Minute book, 1895-1903

Oversize volume (June 12, 1895 - June 24, 1903) detailing weekly and annual meetings, listing officers and members attending, applying for membership or relief, who were fined, elected to office, excused for absences, who died, etc. With periodic notations of accounting of finances, calling in of mortgages and offering some others. There are many references to rules and debated changes, purchase of food and liquors, including a reference to buying liquor legally, but not from the State Dispensary (p. 327), obtaining portraits or photographs of past presidents (pp. 59, 64, 232, 234, 259, 300), re-carving the Society's gavel (p. 98) and printing certificates (p. 348). The relationship between the Fellowship Society and Charleston schools is reported on pages 98-107: a brief history of the organization is given (pp. 175-179); and the relationship between the Society and Auxiliary Society of the Fellowship society is referenced (pp. 62, 63, 79). With an index, mostly of proper names, in the front of the volume. Within the volume is the April 9, 1902 issue of The News and Courier describing President Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Charleston. With lists recording tallies of votes for officers for various years.