Minute book, 1912-1925

Oversize volume (August 28, 1912 - July 15, 1925) 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 financial recapitulations of the Society, notations on invoices to be paid, numerous debates on changing various rules, and many references to renovations, renting and improving the Society's Hall at 370 King Street, including references to buying an adjacent property (p. 228, passim) and selling off a small parcel (p. 235). Events mentioned include Fleet Week (p. 11), Flag (Carolina?) Day (p. 118), Liberty Bond Parades (pp. 183, 196), the Armistice to end WWI (p. 197), and the Spanish influenza epidemic preventing the organization from meeting (p. 205). Mentions of social pastimes within the Society include euchre (p. 66), a pool table (p. 73), the need for poker chips (p. 85) and the propositions (both voted down) to buy an electric piano (p. 129) and an Edison "talking machine" or phonograph (p. 130). Society business of interest includes attention paid to the graves of Presidents Weyman (pp. 146, 157, 159, 163, 164, 171) and Steedman (p. 304); purchasing Liberty Bonds (p. 153); donating funds to Belgian Relief (p. 71), Roper Children's Hospital and the Santa Claus Fund (p. 131); the need to infuse new life in the organization (p. 72); creating an associate membership category (p. 180); disbanding the Auxiliary Society (p. 270); renting a room to the "United States of America" for a US Army recruiting office (pp. 323, 337), and frequent references to Society Chaplain Rev. George Gongaware. With a mostly-name index in the front of the volume.