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1894. Sunday, June 17, was observed as a memorial day to the deceased members of the order, by a decoration of the graves in Grove Cemetery, and an address at the Universalist Church by Rev. Myra Kingsbury.
1894, September 1. Grand Canton Nemo, of Albany, New Hampshire, was entertained by Canton Pallas.
1894, October 15-17. Annual meetings of the Grand bodies were held here.
1897. The First Regiment of Massachusetts Patriarchs mili- tant spent an afternoon in Belfast in September, coming from Bangor in the steamer Lewiston.
1899. Russell Glover Dyer was appointed Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge, in place of Joshua Davis, deceased. He was elected as such at the annual meeting in October, 1900.
Aurora Lodge, No. 10, Daughters of Rebekah, was instituted April 25, 1876. The following were its first officers : A. J. Meader, N.G .; Sarah Franees Meader,1 V.G .; Hattie Adela Burkett, Rec. Sec .; Joanna Dyer, Per. Sec .; Evelyne Gilmore, Treas.
1900. Sunday, June 24, was observed by the Odd Fellows and Daughters of Rebekah by services in the Unitarian Church, and at Grove Cemetery. Rev. James Monroe Leighton delivered the sermon. The graves of forty Odd Fellows and sixteen Daughters of Rebekah in the cemetery were decorated by committees de- tailed for the purpose. The roll of deceased members of Waldo Lodge and Aurora Rebekah Lodge was read by the secretary, John S. Davidson, as follows: -
Waldo Lodge
Ames, Henry W.
Cooper, Marcellus R. Cottrell, Frank A.
Ames, V. W.
Baker, Charles.
Cressey, Daniel W.
Brown, George J.
Drinkwater, A. J.
Burgess, George Washington. Cain, A. P.
Durham, Frank Joseph.
Cammett, E. G.
Finnegan, Hugh.
Clark, J. M.
Gilmore, Charles Thomas.
Clark, William F. P. G.
Gilmore, John A.
Condon, Veranus.
Gordon, Jason.
Cook, John L.
Graisbury, Alexander N.
Ellis, Alfred Ginn.
1 By virtue of the new law giving all offices of the Rebekah Lodges to women, Mrs. Sarah Frances Meader was elected Noble Grand of Aurora Lodge, thus being the first woman in the order ever chosen to fill this office.
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Waldo Lodge - continued
Gray, Frank R.
Murphy, Theodore H.
Griffin, Charles E.
Pattershall, V. H.
Haney, Charles Wesley, P. G.
Patterson, Frank A.
Hardison, C. S.
Priest, William M., P. G.
Hatch, Barak A.
Reed, Edwin D.
Hatch, L. J.
Russell, Eben I.
Hatch, William H.
Saunders, J. Henry.
Heath, Edwin W., P. G.
Small, O. W.
Hutchins, George A., P. G.
Southworth, Fred M.
Huxford, Norman B.
Staples, S. H.
Jewett, Joseph G.
Storer, Thomas. Sweetser, George R., P. G.
Kimball, T. J.
Knowlton, John Watson, P. G.
Taylor, Thomas.
Larrabee, Jacob R.
Underwood, William P.
Mathews, Adelphus Bickford.
Walker, S. H.
Mudgett, George Irving.
Walker, Walter L.
Murch, George A.
White, Owen G.
Aurora Rebekah Lodge
Cain, Mercy H.
Knowlton, Aceneth E.
Carter, Kate.
Marriner, Sibyl.
Clough, Dora (Godfrey).
Partridge, Jane.
Coombs, Agnes.
Pettengill, Lizzie V.
Cottrell, Sarah.
Shales, Emily Pierce.
Dunbar, Etta.
Stephenson, Cora V.
Follett, Jenette F.
Thombs, Mary A.
Gilmore, Adelaide.
Walker, Maggie Y.
Godfrey, Mary D.
White, Martha.
Harrison, Elizabeth E.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATIONS, PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, KNIGHTS OF MALTA
Sons of Temperance - Good Templars - Woman's Temperance Union - Deceased Members - Union State Convention - Reform Club - Temple of Honor - Temperance Alliances - Morrell Liquor Cure - Civic League - Patrons of Husbandry - Granges - Session of State Grange - Knights of Pythias - Pythian Sisterhood - Knights of Malta.
TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATIONS
TN 1875, the Belfast temperance organizations were, Belfast Division, No. 182, Sons of Temperance; Belfast Lodge, No. 30, and Greenwood Lodge, No. 307 (Head of the Tide), Inde- pendent Order of Good Templars; The Woman's Christian Tem- perance Union; and the Belfast Reform Club.
Sons of Temperance. After a few years, its work was merged in that of the Good Templars.
Good Templars. The State Grand Lodge held its annual ses- sion in Belfast October 5, 1875. The following year that body presented a banner to the Belfast Lodge for gain in membership. Its numbers, over eight hundred, rendered it the largest lodge in the world. In October, 1893, the old Masonic Hall, in the High School Building, was dedicated as a home for the lodge. In 1893, Sunlight Juvenile Temple, No. 3, auxiliary of the institution, was organized, and flourished in 1900. Crystal Gem existed in 1890. Greenwood Lodge was reorganized in 1898, under the name of Waldo Lodge. Golden Rule, No. 317, existed in 1884.
In 1900, George Emerson Brackett was restored to the office of Grand Secretary of the State Lodge, which he had held since 1875, with the exception of the last year. Mrs. David P. Alex- ander was reelected Superintendent of Juvenile Temple in Maine. She has thoroughly organized that department of temperance work and instituted numerous temples throughout the State.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was established March 28, 1874. The Maine organization held a session in Belfast in 1880. The following year a society of young ladies, called the Young Woman's Temperance Union, was merged in the Woman's
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Union. A County Union was then formed. In 1895, badges were given the Anti-Cigarette League, which was composed of school- boys.
On September 27, 1891, a service took place at the Universal- ist Church in memory of the following deceased members: Mrs. S. G. Howard, Mrs. A. A. Marriner, Mrs. J. A. Wilder, Mrs. Eliza Wilson, Mrs. J. A. Gilchrist, Mrs. Mary Whittier Patter- son, Mrs. Martha Gilmore, Mrs. L. R. Crommett, Miss Susan C. Starrett, Mrs. Lemuel R. Palmer, Mrs. J. C. Frye, Mrs. Frances Hardy, Mrs. R. A. Bruce, Mrs. Julia A. Knight, Mrs. Kate H. Emery, Mrs. M. M. Brown, Mrs. Abigail Patterson, Mrs. C. O. McKenney, Mrs. Lucy A. Wight, Mrs. Sarah Hayes, Mrs. Horatio Huntington Johnson.
A commemorative service to Miss Frances Elizabeth Willard was held March 8, 1900.
A Union State Convention assembled in Belfast, September 29 to October 1, 1896, over two hundred members being present.
March 30, 1899. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Union was observed, by a meeting and supper at the house of Miss Ellen Prentiss Frothingham, on High Street.
The Belfast Reform Club, established May 12, 1875, had 175 members the following year. William H. Sanborn was president. It celebrated its third anniversary in 1878, since which only a few meetings have been held.
On the 20th of August, 1876, a secret organization called a Temple of Honor was established with twenty charter members. A similar one formerly existed in Belfast, in connection with the Sons of Temperance, but expired with that body.
On Christmas evening, 1881, a Citizen's Temperance Society was formed. Its existence was brief.
The Belfast Temperance Alliance was established May 20, 1882, with Walter Basdwin Rankin as president. It first held public meetings every Sunday afternoon in Hayford Hall. An auxiliary, called the Ladies' Aid Association, united with it, the same year.
1890, October 7. A Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union was organized, with Mrs. Eliza A. (Dickerson) Bur- rington as president. In 1893, it conducted a manual training school, of sixty-eight pupils. At the annual meeting in October, an address was delivered before it on "The Greek Diana," by
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Rev. George Warren Field, of Bangor. The present officers are, Mrs. Annie M. Griffin, president; vice-presidents, Mrs. Charles Albert Pilsbury, Mrs. Sanford Hills Mathews, Mrs. Albert Gam- mans, Miss Mary Jackson, and Mrs. George F. Ryan; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Mary E. Hubbard. The sewing school con- tinues, under charge of Miss Lilian Ryan. A State Convention of this Union was held in Belfast September 28, 1895.
During 1893, a "Morrell Liquor Cure Institute," indorsed by the temperance societies, graduated twenty-seven patients.
A Civic League was established in 1897, and held a few meet- ings.
"A decided advance," remarked the "Republican Journal," in its review of the year 1900, "has been made in publie senti- ment in regard to temperance and reforms. The City Council passed a curfew ordinance at the December meeting, and it is now in operation and working satisfactorily. The slot-machines were ordered out of town, and the order was obeyed; and a more vigorous enforcement of the prohibitory law was inaugurated. The local clergy gave a number of reform services on various occasions, and a mass meeting was held in the Opera House December 16, addressed by Rev. W. F. Berry, Secretary of the Maine Christian Civic League.".
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY
Equity Grange, No. 170, was established in Belfast in 1876. Wales Lewis Miller was the first master. It was reorganized in 1882. It has a hall on Belmont Avenue, one and one half miles out of town, to which an addition was made in 1897. (Burned.)
Seaside Grange, No. 243, was instituted in April, 1882, and first occupied a hall over Frank Billings Knowlton's store, on High Street, Belfast. In 1891, it had a hall on Field Street. An- other hall, sixty five by thirty feet, was built on Field Street, in 1895, and dedicated the following June, in connection with the County Grange meeting.
During the third week of December, 1889, the Maine State Grange held the sixteenth annual session at the Belfast Opera House. About six hundred Grangers were present, and the num- ber of visitors was estimated at one thousand. All the hotels were filled and the citizens opened their houses to the patrons and their friends.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
Silver Cross Lodge, No. 58, was established in Belfast in 1886, and January 18, 1887, dedicated a hall in No. 2, Phoenix Row. That block was burned the following June, and a portion having been rebuilt, the quarters of the lodge were soon reestablished near the same spot, over the store of Charles N. Black. An extension of thirty feet was added to the building in 1892. In 1896, forty-seven new members joined. Sir Knight Captain Francis Hiram Welch was presented with a silver writing-set in appreciation of his labors for the order.
Uniform Rank, Belfast Division, was instituted in 1887. August 28 and 29, 1889, the State Regiment held its annual field day here. Among the festivities was a clambake at Fort Point.
1899, January 17, Captain Francis Hiram Welch was presented with a Supreme Lodge jewel from the Maine Battalion, U.R., and on the same evening Belfast Company presented a bass drum to the Belfast Band, which is the Second Regiment Band of the order.
PYTHIAN SISTERHOOD
Primrose Assembly No. 6, composed of wives and sisters of the Knights, was organized in 1890.
KNIGHTS OF MALTA
Governor Crosby Commandery, with sixteen members, was instituted December 11, 1900, at Odd Fellows' Hall, by Frank Gray, Supreme Recorder, of Philadelphia, assisted by a degree staff from Boston. The name was suggested by Mathew W. Welch, in honor of the late Hon. William George Crosby. Its officers are: Past commander, Francis Hiram Welch; Sir Knight Commander, Mathew W. Welch; Generalissimo, Nathaniel J. Pottle; Captain General, Fred J. Stephenson; Prelate, Sanford Howard; Recorder, Melville Cox Hill; Assistant Recorder, Joseph A. Montefiore; Senior Warden, Charles Robert Coombs.
CHAPTER XXXIX
MISCELLANEOUS ASSOCIATIONS
Board of Trade - Band - Improvement Society - East Belfast Literary Society - Chautauqua Circle - School of Expressive Art - Natural Science Association - Agassiz Association - Scientific Association - Bel- fast Old Home Week Association - Legion of Honor - Ancient Order of United Workmen - Athletics - Choral Society - Rifle Club - Gun Club - Bijou Club - Central Club - Club of Ten - Club of Thirty - XII Club - Waldo Club - Grand Orient - Foresters - Banjo and Guitar Club - Order of Protection - Kings' Daughters - Musical Club - Per- sonal Liberty Club - Red Men - Royal Arcanum - Spiritual Associa- tion -Stone-Cutters - United Fellowship - Anniversary of Sailing of Bark William O. Alden to California in 1849 -The Coot Club.
THE BELFAST BOARD OF TRADE
THIS association, having for its object the organized efforts of the business men of Belfast for the better promotion of the material interests of the city, was organized in Memorial Hall, December 19, 1889. The first officers were William Colburn Marshall, president; Ami Cutter Sibley, vice-president; William Henry Quimby, secretary; Fred H. Francis, treasurer. During the first year of its existence it was instrumental in obtaining improved train and mail service, cheap excursion rates, and in establishing the Loan and Building Association. Its first anni- versary was observed by a banquet in Odd Fellows' Hall. Of late years but little has been accomplished through its means.
On the 14th of September, 1893, the State Board of Trade met in annual session with the local Board in Memorial Hall. About forty delegates from different parts of Maine attended. Papers and discussions occupied the first day. In the evening a banquet at the Crosby Inn took place, prolonged by toasts and speeches to a late hour. During the next forenoon there was an excursion down the bay, making a brief stay at Castine and dining at the Northport Hotel.
BELFAST BAND
The Belfast Military Band was established October 4, 1889. Its first officers were Ami Cutter Sibley, president; George H.
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Bemis, vice-president; Charles Haraden Field, secretary; Hora- tio Palmer Thompson, treasurer; Ami Cutter Sibley, Arthur Irving Brown, Charles Baker, George William Burkett, David Pollard Flanders, Samuel Worth Johnson, and Elbridge Simmons Pitcher, directors. The instruments were six clarionets, five cor- nets, two orchestral horns, two altos, two tenor slide trombones, two E flat basses, one valve tenor, one bass slide trombone, one baritone, one double B flat, one piccolo, drums and cymbals.
Under the instruction of Mr. Frank J. Rigby, and by indefa- tigable practice, the band has acquired the reputation of being one of the best musical organizations in Maine, and its services are in demand both at home and abroad. It has a large musical library. An innovation was introduced in 1898, consisting of two drum majors, William H. Sanborn, who weighs 261 pounds, and is the largest man doing military duty in Maine, and Donald Orman Robbins, who weighs 40 pounds, the smallest man in the State. (See illustration, opposite.)
LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS
Belfast Improvement Society. This institution was established by the ladies, July 2, 1900, and was incorporated in 1901, with the following organization: President, Mrs. Albert Gammans; first vice-president, Miss Louise Hazeltine; second vice-presi- dent, Mrs. Charles Albert Pilsbury; third vice-president, Mrs. James Monroe Leighton; recording secretary, Mrs. George Emerson Brackett; corresponding secretary, Miss Maude Eliza Mathews; treasurer, Mrs. Bancroft Huzzy Conant. The officers are women: but men become silent members by subscribing one dollar. It has already done much work towards beautify- ing and improving the city.1
East Belfast Literary Society was formed in January, 1877, by young people, for mutual benefit and social entertainment. In April, 1880, it gave a dramatic performance at McCrillis's Hall.
1 The Society is in 1913 a large organization, and accomplishes much for the appearance of the city, and the benefit of the community. The City Park of fifteen acres, on Northport Avenue, was purchased in 1904 through its efforts, and the pavilion, bath-houses, and ovens built there. In addition, shrubs were planted, and the roads laid out and constructed, the latter at a cost of $500. A large number of well-chosen pictures have been hung in the rooms of the public schools, and a general course of public lectures was maintained for three years, through the efforts of the society.
BELFAST
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DRUM MAJORS, WILLIAM HENRY SANBORN AND DONALD ORMAN ROBBINS
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Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. This institution was organized in 1878, at Chautauqua, New York, where annual reunions are held. The object is to afford courses of home readings and study in literature, science, and art. A regular course comprises four years' readings, and a daily study of forty minutes. Each year members are expected to answer questions on the branches pursued. For mutual instruction, local circles are formed in communities. The first one in Belfast dates from 1885. The following Circles existed in 1899: Armor Bearer, Myrtle Pendleton, president; Helping Hand, Mrs. William Staples, president; Pine Tree, Mrs. David Alexander, president; Seaside, Mrs. Mary Hubbard, president; Progressive, Mrs. Etta Savory, president.
School of Expressive Art. A summer term of this school, of three weeks' duration, was held in Belfast in August, 1894, the instructors being the Misses Laughton and Professor H. W. Ticknor. The attendance was large, and on several evenings public entertainments took place here and in neighboring towns. Addresses were given by Mrs. Clara Power Edgerly, of the Boston School of Oratory.
Natural Science Association. Two societies for the study of Nature were formed in Belfast in the spring of 1899; the Belfast Nature Club, composed of adults; and the Agassiz Association, whose members are school children.
The Belfast Scientific Association, for the purpose of pursuing scientific studies, was organized April 11, 1887, with Rev. John Arthur Savage as president, and Charles Swan Bickford as secretary. The room was in the attic story of the Savings Bank Building. A collection of specimens was made, and lectures fre- quently delivered. No meetings were held after 1893. The records are preserved in the Free Library.
BELFAST OLD HOME WEEK ASSOCIATION
This association was organized June 14, 1900, with the follow- ing officers: President, Mayor Clarence Osgood Poor; vice-presi- dents, Ami Cutter Sibley, William Colburn Marshall; secretary, Herbert Tobey Field; treasurer, Charles Prescott Hazeltine. Its objects are to promote the welfare of the city by increasing the interest in it among former residents. All present and former residents are regarded as members without formal action. Under
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its auspices, a celebration took place August 7-10, 1900, an account of which is given in chapter XL.
OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
American Legion of Honor. Bay View Council, No. 362, ex- isted in 1881.
Ancient Order of United Workmen. Enterprise Lodge, No. 53, was instituted, June 19, 1888, with fifty charter members. Thirty- seven of them received degrees. While the order is social and fraternal in spirit, its principal feature is life insurance, each member carrying a policy of $2000. Charles Wesley Haney was the first in the ranks in Belfast who died. On Sunday, March 11, 1900, services in memory of J. Watson Knowlton and Frank A. Gilkey were held in the Universalist Church, and a sermon preached by Rev. Ashley A. Smith.
Athletics. An association by that name was formed in 1888, with a membership of twenty. It had rooms on Main Street, fitted for athletic exercises.
Belfast Choral Society, for the cultivation of music, was organ- ized in 1879. Rev. Simon Goodenough was its first president.
Belfast Rifle Club, formed in 1885, was composed of local sportsmen. Dr. Samuel Worth Johnson was the first president. The shooting range was on the Charles Read Farm.
Belfast Gun Club. With John Healey as president, this organi- zation started April 24, 1889, with thirteen members, the objects being practice of wing-shooting and enforcement of the game laws. The following year its name was changed to Belfast Rifle, Rod and Gun Club.
The Bijou Club, comprised of fifteen young men, had rooms in Hayford Block, in 1892.
The Central Club, for social purposes, was organized in 1886, and occupied four different locations until March, 1898, when it removed to the rooms of the Club of Thirty in Hayford Block.
Club of Ten, for social purposes, was organized in 1882, at the Den, in City Block, with ten members.
The Club of Thirty, after a continuous existence of more than a third of a century, having lost many of its members by death, and other causes, on January 28, 1898, gave up its rooms in Hayford Block to the Central Club, voting, however, not to dis- band, but to hold future meetings upon call of the president.
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Most of the members united with the Elm City and Central Clubs.
The XII Club, composed of twelve young men, was organized in January, 1882, and first occupied the office of the late Gover- nor Crosby, on Franklin Street. This was exchanged the same year for more commodious quarters in the Hayford Block. In 1891, the number of members was increased to forty, and the club removed to rooms in Masonic Temple. In 1893, it took the name of Elm City Club, with an enlarged membership. In May, 1898, it was reorganized and incorporated as the Waldo Club.
Grand Orient. Delhi Hut, No. 2000, was instituted March 8, 1887. It was a social society for those who belonged to any secret order. Seventeen were initiated.
Independent Order of Foresters. Court Waldo, with twenty- four charter members, was organized March 13, 1896.
Knights of Labor. Belfast Assembly had over one hundred and seventy members in 1885. It disbanded in 1889.
Monarch Banjo and Guitar Club, composed of young men, came into existence in 1891, and gave several concerts.
New England Order of Protection. Belfast Lodge, No. 140, was organized in 1889. It was open to both sexes, and its princi- pal feature was life insurance.
Order of the Kings' Daughters existed in 1894, and met in the parlors of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
The Parlor Musical Club, for the promotion of music culture, started in November, 1888, with twenty-five members. It was reorganized in 1898. Its present officers are: Clarence Osgood Poor, president; Rev. James Monroe Leighton, vice-president; Bertha I. Bird, secretary; Elbridge Simmons Pitcher, treasurer; Essie M. Sanborn, librarian. (1900.)
The Personal Liberty Club. Established in 1888, in opposition to the prohibitory liquor law, had two hundred members. But one meeting took place.
Red Men. Improved Order of Red Men, Tarratine Tribe, No. 43, was organized in February, 1889. It held meetings in the rooms of the Knights of Pythias.
Royal Arcanum. Belfast Council, No. 793, was estabished, September 1, 1883. William Pitt Thompson was Regent.
Spiritual and Liberal Association. On Sunday, April, 5, 1891, the Belfast Society observed the forty-third anniversary of
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Modern Spiritualism by public exercises. Its semi-centennial was celebrated in March, 1898.
Stone Cutters. In November, 1883, about forty organized under the name of the Belfast Branch Union; the object, mutual protection. John Lowney was president, and the meetings were in Johnson's Hall, High Street.
United Fellowship. Maple Leaf, No. 54, existed in 1888.
For eleven years, commencing in 1888,the anniversary of the sailing of the bark William O. Alden, from Belfast to California, December 8, 1849, with passengers and crew numbering fifty, was observed by the survivors. At the first reunion, eight were present; out of twenty-six then living. This number diminished each year, and at the last meeting, in 1899, but three out of the six known to be living attended: Henry Dunbar, John N. Stewart, and Joseph L. Havener, all of Belfast. The other three were: Henry J. Woods, of Orono; Lorenzo G. Coombs, of Globe, Arizona; and Augustus Burrill, of California.1
THE COOT CLUB
The Coot Club, an organization of Belfast young men interested in shooting and fishing, has made annual excursions among the islands of Penobscot Bay, during the first week in October, since 1902, to date, 1912. The steamer Castine has usually been chartered for the occasion, and in addition to deep-sea fishing, duck shooting, etc., it has been the custom to hold an old- fashioned country dance, which has always been looked forward to and greatly enjoyed by the residents for miles around the local- ity visited. The experiences of the Club have been many and varied, and number among them the capture of the steamer and the arrest of the members by over-zcalous game wardens. Legal proceedings, however, determined that the wardens were less versed in the law than the sportsmen, and the case was dismissed. A list of members follows: Fred Titcomb Chase, Horace Chenery, Charles E. Crawford,2 Edward R. Esterbrooks, Herbert Foster, William Henry Hall, James Howard Howes, Ralph Henry Howes, Alfred Johnson, Dr. William Cunningham Libbey, Samuel Merrill Ray Locke, T. Frank Parker, Clarence Eugene Read, Frank O. Smith,2 and William Henry Quimby. Joseph H. Darby has always acted as steward. (See illustration, opposite.)
1 In 1876, 97 Belfast men werein business in San Francisco. ? Deceased.
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THE COOT CLUB ON THE STEAMER CASTINE
MAIN STREET FROM HIGH STREET, JANUARY, 1911
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