a shop and a new building erected in its stead. But as there was no school- house in town, it was finally decided to use this building until the much agi- tated question as to where the new schoolhouse should be built, had been determined.
In the spring of 1873, Miss Adell Isabel (Mrs. McKelvey) was hired as teacher. It was finally decided to build the new building upon the hill-the beacon light to knowledge for the rising generation. On this promontory it now stands. It was built by McFarland of this place and Brainard & Eastman of Wyoming in the year 1874.
The first independent school board under the new law were: John E. Love- joy, J. C. Houser and John Smith. The addition was built by contractor, Robert J. Espy. The addition was taken for the "big room" and the main part of the building was used for the smaller children under Miss Anna Winner. This arrangement lasted until the new part would not seat all the pupils-then it was changed and the main part used for the large scholars as arranged at present.
A few years after this, the people of the village were awakened one night by the vigorous ringing of school bell coupled with the excited cry of fire! fire! James Carson had given the alarm and in a short time every household was awake to find the cause of alarm was located in the schoolhouse. After many a Jack and Jill had climbed the hill with a pail of water, the willing hands had extinguished the blaze which had been started by some kindling that had been left on the top of the old fashioned box stove to dry.
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It was an ungraded school until 1890, when S. C. Smith petitioned the board for a graded school of ten grades. The petition was granted. The first class to graduate was in 1892, under the principalship of S. C. Smith. Miss Belle Sutliff presided over the smaller pupils at that time.
. Since that time the principals in the high school were: J. Torney, Leslie Mitchell, F. D. Curttright, Frank Hicks, Frank Fowlie, Oscar R. Gillilan, Charles Bratton, W. W. Crawford and F. W. Jones, the present principal. The primary teachers were : Alice Dawson, Carrie Paul, Sara Buck, Mary Coder and Nellie White. The eleventh and twelfth grades were added to the course of study under the principalship of W. W. Crawford.
Ten classes, numbering fifty-one pupils in all, have been granted diplomas of graduation. Of these all are living except Miss Eva White of the class of 1894. The following are the graduates:
1892-Sadie Alexander, Jennie Gilroy, Helen Montague, Alice Dawson, Howard Dawson.
1894-Lizzie Shipley, Bertha Stingley, Eva White (deceased), Charles Sutherland.
1896-D. L. Young, Vernon Dawson, Burritt Kent, Maude Stingley, Mary Coder, Lee Coder, Judson Leggett, Robert Carson.
1897-Bertha Pangburn, Alta Davis, Gertrude Shipley, Margaret Suther- land, Martha Carson, Nellie White, Arthur Young.
1899-Myrtle Dreibilbis, Edna Davis, Nellie Livingstone.
1901-Elsa Coder, Jennie Shipley, Minnie Dawson, Earl Stingley, Leo Courtney.
1902-Arthur Lincoln, Viola Lincoln, Ross Young, Mabel McNeilly, Min- nie Livingstone, May Overley, Fred Overley.
1907-Mabel Collier.
1908-Mildred Williamson, May Kent, Lizzie McDonald, Myrtle Living- stone, Ina Leggett, Earl Cook, Roscoe Stingley, Harvey Fowler.
1909-James McNeilly, Rose Berry, Frank Livingstone.
The members of the present school board are : president, J. E. Coder; O. O. Watson, Thomas Dawson, Frank Peterson, Philip Norris; secretary, William Stingley ; treasurer, Howard Leech. The Ward School located about two miles southeast of the town, is also under the jurisdiction and supervision of this school board. Frank Jones is principal of the town school and Miss Nellie White primary. Leo Courtney teaches the Ward School.
THE CENTER JUNCTION CALL.
The geographical hub of the county was the seat of a newspaper publication in its history, though but little remains of the publication except the memory. The Center Junction Call sprung up like a mushroom in the night about the year 1895. R. B. Curtis was the name by which the publisher was known locally. He came from no one could tell where, who he was could not be deter- mined. The Call was a small sized newspaper, both in subject matter and in . the size of the sheet. The publication continued for a number of weeks when the publisher removed to Anamosa and started up a daily paper. From Ana-
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mosa, the editor disappeared as mysteriously as he had appeared at Center Junction. Mr. Curtis, alias several other names, was obliged to spend a few years in Anamosa Penitentiary to meditate upon the number of hearts he had broken and torn. The Call was the first paper published in Center Junction. The paper died a natural death.
THE CENTER JUNCTION VISITOR.
In October, 1895, Harry Davis began the publication of The Center Junction Visitor, with some of the same press outfits used by R. B. Curtis in his Center Junction and Anamosa publications earlier in the year. Mr. Davis soon sold out to James Hall who issued a few editions of the Visitor, then the Visitor visited no more.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The early records of the church are not very complete, but from them the following items have been selected, as being the more important and the more interesting ones.
The first preaching in the town was by Rev. Z. R. Ward, who used a hall over one of the stores, and began his work sometime in the early part of the year 1872. The class was organized on May 12th of that year. The Fourth Quarterly Conference of that year, held July 27th, appointed G. V. Winner as steward for Center Junction. The First Quarterly Conference of the en- suing year was held at this place November 24, 1872, Rev. S. Y. Harmer being the pastor. At the Second Quarterly Conference, a committee was appointed to see about the matter of the erection of a church building. And at the Fourth Quarterly Conference, held August 11, 1873, the following board of trustees was elected, viz : Z. G. Isbell, G. V. Winner, William McIntyre, George Krouse, M. Nichols, E. S. Carlisle, M. Strayer. There seems to be no record as to the time when the building was begun, completed or dedicated. In the summer of 1873, the old parsonage at Johnsontown was sold, after the proper steps had been taken, and the proceeds used in the building of the present parsonage, Rev. W. N. Chaffee being pastor. The parsonage was completed that fall, and the new pastor, J. F. Wilcox, was its first occupant.
The class was organized with fifteen members, and from it the church has grown to the present class of about seventy-five resident members, and a few living at a distance. Through all these years the church has been doing well the work of saving souls and fitting them for the Kingdom of God.
The church at present has as auxiliary organizations, a Sunday school, super- intendent, E. Ray Young; Epworth League, president, H. E. Stingley ; Woman's Home Missionary Society, president, Mrs. Ardella Dawson.
The board of trustees : William Stingley, J. H. Courtney, H. Collier, Charles Preston, Thomas Dawson; board of stewards: Mrs. Lou Murphy, H. Collier, James Young, J. M. Young; class leader, William Stingley.
The following is a list of the pastors who have been on the work since the beginning of the church in Center Junction, the year given being the one in . which they were first appointed to the charge : Z. R. Ward, 1871 ; S. Y. Harmer,
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1872; W. N. Chaffee, 1874; J. F. Wilcox, 1876; M. T. Smedley, 1877; C. P. Mather, 1878; Rev. Mather died in August, 1880, and G. W. Rogers filled out the remainder of the year; Rufus Ricker, 1881 ; S. Goodsell, 1882; G. B. Crink- law, 1885; W. E. McCormac, 1887; A. W. Smith, 1892; W. E. Van Buren, 1897; H. F. Wyatt, 1900; Farnum Ellis. 1902; T. H. Sheckler, 1903; Joel Hilburn, 1904; T. P. Potter, 1907; H. F. Dorcas, 1908.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
On the 8th day of January, 1878, a petition was prepared and submitted to Rev. A. K. Baird, Synodical Missionary of the Synod of Iowa, north, signed by twelve members of the Scotch Grove Presbyterian church, desiring to have a Presbyterian church organized in Center Junction, Iowa. On the 18th of January, 1878, the first meeting was held with the petitioners by Rev. A. K. Baird, at which meeting, the petitioners were duly certified as members of the Scotch Grove Presbyterian church, and at their own request, dismissed to unite as a new organization by a committee of the session of the Scotch Grove church, consisting of elders Alexander McKean, William Clarke, Thomas Lyans.
On the 20th of January, 1878, a communion service was held by Rev. A. K. Baird, assisted by Rev. John Rice, when the petitioners were duly organized into a Presbyterian church in connection with the General Assembly of the Presby- terian Church of America.
The petitioners who became the charter members of the new church were: Thomas Lyans, Rebecca Lyans, Sophia Jane Lyans, Robert G. Lyans, Joanna Lovejoy, Justus C. Houser, Martha Houser, Mary Jane Espy, Robert J. Espy, Amanda Ella Lyans, Minerva Isabel Lyans, Thomas Lowry Lyans. At the meeting for organization on the 18th of January, 1878, Mr. Thomas Lyans having been a member of the session of the Scotch Grove church, was elected elder, and on the 14th of April, 1878, Mr. J. C. Houser was also elected elder and ordained by Rev. D. Russell. Thomas Lyans was installed as elder. This constituted the session.
The twelve charter members having been members of the Scotch Grove church, the new church might well be called one of the children of the Scotch Grove church. During the year 1878, a number of new members were added, as follows : John Brown, Mary Brown, John Ellinwood Lovejoy, Thomas H. McKel- vey, Peter C. Smith, Helen Smith, Casper Knittle, Jane Leech, Sarah Wilson, David C. Wilson, Samuel T. Wilson, Anna E. Wilson, Albert G. Wilson, Amanda R. Hemmingway, Mrs. Eliza Smith.
Those who have been elders in the church : Thomas Lyans, Justus C. Houser, Peter C. Smith, Everett J. Lyans, John H. M. Thompson, Matthew John McNeilly, William S. Pangburn. The last three named, are the present mem- bers of the church session.
List of pastors who have served the church: Daniel Russell, 1878 to July, 1882; James L. Wilson, July, 1882-December, 1885; William Gay, January, 1886-October, 1888; A. W. McConnell, January, 1889-October, 1891 ; Hugh Robinson, October, 1891-October, 1894; J. M. Bolton, February, 1895-July,
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1898; from July, 1898 to June, 1899, supplied by students from McCormick Seminary (Chicago) ; Thomas W. Hine, July, 1899-December, 1901 ; J. C. Orth, September, 1902-September, 1903; J. A. McKay, September, 1904-September, 1905; Robert A. Brough, July 9, 1905, the present pastor.
The present membership of the church is about forty, and among the num- ber are included a number of very loyal and faithful supporters and attendants. A Sunday school is maintained, Samuel G. Thompson, Jr., is the superintendent.
The church at the present time is supplied by the same pastor as the Scotch Grove church, the pastor residing at the latter place, and during six months of the year, preaching Sunday mornings at Scotch Grove and the afternoon at Center Junction, and vice versa, the other six months.
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES.
ROYAL NEIGHBORS OF AMERICA, FERN CAMP, NO. 1863. This local order was organized October 3, 1899, with a good membership as follows: Oracle, Mary Kent; vice oracle, Mary Leech; recorder, Mary Smith; receiver, Freda Magoon ; past oracle, Della Dawson; marshal, Jennie Felton; I. S., Lavina Carson; chancellor, Mary Livingston ; physicians, Drs. T. B. Kent and J. W. Richards ; managers : Della Dawson, Hattie Pangborn and George Platner ; and also the other members as follows: Ida Smith, Louisa Pries, James Leech, J. F. Livingston, Fred Preas, J. McDonald, W. S. Pangborn, E. E. Overly, Gertrude Shipley, Jessie Kent, Maggie McDonald, Eliza Shipley, Thomas Dawson, George Felton, Nellie White, Anna Cook and Mary Bohler. Deaths and removals have reduced the membership at present to about fourteen. The following now hold the reins of office: Oracle, Rilla McNeilly ; vice oracle, Elsie Scofield ; past oracle, Mary Livingston; chancellor, Hattie Pangborn; recorder, Della Dawson; receiver, Mary Leech ; marshal, Kitty Overly ; sentinel, Sarah Coyle; physicians, Drs. Young and Kent; managers : Elsie Scofield, Rachel Smith, Mary Livingston.
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA, CAMP No. 892. This flourishing fraternal insurance society was born March 28, 1899, with the following as guardians: Consul, C. M. Overly ; advisor, S. W. Underwood; banker, C. W. McMahon clerk, E. M. MacCormac; escort, W. F. Overly; watchman, W. A. Stingley ; sentry, H. W. Shipley ; physicians, Drs. W. A. Scott and E. G. Leffler ; managers : R. Williamson, H. S. Richardson and Z. W. Montague.
The following officers now minister to the official wants of the camp : Consul, Leo Courtney ; advisor, F. W. Jones; clerk, William Stingley; escort, Lyman Moats; watchman, Elmer Baldwin; sentry, Frank Morris; banker, Thomas Dawson; physicians, Drs. J. M. Young and T. B. Kent; managers: O. O. Watson, T. I. Platner and F. L. Serbousek.
I. O. O. F. LODGE, No. 245. This lodge was instituted in the year 1872, and was one of the first, if not the first lodge organized in the new village. But very little can be found of the history of this organization. It came to a natural or rather an unnatural end about the year 1886, when the charter was sur- rendered and I. O. O. F., No. 245, ceased to exist.
I. O. O. F., No. 711. This is the second edition of Odd Fellowism in Center Junction, the certificate of its birth having inscribed thereon the date of April
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24, 1905. It has maintained the vigor of its youth, and is now in the strength of good fellowship. The first to minister to the official wants of the lodge were: N. G., J. F. Brown; V. G., F. L. Serbousek; recording secretary and also financial secretary, J. A. McDonald; treasurer, O. O. Watson; R. S. N. G., O. E. Robertson ; L. S., Guy McDonald; warden, H. O. Dixon; conductor, O. N. Cook; R. S. S., C. W. Preston; L. S. S., F. C. Preas; I. G., N. R. Espy ; O. G., W. Watson; chaplain, H. Atwood; R. S. V. G., A. G. Smith; L. S., George McDonald. At present the lodge has a membership of thirty-six mem- bers in good standing and the following are the officers: N. G., W. F. Smith; V. G., -; recording secretary and financial secretary, E. L. Tomlinson ; treasurer, O. O. Watson; R. S. N. G., F. L. Serbousek; L. S., W. H. White; warden, H. O. Dixon; conductor, Guy McDonald; R. S. S., T. I. Platner ; I. G., J. A. McDonald; O. G., J. F. Livingston.
MYSTIC WORKERS, LODGE NO. 183. This organization began its existence in Center Junction, October 29, 1898, when worthy J. M. George, acting as master, and worthy Johnson acting as secretary, installed the following as its first officers : President, Thomas Dawson; vice president, Reilla McNeilly; secre- tary, Frank Fowlie; banker, C. E. Magoon; physician, Dr. T. B. Kent; attorney, E. E. Overly ; conductor, R. L. Rose, sentinel, Tobe Hendricks; picket, Charles Leggett; managers, F. McNeilly, J. W. Bahm, T. Hendricks. The lodge so well begun, has retained a good membership, though death has removed some and others have cast adrift. There are thirty-six members at present, several of whom now reside in distant states. The officers who now preside are: Presi- dent. T. Dawson; vice president, Edward Duncan; secretary, Flora Smith; banker. Flora Smith ; marshal, A. G. Smith ; watchman, Guy McDonald; sentinel, Ernest Wright; physician, Dr. J. M. Young; supervisors, Lyman Moats, W. M. White, Sr., Bessie Watson.
A. O. U. W. LODGE, No. 160. This lodge was established in Center Junc- tion in the spring of 1878, and maintained a flourishing existence for several years. But the lodge met with much the same problems as several other lodges of the same order in other parts of the county, and about the year 1895 or earlier. there was not enough left to call an organized society.
PEERLESS REBEKAH LODGE, No. 562. This lodge was organized at Center Junction on June 1, 1905, the degree being conferred by Evangeline staff of Anamosa. The following were the first officers and charter members: N. G., Lucia Watson; V. G., Eva Espy; secretary, Lucy Robertson; treasurer, Bessie Watson, warden, Sarah Coyle; conductor, Ollie Rawson; O. G., O. N. Cook; I. G., Mary Atwood; R. S. N. G., Ida McDonald ; L. S. N. G., Alzina Tomlinson ; R. S. V. G., Louisa Preas; L. S. V. G., Helen Ward; chaplain, Anna Cook; Wilber Watson, A. E. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McDonald, Guy McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. James Livingston, Fred Preas, E. L. Tomlinson, N. R. Espy, Harvey Atwood, Ida Leggett. The local lodge has entertained the Rebekah con- vention and has also enjoyed the distinction of having had one of the best staffs in the county. The present membership is about sixty, with the following officers : N. G., Alzina Tomlinson ; V. G., Belle Moncrief; secretary, Ida McDon- ald; treasurer, Mabel Tomlinson; warden, Mary Atwood; conductor, Elva Col- lier ; O. G., E. L. Tomlinson ; I. G., Ida Andrews; R. S. N. G., Flossie Carson;
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L. S. N. G., May Livingston; R. S. V. G., Josie Moses; L. S. V. G., Mrs. A. Preston; chaplain, Mrs. C. Sutherland.
THE K. K. CLUB.
THE K. K. CLUB is an organization composed of a number of the younger ladies of the town for the purpose of literary improvement and for the culti- vation of their tastes for fancy work. The club was organized October 6, 1908, and meets every two weeks at the homes of the several members. The present officers are: President, Alice Young; vice president, Mrs. F. W. Jones; secre- tary and treasurer, Flora Smith.
OFFICIAL ROSTER.
1885-Mayor, J. E. Coder ; recorder, R. G. Lyans; assessor, Z. G. Isbell; trustees, Martin Nichols, E. P. Chapin, F. E. Bills, J. L. Hall, E. S. Carlisle, David Clark.
1886-Mayor, J. E. Coder ; recorder, R. G. Lyans ; assessor, Z. W. Montague; trustees : E. P. Chapin, Martin Nichols, T. Dawson, J. L. Hall, G. E. Reyner, F. E. Bills.
1887-Mayor, J. E. Coder; recorder, W. W. Hunter; treasurer, F. E. Bills ; assessor, Z. W. Montague; trustees, C. E. Reyner, F. E. Bills, J. L. Hall, E. P. Chapin, Peter Smith and Martin Nichols.
1888-Mayor. Z. G. Isbell; recorder, Z. W. Montague; treasurer. H. S. Richardson ; assessor, William Stingley; trustees, William Pangborn, E. P. Chapin, F. M. Magee, F. F .. Bills, J. L. Hall and Peter Smith.
1889-Mayor, C. W. McMahon; recorder, T. Dawson; assessor, William Stingley ; treasurer, H. S. Richardson; trustees, Peter Smith, E. P. Chapin, William Pangborn, J. E. Coder, J. L. Hall and James Gilroy.
1890-Mayor, C. W. McMahon; recorder, T. Dawson; assessor, William Stingley ; treasurer. H. S. Richardson ; trustees, J. E. Coder, T. E. Canty, W. A. Scott, William Pangborn, James Gilroy and J. L. Hall.
1891 -- Mayor, Z. W. Montague ; clerk, T. Dawson; assessor, William Sting- ley ; treasurer, H. S. Richardson; trustees, J. E. Coder, William Pangborn, T. E. Canty, James Gilroy, J. L. Hall and W. A. Scott.
1892-Mayor, Z. W. Montague ; clerk, T. Dawson; assessor, H. S. Richard- son; treasurer. H. S. Richardson ; trustees, James Gilroy, C. A. Hall, Thomas White. William Pangborn, T. E. Canty and J. E. Coder.
1893-Mayor. Z. W. Montague; clerk, Thomas Dawson; assessor. H. S. Richardson ; treasurer, H. S. Richardson ; trustees, C. A. Hall, A. McDonald.' Thomas White, C. Scofield, J. E. Coder and William Pangborn.
1894 -- Mayor, J. E. Coder; clerk, Thomas Dawson; assessor, E. J. Lvans; treasurer. H. S. Richardson ; trustees, T. B. Kent, H. W. Shipley. B. C. Mack- rill, C. A. Hall, A. McDonald and Thomas White.
1895-Mayor. J. E. Coder; clerk. Thomas Dawson; assessor, E. J. Lyans; treasurer, T. E. Canty ; trustees, A. McDonald, Thomas White, George Felton. . T. B. Kent. B. C. Mackrill and H. W. Shipley.
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1896-Mayor, Z. W. Montague; clerk, William Stingley; treasurer, J. S. Smith; assessor, E. J. Lyons ; marshal, F. M. Magee; council, George Platner, Charles Magoon, H. Shipley, James Leech, George Felton, T. B. Kent.
1897-Mayor, Z. W. Montague; clerk, William Stingley; treasurer, J. S. Smith ; marshal, A. Wright; street commissioner, H. Shipley; council, T. B. Kent, George Felton, C. E. Magoon, James Leech, George Platner, B. B. Smith.
1898-Mayor, T. Dawson; clerk, F. L. Coder; assessor, E. J. Lyans; treas- urer, J. S. Smith; marshal, A. J. Lewis; street commissioner, Hezekiah Shipley ; council, C. E. Magoon, James Leech, T. B. Kent, B. B. Smith, George Platner, H. W. Shipley.
1899-Mayor, Thomas Dawson; clerk, F. L. Coder; treasurer, J. S. Smith; assessor, E. J. Lyans; council, O. N. Cook, H. W. Shipley, George Platner, J. T. Leech, N. R. Espy.
1900-Mayor, D. S. McDonald; clerk, William Stingley; treasurer, J. S. Smith ; assessor, E. J. Lyans; marshal and street commissioner, A. Wright; council, O. N. Cook, H. W. Shipley, James Leech, C. E. Magoon, C. H. Murphy, N. R. Espy.
1901-Mayor, D. S. McDonald; clerk, William Stingley; assessor, Lee Coder; treasurer, J. S. Smith; marshal and street commissioner, A. Wright; council, James Leech, M. L. Coyle, O. N. Cook, C. E. Magoon, H. W. Shipley, C. H. Murphy.
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