Minutes of Forty-second Annual
Meeting 621
Outlines of Psychology, by Dr. Henry G. Williams, now Presi-
dent of Wilmington College, Wilmington,
Ohio.
One lot of school publications by R.
Heber Holbrook, in
the interest of the Lebanon School, to-wit:
The Reunion.
The National Normal.
The Home and School.
The National Normal Exponent.
Also catalogues of the school for the
years 1873-74, 1875-76,
1882-83, 1883-84, and 1891-93.
Among the noted graduates from this
school were Dr. T. C.
Mendenhall and W. H. Venable. Your
committee hoped to
present to the society, at this session,
the works of these emi-
nent scholars; but it has not yet been
able to obtain the same.
Mr. Jerry Dennis of the committee is in
charge of the col-
lection of Ray's Arithmetical Works. He
will be able to report
on the same at the next session of the
Society. In addition your
committee has many other old school
books, not yet in shape for
presentation.
Your committee has undertaken to restore
the "Ohio School
Library," as far as possible. In
the fifties and sixties, of the
past century, the State of Ohio
installed in every township of
the State, a library known by the above
name. The books of
these libraries circulated for a time
but were finally absorbed
by the readers, scattered far and near.
Your committee believes
that a set of these books should be in
the library of the Society.
Hence, the attempt to restore the same.
Already, fifty-three
volumes are in the hands of the
committee. Forty-six other
volumes have been located but have not
yet come into our pos-
session.
Respectfully submitted:
(Signed) JOHN R. HORST, Chairman.
JERRY DENNIS,
ALICE BOARDMAN,
JOHN G. DESHLER,
Committee.
FORT ANCIENT AND WARREN COUNTY SERPENT
MOUND
Your committee on Fort Ancient and the
Warren County
Serpent Mound asks the privilege of
making the following re-
port:--
The Committee has had but one meeting at
which the ma-
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Publications
jority
of the members were present. Several other meetings were
called,
at which only the chairman was present.
The
sums of money expended at Fort Ancient for purposes
named
are as follows:
Salary of Custodian.....................$ 360.00
Repairs ................................ 489.82
Fencing ............................... 275.86
Telephone ............................. 17.90
Total
..........................$1143.58
At the
meeting in June, last, your committee directed Mr.
Cowen,
the custodian, to expend the funds, left to the credit of
Fort
Ancient, in regraveling the roadway and repainting the
house
occupied by the custodian. The amount thus expended
has
not yet been reported to the committee.
Owing
to the change of custodians, August 1, the usual
trimming
up of the grounds was delayed somewhat, but the new
custodian,
Mr. J. W. Satchell, is now on the grounds and is en-
tering
earnestly upon his new duties. A mowing machine has
been
secured to aid him in putting the grounds in good shape.
Your
Committee recommends:--
1 --
That a new section of road be made to run from
the
entrance gate to the custodian's house and re-
turn
to the main road.
2 --
That a gateway be opened in the fence near the
front
of the house, the object being to accommodate
the
public in getting such information as they need.
3 --
That the present roadway be widened to allow cars
to
pass each other with safety.
4 --
That the present road be extended to Lookout
Point.
The
above recommendations, your committee believes, if
complied
with, will contribute to the improvement of the grounds,
and
meet the approval of the visiting public.
The
following item, concerning the Warren County Serpent
Mound,
will be of some interest. When the Committee met in
June,
last, Mr. J. C. Smith, who shows much interest in the
Mound,
was requested to visit it, and learn from the tenant there
whatever
he could of the situation. He made a visit and then
sent
me a report of certain facts. This report was sent to Dr.
W. C.
Mills. It noted that the person who had a life interest in
the
farm, had recently died. The heirs are numerous, and some-
what
widely scattered; some are at present traveling in Europe.
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Meeting 623
Mr. Smith thinks no executor has been
appointed up to this time.
He will learn definitely in regard to
this soon. If the Society
thinks it of sufficient importance to acquire the
Mound, now is
the time to institute active measures.
(Signed) B. F. PRINCE,
Chairman.
FORT LAURENS PARK
The situation at Fort Laurens Park, one
mile east of Bolivar,
Ohio, has been unsatisfactory for a long
time. Very little has
been done since the building, some years
ago, of the park house,
which got in very bad repair, until it
was learned early this sum-
mer that there was a balance of about
$1400.00 of the last appro-
priation by the State Legislature, which
remained unexpended.
Steps were taken at once to have these
funds used for repair of
the park building and work on the
driveways. This work was
done under direction of Mr. Harry Lash,
local member of the
committee at Bolivar, in conjunction
with Mr. Clarence J. Lebold,
of Bolivar, who was recently nominated
for membership on the
committee to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Colonel W.
L. Curry.
The last Legislature made an additional
appropriation for the
improvement of the Park through the
efforts of the Representa-
tive, Charles T. Greenlee, of Tuscarawas
County, which will put
the Society in position to lay the Park
out with some landscape
gardening and beautify it with trees.
It is also planned to employ a caretaker
at a moderate salary
who will occupy the park house and keep
it in respectable condi-
tion. After the proposed improvements
are made, funds should be
provided for the erection of an
appropriate monument near the
highway and the site of the fort,
bearing an inscription setting
forth briefly the history of Fort
Laurens. It is probable that
aid could be secured from the United
States Congress to this end.
(Signed) EDWIN D. MOODY
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FORT MEIGS,
FORT MIAMI AND FALLEN TIMBERS
FORT MEIGS:
While the restoration of Fort Meigs was
initiated by the
people of the neighboring Village of
Perrysburg, the preservation
and maintenance of this historic site is
in charge of a special com-