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"No, no, dear Eastern friends, the youth of the West are not raised in that half-savage state in which ye suppose they are; and by paying us a visit you will find that literature, and the arts and sciences are not ignored, while morally, religiously, and educationally the Western people rather excel those of the East. In summing up the total number of schools in Wright county, we find that they amount to thirty-four, which, in proportion to the number of inhabitants it contains, offers equal facilities for educating the youth with any other county in the state."
EARLY SCHOOL HOUSES.
Concerning the early school houses in Wright county the following has been discovered by careful research :
Troy township's first school house was a small cabin. The next was a frame house, twenty-four by thirty feet, built in 1859. In 1870 the township had four buildings, including one good brick building.
Liberty township, in 1870, had four school houses and good schools.
Boone township had its first school in Uncle C. H. Martin's log cabin, near the Boone river in the early fifties. In 1870 it had three buildings.
Belmond township had a fine school building in 1857.
Pleasant township had three good frame buildings in 1870.
Iowa township had, in 1870, four good school buildings.
Wall Lake township had, in 1870, three frame buildings.
Clarion township, as originally bounded, had, in 1870, two buildings, besides the splendid one at Clarion town.
Vernon township had two school houses in 1870.
SUMMARY OF RECENT GROWTH OF SCHOOLS.
From about 1895 to 1905 changes began to occur in the factors making up the rural schools of the county. As a result of operating industrial con-
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ditions, many young men were available for teachers, and at the county teach- ers' institute nearly one-third of those in attendance were men teachers. Dur- ing the next ten-year period, however, a marked change in the teaching force occurred.
The Iowa drainage law put the work of draining the farm lands on a permanent basis; work of this kind made a heavy draft upon the male por- tion of the teaching force, and the percentage of women increased rapidly until today ( 1915), we employ ninety-eight per cent. of women teachers in the county.
While this change was taking place, another more or less significant movement spread over the county. This had to do with a change in school- house sites. Formerly, as the county was being settled up, school houses were built in the center of population, thus accommodating the children of the set- tlers, whereas by 1895 to 1900 a greater portion of the land was taken up and this condition called for a removal of the school houses to the geographical centers, thus accommodating all alike.
It was no uncommon sight to see a party of neighbors out with teams and trucks, moving the school house from one site to another in the school district. These changes of location of school houses on other sites have been accompanied by more or less friction, both over location and the establishing of roads there after the site was once established.
Here it might be well to state that the unit of taxation in this county for school purposes is generally the township, city, town, or independent school district, each school township having a sub-director for each sub-district and a director-at-large where the township is composed of an even number of sub-districts. While in the town, city and consolidated school corporations a board of five directors manage the school affairs. In the rural independent school districts the board of school directors consists of three persons. Each school corporation has a secretary and treasurer.
In 1808, or thereabout, Angus MacDonald was elected to the office of county superintendent of schools. He was a man of Scottish descent, a young man of strong convictions. Mr. MacDonald grew up here in this county. He worked for his living, while a boy in the common schools. He would help with the chores on a farm during the winter months, and go to school. In the summer he worked at farm work. After he had finished the secondary schools he worked his way through the state university at lowa City and came back here to Wright county to make his contribution to the educational factors here at work. He taught in the county schools for some
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time, after which he was elected to the superintendency of the schools at Bel- mond, from which place he came to the county office.
Mr. MacDonald had felt and seen the need for education among the people of the rural communities, as well as among the town people, and lent himself to the service of these needs. He took a vital interest in the county schools, and urged the readjustment of teaching agencies in accordance with home-life needs.
During the spring of 1903 or 1904 Henrietta Jenison with two of her brothers, together with the school children and some of the patrons of her school, met in a grove in Pleasant township on the last day of the spring term for a school picnic. Mr. MacDonald was invited to the picnic. The day was fine; the picnic was a fine event and Mr. MacDonald brought forth the idea of promoting the picnic as a feature of the closing days of Wright county's rural schools thereafter. This picnic, started in Pleasant township, marks a new epoch in the educational history of Wright county.
In 1906 O. H. Benson succeeded Mr. MacDonald to the superintendency of the schools and took up his work in the county office. Mr. Benson was of Swedish descent and was raised on a farm until a man, when he entered the teaching profession. Mr. Benson first taught the village school at Wool- stock, thence to Goldfield where he taught for four years. Mr. Benson worked his way from helper boy on the farm to government expert in the promotion of the organization of boys' and girls' clubs.
Because of the direction of the educational efforts of the schools of this county by superintendents MacDonald, Benson, and Howell, this county has been the source of many new and valuable educational principles for the state and nation. Mr. Benson sought to promote the redirected education through special adaption of the school work to the home life of the boys and girls. To do this he promoted the school picnics, increasing the territory included imtil the township, in special localities, was included. The idea was enlarged from year to year to instruction in games, graduation exercises and public dinners, until the township event of 1915 consisted of a township educational rally, field meet, and agricultural educational address. From ten to fifteen thousand people attended this meeting. From two hundred and fifty to three hundred boys and girls are graduated annually from the eighth grade at these picnics.
In 1811 the office was made vacant by the resignation of Mr. Benson to go to the Bureau of Agriculture at Washington, D. C., and M. L. Howell was appointed by the board of supervisors to take charge of the public educa- tion of Wright county. Mr. Howell was a farm boy and was educated at the
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Iowa State Teachers' College at Cedar Falls and at the Iowa State College of Agriculture at Ames.
At present there are in Wright county one hundred and thirty rural schools, and ten high schools. Ninety-eight per cent. of the teaching force is women.
There are seven thousand two hundred and fifty-three children in the schools, and about three hundred and fifty teachers. The average wage is about fifty dollars per month for teachers in the one-room schools, and about one thousand six hundred dollars per year for the superintendents of the various schools and sixty-five dollars per month for teachers in the graded and high schools.
CHAPTER XVII.
SECRET AND FRATERNAL SOCIETIES.
Unlike the settlements of earlier times, the communities now possessing the highest degree of intelligence and the most progressive ideas concern- ing the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man, have come to be the communities where one finds the largest number of fraternal and secret societies flourishing. In this chapter will be given the facts concerning the instituting and present standing of the fraternal orders, including the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen, Workinen, Yeomen. Homesteaders and other societies calculated to promote friendship and char- ity among the living, and a due respect and care for the deceased members, together with their family connections.
TIIE MASONIC FRATERNITY.
Masonry was first established in Wright county by the instituting of a lodge at Belmond, where there was organized, under dispensation, King Sol- omon Lodge No. 210, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, on December 28, 1866, to which a charter was granted on June 21, 1867. The first elective officers were: J. M. Elder, worshipful master ; C. D. Pritchard, senior war- den; L. H. Cutler, junior warden; S. D. Pierce, treasurer; J. C. Morris, secretary. The charter members constituting this lodge were as follow : J. M. Elder, C. D. Pritchard, L. II. Cutler, II. W. Hasen, B. W. Culver, G. G. Pritchard. L. S. Hasen and David Luick.
The lodge first met in Cutler's hall, near the lowa river; next in the Don building, which was burned in 1899, since which the present lodge quar- ters have been used. Work is carried on in the blue lodge only. The pres- ent membership is eighty-four, and the present ( 1915) officers are: E. H. Goodsell, worshipful master; C. I. Williams, senior warden; C. C. Griesy, junior warden; W. W. Goetz, secretary; J. S. Pritchard, treasurer.
The following have served as masters since the date of organization : J. M. Elder, L. H. Cutler, G. H. Richardson, J. C. Morris, E. A. Howland, H. E. A. Diehl, J. P. Byers, T. M. Slight, James Reese, W. S. Pritchard,
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F. O. Fitts, W. I. Rosecrans, C. N. Reese, E. W. Ely, 11. E. Meyer. E. H. Goodsell.
Belmond Chapter No. 411, of the Order of Eastern Star, at Belmond, was organized on March 27, 1907, with charter members as follow: Mrs. Amy L. Meyer, Prof. S. T. Nevlin, Mrs. Jessie Goetz, Mrs. Ana Ramsay, Mrs. Ella S. Nevlin, Miss Minnie E. Ames, Mrs. Millie Rule, George MI. Slight, Mrs. Anna Ml. Slight, G. H. Richardson, Mrs. Dora Richardson, Mrs. Florine Pritchard, Mrs. Laura McGregor, Walter W. Goetz, Mrs. S. F. Purdy, F. O. Fitts, Mrs. Mary Fitts, Miss Mabel Guisey, Mrs. Maud Tyr- rell, Miss Nora Guisey, Harvey C. Tyrrell, E. A. Ely, Mrs. Lizzie Ely, Col. T. B. Kaufman.
The officers in 1915 are as follow : Dasy Cameron, worthy matron ; Ernest Lnick, worthy patron; Mrs. Frances Reese, associate matron; Thera Fitts, secretary: Mrs. Lizzie Case, treasurer ; Mrs. Grace Luick, conductor ; Mrs. Bernice Williams, associate conductor.
MASONRY AT CLARION.
Cyrene Lodge No. 325, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, was organ- ized in 1873 by the following charter members: L. P. Davis, A. R. Ladd, A. R. Nelson, I. Q. Milliken, Thomas Garth, A. S. R. Groom. A. M. White, Robert Foster, M. H. Austin, P. H. Bailiff, E. E. Gould. The first officers were: L. P. Davis, worshipful master; A. R. Ladd, senior warden ; A. R. Nelson, junior warden ; I. Q. Milliken, treasurer ; Thomas Garth, secretary.
The present officers ( 1915) are: G. W. Young, worshipful master ; F. J. McCoy, senior warden; 11. Stephens, Sr., junior warden ; F. W. Wal- ker, treasurer; I. M. Ilartsock, secretary.
The total membership is now one hundred and forty. The lodge first met in the Milliken building; moved twice to different places, and in 1892 moved to its own building, on the south side of the court house square. In 1909 the Clarion Masons bought the Elliott block at a cost of sixteen thou- sand dollars and moved into it.
Mt. Lebanon Commandery No. 61, Knights Templar, located in Clarion, was organized on August 11, 1911, with charter members as follow : B. P. Birdsall, A. R. Ladd, E. M. Callender, E. B. Roblin, W. C. Brown, 11. L. Scott, G. B. Brown, W. II. Trowbridge, J. L. Lundblod, 1 .. M. Hartsock, E. A. Alexander, B. L. Oelke, E. B. White, M. W. Reid, M. McAlexander, W. W. Spaulding. J. H. Sams.
The present membership of this commandery is eighty, and its present
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officers are : H. L. Scott, eminent commander ; E. B. Roblin, generalissimo; L. M. Hartsock, captain general ; Henry Long, senior warden; A. R. Ladd, junior warden; G. J. Mack, prelate; A. Borel, treasurer; R. P. Conn, re- corder; M. A. Milliken, standard bearer; B. F. Stoples, sword bearer; E. M. Callender, warder ; F. W. Walker, sentinel. The past commanders are J. L. Lundblod and W. H. Trowbridge.
Adah Chapter No. 136, Order of Eastern Star, at Clarion, was organ- ized on October 5, 1893, by Grand Worthy Matron Maria Jackson, with the following charter members: Sisters S. Brewster, E. Callender, H. Dons, Minnie Trowbridge Fairbanks, Harwood, King. E. Ladd, A. Callum, C. Simmons, A. M. White, M. White, Laura White, Ida E. White; also Broth- ers George Brewster. E. M. Callender, L. P. Davis, J. C. Harwood, I. C. King, Dan Leonard, J. C. McCallum, J. R. Robson, H. Simmons, Fred Taft, E. B White, H. C. White and J. B. White. The first elective officers were : Allie C. McCullum, worthy matron; Mrs. E. M. Callender, worthy patron ; Mrs. 1 .. P. Davis, associate matron ; Mrs. E. B. White, secretary; Mrs. Min- nie Fairbanks, treasurer : Mrs. Harwood, conductor; E. M. Callender, asso- ciate conductor. The present membership of the chapter is one hundred and thirty, and the 1915 officers are: Ada Shackleford, worthy matron; Mrs. G. R. Grattidge, worthy patron; Mrs. Martha Leonard, associate matron; Mrs. Sadie E. Walters, secretary; Mrs. Susie Trowbridge, treas- urer; Mrs. Mabel Smith, conductor ; Mrs. Mayne Osier, associate conductor.
MASONRY AT DOWS.
Cornelian Lodge No. 425, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, was organized at Dows on February 13, 1882, with the following charter mem- bers and officers: 11. J. Miller, worshipful master; 1I. E. Schultz, senior warden; C. C. E. C. Emmerson, junior warden; R. E. Train, treasurer pro tem. ; D. Miller, secretary pro tem. ; L. J. Corbin, senior deacon pro tem. ; F. A. Thayer, junior deacon pro tem. ; A. Woods, senior steward pro tem .; R. H. Whipple, junior steward pro tem. ; J. F. Kent, tyler pro tem.
The lodge in 1915 had a membership of seventy-six, with elective offi- cers as follow: W. E. Schaff, worshipful master; O. A. Kellogg, senior warden ; James Johnston, junior warden: R. W. Birdsall, treasurer ; W. F. Wedekin, secretary; M. B. Swerson, senior deacon; O. T. Nolte, junior deacon; F. E. Schuriger, senior steward; J. W. Holmes, junior steward; N. Allen, chaplain ; II. F. Klemme, tyler. The order has a hall costing
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three thousand dollars, on Ellsworth street, which hall will accommodate about one hundred and twenty-five persons.
MASONRY AT EAGLE GROVE.
Bower Lodge No. 464, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Eagle Grove, was organized on October 17, 1884, with the following charter membership: E. A. Howland, William A. Abbe, James M. Miller, Frank G. Yeoman, Charles K. Carter, W. B. Moore, D. McTavish, Charles P. Ror- bach, W. C. Chapman, Joseph A. Miller, Ashael Middleton, E. H. Rogers, John G. Keller, Gideon Hutchins, Charles O. Bailey and Charles Evans, the first officers having been: E. A. Howland, worshipful master; William A. Abbe, senior warden ; James M. Miller, junior warden. The present ( 1915) membership of this lodge is two hundred and five and its present officers are: H. Ward Barnes, worshipful master; Charles L. Dunn, senior war- den; L. E. Wilson, junior warden; Eugene Schaffter, treasurer; James M. Rudy, secretary. The past presiding officers are E. A. Howland, Frank G. Yeoman, D. C. Filkins, Charles H. Morse, Eugene Schaffter, S. P. Barr, J. G. Grundy, J. W. McGrath, Charles Haukole, Porter Donly, George E. Correll, R. O. Packman and John A. Wright.
The first meeting of Eagle Grove Masons was held in the building now used by the Condon bakery; next in the old frame opera house; then in the Halsey building, over D. H. Price's store; then in the Masonic Temple building, in 1899. The charter of this lodge was granted on June 4, 1885. The lodge has been in a flourishing condition during all the passing thirty years of its existence.
Eagle Grove Chapter No. 123, Royal Arch Masons, was granted a dis- pensation on March 14, 1895, and a charter on October 18, 1895. The first appointed officers, under dispensation, were: S. Perry Barr, high priest ; Douglas C. Filkins, king; George E. Correll, scribe. The first elec- tive officers were: S. P. Barr, high priest ; D. C. Filkins, king; G. E. Cor- rell, scribe; Homer A. Miller, treasurer: John Buchanan, secretary. The first team to be exalted: Eugene Schaffter, Harry V. Perly, Thomas Col- lins, on July 25, 1895. The present membership is two hundred and seven, and the past high priests have been S. P. Barr, D. C. Filkins, Hugh Donly, L. J. Clark, Eugene Schaffter and J. H. Sterling. The officers in 1915 are : James H. Sterling, high priest; Richard M. Smallpage, king: Charles L. Dunn, scribe; M. Armbruster, treasurer; James M. Rudy, secretary.
Medina Council No. 26, Royal and Select Masters, at Eagle Grove,
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was organized on May 24. 1911, dispensation having been granted on that date, the first officers being: Eugene Schaffter, thrice illustrious master ; L. G. Foncht, deputy thrice illustrious master ; L. J. Clarke, principal con- ductor of work; J. D. Springer, captain of guard; Charles Hlaukole, con- ductor of council; R. O. Packman, steward; John Buchanan, recorder; M. Armbruster, treasurer. The present officers are: Lucian J. Clarke, thrice illustrious master : Charles L. Dunn, deputy thrice illustrious master ; James Il. Sterling, captain of the guard; M. Armbruster, treasurer; R. O. Pack- man, steward: John McDonald, 'Jr., conductor of council; James M. Rudy, recorder; W. H. A. Davidson, sentinel. The present membership is one hundred and sixty-eight, and Eugene Schaffter is the past thrice illustrious master.
Eagle Chapter No. 114. Order of Eastern Star, at Eagle Grove, was organized on April 14, 1892. with the following charter members: Messrs. D. C. Filkins, L. J. Clarke, E. A. Billings, Sol Livinson, Dan Livinson, F. J. Will, G. E. Correll, William Boyleson, L. B. Middleton, C. B. Ilath- away; Mesdames E. A. Billings, Sol Livinson, F. J. Will, William Boylson, E. B. Hathaway, L. B. Middleton, J. W. MeGrath, E. M. Clark, G. E. Cor- rell, O. A. Young, and Misses Fannie Filkins, Jessie Heckart and Hattie Heckart. The present ( 1915) membership of this lodge is two hundred and six, and the present elective officers are: Mrs. Blanche McGrath, worthy matron; L. J. Focht, worthy patron; Mrs. Nettie Blake, assistant : Mrs. Blanche Peterson, conductor; Miss Vinnie Johnson, assistant; L. J. Clarke, treasurer ; Ethyl McDonald, secretary.
The first place of meeting of the Order of Eastern Star was over Hutchinson's billiard hall; the second place was in the Knights of Pythias hall, and in the spring of 1899 the chapter commenced occupying the Ma- sonic temple. The past presiding officers have been Miss Fannie Filkins; Mrs. Nettie Tremain, Mrs. J. W. McGrath, Mrs. E. A. Billings, Miss Lil- lian Kosier. Mrs. Blanche Grundy, Mrs. Sactie Walters, Mrs. Modella Morse, Mrs. J. L. Slade, Mrs. L. J. Clark, Mrs. A. H. Barnes, Mrs. C. B. Hathaway, Miss Kate Ballard, Mrs. Blanche MeGrath.
GOLDFIELD MASONRY.
Fountain City Lodge No. 589, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Goldfield, was instituted on February 9, 1904, with the following charter members : J. M. Montgomery. T. B. Wallace, II. B. Bjornson, E. E. Gould,
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G. M. Ressinger, E. Vest, Dan Shuman, Howard Crill, H. C. Pinkham, Spencer Frost, John Bartyen, W. H. Short, F. E. Short, H. J. Romph. A. O. Bjornson.
The lodge now enjoys a membership of forty-five, and has officers as follow: J. B. Attenbury, worshipful master; E. B. Beisell, senior warden; J. S. Smith, junior warden ; R. P. Keith, senior deacon; Dan Shuman, junior deacon; John Cameron, senior steward; A. Kelling, junior steward; N. C. Duerst, treasurer. The past masters have been J. M. Montgomery. T. B. Wallace, Charles Troyer, J. L. Peppers, W. P. E. Eckles.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS LODGES.
The Knights of Pythias, one of the three great and growing fraternal orders, is the youngest of the three strongest fraternities in this country, and was organized in Washington, D. C., at the close of the Civil War. It was first represented in Wright county, in Eagle Grove, June 5, 1884, as Superior Lodge No. 138, Knights of Pythias, the charter members being J. L. Neff, S. C. Hall, A. Engle, C. F. Rorback, R. C. Kirkman, M. R. Armbruster, George Wright, C. H. Rogers, R. N. Merrett, S. W. More- head, W. C. Cadwell, W. A. Abbe, O. A. Young and J. Fitznanace.
The present total membership of the above lodge is ninety-one, and the officers in 1915 are: W. A. McCarty, chancellor commander; Leo J. Johnson, vice-commander; Frank De Will, prelate; J. H. Cowan, master of work; J. L. Nott, keeper of records and seal; E. C. Platt, master of exchequer; Louis M. Thompson, master-at-arms; N. D. Bangs, inside guard; W. C. Van Horne, outside guard. The past chancellor commanders are M. Armbruster, J. L. Brown, J. J. Brown, J. H. Cowan, Jo Hardin, K. K. Keith, C. W. Mattingley, J. L. Nott, E. C. Platt, O. II. Peters, D. T. Stern and F. M. Whitney.
For several years after the above lodge was organized it met in the Odd Fellows' hall, until the building of the New Citizens State Bank, when it occupied the second story of that building, continuing this occupancy for ten years; then moved to the Masonie lodge rooms, remaining there a few years, and from there moved to the Yeoman hall, where it remained about two years, after which it moved to the new Odd Fellows' hall-the three- story lodge rooms on Broadway-where it still maintains lodge quarters. This lodge has had its reverses, with the passing years, but is now in a flourishing condition.
About 1895 there was organized at Eagle Grove a lodge of Pythian
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Sisters, and it came to be the chief social organization of the city, and so continued many years, but, finally, on account of removals and lack of genuine interest, it went down.
Star Lodge No. 269, Knights of Pythias, was organized at Dows on September 11, 1890, by Clarion lodge. The first chancellor commander was Chris Klemme. The early history was all lost by the fire of 1894, and the lodge disbanded until the autumn of 1900, when it reorganized, and now has a membership of one hundred and twenty-five, "with one hundred per cent. true hustlers." The following are the 1915 officers: L. L. Beinhauer, chancellor commander ; B. D. Bangs, vice-commander ; F. II. Peterson, pre- late; T. P. Watson, master of work; W. S. Brady, keeper of records and seal; Ole Houg, master of finance; George Schmidt, master of exchequer ; Lonis Jacobson, master-at-arms; R. W. Knuths. inside guard; Henry Ole- son, outside guard. This lodge is reported to be in a fine condition.
Dows Temple No. 208. Pythian Sisters, was organized at Dows on August 14, 1907, with the following charter members: Mary McKellar, Anna Johnson, Florence Wilhelm, Isadore Issockson, Addie Rhinehardt, Carrie Shoger, Nettie Wilson, Mary Sult, Mahala Rissel, Mabel Sult, Agnes McCroken. There are now fifty members in good standing in this lodge. They meet in the Knights of Pythias hall over the Exchange Bank. The 1915 officers are: Addie Rhinehardt, Viola Brady, Martha Beinhauser, Janett Wells, Olive Brady and Ethel Nenbauer. This is one of the live lodges in this fraternity in Wright county. There have been other lodges of this order in Wright county, but they have gone down, except the one at Clarion, which data was not furnished the author of this work.
ODD FELLOWS IN WRIGHT COUNTY.
The first lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Wright county was organized at Belmond on October 22, 1874. The records of this lodge were burned on February 8, 1898, but, as far as can be learned. the charter members were Harry Parker, D. L. Cuppett. L. E. Metcalf, E. . 1. Howland, N. F. Weber, Samuel Zehrung and (. B. Winter. The past grands have been B. A. Anfinson, R. C. Bras, Jos. Bohning, I. H. Benson, R. N. Burress, G. W. Cram, L. A. Cram, .1. G. Cram, T. A. Davenport, J. D. Dryden, F. C. Felton, J. H. Fetrow, C. O. Fitts, George Hake. W. F. Hembd, R. H. Klemme, E. E. Kinney, M. H. Luick, C. P. Luick, E. M. Lathrop. J. H. Libby, J. E. Middleton, William Nelson, J. H. Neal, Ole Olson, D. E. Packard, E. A. Pierce, W. R. Ramsay, A. W. Russell, J. E.
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Rathbue, F. A. Stevens, F. E. Snyder, E. II. Sands, P. J. Scarbro, E. L. Tiede, W. E. Werts and R. E. Webb. The lodge now has a membership of one hundred and thirty-nine. The 1915 officers ( first half year) were: T. N. Davenport, noble grand; E. E. Wilcox, vice-grand; D. E. Packard, secretary, and Joseph Bohning, treasurer. Mr. Packard has served as sec- retary for thirty-six years in succession.
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