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Oil City Aerie, No. 383, Fraternal Order of Eagles, meets the first and third Wednes- day evenings of each month at No. 19 Center street. Officers : W. P. P., Samuel A. Samp- sell; W. P., W. C. McClintock; W. V. P., Welker M. Hondell; secretary, Maurice Splain ; treasurer, Thomas P. McGreavy. This society is one of benevolent activities and has large membership among the patriotic.
Fort Oil City, No. 19, Home Watchmen of America, meets at Odd Fellows hall the second and fourth Monday evenings of each month. It is an insurance organization with attractive
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features. Officers : Com., C. W. Mcclintock ; vice commander, Emily Attleberger ; recorder, Josie A. Frye; purser, Mrs. Mary A. Servey. The Ivy Club dates its beginning from 1879. The club was organized as a gentlemen's as- sociation with a social life of high ideals. Liquors, gambling or anything unworthy a place in homes of refinement were excluded. A library, piano, card and billiard tables were provided, a well equipped gymnasium was a valuable aid to the rest and recreation needed by men whose business confined them to offices, and whose duties made relaxation of some sort a vital necessity. On May 15, 1879, a charter was obtained, granted to fifty-seven members. The following have filled the office of president: F. C. Fischer, April 7, 1879; C. H. Lay, Jr., July 14, 1879-80-81 ; W. J. Young, April 3, 1882; Amos Steffee, April 3, 1883; J. M. Reed, April 7, 1884; J. R. Camp- bell, April 16, 1885-86-87-88-89-90-91-92; C. M. Lamberton, April 3, 1893-94-95; H. Mc- Sweeney, April 2, 1896-97; F. O. Wilson, April 1, 1898-99; Eugene Liebel, April 2, 1900; J. C. Reynolds, March 29, 1901 ; W. H. Corrin, April 2, 1902-03 ; W. B. James, March 30, 1904-05 ; E. J. Curran, March 29, 1906-07; Harvey Fritz, April 3, 1908; J. H. Foquet, April 5, 1909; C. A. McLouth, April 4, 1910- II-12; R. P. Byles, April 7, 1913-14; A. V. Lammers, April 5, 1915-16-17-18. The club has not departed from its original high stand- ards, and to-day is an organization of which the city is proud. Its present quarters in the Ivy Club block, Nos. 31-39 Seneca street, are finely adapted to the intellectual and social needs of the members.
Branch No. 5, Catholic Mutual Benefit As- sociation, was organized as Branch No. 28 July 25, 1878, with P. D. Corrigan president ; W. A. Maloney and B. Sands, as first and sec- ond vice presidents, and the following fellow officers : John Keating, T .; J. H. Osenbeck, R. S .; Patrick Healey, F. S .; Thomas Carroll, S. D .; Cornelius Breen, M. After the or- ganization by District Deputy Friedman the presiding officers to 1888 were: R. H. Craig, December, 1878; M. Geary, 1879; William Dwyer. 1880; M. T. Collins, 1881 ; P. Kauf- man, 1882; H. Stillpflug, 1883; John E. Wal- lace, 1884; B. McSteen, 1885; W. Dwyer, 1886; Andrew Pfhendler, 1887; Thomas Sands, 1888. These were followed by efficient men who carried on the growing work suc- cessfully. To-day the officers are as follows : Spiritual adviser, Rev. P. J. Sheridan, V. G .; first vice president, Leo Hoehnlein; second vice president, Carl B. Lange; recording sec- 16
retary, W. J. Powers; assistant secretary, F. D. McCue; financial secretary, Alexander Sonoski ; treasurer, Thomas J. Walsh.
Oil City Tent, No. 21, Knights of the Mac- cabees of the World, organized Aug. 1, 1886, began with about fifty members. A. Kline, Wade Hampton, Jr., J. H. Fulmer, H. P. Boyd and F. C. Ambrose were among the first com- manders. The organization has steadily in- creased to the present day under very efficient officers. It now meets at Cornplanter hall every Tuesday at 8 p. m. Commander, S. A. Neidich, vice commander, B. W. Myers; R. K., George B. Lane.
Oil City Review No. 70, Woman's Benefit Association of the Maccabees. This lodge was chartered in 1888. Its officers in 1918 are: Commander, Mrs. Louise Vickery; record keeper, Mrs. Julia Mason; F. A., Mary J. O'Donnell. This society meets at Latonia hall the first and third Thursdays of each month at 8 p. m.
The Oil City Medical Club grew out of a suggestion by Dr. T. C. McCulloch in 1878 for more fraternal opportunities among the city physicians, but an organization was not effected until 1882, when Dr. McCulloch was chosen its first president. It is thought that the following regular physicians embraced the first membership : Drs. T. C. McCulloch, F. F. Davis, J. A. Ritchey. A. F. Coope, T. W. Egbert, W. Forster, J. D. Arters and W. F. Conners. All these and succeeding members have served in turn as presiding officer, and their monthly suppers and original scientific papers have been pleasant and profitable. After the supper, which is a feature of the evening, and is held at the "City Hotel," the meeting adjourns to some physician's office. This organization has continued until the present to keep its meetings full of interest and inspiration. Its membership includes all or most of the physicians of the city. Its officers are : President, J. R. Sharp, M. D .; vice presi- dent, J. W. Dorworth, M. D .; secretary and treasurer, F. W. Summerville, M. D.
Sons of Veterans were organized at Oil City in 1884. Two camps were formed. The North Side. Major N. Payne Camp, No. 38, had the following officers: Captain, Edward O'Flarety ; first lieutenant, Charles Ross ; sec- ond lieutenant, W. J. Anderson, while those of E. A. Madison Camp, No. 39, on the South Side, were: Captain, G. C. Rickards; first lieutenant, John Hankay. Both camps were afterward consolidated under the name of Ed- win W. Bettes Camp, No. 38. In April, 1888, it removed from Steele's hall to the G. A. R.
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hall on Seneca street. The organization still lives, now reorganized as Maj. J. B. Maitland Camp, No. 106 (Pennsylvania Division), and meets at Cornplanter hall the second and fourth Thursdays of each month. Its officers are: Commander, William H. Shaner ; secre- tary and treasurer, Harold L. Pierce.
Oil City Division, No. 163, Order of Rail- way Conductors, held meetings regularly in the G. A. R. hall, on Center street, beginning Jan. 4, 1885, under the following chief con- ductors : J. M. Richards, 1885-87 ; J. C. Burns, 1888, and S. Church, 1889. The charter mem- bers were J. M. Richards, S. Church, T. W. Evans, James Edwards, R. Fulton, J. C. Walsh, W. C. Downey, J. Shaughnessey, A. W. Dickinson, S. E. Stone, M. Liddy, C. E. Burr, J. C. Burns, R. E. Gifford, J. C. Holmes. At present this order meets at the Oil City National Bank hall on the second and fourth Sundays of each month, at 2 p. m. C. C., J. C. Walsh; secretary and treasurer, G. R. Holtz- man ; local chairman, W. C. Tarr.
Oil Creek Lodge, No. 105, Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen, was chartered with twenty members June 9, 1885. J. O. Tyler was chosen master, and his associate officers were: John Carroll, V. M .; H. G. Bambrick, S .; Joseph Orr, F .; and trustees J. W. Knee, George Riley and Thomas Connor. They had a prosperous career and a membership of twenty-eight. Early masters were: J. O. Tyler, August, 1885; John Carroll, August, 1886; T. Coughlin, August, 1887; P. Callahan, August, 1888. Now (1918) the Brotherhood meets at No. 14 Seneca street the fourth Sun- day of each month, and second Friday of each month. President, John F. Hughes; vice president, Walter G. Hanna ; secretary, Frank J. Deegan ; treasurer, V. Van Dresser.
Oil Creek Division, No. 173, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, although originally composed of Western New York and Penn- sylvania engineers, has members on all the Oil City roads, having been organized Nov. 23, 1873, by withdrawals from the Erie and Mead- ville Divisions. The first officers were: John A. Stout, chief engineer ; Peter Crahan, first engineer; P. W. Geary, second engineer : M. T. Connor. first assistant engineer; John Clark, second, and M. Drohan, third, assistant engineers; W. F. Kelly, guide, and Anson Al- bee, chaplain. They quietly prospered in their meetings and increased under their successive chief engineers. The earlier incumbents of that office were: J. A. Stout, 1874; W. F. Kelley, 1875; Peter Crahan, 1876-77; M. Moriarty, 1878; George Frazine, 1879; Joseph
Kidd, 1880; Peter Crahan, 1881 ; P. W. Geary, 1882; Samuel Weigle, 1883; John Stapleton, 1884-85; Peter Crahan, 1886; William Agnew, 1887. The lodge now (1918) meets at the Oil City Bank building hall, on the first and third Sundays of each month, at 3:30 p. m. Officers : C. C., C. S. Wheelock ; secretary and treasurer, J. A. Kennedy.
Oil City Division, No. 67, Grand Interna- tional Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers, meets at Central Labor Council hall the second and fourth Wednes- days of each month, at 3 p. m. President, Mrs. J. C. Brannon; vice president, John Smith ; secretary, James Smith; treasurer, W. G. Cross.
Oil City Circle, No. 24, Protected Home Circle, is a society for insurance purposes, for both sexes. It was formed Oct. 28, 1887, by Supreme Deputies Byard and Stratton, with fifty-five members and the following officers : Past president, Lewis Miller; president, C. B. Simmons ; vice president, B. Baer ; guardian, S. W. Sellew; secretary, C. G. Strance ; ac- countant, W. G. Hill; treasurer, Daniel Clark ; chaplain, Rev. J. D. Smith ; guide, Curtis P. Swisher ; companion, Miss A. S. Barr ; porter, H. P. Oieser; watchman, O. W. Baker. A short time after their institution in Oil City lodge room (I. O. O. F.) they took permanent quarters in the much used Cornplanter lodge room. This society now meets at Latonia hall every Friday at 8 p. m. It has prospered steadily. Mr. Simmons was succeeded as president by John Macdougall and W. E. Dar- row, and the present officers are: President, Mrs. T. Benton ; vice president and treasurer, Mrs. J. Conger ; secretary, Mrs. C. Black.
The Belles Lettres Club was organized in 1888 and incorporated in 1892. Its object was the study of literature and the founding and maintaining of a public library. The charter members were: Mrs. C. A. Babcock, Mrs. W. J. Hulings, Mrs. W. H. Wise, Mrs. W. R. Barr, Miss Clara Hartwell. Mrs. C. F. Hart- well, Mrs. B. F. Brundred, Mrs. T. R. Cowell, Mrs. George Parker, Mrs. N. F. Clark, Mrs. A. T. Hyde, Mrs. Sarah Crosier. Mrs. C. A. Babcock was the president for ten years. This enthusiastic body of women in a few years had gathered over six thousand volumes of valu- able books, won a place in the city which made work easy and obtained a gift of forty thousand dollars from Andrew Carnegie. The library is administered by a body composed of members of the city council, with two repre- sentatives from the club. The city appro- priates three thousand dollars yearly for the
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maintenance of the library. The club has a President, S. Y. Romage; vice president, B. F. finely equipped room on the second floor of the beautiful building and contributes annually from its income a sum used in the purchase of books. The present officers are: President,
Brundred; treasurer, H. M. Nichols; secre- tary, G. C. Delleker ; directors, S, Y. Ramage, C. M. Lamberton, J. A. Fawcett, J. C. Rey- nolds, B. F. Brundred, J. B. Crawford, L. T. Mrs. E. C. Beatty; first vice president, Mrs. . Ford, P. M. Speer, H. I. Beers. The present H. M. Nichols; second vice president, Mrs. officers are: President, C. M. Lamberton ; vice president, A. R. Smart; secretary and treasurer, J. Palmer Blackford; directors, C. M. Lamberton, James A. Fawcett, E. W. Evans, A. R. Moran, R. A. Browne, George H. Torrey, Louis Walz, W. W. Splane, A. R. Smart. D. J. Bolton ; secretary, Mrs. W. T. Ebersole ; treasurer, Mrs. Frank C. Wardwell; Federa- · tion secretary, Mrs. Julius Dreyfuss ; auditor, Mrs. Meade S. Gates. Following is the list of past presidents: 1888-1898, Mrs. C. A. Babcock ; 1898-99, Mrs. C. F. Hartwell (now deceased ) ; 1899-1901, Mrs. J. P. Strayer ; Oil City Camp, No. 5887, Modern Wood- men of the World, meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month. Consul, S. S. Bickel ; advisor, S. H. Sampsell ; banker, C. A. English; clerk, I. R. Grimm. This is an insurance organization. There are a large number of camps. 1901-1903, Mrs. P. M. Speer ; 1903-1905, Mrs. S. W. McCuen; 1905-1907, Mrs. Kenton Chickering ; 1907-1908, Mrs. J. M. Reed; 1908-1909, Mrs. H. M. Nichols (now de- ceased ) ; 1909-1911, Mrs. E. B. Young; 1911- 1913, Mrs. W. R. Barr; 1913-1915, Mrs. G. W. Magee ; 1915-1917, Mrs. C. A. McLouth (now deceased) ; 1917-1919, Mrs. E. C. Beatty.
Oil City Library Association .- When the Carnegie library was an assured fact a num- ber of prominent citizens formed a library association. Its purpose is to assist the library in every practical way. It contributes money and has representation on the library com- mission. The present officers are: President, E. R. Boyle ; secretary, T. B. Judge ; treasurer, W. W. Stevens.
Carnegie Library Commission meets at the Carnegie Library the first Monday of each month. Officials: President, S. Y. Ramage; vice president, D. K. Johnson ; secretary, Mrs. M. W. Easton; treasurer, Mrs. Thomas B. Judge ; commissioners elected by council, M. W. Easton, A. W. Kinney, Mayor William Agnew ; elected by library association, Edward R. Boyle, T. B. Judge; elected by the Belles Lettres Club, Mrs. E. C. Beatty, Mrs. J. E. Reilly.
The Venango Club, whose quarters are at No. 316 West First St., meets the third Tuesday of each month; annual meeting, third Monday of October. The meeting place of this or- ganization is popular with its members and their friends. The house which belongs to the club is one of the handsome buildings of the city. Parties are given by members and lunches are served to members. During the war this organization provided lunches put up in most attractive form for every soldier who left the city. Every draftee, no matter where he came from, was remembered, the total num- ber supplied being over a thousand. A feature of each lunch was half a roasted chicken.
The first officers of the Venango Club were :
Oil City Council, No. 385, Knights of Columbus, has club rooms in the Lynch build- ing, No. 14 Seneca street, and meets the second and fourth Thursday evenings of each month. Officers : G. K., M. A. Brewster; D. G. K., James Burton ; financial secretary, George M. Powell; recording secretary, Burdell Bower ; chancellor, W. O. Walker ; treasurer, Charles J. Clifford. This council was organized on May 13, 1899, and is a large and prosperous organization. It has done much work along patriotic lines. The council has sustained its workers at the front who were relieving suf- fering and has helped to make that splendid record abroad, which the order has gained. The social functions are always notable.
Court of St. Rita, No. 242, Daughters of Isabella, meets in the Lynch block the first and third Wednesdays of each month. G. R., Mary A. Dwyer; V. G. R., Mary Shannahan ; historian, Elizabeth Martin; treasurer, Mabel Neuland; financial secretary, Rose McCue. This court was organized in 1915 and the years have seen a steady growth in numbers and good works.
Putnam King Chapter, No. 1091, N. S. D. A. R., has the following officers : Mrs. Geo. N. Reed, regent ; Mrs. B. F. Brundred, first vice regent ; Mrs. C. A. Babcock, second vice re- gent ; Mrs. Clara Pundt, treasurer; Mrs. Dewey Bolton, secretary; Mrs. J. H. Reilly, registrar; Mrs. William Lane, corresponding secretary : Mrs. J. E. Robinson, Mrs. J. B. Berry, Mrs. William M. Parker, directors. This organization has done wonderful patri- otic work. It has the distinction of having adopted the first French orphan in Venango county, two years ago. This year it has taken
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ten French orphans. It has been honored by force. How were people to be helped to this having one of its members, Miss Lois Brun- dred, in the service of the Red Cross Canteen; she has served for two years, and was one of two members of this canteen who were sent with the army of occupation into Coblentz.
The charter members of the Chapter were: Mrs. H. M. Nicholls, Mrs. Blanche Chevelier, Mrs. W. H. Wise, Mrs. J. B. Berry, Miss Florence Berry, Mrs. J. H. Evans, Mrs. C. A. Babcock, Mrs. B. F. Brundred, Mrs. Gustave Roess, Mrs. Alice Ritchey, Miss Rena Ritchey, Mrs. E. V. D. Selden, Mrs. W. H. Lane.
The Children's Aid Society of Venango County has the following officers: President, Mrs. F. W. Hays; vice president, Mrs. H. G. McKnight ; secretary, Mrs. Ida Bookhammer ; treasurer, Mrs. Howard Wood. This institu- tion owns a fine home on Harriot avenue. It receives a small amount annually from the State, but it is sustained mostly by voluntary contributions. Its record is one for which the county has reason to rejoice. Its works of practical benevolence are not to be estimated by the casual observer. But those who know of the good accomplished, and of the devoted service of the women who form the member- ship of the society, are its enthusiastic sup- porters.
Both Oil City and Franklin have numerous social and study clubs. In Oil City the Schu- bert Club and the Tuesday Musicale not only seek to improve themselves but to give pleasure to others by bringing first-class musicians to the city. Franklin does the same through its Cadmon Club. An art club with membership divided between the two cities is a commend- able institution. The Woman's Club of Frank- lin and the Improvement Club of Oil City are vigorous literary organizations. The Athena Club of Oil City and the Twentieth Century Club are important and do fine work, both literary and historical.
Salvation Army of Oil City and Franklin. (E. W. B.)-"Be good and all will be well," said the impoverished and widowed mother of General Booth. She said it all the time and under the most trying circumstances. Her faith never failed. The boy who heard, and the man who followed after, never claimed that he was always good, or that he even knew always what good was, but that immortal sen- tence founded the Salvation Army. No other rock was needed. The curious eyes of youth, the seeking eyes of young manhood, and the failing sight of the old man, saw those words . as a light on the path before him. To the son of this woman the question came with personal
goodness that shed evil from the back and that gave at least a glimmer of light in the darkest hour? The church had its place and mission-how far it failed or how far it · fulfilled its appointed duties did not matter ; the fact was clear that many of those who needed help to be good were not receiving it. To the stately cathedral and the beautiful chapel, to the vineclad and secluded rectory, few absolute derelicts presented themselves.
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The eyes of the dreaming Booth saw that within the most apparently, depraved some spark of the divine fire lingered and might with gentle breath be made to flame out and cleanse the life. No one is so supremely practical as the dreamer when he gets to his task of mak- ing dreams come true. All the vigor of a strong nature with an invincible purpose was given to the matter of working out some methods of help and getting together helpers who understood and accepted the need and the possibility, even the probability, of carrying on the new idea and in a new sense making the Word flesh. The simplicity of the belief which General Booth advocated is undoubtedly its strong tower. To turn from sin, to make restitution if possible, to live in harmony with Christ's precepts and principles, has all re- ligion wrapped within itself. From this small beginning has grown a giant plant whose shade has fallen upon bowed heads at life's most tor- rid, scorching hour; it has cooled the brow of the daughters of shame, and hidden with mercy the downcast and forsaken. The social institutions that have developed under its sys- tem of work now number over nine hundred and sixty-four.
With this heritage of high endeavor came the pioneers to Oil City and Franklin. At first the singing at street corners attracted a smiling sort of attention, which soon developed into the listening of eager ears. The army of occupation had come to stay and is still here, doing splendid work. Oil City's needs made large and permanent quarters necessary and barracks were built and furnished by a gen- erous people. It was during the stay of En- sign and Mrs. Macmillan that the building was erected on Elm street. The rooms were fur- nished by the churches, usually by the Aid Societies. When all was nearly complete a fund to purchase chairs for the audience room was needed. So much had been given that Mr. and Mrs. Macmillan felt unable to ask 'for more. But one morning Mrs. Macmillan,' who believed in prayer, knelt down in her room alone and made a vow to ask a contribution of
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the first person she should meet when she went out. She asked the Lord to help her. She put on that plain but most becoming bon- net and went over to Seneca street. The first person, and the only one at the moment whom she saw, was Mr. George Lewis. She did not know him, and for a brief moment hesitated, but there was her vow and her prayer to help. She told Mr. Lewis in a few words of the need. He listened, as he always did to stories of lacks and wants. "Come over to my office," he said. Mrs. Macmillan followed. When she opened the folded check which he had written she found to her amazement that it was for three hundred dollars. She laughed when she told the story to her friends, for she said it took her only about three minutes to run through the livery barn between Seneca and Elm streets to the headquarters where she found her husband and told the wonderful answer to prayer. The men and women who have carried on the work in the two cities have been of fine character, and the ministers of all denominations seek their aid in cases where it seems best to use the system of the Army rather than that of the church. It would take the pen of a Wells to tell appropriately the story of the work of this organization. Men have been reclaimed and started on the way to decency. Unwelcome babies have been placed in homes where the blighting truth will never be told about or to them. Women have been taught not only to be good but how to be good cooks as an aid to reformation. Frank- lin has not as yet needed a large building, but soon will give all necessary equipment for a most respected and highly valued work.
The Army in Oil City has Ensign Harry Heinsbach in charge. The meetings include the usual religious services and at present a soldiers' meeting.
The Franklin Army is in charge of Ensign A. J. Reese. It also has a soldiers' meeting and includes in its oversight and care the prisoners in the county jail. In fact, this de- partment is one of the important features of the work.
Wanango Country Club .- This organization was formed in 1913. Its membership is com- posed of Oil City and Franklin people, and the location is at Reno, midway between the two cities. One hundred and twenty-one acres of land belong to the club and give it a dis- tinction not often enjoyed by clubs remote from large cities. The landscape is diversified, with appeals to every taste. A fine golf course and tennis courts provide opportunities for
outside sports, while the large main room furnishes ample space for dancing and for card tables. Dining rooms, lockers, wide porches, bowling alleys and billiard rooms are provided. The Wanango Club has promoted good feeling between the two cities of the county and it is an institution of which its members are proud. Forty-one members en- tered the service of the United States and there has been throughout the trying period a patriotic spirit in all that has been undertaken. The first officers were: President, S. Y. Ramage; vice presidents, C. H. Lay, J. J. Sheasley ; secretary, R. P. Birtcil; treasurer, H. H. James. The officers for 1919 are: President, S. Y. Ramage; vice president, C. C. Steinbrenner; second vice president, J. J. Sheasley ; treasurer, H. H. James; secretary, R. P. Birtcil.
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Allegheny Valley Lodge, No. 552, F. and A. M., was instituted Dec. 6, 1877. The original officers were: J. V. Patton, W. M .; J. S. Young, S. W .; J. W. Rowland, J. W. Present officers : C. C. King, W. M .; R. H. Perrine, S. W .; W. E. Lutz, J. W .; M. K. Block, secretary; H. J. Crawford, treasurer.
The Knights of the Maccabees organized a Tent at Emlenton Nov. 10, 1889. The first officers were: P. Sr. Kt. Com., A. R. Newton; Com., J. J. Nelson; Lt. Com., S. M. Turk; R. K., W. E. Shannon ; F. R., A. R. Newton; prelate, S. M. Bailey ; sergeant, T. M. Agnew ; physician, E. A. Kuhns; M. at A., Frank Morrison; Ist M. of G., J. A. Shannon; 2d M. of G., Reuben Buck ; sentinel, T. J. Per- rine; picket, P. Sullinger. Present officers : Past Com., J. C. Williams ; Com., O. D. Reed; Lt. Com., D. M. Long; R. K., L. Snyder; F. R., L. Snyder; prelate, L. F. Beigler; phy- sician, W. G. Gilmore ; sergeant, J. I. Wetzel ; M. of A., Louis E. Wiseman; Ist M. of G., Charles Hepler ; 2d M. of G., S. N. Young ; sentinel, B. Murphy; picket, John Black. Trustees : J. C. Williams, H. Shreffler, S. G. Thompson.
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