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THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The only society of the Episcopal denomination in Sac county is Holy Trinity church of Sac City, which in 1914 had a membership of twenty-four communicants. The commencement of work here began in May, 1883, when, on the 24th day of that month, Rev. Peter Fox, of Canada, arrived in Sac City. The first services were held May 27th, that year, in the school house. However, prior to this, frequent services had been held by Rev. Mills, of Fort Dodge. On June 19, 1883, a meeting of the people belonging to this religious faith met and Thomas Smith and Mr. Reed were appointed wardens and Edward Baxter, secretary. Plans were there decided upon for the erection of a church building, and the same were soon submitted to carpen- ters and builders. The work went forward and by November 10th, the same year, services were held in the newly-constructed building, which edifice cost two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. In the spring of 1902 the church building was enlarged and a chancel and vestry room were added at a cost of about two thousand dollars. Memorial windows have been placed in the church by Thomas Smith. Delmont Goldsmith and Sidney Smith, and a memorial altar by Mrs. Elizabeth Brown. The rectors here have been : Rev. Peter Fox, serving seventeen years, and followed by Rev. Douglas, who continued seven years. At present the church is without a pastor. In 19II the church records show the officers to be as follows: Mrs. L. A. Wine, sec- retary, and Mrs. Goldsmith, treasurer.
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THE ADVENTISTS.
At one time there were several members, and a society formed of this denomination, and services were held in the Gordon school house, near Sac City, but of late so many have removed that services are not continued.
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES.
There are three organizations of this denomination in the county, one at Sac City, one at Pleasant Prairie and one at Schaller. At the latter place the following is the brief history of this church: It was organized in 1886 and is known as the Church of Christ. Its charter members were as follows : J. S. Hudson, still surviving at the age of eighty-three years; Abby Hudson, J. C. Hudson, lda Hudson, J. H. Walker, Mrs. J. H. Walker, Monroe Baker, Mrs. M. Baker, S. M. Romig, Theodore Smith, Mrs. Theodore Smith and Miss Lottie Smith. The present membership is seventy-two. The present elders are I. N. Mead, Sterling Wells, W. W. Coverdale and T. V. Barnard. The deacons are H. L. W. Meirs, J. J. Mead, A. Bawker and A. G. Higgins. The frame church building was erected about 1888 at a cost of two thousand five hundred dollars on lot 6, in block 5 of the town of Schaller.
The following have served as pastors: J. W. Vanderwalker, Bert John- son, John Linder, R. O. Thompson. A. D. Finch, William Dunkleberger, E. M. Miller, W. E. Jones, C. V. Pence, John Hewitson, W. H. Hardaker and William Coverdale.
It should be stated in this connection that this denomination has no other creed than that found in the New Testament. They plead for all evangelical churches to become united in one; they favor both home and foreign missions, are great temperance advocates and do not believe it right to dance or play cards even for pastime.
The Pleasant Prairie church was organized in the autumn of 1887 by about thirty members. There had been a number of this faith in the neigh- borhood ever since 1873 or 1874. Among the members were M. Boynton and wife, Zack Long and wife, Lon Ingram and wife, James Staton and wife, Robert Wilson and wife, Mrs. Jane Barnhill, Mary Barnhill, Ransom Owen and wife, C. L. Ahrens and wife, Amos Roark, Martha and Sarah Peyton, Mrs. Mary Cox, Mrs. Ross, Mrs. Duby and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Ball, Ami Saunders and wife, Mable Miltie and possibly a few others.
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One account gives a list of the original organizers as George J. Schnirring, M. Peyton, E. L. Ahrens, L. Barnhill and F. M. Losure.
The estimated value of the church property is two thousand dollars. It was erected in the fall of 1898 at a cost of nine hundred dollars. It was built of pine. Many of the original membership united with the church at Sac City in recent years. The pastors or ministers who have served this church are H. U. Dale, Snyder, Neistrum and J. Irving Brown.
The Christian church at Sac City was organized in the summer of 1894, following a remarkable tent meeting movement in the place under Evangelist Lawrence Wright. The following constituted the first officers of the church : Elder, G. W. Burch; deacons, C. Iverson, David Nixon, Chester Cheney, WV. J. Lusher and O. R. Adams; clerk, J. W. Lusher ; treasurer, O. R. Adams. The organization was not fully completed until November 1, 1894. church building was erected the same season the society was formed. The following have served as pastors in this church: G. W. Burch, the first pastor, served from 1894 to 1897; H. U. Dale, from 1897 to 1899: P. N. Nystrom, 1899 to 1900; D. F. Snyder, 1900 to 1902; M. A. Thompson, 1902 to 1903: E. N. Tucker. from 1903 to 1904; J. Irving Brown, the present pastor, has served since 1904, faithfully and well. The Christian denomina- tion has been organized over a century now, and has more than one and a half million members. Much attention is paid to missions and the converts cost less than that of any other sect.
The church edifice in the center of the business section of the place is a good frame structure, valued at ten thousand dollars, while the new parson- age is valued at four thousand five hundred dollars. The membership of this church in February, 191.4. after the recent additions to the church, amounts to about two hundred and fifty. The Sunday school enrollment is about three hundred. The present officers are: Rev. J. Irving Brown, pastor ; W. A. Ball, clerk and treasurer; E. L. Ahrens, chairman church board; Ross May- hall, secretary of church board.
SAC COUNTY'S YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
Among the recently organized and progressive class of religious and semi-educational societies of this county is the Young Men's Christian As- sociation, the scope of which takes in all the county of Sac. It was organized in 1908 and had made rapid advancement. Without the county committee of business men, this society could not have existed. Three years after its
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founding in the county the following well-known men were such a committee : W. J. Dixon, chairman, Sac City : George B. Perkins, treasurer, Sac City; John R. Slacks, clerk, Sac City; F. S. Needham, Dr. Z. Fuller, Sac City; Ira Conger, same city ; also Prof. G. W. Lee, Prof. H. P. Helms, Lake View ; John T. Edson, Schaller; C. M. Moler, Lake View; H. M. Rogers, Lake View ; C. G. Aldrich, Schaller ; D. D. Carlton, Early ; Scott Rutledge, Early. Up to the end of the third year there had been organized six local associa- tions in the county. These were at Sac City, Schaller, Early, Pleasant Prairie and two more in the country. In these associations there were involved in 19II such activities as the regular Bible study, physical training and educa- tional work, and about three hundred men and boys were enrolled. It was then estimated that about three thousand different persons in the county had been involved in special work and events of a public nature. Play and exer- cise life, lectures, Bible study and other departments all came in for their share in the great undertaking in this county. Annual and semi-annual field meets have attracted their hundreds. At Lake View and Sac City public baths and reading rooms were established, and physical culture was made a specialty for a time. The work is rapidly being extended to remote parts of the county. At their annual meeting, held at the Methodist Episcopal church in Sac City in February, 1914, it was learned from the reports rendered that the association was in a flourishing condition.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE LODGES OF THE COUNTY.
With the advance of civilization, the increase in membership in the three great fraternal orders, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, to say nothing of the hundred and one other societies, secret and semi-secret, with the beneficiary insurance feature connected with them, has been indeed phenomenal. These societies are not as numerous or as strong in Sac City as in some of the adjoining counties, but there are several, and of these three principal secret orders this chapter will treat briefly.
FREEMASONRY.
The oldest of the Masonic lodges in the county is Occidental Lodge No. 178, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Sac City. It was chartered in June, 1866, by the following charter members: D. C. Early, J. Williams, WV. V. Lagourge, G. H. Wright, J. W. Tiberghien and T. M. Cory. In the early eighties it had a membership of about seventy. Today it has a mem- bership of one hundred and nineteen, with officers as follows: W. F. Weary, worshipful master ; J. W. Neal, senior warden ; O. C. Pfaff, junior warden ; R. L. McCord. Jr., senior deacon; F. G. Smith, junior deacon ; J. H. Stalford, treasurer : Edward Drewry, secretary; P. E. Prior, tyler. Their beautiful Masonic hall was erected in the eighties, and is now estimated to be worth fifteen thousand dollars. It stands on Main street on parts of lots 5 and 6, in block 13 of the original plat of Sac City. It is up-to-date and has an Eastern Star room, kitchen and dining room. Edward Drewry has been secretary and collector for all three branches-blue lodge, chapter and com- mandery-for the past seven years, and this insures correct methods and promptness.
Darius Chapter No. 58, Royal Arch Masons, was instituted at Sac City February 1, 1871, with the following charter members: William McKay, W. H. Hobbs, E. R. Duffie, E. R. Chase, S. S. Armstrong, J. Orr and Oliver Birt. In 1882 the membership had reached seventy. In January, 1914, the chapter had a membership of one hundred and fifty-nine, with officers as
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follows: J. Wilbur Neal, high priest; W. F. Weary, king; E. B. Long, scribe; W. H. Hart, treasurer; Edward Drewry, secretary; F. L. Goodell. captain of host; F. G. Smith, royal arch captain; W. R. Temple, master of first veil: C. E. Harding, master of second veil; P. H. Peterson, master of third veil: Malcolm Currie, principal sojourner : P. E. Prior, sentinel.
.Rose Croix Commandery No. 38, Knights Templar, at Sac City (under dispensation in 1880), was instituted in December, 1881, with the subjoined charter members : D. C. Early, P. H. Hankins, E. R. Duffie, W. H. Hobbs, M. Childs, B. W. Trout, R. T. Shearer, M. M. Gray, H. S. Briggs and Sidney Smith. In 1880 the order had a membership of thirty knights. Its mem- bership in January, 1914, is one hundred and eighty-four. The present of- ficers are as follows : George B. Perkins, eminent commander ; W. A. Nutter. generalissimo; O. C. Pfaff, captain general: W. F. Weary, senior warden ; W. H. Hart, prelate : Edward Drewry, recorder ; F. W. Loring, treasurer ; P. H. Peterson, warder ; J. H. Stalford, standard bearer.
The past eminent commanders have been D. Carr Early, Myron Childs, Phil Schaller, Carey Diehl, Charles L. Early, W. H. Hart, J. L. Criss, C. E. Lane, H. H. Allison, J. W. Wilson, W. L. Lee, F. W. Loring, J. H. Stal- ford. W. Jackson, F. E. Stouffer. J. J. Harter, M. W. Newby, F. L. Goodell, O. E. Rowe. D. D. Carlton, A. C. Shulte, C. F. Garrett, Malcolm Currie and George B. Perkins.
At Schaller, Acme Lodge No. 457 was chartered in 1883, soon after the town had got fairly under headway, having being platted and settled with enterprising men. Those who appear on the charter are as follows: R. S. Robinson, J. H. Walker, James Waddicor, J. H. Lester, C. A. Cantine. B. Mills, John Robinson, Thomas Hovendon, E. A. Bennett, J. B. Harris and 1. H. Mclaughlin. The first officers were C. L. Early, worshipful master; J. P. Lester, senior warden; E. A. Bennett, junior warden. The present ( 1914) membership of this lodge is fifty-three. Its present officers include F. H. McCray, worshipful master ; J. F. Ady, senior warden; L. L. Brannen, junior warden. The past masters are C. L. Early, J. P. Lester, B. Mills, James Harris, A. B. Searle, A. R. Gordon, F. B. Rowley, A. H. Mclaughlin, J. A. Gray, George J. Speaker and F. H. McCray. A hall was erected in 1898 costing five thousand four hundred dollars; it is of brick, located on lot No. 6, block No. 4, town of Schaller.
At Lake View, Laurel Lodge No. 517, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, was instituted February 19, 1891, with the following charter mem- bers and officers : Charles Sifford, worshipful master ; William Rowley, senior
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warden ; L. F. Davis, junior warden; John McClurg, treasurer ; I. H. Adams, secretary ; John Donahue, senior deacon; E. Cordeman, junior deacon ; John Deacon, senior steward; Martin Steinman, junior steward; F. A. Denkin, tyler; J. A. Ressinger. John W. Provost, A. L. Clauser, Thomas Batie, O. W. Owen and W. McKendrick. The present membership is sixty-five. The present (January, 1914) officers are: John Erickson, worshipful master; F. Hamm, senior warden; O. S. Holiday, junior warden; N. Westerman, treas- urer ; Fred Wells, secretary : J. T. Sigman, senior deacon ; C. P. Armstrong, junior deacon; \. Lee, senior steward: B. Remmert, junior steward; L. A. Cleaveland, tyler. The past masters of this lodge are Charles Sifford. E. F. Mahe, A. Armstrong. F. H. Clark, B. Braughton, William Dean, E. E. Speaker. H. Lindsey and .A. Lillie.
At Early. St. Elmo Lodge No. 462 was organized many years ago and now enjoys a membership of seventy-four. The present elective officers are : J. C. Hartsell. worshipful master; L. W. McCreery, senior warden; C. F. Jackson, junior warden: D. D. Carlton, treasurer; W. W. Little, secretary. The past worshipful masters have been D. D. Carlton, T. A. Barnett, C. H. Jump. Al. Bryan, E. C. Fuller, G. G. Parrett, - Denny. C. H. Allen. R. J. Jackson and J. N. Hartsell. This lodge owns its own brick building.
Wheeler Lodge No. 398, at Odebolt, was organized October 9. 1879, with charter members as follows: John M. Zane, E. P. Messer. H. T. Mar- tin, F. A. Cobb. W. W. Field, F. S. Douglass, E. Colvin. J. W. Fairbanks, W. A. Helsell and G. C. Bolt. The membership in January, 1914. was one hundred and one. The elective officers when first instituted were as follows : John M. Zane, worshipful master : E. P. Messer, senior warden ; H. T. Mar- tin, junior warden; F. S. Douglass, treasurer : F. A. Cobb, secretary; W. A. Helsell, senior deacon; E. Colvin. junior deacon; J. W. Fairbanks, tyler. The order leases their hall at present. The elective officers at present ( 1914) are as follows: O. E. Huglin, worshipful master ; M. H. Paul, senior war- den; W. M. Sayre, junior warden: Ellis Kluckholm, senior deacon; J. S. Fisher, junior deacon; W. W. Reynolds, treasurer ; J. R. Mattes, secretary ; H. W. Stratton, tyler.
At Wall Lake, Wall Lake Lodge No. 390, was allowed to work under the dispensation of June 4. 1878, and a charter was granted them June 4, 1879. Charter members were C. N. Levy. H. B. Allen, D. M. Bingman, L. J. Sifford. F. W. Weed, A. D. Herrig, B. E. Allen, C. M. Smith. W. D. Forbes and William Throssell. In 1882 the lodge had a membership of thir-
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ty-two. It now has a membership of seventy-eight, with officers as follows : C. W. Davis, worshipful master; J. A. Swanson, treasurer, since 1907; J. C. Ockerstrom, secretary; C. W. Shaw, senior deacon; F. G. Wicker, junior deacon. A hall is leased by the order at Wall Lake. The past worshipful masters include J. C. Ockerstrom, F. E. Johnston and L. T. Quirk.
Jeptha Lodge No. 201, at Auburn, was instituted June 5, 1867, by Deputy Grand Master D. Carr Early, of Sac City. The following were the first officers and members: G. W. Wright, worshipful master; William Chapin, senior warden; William Impson, junior warden; Joseph Williams, secretary ; S. B. York, treasurer ; David Hain, senior deacon ; R. M. Williams, junior deacon; John W. Wilson, tyler; Thomas Basler, steward.
The lodge now enjoys a membership of thirty-seven. The 1914 officers are: F. A. Meyer, worshipful master; G. M. Parker, senior warden, F. B. Layman, junior warden; A. Basler, treasurer; W. I. Toop, secretary. The past masters are G. W. Wright, William Chapman, Edwin Miller, William Impson, George Hicks, I. W. Deemer, C. D. Wilcox, A. Basler, W. S. Will- iams. A. M. Morrison, J. F. Rose, W. I. Toop.
In 1901 the lodge purchased the former school house, a two-story frame building, and moved it to the present location and there remodeled it at a cost of eleven hundred dollars. This lodge, it should be understood, was orig- inally formed at old Grant City and moved to Auburn in April, 1890.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.
This order is next in age to the Masonic bodies in the world and has many benefits connected therewith. Go where one may in all the civilized portions of the globe, and there can be found a brother of the "Three Link Order." Its growth has been a wonder to the masses. Founded on the precepts of the Bible, it has been the means of uplifting many a man and placing him in a position to command respect and admiration among his fel- low men. When the member of this order is ill he is cared for and in deatlı his eyes are tenderly closed from the light of the earth and his remains are buried in decency and order, while his family is cared for after his departure.
Records show that the first lodge of this order. Sac City Lodge No. 323. was instituted in Sac county at Sac City, October 21, 1875, with a charter membership of about twenty. By January 1, 1914, it had grown to a mem- bership of one hundred and ninety-three. Its elective officers at the date last given were as follows: Adolph Gustaveson, noble grand; W. W. Stokes,
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vice grand: C. E. Harding, secretary ; Harry Wood, financial secretary; B. A. Young, treasurer.
A spacious, well-planned brick hall, on the corner of Sixth and Main streets, was built by the order in 1911 at an expense of eight thousand dollars. Stock was subscribed by the members of the fraternity. All of the degrees of the order are here represented and excellent work has been done in the past and is still being done. Many of the best men in Sac City are connected with this lodge, and the Rebekah degree is made up of many of the brightest ladies of the place. A strong society of the encampment of this fraternity and the only one in the county is in existence at Sac City at this date.
At Schaller, William Garrett Lodge No. 609 was instituted by the Odd Fellows April 3. 1895. with the following charter members: John Henry, George Schaller, W. J. Howard, W. R. Brooks, L. J. French, J. F. Burkhead, C. Mayer, W. H. Reese and J. W. Kanouse. This lodge now has a member- ship of seventy-eight and is officered as follows: John Woodke, noble grand ; A. A. Resegee, vice grand; Charles E. Guernsey, recording secretary ; Ed- ward Stoelting, financial secretary: and C. Mayer, treasurer. This lodge meets in its hall over the opera house on Main street. The following have served as past noble grands: C. Mayer, Edward Stoetling, F. M. McLaugh- lin, J. W. Kanouse, R. F. Barnes, H. H. Schaefer, J. B. Harris, J. E. Rogers, A. J. Harris, C. F. Ellis, C. H. Collins, G. A. Rogers, R. W. King, W. W. Allen, W. H. Mckinney, Jens Jensen, J. D. Robinson, C. S. Wheeler, Jacob Weegar, H. J. Strahm and Charles E. Guernsey. The "three links" are very popular in and about Schaller and are made up of the best men in the vicinity.
Boyer Lodge No. 475, at Early, was organized in 1884. In May, 1890, the lodge room was burned and all records of the early transactions of the order were destroyed, hence we are unable to give the charter members and first officers. It now has a membership of ninety-nine. The present (Janu- ary, 1914) elective officers are as follows: J. R. Leighton, noble grand ; J. W. Stocks, vice grand; W. H. Allen, recording secretary as well as financial secretary ; J. W. Hartsell, treasurer. The Odd Fellow's hall at Early was erected in 1891, a veneer-brick structure, costing one thousand five hundred dollars. The order owns the upper portion of this block, which stands on Main and Second strreets. With the passing years the list of past grands may be read with much interest and are here subjoined: W. W. Shaw. W. P. Hirons, Ned Madson, E. E. Cater, J. F. DeGarmo, I. W. Scothorn, Will- iam Luff, J. R. Kenney, A. H. Borsed, G. W. Patee, L. C. Holdridge, J. L. Dunham, John Scothorn, J. Grace, John Simpson, B. F. Hazen, J. C. Blair,
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F. W. Flanagen, G. W. Little, W. T. Scott, George Huston, Robert Scothorn, G. S. Wilson, W. F. Hay, Bert Kind, James Kenney, James Newell, J. W. Hartsell, C. R. Kenney and C. J. Allen.
Odd Fellows Lodge No. 360, at Wall Lake, was organized in 1888, with at least the following members: W. M. Hamilton, Frank A. Rouse, J. F. Strohl, John A. Nelson, Frank Hawley and George W. McIntosh. The pres- ent membership of the lodge is thirty-seven. The elective officers are at this date as follows: C. W. Davis, noble grand: H. McIverson, vice grand; Chris Erickson, secretary; Samuel Robinson, treasurer. While not a large lodge in numbers, it is a lodge devoted to the best interests of Odd Fellow- ship in the section of country in which it is located.
Lytton Lodge No. 336, at Lytton, was organized January 24, 1901, with the following charter members and officers: C. F. Brobeil, Gust Hohn, S. J. Griffith, C. C. Webb, V. D. Heston. Jacob Stevens. The officers first elected were as follows: V. D. Heston, noble grand : Gust Hohn, vice grand; C. F. Brobeil, secretary; C. C. Webb. treasurer. The present membership is ninety- five. The present elective officers are: G. E. Lamner, noble grand; Ray Bechler, vice grand; C. F. Brobeil, secretary; W. G. Brobeil, treasurer. A frame hall was built by the order in 1907 at a cost of three thousand dollars, and is counted one of the finest halls in Sac county.
Auburn Lodge No. 540 was organized December 12, 1891, by Thomas Thurston, William F. Harvey. Charles F. Wagner, William C. Wagner, vice grand, Conrad Buehie, secretary, and W. F. Harvey, treasurer. The present membership is fifty-one. The present officers are C. H. Wilkey, noble grand ; George W. Smith, vice grand ; E. W. Bean, secretary ; J. B. Williamson, treas- urer. The past noble grands of this lodge have been O. C. Crandall, O. 11. Brooks, Ed. Thompson, J. B. Williams, J. B. Standfield, J. W. Martin, L. T. Wiseman, S. Anderson, J. E. Thompson, .A. C. Whittiker, H. Garnatz, A. Staton, J. Rettig. Joseph Wiseman, George Hungate. A. W. Walton, J. E. Keppleman, O. M. Ripley, E. W. Bean and J. H. Wiseman.
The dispensation for Odd Fellows Lodge No. 447, at Odebolt, was granted by Grand Master Whipple February 9. 1882. The first officers in- stalled were W. W. Stanfield, noble grand; J. W. Conklin, vice grand ; L. D. Beardsley, treasurer; John R. Mattes, secretary; A. B. Cooley, warden; R. D. Stafford, conductor ; George Brownell, guardian; R. W. Wheelock, right supporter noble grand: C. W. Stanfield, right supporter vice grand. The lodge is not a very strong one, but those who belong are true and faithful to the obligations of the fraternity. The officers elected for 1914 are as fol-
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lows: John Williams, noble grand; Ed. Martin, vice grand ; John A. Caine, secretary ; John R. Mattes, treasurer ; E. E. Stratton, financial secretary ; Glenn Smith, warden; P. O. Olson, conductor; Hans Olson, inside guard : William Caine, outside guard; M. B. Wolf. John W. Yonnie and Erick Ericksson, trustees.
Lake View Lodge No. 302, at Lake View, was organized October 18. 1888, by F. A. Lurk. The charter members and first elective officers were : A. C. Clouse. W. N. McKendrick, V. R. Anson, J. P. Therkelson, C. K. Shumbaugh and William Elwanger. Officers: A. L. Clouse, noble grand; W. N. McKendrick, vice grand: J. P. Therkelson, secretary: V. R. Anson, treasurer. The present (February, 1914) officers are as follows: A. C. Johnson, noble grand: William Belt. vice grand; V. R. Anson, secretary : C. K. Shumbaugh, treasurer. The past noble grands are A. L. Clouse, W. N. McKendrick, V. R. Anson, C. K. Shumbaugh, J. P. Therkelson, F. S. Frisbie, M. L. Kaw, H. C. Miller, Paul Miller, A. C. Johnson, O. P. Haskins. J. P. Wells, D. C. Meek, H. Chambers and C. D. Lung. A frame building was erected in 1890 at a cost of one thousand five hundred dollars, and the upper story is used for the order. The lower story was built for opera house pur- poses and public hall uses. It was erected by the Democratic Hall Associa- tion. In 1910 the Odd Fellow's bought the hall property, now having the whole structure, which is valued at three thousand dollars. The lodge is free of all debt and has five hundred dollars in the treasury.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
There have been several lodges of this fraternity in Sac county, but at present it is confined to only two points. Formerly there was a lodge at Ode- bolt and one at Auburn, but today the lodges at Sac City and Early are the only ones holding a charter.
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