Forty-First Annual Meeting 637
have brought more than one hundred
persons to the park on
a single day. Three thousand three hundred and
thirty-six names
have been secured on a register which
has been offered to the
public at such times as the custodians
could carry it to them.
When the shelter house is completed, the
register will be available
permanently.
Our custodians report no complaints or
criticisms; that the
public is delighted; and practically
every reunion voted to return
next season. We can safely predict that
this park will be even
more popular next summer. To prove this,
recent reunions and
gatherings have taken up collections
totalling more than one hun-
dred dollars, which has been presented
to us for the purpose of
equipping the shelter house and museum.
The committee feels elated at the early
success of your park
Fort St. Clair, and most cordially
invites you to visit it and en-
joy its natural beauty.
(Signed) H. R. MCPHERSON.
Mr. Wood stated that it is very unusual
for a com-
mittee in charge of a property of the
Society to pay out
money, and secure money for the
property from others;
that he believed the Society should
tender a vote of
thanks to the Preble County Historical
Society. He
moved:
That this Society extend a vote of
thanks to the Preble
County Historical Society as a mark of
appreciation of the un-
selfish work of that Society in caring
for Fort St. Clair, and that
the Secretary be directed to notify the
proper officials of the
Preble County Historical Society of this
action by our Society.
Mrs. Dryer seconded the motion. Carried.
Mr. H. R. McPherson next read the
Report of the
Committee on
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
as follows:
As Chairman of the Historical Society
Committee, I am,
indeed, sorry to report little progress
on behalf of this committee
during the past year. Such a state of
inactivity, on the part of