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Mt Olney 1^stMo 12 ^th 1884
Twelve Members of the Enterprise Club
Met at the residence of Granville Farquhars
with D^r Magruder J J Hutton and Frank
Hallowell as guests.
Benj H Miller was appointed foreman
and a brand new feature was inaugrated
in the procurement of a secretary to serve
the club for the year 1884, a refference
to our Minute book will show several
Modes viz. regular elections , voluntary service,
persuasion , flattery , bribing , buying
and tradeing , but never in the history
of this club have such arbitrary means
been resorted to as were taken at the
meeting held at W^m S Brookes last month
where barely a majority of the members
met and didnot Elect , but appointed
an absent member to serve as Secy
for one year without pay ,
We are past entering the eighteenth
of year of the existence of our organization
and have great cause to be thankful for
the many blessings, and the few sorrows which
have befallen our lot during this period,
But the year 1883 cannot be passed
without notice of the desolations brought
to the home of one of our members
After reading the minutes of the meeting
held at this house in sept 1882
we proceeded as far as the barn on