Description: Minutes of meeting of Directors of the Mount Desert Bridge Corporation ordering repairs to be done by William Thompson due to damage by wind and sea in storm.
Description: Seven handwritten pages of meeting notes pertaining to proposed donation of Virginia Somes Sanderson's historical Somesville house to the MDI Historical Society for use as a museum.
Description: Somesville Village Improvement Society taken out. 1st page can see some writing on the page. Treasurers account begins on p. 64 Begins with July 3 1914 meeting to establish the Somesville Village Improvement Society By-laws F.F. Dresser chosen as chairwoman. M.L. Allen as secretary
Description: Somesville Village Improvement Society taken out. 1st page can see some writing on the page. Treasurers account begins on p. 64 Begins with July 3 1914 meeting to establish the Somesville Village Improvement Society By-laws F.F. Dresser chosen as chairwoman. M.L. Allen as secretary
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Twenty-eight pages of handwritten and typewritten notes pertaining to the planning of the Somesville Bicentennial Celebration of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
Description: 2 pages of notes taken on the origin of the Friday Club and Literary Circle organized by Rev Geo H. Hefflour in 1892 No date when the notes about the organization were written
Description: Friday Club Minutes 1914 to 1917 in two notebooks 8*6.5" List of members. One page indicates list of paid members for 1923 to 1924 List of subscribers to the Health Fund. Paid.25 cents each Minutes begin with Apr 30, 1915 to Oct 1917 Other notebook begins with minutes from Jan 29, 1915, but then goes to Jan 16, 1914 Scanned minutes when the club discussed the Coming of Arthur by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Description: Minutes of the Friday Club 1951 and Annual Report 1950-51 Read paper on Affiliated Clubs Abroad, Israel, Johann Straus, our American Citizenship
Description: Minutes of the Southwest Harbor Literary Club 1949, handwritten Had a waiting list to join Discussions on railroads, Luther Burbank, botanist and horticulturalist; opera
Description: Loose minutes of the Friday Club 1947 - 1948 Discussed Hamlet at one meeting Donated to the Opportunity Farm, home for at-risk boys founded in 1910 Sent delegate to MDI Hospital Auxiliary
Description: First Minutes are 2/27/1900. Minutes of Oct 2, 1900 mention that the Literary Club had its first meeting of season so Literary Circle may have started earlier than 1900. Met at office of Dr. Philips. Appears that men and women are members. Pres George R. Fuller, VP Margaret Holmes
Description: Various dates are listed so it is unclear when the formation of the Friday Club occurred. An April 1914 report indicates that a new society needed to be formed since the abandonment of one in 1905. Seems to be affiliated with the Federated Clubs as indicated in Sept 27 minutes In a lined notebook 8*6.5" Begins by stating that meeting to plan for a YWCA
Description: 4 pages of notes taken from the Friday Club and Literary Circle legders Begins 25 cents charged for dress Topics in notes Asked to circulate a petition for a State Women's Reformatory Urge from Mrs. Hill of Northeast Harbor to become federated with other clubs Recital of poems by High School at Methodist church Migrating birds Women's suffrage
Description: Black Compositions notebook with red binding.Cover has Busy Bee’s record of first meeting written in ink.Includes notes and list of two founding members and fifteen in attendance. Included a letter from 1951 regarding this book to Salisbury from Hamilton