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SECRETARY'S REPORT FOR 1911

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M. J. Clay, C. J. Dawson, N. M. Ayers, C. J. Philips, Dr. Charles E. Bessey, Eugene F. Ware, Mrs. Mary Furnas, Mrs. Ada M. Bittenbender, Mr. A. Vine Pease, and Mr. Niles R. Folsom.
   Over 2000 bound volumes of Nebraska weekly newspapers had been removed from the rooms of the Society to the basement of the new building. A contract had been made with the State Journal Company for binding newspapers at a price of $1.12 a volume for weeklies, and sixty-five cents a volume for dailies. During the last six months 857 volumes of Nebraska weekly newspapers and 200 volumes of dailies had been bound and 450 volumes had been prepared for binding.
   Melvin R. Gilmore began his work as curator of the museum June 1. He had rearranged the collections and made valuable collections of native plants of Nebraska for the museum.
   The third and last volume of Constitutional Conventions and a volume of Collections, edited by Albert Watkins, were in process of publication. An Outline of Nebraska History, prepared by Mr. Watkins, had been issued.
   The last legislature had appropriated $2000 toward marking the Oregon Trail in Nebraska, and the first vice president and the secretary of the Society and the state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution were named as a commission for carrying out the provisions of the act. The work of marking the trail had been begun. A memorial association had been organized for this special work.
   During the year, 7 life members, 15 sustaining members, and 40 active members were added to the membership of the Society. John L. Webster, Charles N. Deitz, Nelson H. Loomis, George W. Holdrege, A. L. Mohler,



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Gurdon W. Wattles, and Casper E. Yost, all residents of Omaha, had become life members.
   The board of directors had adopted a badge for the Society.
   Deaths of members of the Society had occurred during the year as follows:

   Samuel J. Alexander, Lincoln, April 23; John H. Ames, Lincoln, Jan. 18; Joseph E. Cobbey, Beatrice, August 22; Rev. John E. Ingham, Hot Springs, S. D., Nov. 28; William R. Kelly, Los Angeles, Cal., March 9; Mrs. Kittie McGrew, South Auburn, Sept. 14; Charles Frederick Manderson, Omaha, Sept. 28; Rev. William Murphey, Beaver Crossing, Nov. 7; Henry E. Palmer, Omaha, April 2; Stephen B. Pound, Lincoln, May 14; John Schwyn, Grand Island, Aug. 13; Mrs. Morris C. Stull, Lincoln, Aug. 2; Eugene F. Ware, Kansas City, Kans., July 2; Jacob Wiggins, Lincoln, March 15; Owsley Wilson, Lincoln, May 23.

SECRETARY'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

Current Receipts and Disbursements, 1911.

Balances from Dec. 31, 1910.

Cash in hands of treasurer, general fund

$ 681.42

Cash in hands of treasurer, Crounse fund

350.61

Cash in hands of secretary, contingent f'd

100.00

Unexpended balance of 1909 appropriation

1652.91

$2784.94

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Receipts.

Membership fees

$ 508.00

Sale of books

19.15

Miscellaneous receipts .

111.00

State appropriation, 1911, general

13720.00

State appropriation, 1911, paving tax

2000.00

State appropriation, 1911, binding newspapers

1000.00

State appropriation, 1911, printing volumes

3000.00

$20358.15

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$23,143.09


Disbursements, 1911.

Salaries

$ 5714.32

Postage

148.68



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Express

15.83

Freight and drayage

1.42

Telephone and telegraph

85.70

Traveling expenses

253.98

Extra labor

869.26

Books purchased

146.39

Printing

220.35

Binding newspapers

982.63

Advertising

8.00

Photography

28.00

Stationery and office supplies

147.13

Annual and board meetings

131.14

Furniture and fixtures

64.72

Miscellaneous expenses

87.07

Paving tax

404.48

Maintenance grounds and buildings

57.95

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Total disbursements

$ 9367.05

Balance

13776.04

Consisting of:

   Contingent fund in hands of secretary

100.00

   Cash in hands of treasurer, gen'l fund

54.26

   Cash in hands of treasurer, Crounse f'd

215.35

   Unexpended balance 1911 appropriation,

      general

8742.54

   Unexpended balance 1911 appropriation,

      paving tax

1595.52

   Unexpended balance 1911 appropriation,

      binding newspapers

68.37

   Unexpended balance 1911 appropriation,

      printing

3000.00

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$13776.04


TREASURER'S REPORT FOR YEAR ENDING JANUARY 1. 1912.

1911

RECEIPTS.

Jan. 1,

Balance on hand in Nat. Bank of Commerce

$1043.45

Cash, membership fees

128.00

Cash, life membership fees

250.00

Cash, sustaining dues

130.00

Cash, sundries

130.16

Total receipts

$1681.60

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1911.

DISBURSEMENTS.

Jan. 1,

Cash, warrants on general fund.

$1271.23

Cash, warrants on Crounse

137.76

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Total disbursements

$1408.99

Balance in National Bank of Commerce per

    check herewith

$ 272.61


MEETING OF DIRECTORS.

   At a special meeting of the board of directors, at the rooms of the Society, May 2, 1912, new members of the Society were elected as follows:

   Active, Leonard W. Colby, Beatrice; George D. Follmer, Oak; Josiah Miner, Friend; E. E. E. Ridgway, South Omaha.
   Sustaining, Joseph P. Cleland, Omaha; James E. Delzell, Lincoln; Edwin S. Gunn, Lincoln; William H. Gardner, University Place; Rev.. Albert Gordon, Lincoln; Sidney A. Hazelton, Douglas; Mrs. Laura Hammond Miller, John H. Moore, Robert E. Moore, William E. Straub, William W. Votaw, Charles D. Woods, and Arthur C. Ziemer, Lincoln.
   Life, Bishop J. Henry Tihen, Lincoln.

   The secretary of the Society was authorized to raise money by subscription for a monument marking the initial point of the steam wagon road.
   Resolutions were passed commending action taken by the Old Settlers Historical Society of Howard county for the relief of Mrs. Emma Cooper Goebel, one of the sufferers in the great snowstorm of April 13, 1873.
   A special meeting of the board of directors was held at the rooms of the Society, October 23, 1912, for the consideration of sundry subjects appertaining to the Society.
   Minutes of the proceedings of all meetings of the board are on file among the records of the Society.

THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING.

   The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the Nebraska State



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Historical Society was held at the Temple Theater, Lincoln, January 14, 15, 16, 1913.
   At the business meeting, on January 14, the secretary reported that during the year 1400 titles were accessioned, 800 titles catalogued, and 1000 newspaper clippings classified. The Society was then receiving 451 daily and weekly Nebraska newspapers and 58 special publications.
   A considerable quantity of archives had been removed from the basement of the capitol to the basement of the Society's new building.
   An act of Congress approved May 11, 1912, directed the Secretary of the Interior to cause a deed of two acres of the land which had been occupied by the Presbyterian mission building, on the Omaha Indian reservation, to be issued to the Nebraska State Historical Society.
   All of the 125 new members enrolled during the year had come in as sustaining members--with the understanding that they were to pay to the Society two dollars annually.
   One volume of collections had been published during the year, and the third volume of Nebraska Constitutional Conventions would soon be issued. Reports of the proceedings of the Society for 1908 and 1909 were published in pamphlet form. The cost of publication was paid with contributions from friends of the Society. Nearly all of the Crounse fund of $500 had been used for the purchase of books.
   The following named officers were elected for the ensuing year: John L. Webster, president; Robert Harvey, first vice president; Samuel C. Bassett, second vice president; Clarence S. Paine, secretary; Stephen L. Geisthardt, treasurer.
   Dr. Hamilton B. Lowry was reëlected a member of



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the board of directors, and Bishop J. Henry Tihen was elected a director to succeed Frank M. Currie whose term had expired.
   The committee on obituaries reported deaths of members during the year as follows:

   George W. Doane, Omaha; Henry Clay McMaken, Plattsmouth; Mrs. Charles H. Gere, Lincoln; Lyman A Stilson, York; Eleazer Wakely, Omaha; Harvey W. Hardy, Lincoln; Neriah B. Kendall, Lincoln; Miss Emma Morton, Nebraska City; Dr. David B. Perry, Crete; William Z. Taylor, Culbertson; Daniel H. Wheeler, Omaha.

   At an adjourned session of the business meeting, held at two o'clock in the afternoon, January 16, 98 persons were elected members of the Society.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

   The treasurer presented his report for the year ending January 1, 1913 as follows:

1912.

RECEIPTS.

Jan. 1,

Balance on hand in Nat'l Bank of Commerce

$272.61

Cash, membership fees

204.00

Cash, life membership fees

130.00

Cash, sustaining dues

154.00

Cash, sundries

71.45

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Total Receipts

$832.06

1912.

DISBURSEMENTS.

Jan. 1, Cash, warrants drawn on general fund

$468.40

Cash, warrants drawn on Crounse Memorial F'd

206.82

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$675.22

Balance

$156.84

Outstanding checks

6.91

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Balance in National Bank of Commerce per

   check herewith

$163.75



ANNUAL MEETING 1914

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THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING.

   The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Nebraska State Historical Society was held at the Temple Theater, Lincoln, January 20, 21, 22, 1914.
   At the first session, January 20, eight o'clock in the evening, President John L. Webster and Rogers C. B. Thruston, of Louisville, Kentucky, president-general of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution delivered addresses.
   A meeting of the Nebraska Territorial Pioneers Association was held in the forenoon of January 21.
   A business session took place at two o'clock in the afternoon, January 21. A motion that the secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of the Society for the reëlection of officers and members of the board of directors was carried by a vote of 55 to 11; whereupon a ballot was so cast and officers were declared elected as follows: John L. Webster, president; Robert Harvey, first vice president; Samuel C. Bassett, second vice president; Clarence S. Paine, secretary; Charles B. Letton and Horace S. Wiggins, directors for a term of three years. Dr. P. L. Hall was then elected treasurer for the ensuing year.
   The secretary then made his report. The appropriation of $2000 made by the legislature of 1911 for the purpose of marking the Oregon Trail and $1390.25 contributed by individual persons had been expended and the work was nearly completed. The third and last volume of Nebraska Constitutional Conventions and volume XVII of Collections had been issued during the year.
   The Society was then receiving 450 newspapers, 49 of them dailies; a like number of volumes of newspapers and 65 volumes of books had been bound during the year.



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   Mr. E. M. Correll had donated early town records of Hebron, Nebraska, and files of the Hebron Journal from 1871 to 1898. Donations had been made also by Charles H. Morrill, A. L. Anderson, George W. Hansen, Henry Huckins, L. J. Healey, H. A. Brainerd, Mrs. George. W. McCreery and Charles C. Hollebaugh.
   The secretary made the following financial statement, audited by the Wiggins-Babcock Accounting Company:

CURRENT RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES, 1913.

Balance from December 31, 1912

S. L. Geisthardt, treasurer,

   General fund

$145.31

   Crounse fund

8.53

C. S. Paine, secretary,

   General fund

30.00

   Contingent fund

100.00

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      Total cash funds

$283.84

Balances state appropriations, 1911,

   General

$2,012.89

   Paving tax

1,251.20

   Binding Newspapers

68.37

   Printing 3 volumes

1,386.23

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      Total appropriations

$4,718.69

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Total

$5,002.53

Receipts, 1913.

Membership fees

$312.00

Sale of books

34.77

Ground rentals

189.75

Badges

13.00

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   Total cash receipts

$549.52

State appropriations, 1913:

   Current expenses

$6,509.00

   Regular salaries

11,840.00

   Janitor's salary

500.00

   Curator's traveling exp

450.00

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Total appropriations, 1913

$19,299.00



FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR 1913

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Total receipts

$19,848.52

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Total for which to account . .

$24,851.05

Expenses, 1913.

Salaries

$6,377.79

Postage

187.00

Express

35.12

Freight and drayage

27.29

Telephone and telegraph

85.97

Traveling expenses

379.89

Extra labor

510.88

Books purchased

111.43

Printing

1,385.73

Binding newspapers

28.00

Advertising

16.50

Photography

7.95

Stationery and office supplies

211.20

Annual and board meetings

173.75

Furniture and fixtures

153.23

Miscellaneous expenses

116.30

Paving tax

1,272.09

Maintenance buildings and grounds

59.95

Badges

13.00

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   Total expenses

$11,153.07

Lapsed appropriations, 1911:

   General

.90

   Paving tax

89.62

   Binding newspapers

.37

   Printing 3 volumes

.50

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      Total

$91.39

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Total expenses and lapsed appropriations

$11,244.46

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Balance

$13,606.59

   Consisting of

Cash in hands of treasurer:

   General fund

$169.79

   Crounse fund

5.53

Cash in hands of secretary:

   General fund

33.00

   Contingent fund

100.00

      Total

$308.82

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Appropriations, 1913, unexpended balances:

   Current expenses

$5,397.72

   Regular salaries

7,400.00

   Janitor's salary

327.15

   Curator's traveling exp

173.40

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Total appropriations available

$13,298.27

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Total cash and appropriations

$13,606.59

   Andrew J. Sawyer, for the committee on obituaries, reported deaths during the year 1913 as follows:

   Charles O. Whedon, Lincoln, January 15; Henry T. Clarke, Omaha, February 3; Dr. Walter K. Jewett, Lincoln, March 3; David Anderson, South Omaha, March 24; John A. Buckstaff, Lincoln, April 12; John Benjamin Reed, Lincoln, May 1; Rollin M. Rolfe, Nebraska City, May 10; Edwin O. Miller, Lincoln, May 20; John B. Buckley, Stromsburg, May 23; James E. North, Columbus, July 5; Arthur C. Ziemer, Lincoln, August 9; George H. McGee, Clearwater, September 29; Mrs. Ida D. Wiggins, Lincoln, October 10; Mrs. Caroline Morton, Nebraska City, November 8; William H. Harrison, Grand Island, November 16; Samuel J. Graham, Pawnee City, December 7.

   Melvin R. Gilmore, curator of the Society, read a paper on the Battle of Wounded Knee.
   A meeting of local historical societies and of old settlers associations was held in the forenoon of January 22. Robert Harvey reported for the Howard County Old Settlers Association, H. L. McGinitie for the Antelope County Pioneers Association, John J. Lett for York county, J. J. Breen for the South Omaha Pioneers Historical Society, S. Z. Williamson for Boone county. George G. Wallace, of Omaha, related that the old dwelling house of Judge Fenner Ferguson, at Bellevue, would soon be offered for sale. In the afternoon there was a session of the Nebraska Memorial Association at which Robert Harvey reported for the committee on historic sites.
   At the last session, on the evening of Jan. 22, pa-



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