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When first organized, the Belmond lodge of Odd Fellows met at Cut- ler's hall; then moved to the building erected by D. L. Cuppett, where Val Griesy's hardware store now stands. Next the lodge moved to the second floor of that building, and there continued to meet till E. S. Hubbard erected a building, to which the Odd Fellows added a second story. . The lodge was incorporated in that year and met in its own hall up to February 8, 1898, on which memorable date the hall and all records were burned. A new brick block was then erected on the same site and the order leased a hall of J. S. White, where it is at present located.
There is also a lodge of the Daughters of Rebekah at Belmond, having about eighty members.
ODD FELLOWS AT DOWS.
The Odd Fellow's lodge at Dows, known as Ridgley Lodge No. 450, was formed on May 15, 1882, and now has a membership of forty. The district officer, Brother Millville, of Eldora, organized the lodge with the following members: Robert Hopkins, D. H. Pepper, John L. Wilds, and C. H. Deil- man. The first officers were: Robert Hopkins, noble grand; D. H. Pepper, vice grand; John L. Wilds, secretary, and C. H. Deilman, treasurer. New members who took the work were: H. H. Williams, C. H. Ingleking, J. M. Rice, Edward Stearns, H. H. Baker, H. H. Oberton, Iowa Falls team No. 100 exemplified the work.
The elective officers of the above lodge are: Charles Kuhn, noble guard; R. H. Moyers, vice grand; W. H. Bray, secretary; G. A. Bailey, treasurer. The first past grands are: W. H. Bray, H. Bray, C. M. Flint, J. S. Will- iams, James Rice, T. L. Severe, A. A. Smith, W. E. Beach, Joe Rice, Charles Hughes, Ottis Ondler, Charles Kuhn.
W. S. Bray, finished the fourth degree in March, was appointed to office to fill a vacancy and was elected vice grand the following July; took noble grand, January Ist, filled the office one year, then was elected secre- tary and has filled the office ever since.
The lodge of the Daughters of Rebekah at Dows was organized on
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October 23, 1903, as Primrose Lodge No. 179, with the following members : James Williams, Elizabeth Williams, A. A. Smith and wife, C. M. Flint, E. C. Hammond, James Frost, Amande Oleson, Etta Peterson, Clara Peterson, Fred Simptson and wife, Susie Simptson, Ede .Albert, Mary Albert, Hulda Krummenaugh, Mrs. C. J. Murry, Clara Murry, Mina Hopkins, Nettie Beach, Flora Popejoy, Meria Severs, Elizabeth Oberton, Flora Thayer, F. Popejoy, Fred Ladendorf and wife, G. H. Jameson and Loreta Hoyte.
The 1915 officers of the above lodge are: Mrs. W. H. Bray, noble grand; Mrs. Nettie Hughes, vice grand; Mrs. L. R. Fobes, secretary; Mrs. Libby Corbin, treasurer. The Odd Fellows at Dows own their own hall. At first they met in Hopkins's furniture store; then had an upstairs room, which was destroyed by fire in 1893, after which they located at their present site.
EAGLE GROVE ODD FELLOWS.
Golden Links Lodge No. 68. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Eagle Grove, was organized on September 22, 1884, and received a charter on October 23, 1884. The first elective officers were: W. H. Jacobs, noble grand; George E. Correll, vice grand; A. Engle, secretary, and N. B. Paine, treasurer. On June 1, 1915. the lodge enjoyed a membership of one hundred and sixty-four, with officers as follow: Charles Ogers, noble grand; G. M. Winter, vice grand; S. II. Williamson, secretary, and C. C. Christensen, treasurer.
The following list of charter members may be read with interest by the fraternity : W. H. Jacobs, N. B. Paine, J. L. Neff, E. A. Howland, H. M. Belt, A Walbridge, Charles Sheets, J. . \. Correll, J. Sterling, J. H. Anderson, W. C. Ennis, J. McDonald, J. O. Prehm, George E. Correll, F. Bauer, E. K. Barnard, L. H. Goodall, W. Winebrenner, J. Yearouse, T. B. Cowan, C. Kitheart, F. C. Butchom, James Marshall, C. O. Bailey, John Culivan, .1. Engle, S. W. Morehead. Thomas Shern, II. E. Boughton, C. A. Shafer, R. W. Merriman, J. G. Keller, M. J. Root. A. E. Bradley.
Following are the past noble grands: G. E. Correll, J. S. Fout, A. P. Johnson, E. E. Bradley. W. A. Paine, J. S. Painc. J. W. Porter, S. II. Wil- liamson, W. A. Myers. A. L. Yearons, R. Franks. R. A. Franks, (. Christen- sen. G. A. Vanghu, R. I. Stultz, S. W. Kinnan, G. L. Trask, O. . 1. Schoon- over, Harry Schoonover, George E. Scott, G. I .. Webster, E. C. Jewett, J. O. Johnson, J. W. Weizel, 11. F. Wasem, II. R. Wasem, John Phippen, M. D. Braden, G. W. Baker, C. F. Carder, H. A. Good, Burt Magill, F. C. Wells, C. Wilde. W. J. Cunningham, C. T. Sidwell. R. J. Haviland, Sam
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Middleton, Paul Flower, William Saddon, H. F. Davidson, John B. Hatch, H. B. Bobenhouse, J. R. McCurry, S. Melntyre, A. H. Waddell, G. Nelson, H. Sorenson, H. Nebergall, L. C. Nichols, John Keena, John Griswold, G. C. Hurlbutt, Henry Saner.
This lodge first met in the K. of P. hall on Fifth street; later in Opera Hall block, on Broadway, until the new hall in the second story of a frame building on Broadway was completed in the fall of 1911, and has occupied new hall, in the third story of the new brick building on the corner of Broadway and Park avenue, its present home, since the latter's completion.
Eagle Grove Lodge No. 191, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was instituted on October 20, 1887, with twenty-four charter members, and in December, 1891, it had grown to forty-one members. The first officers were R. W. Merriman, noble grand; O. H. Brooks, vice grand; W. V. Palmer, secretary, and N. B. Paine, treasurer. The lodge met in December, 1891, on the east side of the town of Eagle Grove.
Golden Star Lodge No. 129. Daughters of Rebekah, at Eagle Grove, was organized on May 21, 1885. The first officers were: Mrs. S. M. Morehead, noble grand; Mrs. E. K. Barnard, vice grand; Miss Jennie Bowman, secretary, and Mrs. H. M. Belt, treasurer. Just how long this lodge prospered is not known to the writer, but it does not seem to exist today.
CLARION ODD FELLOWS.
Clarion Lodge No. 124, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was or- ganized on June 18, 1883, with charter members as follow: M. A. Kellogg, E. C. Middlecoff, S. Swartzendrover, S. B. Hamilton, N. F. Weber, Z. C. Bradshaw, Clem Stone, G. W. Middlecoff, J. M. Stella, H. A. Stowe, J. E. Rowen, A. N. Minor, S. Overacker, Jesse Smith, A. R. Ladd, P. K. Daily, W. C. Morton, A. G. Overacker, Thomas Shillington. The first officers were: S. B. Hamilton, noble grand; N. F. Weber, vice grand; E. C. Middle- coff, secretary, and Z. C. Bradshaw, treasurer.
The present total membership of the lodge is one hundred and forty- seven, and the 1915 elective officers are: Art Shillington, noble grand; D. R. Pondstone, vice grand; P. O. Brandon, secretary, and L. L. Kirk- patrick, treasurer. A hall and store building were purchased in 1908, at a cost of five thousand six hundred dollars. Four degrees are now worked in this lodge.
Woolstock and Goldfield both have thriving lodges of this order.
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ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN.
The above excellent fraternal insurance and benevolent order-the oldest mutual benevolent society in America-is represented at this date in Wright county, at Eagle Grove and Clarion.
Anchor Lodge No. 321, of Eagle Grove, was organized in 1890, with eleven members, by William Wilson, of Washington, lowa, and Deputy Grand Tilton, of Des Moines. It has had as high a membership as ninety, but owing to a chain of unfortunate circumstances, this membership has been reduced to twenty-four, its present officers being: A. Yearous, master workman and financier, and T. J. O'Toole, recorder. The order meets at I. O. O. F. hall. The order has lost by death six members, none of whom was in good standing at the date of death, hence the beneficiaries did not receive anything in way of insurance. This was no fault of the order, but of the men who were neglectful of keeping up their dues. This cir- cumstance, with removals from the city, has greatly weakened the former strength and interest in the order at Eagle Grove.
At Clarion, Maple Leaf Lodge No. 361 was organized in November, 1905, the charter members being: H. G. Saddoris, P. C. Shaw, F. M. Stock- well. Thomas Nelson, E. D. Tompkins, W. S. Dean, F. McCoy, R. B. Sweet. J. D. Haut, J. W. Reeder, William Umland, A. A. Robish, J. E. Beck, J. J. Castleman, Ed Eilers, A. F. Porter, C. T. Stockwell, W. H. Chap- man, C. F. Johnson, M. Mc. Alexander, Walter Martin, S. J. Birdsall, Fred Groves, George McNeilus. Many of these men were railroad employes of the Chicago Great Western Company, and are still connected with the order there or elsewhere. The lodge at Clarion is not as strong as it was at one time.
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA.
Camp No. 2868, Modern Woodmen of America, was organized at Goldfield on April 10, 1895, and now has a membership of seventy-five, the camp using the I. O. O. F. hall for a meeting place. The charter members of this lodge were as follow : A. W. Moseley, John Keith, J. C. Foote, G. W. Rissinger, H. H. Hanna, W. C. Knight, Lem Biesell, Mike Lambert, Will- iam Hiday, A. B. Biesell, J. F. Pulver, M. Tyler, A. P. Beck, George Haw- kins, William Beals. The first officers (elective) were: W. C. Knight, venerable consul; A. W. Moseley, worthy advisor; John Keith, clerk; J. C. Foster, banker, and George Hawkins, escort.
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The past presiding officers are: W. C. Knight, J. A. Conger, A. B. Biesel, W. E. P. Eckles, George H. Hawkins, G. M. Ressinger, James A. -, L. P. Stevenson, A. P. Buck, G. F. Kerster and L. B. Newton. Camp No. 4079, Modern Woodmen of America, was organized at Dows on July 23, 1896, with the following charter membership: F. W. Tutin, T. L. Severe, F. G. Mills, Ole Hong, James Skirwing, W. . 1. Monroe, W .H. Peyton, L. Rood. A. L. Sloager, F. Walton, F. E. Whitney, S. . 1. Wright, F. H. Braden, W. H. Braden, S. P. Conocer, .A. Granau, George Kirkpatrick, S. H. Mendell, F. Simpson, J. W. Smith, Dr. D. C. Young.
The present officers are: J. M. Little, venerable consul; T. W. Gankle, worthy advisor ; J. E. Hungerford, banker, and C. E. Hammond, clerk. The total present membership is one hundred and fifty-four. The first two years I. O. O. F. hall was used as a meeting place, but since that date the camp has leased a hall of Mulnix Brothers. The camp is in a flourishing condition and is aided materially by the auxiliary society-the Royal Neigh- bors.
Maple Leaf Camp No. 1201, Royal Neighbors, at Dows, was formed on November 25, 1898, by Gertrude Pope, deputy supreme oracle, with the following charter members: Edith Birdsall, Amanda Simensen, J. C. Power, Julia Power, Carrie Shager, Estella Graynan, Mary Hemenway, Cora Rood, Bertha Reeh, Mary Kirkpatrick, Adella Butts, Maggie Braden, Mabel Wal- ton, Florence Mills, A. L. Shager, Triphena Wedckin, Clara Peterson, Maty Barber, Mora Rummell, Vivian Lotts, Minnie Whipple, Tillie .Ander- son, Amanda Oleson, Mary Lentz, A. L. Ondler, Kate Ondler, Jennie Mulnix, Emma Kughn.
The present officers are: Ella Akers, oracle; Clara Peterson, vice oracle; Edna McCoy, past oracle; Clara Davis, chancellor; Mary Barber, recorder ; Etta Meyer, receiver; Maggie Bradon, marshal; Blanche Baxter, inside guard; Annie Oleson, outside guard, and Dr. O. A. Kellogg, physi- cian. The present membership is about ninety.
Boone Valley Camp No. 3651, Modern Woodmen of America, was organized at Eagle Grove on March 6, 1806, with Andy Schriber as consul and S. C. Graham, clerk. There are now one hundred and five members in the camp, the present officers being: C. J. Fuch, venerable consul; E. L. Loemiller, worthy advisor; L. Kubersheck, banker, and G. . A. Jones, clerk. The past presiding officers have been: F. C. Wells, venerable consul; G. W. Shamce, worthy advisor; F. A. Kubersheck, banker, and J. K. Boker, clerk.
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The charter members of this camp were as follow: W. H. Archer, R. A. Bohner, R. Bohner, Elmer Bradley, Newton Bawn, G. E. Boner, W. A. Brisbin, Chris Christensen, L. P. Everz, Samuel P. Graham, E. T. Gunder- son, Emil Haase, William G. Craig, E. H. Lyons, Robert Meriman, Thomas Murphy, William A. McKeney, C. H. Porter, John Porter, S. A. Middleton, Andy Schriber, G. A. Vaun, W. A. Brisbin, E. W. Taylor, Charles Lircke. The camp is materially aided by the existence of an auxiliary society known as the Royal Neighbors, which society has a membership of fifty-seven.
At Woolstock, Camp No. 3227. Modern Woodmen of America, was organized on January 1, 1904, the first clerk being L. B. Hopling. The 1915 clerk is F. C. Kitley, with R. R. Jones as consul. The membership in May, 1915, was reported as eighty-six. This camp also has its auxiliary of the Royal Neighbors, which is of great benefit in keeping up a lively interest in the work of the camp.
Nearly every town and hamlet in Wright county has a Modern Wood- men camp, some being strong and others weak in membership. The details of some of these societies have failed to come to hand in time for insertion in this work. At Clarion, Camp No. 3705 was organized in April, 1895. with thirty-one charter members. It is still in existence, with a fair mem- bership.
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.
Camp No. 86, Woodmen of the World, was organized at Eagle Grove, in 1806, with between fifteen and twenty members. It now has a total fol- lowing of two hundred and seven members, in good standing, the camp meeting at I. (). O. F. hall. At one date the camp had a membership of two hundred and twenty, including many railroad men; but on account of eighteen deaths and many removals it was reduced, somewhat. It is a strong camp and has among its membership many of the best business men of Eagle Grove. The camp now has a surplus of two thousand dollars in the treasury. The officers in 1915 are: Ray Vaughn, presiding officer ; Victor Vaughn, advisor; E. C. Platt, banker; J. W. Porter, clerk; William Sadden, Andrew Christensen and Art Gode, managers. Three degrees are worked there.
A Woodmen Circle (woman's order ) was organized in 1897 and has fifty-two members. There has not been a death in this circle in its whole history. Its clerk is Mrs. Nels Volding; its advisor is Mrs. Andrew Chris- tensen, and Mrs. Joseph Smith is worthy guardian.
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YEOMEN LODGES.
The Yeomen of America is an Iowa institution having originated at Algona many years ago. The head offices were moved to Des Moines and since then it has spread to all parts of the country. A lodge of this benevolent order was established at Goldfield in 1898, its original officers being: S. H. Carse, foreman ; J. W. Campbell, correspondent. There are now eight men- bers, all confined to the initiative degree of the work.
The charter members of this Yeomen lodge were: John W. Campbell and wife, N. S. Nelson, M. Hanson, Lillian Green, Duncan McCallum, Catherine McCallum, G. W. Nelson, George A. Campbell, Emma Campbell, Sarah E. Duersi, Julia Brackett, A. J. Nelson, Ferdinand Frisbie, Grant Hill, Millie Eggleston, George E. Green, W. J. Beck, P. Frisbie, Harvey Camp- bell, Magnus Hanson, Jessie B. Brown, O. Edmondson, Lewis Warner, Peter Madson, Milo Madson, Cicero Marlin, J. S. McCallum, Anton Nelson and Frank Frisbie.
The charter was granted on February 12, 1901, with Ferdinand Fris- bie, as foreman, and John W. Campbell, correspondent. Among the past presiding officers may be named : J. McCallum, J. S. Smith, N. S. Nelson, W. C. Knight, G. F. Keister and others whose names were not clearly indi- cated. On July 5, 1905, the lodge enjoyed a well-attended picnic at which J. D. Davidson was the speaker. He gave a splendid address on the fraterni- ties of modern days. Four deaths have been recorded in this lodge and one total disability member. The number of this lodge is 123. Other lodges of this order are located at Belmond, No. 63; Clarion, No. 510; Eagle Grove, No. 178; Galt, No. 230; Rowan, No. 1382.
What is styled the "Homesteaders" is an order that is, in a manner, an offshoot of Yeomanry in Iowa. Goldfield and Clarion and Eagle Grove have lodges of Homesteaders.
Eagle Grove Homestead No. 178 was formed about 1899-1900. Un- fortunately the records were all burned a few years ago, when the I. O. O. F. hall was burned, hence some of the early facts concerning this lodge cannot here be presented. The present (1915) membership is three hundred and eighty-five and the present officers are: H. B. Hallock, C. F. Wilde, J. H. Howell, Belle Lonmiller and Emily Wilde. When first organized the lodge met at private houses. Then a room was rented in the second story of the Correll building and furnished for lodge purposes, the cost of furnishi-
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ing being about one thousand dollars. The property is now all clear of debt.
Eagle Grove Homestead was organized on November 21, 1907. The first officers were: R. O. Packman, president; A. L. Lukensmeyer, vice- president ; J. H. Cowan, secretary ; C. B. Hodenfield, treasurer, and Mrs. Hattie Cowan, chaplain, the charter members being as follow: William N. Wood, Cathryn Wood, R. O. Packman, Grace Bobinhouse, Henry Bobin- house, William O. Eaton, Sophia Eaton, Nellie Hodenfield, Orum Eaton, William C. McGrath, A. L. Hukensmeyer, Verna Murry, Edna Webster, C. G. Mulinex and C. B. Hodenfied. The number of members at this date is one hundred and thirty-six. The elective officers in May, 1915, were: H. B. Bobbenhouse, president; J. K. Baker, vice-president; L. E. Wilson, secretary ; Mrs. Velene Anderson, treasurer, and Mrs. T. J. Waddell, chap- lain.
At first this lodge met at Masonic hall, but now it holds its meetings at the Yeomen hall. This is the only lodge of this exact character in Wright county. An "Art Club" is an auxiliary to the lodge-an organization for pleasure and afternoons devoted to fancy work.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.
The only lodge of the Knights of Columbus in Wright county is that at Eagle Grove, known as No. 1579, which was organized on July 2, 1911, with charter members as follow: George E. Howell, J. P. Kenefich, S. P. Lalor, Charles Lament, Xavier Wernet, S. M. Reider, Adolph Kubitschek, Dr. John E. Long, L. C. Mullen, Peter Monaghan, H. A. Cooke, William Wehrhein, M. J. Clark, Charles Merrill, Owen Sullivan, Dr. T. G. O'Toole, J. C. Barry, P. J. Barry, N. Johnson, J. T. Callopy, J. F. Keller, J. H. Plunket, J. W. Henneberry, T. H. Kenefick, Frank Mulligan, J. E. Whalen, James Steadman, W. H. Collins, George L. Indra, E. II. Allire, S. Flynn, John Dowd, Stephen Laughlin, W. J. Plunkett, J. H. Long, J. J. Nauert, Charles P. Smith, A. J. Shlader, F. J. Kubitschek, Jr., C. M. Fussellman, John F. Murphy, A. W. Tabert, B. J. Noonan, J. J. Kist, Jr., P. W. Keefe, George M. Dougan, W. A. Smith, J. F. Hurley, F. A. Dorr, Owen Bennett, Frank Lynch, J. H. Howell, E. T. Maloney, J. E. McDonald, M. E. Dunn, F. J. Kubitschek, Sr., M. Schumacher, W. J. McDermott, M. E. Noonan, C. F. McCausland. D. F. Donahoe, L. A. Bolan, L. D. Delaney, George R. Campbell, D. N. Donovan, P. H. Goslin, Rev. T. F. O'Brien, N. J. Focht, T. P. Garland.
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The original officers were: H. A. Cooke, grand knight; Frank Mulli- gan, deputy grand knight; G. R. Campbell, recorder ; Frank Kubitschek, Jr., financial secretary, and J. H. Howell, treasurer. The present total mem- bership is one hundred and fifty-eight and the elective officers in 1915 are: G. R. Campbell, grand knight; T. H. Kubitschek, deputy grand knight; T. E. Shea, recorder, and J. H. Howell, treasurer. This lodge meets at Yeo- men hall, where the first, second and third degrees are worked.
IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN.
The Improved Order of Red Men was represented at Clarion by a tribe organized in April, 1899, with the following charter members: D. L. Nagle, C. L. Speight, W. H. Brown, A. A. Fox, C. Marsh, M. A. Crawford, Ralph Wilkins, E. E. Thomas, G. A. Glendy, C. E. Sturgeon, Frank Yar- nell, B. Mowers, George Smith, Ole Mickelson, V. H. Cushway, J. Mc- Dougall, Thomas Carpenter, M. Thompson, W. E. Baker, Charles Jackman, O. H. Soseman, Roy Mowers, Arthur Mason. After a brief existence, for several reasons, principally because of warfare between the various tribes. this lodge went down, its life having been only about that of "two moons."
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
The Grand Army of the Republic is one of the secret orders, or fraterni- ties, that is known in almost every town and hamlet in all the Northland, as a patriotic memorial fraternity, established in the late seventies by that gallant volunteer, Gen. John A. Logan, of Illinois. Wright county has had the following posts of this military order, which was re-organized in the early eighties : General Lyon Post No. 133, at Clarion, organized on Febru- ary 25, 1883; Whited Post No. 247, organized on December 7, 1883; Ilart- man Post No. 149, organized on March 19, 1883, at Goldfield; William B. Griffith Post No. 465, Eagle Grove, organized on August 26, 1889, and .A. B. Wallace Post No. 488, Dows, organized on February 21, 1891.
The oldest post in the county is that at Goldfield, Hartman Post No. 149, organized on March 19, 1883, which now has dwindled to a membership of ten veterans of the Civil War. At first they met at the law office of Com- rade Captain S. M. Huyck ; then in Brackett's hall; then in Odd Fellows hall and are now holding their meetings in the office of T. L. Knight.
The charter members of Hartman Post, as shown by the roster, were : I. S. Smith, C. E. Agard, Ed Brown, C. D. Field, S. C. Farmer, F. A.
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Belknap, W. O. Dean, S. M. Huyck, W. F. Kimball, Milo Plumley, C. II. Griffith, W. V. Polmateer, J. R. Tyler, A. A. Taft, W. J. Spooner, Walt M. Sawin, F. Hartsock, J. H. McCurry, W. C. Moseley and C. E. Gould. The past commanders have been : C. D. Field, S. M. Huyck, Walt M. Sawin, I. S. Smith, L. L. Thrall, W. C. Moseley, F. Hartsock, S. C. Farmer, T. L. Knight, W. H. Hoskin, F. T. Philbrook, C. H. Frost, George W. Albee, O. B. Keister, D. N. Burnett, C. R. Pinder, A. O. Waid and W. Robinson.
The officers serving in June, 1915, were: S. C. Farmer, commander ; Walt. M. Sawin, senior vice commander; W. C. Moseley, junior vice com- mander ; T. L. Knight, chaplain ; O. B. Keister, adjutant and quartermaster ; D. N. Burnett, officer of day; M. Duerst, inside guard; W. Robinson, out- side guard.
William B. Griffith Post No. 465, Grand Army of the Republic, at Egle Grove, was organized on August 26, 1889, by L. P. Train, of Ft. Dodge, Iowa. The charter members were Civil War comrades and veterans as follow : J. C. Heckert, J. B. Dixon, E. W. Archer, S. Northrop, E. J. Davis, L. Hathaway, J. M. Miller, E. F. Griffith, S. Elliott, R. Thomas, C. H. Griffith, O. Clayton, T. R. Sidwell, J. J. Andrews, J. Brown, A. A. Walbridge, W. N. McVicker, William Dwyer, J. S. Renne, W. H. Cooper, William Card. T. E. Mathews, E. Ely, James Boole, W. S. Comstalk, S. G. logon, J. Fitzmaurice, N. Slakin, A. L. Davis.
The present ( 1915) elective officers are: R. France, commander; F. W. Flower, senior vice commander; J. Koeppler, junior vice-commander ; E. F. Griffith, adjutant; F. M. Hicks, chaplain; J. T. Arcerd, officer of the day ; F. Corliss, surgeon; N. V. Connor, officer of the guard. Several of the Grand Army posts of Wright county have gone down, their numbers being so reduced by death as to render further organization impossible.
General Lyon Post No. 133, at Clarion, was organized on February 16, 1883, with the following charter members: H. Alder. W. W. Gates, WV. G. Gibbs, E. J. Culver, A. S. Fox, J. Pearl, J. R. Lockwood, W. G. Cole, S. Overacker, H. L. Rowe, M. C. Lester. Ninety-one veterans have be- longed to this post, as shown by the muster rolls, but the present membership is but nine. The past commanders have been: W. W. Gates, Ben Entriken, A. R. Ladd, P. S. Morton, A. S. Ladd, A. S. Fox, H. H. Cory, D. N. Yarnell. H. Alder, A. S. Fox, A. R. Ladd, W. F. Gibbs, William E. Walker, from 1905 to present date-1915. The adjutants have been: H. Alder, from 1883 to 1898; J. M. Stella, from 1898 to 1914; A. R. Ladd, 1914 to 1915.
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The Woman's Relief Corps has been of great service in keeping up the post at Clarion, as it has nearly everywhere else, in the last twenty years. Indeed, it is doubtful whether the post could have survived, financially, without the support rendered by these noble wives of the Civil War veterans.
CHAPTER XVIII.
PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SOCIETIES.
In all ages of the world, among both civilized and uncivilized people, the medical profession has been held in high esteem; whether it be the learned professor, who has studied the science of medicine in all of its branches, or the "great medicine man" of the untutored savages, who from actual ex- perience has made discoveries of the healing powers of herbs and roots,- honor awaits them on every hand; while the life or death of every human being is virtually placed within their hands for safe keeping. The weary patient lying upon a bed of pain, and the no less weary watcher, wait anx- iously for the coming of the "good doctor," and on his arrival, note his every movement and every expression of countenance for a ray of hope.
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