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Wyandott Lodge No. 3, A. F. & A. M.-Holds regular communications on the first and third Fridays of each month, at 7:30, at their own hall, corner Third street and Minnesota avenue. The present officers are M. M. Harris, W. M.; James Hampson, S. W.; McClure, J. W.; J. B. Speck, Secretary; H. T. Harris, Treasurer; A. Hlatky, S. D.; B. E. McNally, J. D.; R. Halford, Chaplain; J. B. Walters, Tyler.

Wyandott Chapter, No. 6, R. A. M.-Organized October, 1866. James Hampson, H. P.; F. C. Aechternacht, Secretary.

Wyandott Council, Royal and Select, and Super-Excellent Masters.-Organized October 18, 1877.

Mendias Chapter No. 1, Order of the Eastern Star.-Holds regular convocations on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, at the Masonic Hall. Emma E. Drought, Worthy Matron; G. J. Neubert, Worthy Patron; Julia Brown, Associate Matron; Mrs. Welsh, Treasurer; William Priestly, Secretary. This is said to be the oldest Eastern Star Lodge in the United States. The name is in honor of an Indian lady called by them "Mendias," her real name was Mrs. Lydia B. Walker. There is now a membership of about one hundred. Originated by authority of the Supreme Constellation of American Adopted Rite and was instituted on the 23d of July, 1856. William Barnett, Heleon; Joel W. Garrett, Philomath; Matthew C. Walker, Verger; Geo. C. Van Zandt, Herald; Cyrus Garrett, Warder; Mary Garrett, Luna; Lydia B. Walker, Hebe; Sarah H. B. Van Zandt, Flora; Martha R. Walker, Thetis; Eliza I. Garrett, Areme.

ODD FELLOWSHIP.

Summunduwot Lodge No. 3, I. O. O. F.-Meetings every Monday evening at Odd Fellows' Hall, corner Sixth street and Minnesota avenue. It was instituted October 7th, 1857, with six charter members, Silas Armstrong, Sr., J. A. Fligor, J. H. Miller, I. N. White, Joseph Rosenwald, J. W. Garrett. They formerly met in the old Constitution building, but now they meet in their own hall, which is sixteen feet high, sixty or seventy feet long and twenty-five feet wide. The order owns the two-story brick in which there is a large store room first floor and the hall above. The building was finished in 1876 at a cost of about $4,000. The present officers are: P. H. Knoblock, N. G.; John Lamont, V. G.; E. F. Blum, Secretary; Perley Pike, Treasurer; Geo. M. Willfong, S. P. G.; J. A. Nelson, R. S. to N. G.; James Hall, L. S.; G. A. Schreiner, R. S. to V. G.; G. W. Robaugh, L. S. to V. G.; Albert Scoles, Conductor; Adolph Gardner, Warden; W. B. Cooper, R. S. S.; Gust. Ahlsted, L. S. S.; A. 0, Clark, I. G.; S. Warrery, O. G.

Wyandott Encampment, No. 9.--Meetings held on the second and fourth Mondays of each month in Odd Fellows' Hall, corner 6th and Minnesota avenue. This lodge was instituted in 1869 with seven charter members: J. C. Welch, Fred. Speck, H. W. Cook, John Bolton, W. B. Bowman, Solomon Balmer, O. K. Serviss. Present membership is sixty. The present officers are: W. H. Young, C. P.; Perley Pike, H. P.; E. F. Blum, S. W.; G. W Robaugh, J. W.; John Lamont, Guide; John Bennett, Scribe; William Priestly, F. S.; J. A. Nelson, I. S.; Stewart Warrey, O. S.

Teutonia Lodge No. 68, I. O. O. F.-Instituted January, 1871, with about thirteen charter members, by District Deputy J. C. Welch. Meeting Tuesday evening of each week in the Masonic Hall, corner Third and Minnesota avenue. The present membership is sixty. The present officers are: H. Fieser, N. G.; Philip Kaiser, V. G.; J. J. Bernhardt, Secretary; F. Poehler, Treasurer; Geo. Frank, P. G.; John Schaaf, Conductor; John Eckholdt, Warden.

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.

Myrtle Lodge No. 1, organized February, 5, 1880, with fourteen members: E. L. Bartlett, W. P. Overton, John A. Hale, M. M. Harris, C. E. Neubert, C.

F. Aechternacht, J. W. Brown, D. E. Cornell, Jas. S. Gibson, R. Halford, James Hampson, Theo. Pottery, Ed. Richardson, C. H. Van Fossen, Louis Hanswirth. They meet at the Masonic Hall, corner Minnesota avenue and Third street, on the first and third Mondays in every month. John A. Hale, C. C.; C. F. Aechternacht, V. C.; E. L. Bartlett, Prelate; Mac. Armstrong, K. of R. & S.; Bates Dunlevy, M. of F.; A. C. Seward, M. of E.; Chas. E. Neubert, M. at A.; J. R. Goodwin, I. G.; J. B. Walters, O. G. The present membership is 63.

Fellowship Lodge No. 2, instituted April 11, 1872, with twenty-seven charter members. At first, their meetings were held in Odd Fellows Hall, then for a year or more met in the Masonic Hall, and for the past two years have met in the Odd Fellows Hall. Meetings are held every Thursday night. The present officers are: E. F. Blum, C. C.; H. L. Alden, V. C.; A C. Darby, P.; J. F. Hall, M. of E.; Jas. P. Flannagan, M. of F.; G. T. Roberts, K. of R. & S.; Daniel Faulkner, M. at A.; James Kirkbride, I. G.; Stewart Warry, O. G. Present membership is 90.

ANCIENT ORDER UNITED WORKMEN.

Tauromee Lodge No. 30, organized January 15, 1880, with twenty-three charter members, E. S. W. Drought, J. S. Clark, R. H. Arrington, C. Crothers, Ed. Webster, William Albright, J. M. Squires, H. H. Sawyer, Charles Hardesty, J. A. Hale were the first officers of the lodge. Meetings are held in the Masonic Hall, corner Third and Minnesota avenue, on the first and third Wednesday evenings of each month. The present membership is 65. The present officers are: R. H. Arrington, P. M. W.; H. H. Sawyer, M. W.; C. Crothers, Foreman; Ed. Webster, Overseer; Ed. Taylor, Recorder; C. Green, Financier; J. M. Squires, Receiver; Chas. Geyson, Guide; George Robaugh, I. G.

ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS.

The dispensation was granted August, 1880. The charter members were Dudley Staats, Wm. D. Gentry and M. J. Edwards. The meetings are held on the first and third Wednesday evenings of each month. D. Staats, C. R.; M. J. Edwards, Secretary.

Equitable Aid Union, instituted in 1880. Meetings are held in the Odd Fellows Hall the 2d and 4th Friday evening in each month.

The German Lodge of the same order, the only one in America, was instituted in the year 1881. The founder of this order in Wyandott was W. D. Gentry.

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, charter granted in 1874, with P. M. Arthur P. C. E., and L. B. Green F. G. A. E.

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MANUFACTORIES.

There are at present few manufactories in Wyandott. There is a plow manufactory, wagon shop, and planing mill, The railroad shop having been removed to Armstrong it becomes necessary for the enterprising people to encourage other manufacturing industries. A few well regulated manufacturing establishments in Wyandott would do more toward making a rich and prosperous town than anything else. The money sent from Kansas to eastern manufactories every year for any of the following articles, if spent here, would be a source of great wealth: agricultural implements, leather, boots and shoes, hats and caps, cotton goods, white lead, nails, glass, iron and furniture. The money raised every month by building and loan associations would be sufficient to embark in the manufacture of any of the articles above enumerated.

NEWSPAPERS.

The first paper published in Wyandott City was the Wyandott Citizen, by Ephraim Abbott. It was started in 1857 or early in 1858, but was not continued

many months. It was succeeded by the Western Argus, which was printed on the same material and published by the Western Argus Company, J. E. Bennett, editor, and P. Sidney Post commercial editor. The first number of the Argus was issued March 25, 1858, and was continued till March 9. 1861, when the material was sold to R. B. Taylor, and now constitutes a part of the office of the Wyandott Gazette. The first number of the Gazette was issued August 7, 1858, S. D. McDonald editor and proprietor. Mr. McDonald continued the Gazette one year, issuing a daily during the session of the Constitutional Convention, and then suspended.

In August, Mr. McDonald re-commenced the publication of the Gazette, taking R B. Taylor in as a partner. The partnership continued but for a few weeks, and Mr. Taylor hired the office of Mr. McDonald and published the paper alone. On the 15th of January, 1861, while the editor was in the east on business connected with the paper, the office was entirely destroyed by fire, together with the building in which it was located, both office and building belonging to Mr. McDonald. When Mr. Taylor returned from the east he purchased the material of the Argus office and printed the Gazette on it. Mr. Taylor continued to publish the Gazette till the spring of 1867, when Philpott & Brown got possession of the office and published it three months under agreement to purchase, which they failed to perform.

Mr. Taylor then took the management of the paper again and continued in control till October 1, 1869, when he leased the office to Kessler & Tuttle. On the 1st of January, 1870, Mr. Tuttle withdrew, leaving Mr. Kessler sole lessee and editor. Richard Baxter Taylor, who for a long time was editor of the Gazette, was born in Buckland, Franklin county, Massachusetts, March 29, 1822, and died at his residence in Wyandott, Kansas, March 26, 1877. He received a good common school and academical education. When seventeen years of age he went to Canandaigua, New York, where he was engaged as an educator about five years, and then went to Ellenville, Ulster county, in the same State, where he commenced the study of law. He became connected with the Ellenville Journal, and so remained until he came west. In 1857, he visited Kansas, and the next year removed with his family to Wyandott. His purpose in coming to Kansas was to aid in making it a free State. In 1851 he married Miss Rachel Broadhead. Mr. Taylor was a Republican, though not for the spoils of office. As a journalist, he was able, intelligent and bold. Through his efforts the Kansas State Editorial Association was organized, and he was president of the first meeting which was held at Topeka, January 17, 1866.

He strongly advocated the writing and printing of words by the phonic method.

The editorial association which Mr. Taylor was so active in organizing, at its annual meeting held at Manhattan, April 7, 1875, suggested the action which led to the organization of the State Historical Society, and Mr. Taylor made one of its first directors.

At the death of R. B. Taylor, his son, Wm. B. Taylor, conducted the Gazette till October, 1879, when R. B. Armstrong and A. N. Moyer bought the office with all its appurtenances, and have since, under the firm name of Armstrong & Moyer, published the paper. The first issue bears date October 3, 1879.

Herewith is given the adieu of Mr. Taylor and salutatory of Messrs. Armstrong & Moyer:

ADIEU.

"I have this day transferred all my right, title and interest in the Wyandotte GAZETTE to Messrs. Armstrong & Moyer, who at once assume editorial and business management thereof. Thanking my friends for the constant and generous patronage which they have, without solicitation, bestowed upon me during my connection with the GAZETTE, and trusting confidently that they will treat in like

manner, in even greater measure, my successors-than whom two more honorable gentlemen, in every sense of the word, do not tread Kansas soil-with mingled feeling of joy and sorrow, gladness and regret, I step down and out. Wyandotte, Oct. 1st, 1879. WM. B. TAYLOR."

SALUTATORY.

"It is with some degree of diffidence that we step forward and make our best bow to the readers of the Gazette. We shall ask a liberal degree of forbearance until we get broken in to the editorial harness.

"Our aim shall be to continue the Gazette as a live, earnest, Republican paper. While we shall endeavor to avoid personalities we shall, at the same time, consider public men as public property, and shall consider the interests of the county, or city, as far outweighing the feelings or interests of a single individual who may hold, or aspire to an office.

"We shall never forget the standard so frequently applied to candidates by the late R. B. Taylor. 'Is he honest, is he capable.'

"We ask the aid of correspondents, and of all who have the interests of our county and city at heart, to assist us in pushing on the great forward movement toward creating a truly "Kansas" City and of making this the garden county of our State, already so happily inaugurated at the mouth of the Kaw."

The Gazette is a seven column folio, issued every Friday. D. W. Leavitt, foreman, and R. H. Mitchell, Charles Wilgus, William Fletcher and Wilbur Coutant, compositors.

The Kansas Post, a German weekly, was removed from Kansas City to Wyandott early during the war, and remained one year. It was published by A. Wuerz and John Haberlein who was principal editor.

The Kansas Real Estate Herald was issued at Wyandott, by E. F. Heisler, from November, 1868, to July, 1869.

The first number of Die Fackel, (The Torch), was printed in Wyandott September 12, 1866, by Kastor, Fischer & Co. H. W. Kastor editor. It was first printed on the Gazette press. On the 1st of January, 1868, Die Fackel was removed to Atchison.

The Kansas Pilot was established in Wyandott in 1879, and William Caffrey is the present editor and publisher.

"WYANDOTT HERALD."

The Wyandott Herald was established in 1871 by V. J. Lane & Co., with V. J. Lane as editor. The paper was the same as now, a seven column folio, and printed on the corner of Minnesota avenue and Fifth street, where it remained one year. In 1872 the office was removed to the corner of Third street and Minnesota avenue, and remained one year and a half when it was removed to Hescher's building, on the north side of Minnesota avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets; here the Herald was published till January 1st, 1880, and then removed again to the Masonic building, on the corner of Minnesota avenue and Third street.

A new building of brick and iron, 25x75, is in process of construction on the north side of Minnesota avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets, by the proprietors of the Herald, and it is expected this will be completed and ready for Occupation September 1st, 1881. The estimated cost of the building will be $3,500, and furnish abundant conveniences for the increasing business of the paper.

B. R. Lane, son of the editor, bought one-third interest in the Herald April 1st, 1880, and has since been a partner with his father.

The Herald has a large circulation in Wyandott county and this section of the State, it being Democratic in politics, and there being comparatively few

papers holding those political principles in this part of the State, finds a wide field

of operations.

The following was Mr. V. J. Lane's salutatory on taking charge of the Her ald, January 4, 1872:

"It is usual, we believe, for publishers when they launch their bark on a sea of public opinion and public favor, to mark out on the political chart the course they intend that their craft shall sail. In fact, this is so common that the absence of a salutatory in the initial number of a paper, abounding in all kinds of fair promises in favor of the public, which is the party saluted, is an exception to the general rule. As the publishers of the Herald do not desire to break through the established usages of ages of successful journalism, we offer the following as our salutatory: We intend to try to publish a good live, reliable and interesting paper. In order to do this, we shall need a hearty support from the people among whom it is published. In politics, this paper shall be Democratic; but its editors are not so wedded to their political faith that they will overlook or mitigate fraud or peculation in members of their own party. The principal aim of this paper is to assist in the up-building of this city and the development of the resources of the county. In this we hope to have the hearty co-operation of all our fellow citizens, without regard to party affiliations. It shall be our endeavor to keep our readers informed of all that is transpiring in our midst as well as furnishing the latest intelligence from all parts of the world.

"In conclusion, we would say that we shall try to do our duty, and if we shall fail therein we hope our little world will kindly overlook shortcomings and attribute their failure to lack of capacity rather than a disregard of the importance of the responsibilities we have thus voluntarily assumed.”

There is only one other Democratic paper in this county, the Evening Spy of Kansas City, Kansas. In 1857 a Democratic paper called the Wyandott Argus was established in the city of Wyandott by Gen. P. S. Post, for the past fourteen years consul to Vienna, and continued till the Civil War, when Gen. Post sold the paper to R. B. Taylor, who started the Wyandoti Gazette, a Republican paper. From 1861 to 1866 there was no Democratic paper in Wyandott county, but at the latter named date J. A. Berry started the Wyandott Democrat, issued it thirteen months and then he abandoned the paper, and it is said left the city with considerable money advanced on the second year's subscriptions. The next Democratic paper in this county was the Herald, commenced in 1871.

LONGEVITY FOR 1880.

When this portion of Kansas was first settled by the whites, it was a rare thing to see persons who had attained the age of fifty. All this is changed now, and we not only have hundreds who have attained that age, but a great many who have lived beyond the time allotted to man. The oldest white man in the county is Joseph Dixon, of Quindaro township, whose age is 94 years; while Mrs. Anna Best, of this city, is the oldest white woman, having reached the age of 86 years. The oldest woman in the county is Ann Crawford, a colored woman of Kansas City, who has reached the advanced age of 110 years. Below we give a list of those who have reached three-score and ten on the journey of life:

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