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Mondays
Eight o'clock
Fort Wayne
Public Library

Officers i 899 -t 900

President

DR. MILES F. PORTER

Vice-President

MRS. R. S. ROBERTSON

Secretary

C. M. LAWRENCE

Executive Committee
DR. MILES F. PORTER
MRS. R. S. ROBERTSON
C. M. LAWRENCE
SAMUEL WAGENHALS
S. M. FOSTER
CARRIE B. LANE
ADDIE J. FISHER

Members

ACTIVE

Marion E. Beall
Mart E. Beall
Dr. Warren D. Calvin
Dr. Carruthers Calvin
M. Belle Clark
Frederick Cohn
Mrs. Frederick Cohn
A. B. Crowe
Edith D. Crowe
L. Parke Drater
Gertrude n. Drater
George F. Felts
Aristine Felts
Addie J. Fisher
Samuel M. Foster
Margaret II. Foster
Henrt R. Freeman
Cora A. Freeman
Olap N. Guldlin
Addie L. Guldlin
Merica Hoagland
John H. Jacobs
Elizabeth Jacobs
Alexander Johnson
Eliza A. Johnson
Chester T. Lane
Carrie B. Lane
Charles R. Lane
Cora M. Lane
Alex S. Laufertt
Minnie E. Laufertt
Charles M. Lawrence
Iters Leonard
Josephine H. Leonard

Members

ACTIVE

Robert Lowry
Charlotte A. Lowry
Anna A. Lowry
Margaret M. MacPhail
David W. Moffat
Susan M. Moffat
William H. Myers
Essie P. Myers
Lee J. Ninde
Charles L. Olds
Eliza Olds
Miles F. Porter
Ldllie W. Porter
Robert S. Robertson
Frances M. Robertson
Elmer A. Schultze
Elizabeth A. Schultze
Justin N. Study
Isabella Study
Mrs. Alice Summerbell
Robert S. Taylor
Fannt W. Taylor
Frank B. Taylor
Samuel Wagenhals
Jennie S. Woodward
Charles n. Worden
Elizabeth M. Worden
Allen Zollars
Minnie E. Zollars

Members

NON-RESIDENT

Melvin A. Brannon, Grand Forks, N. D.
Lida C. Brannon, Grand Forks, N. D.
Charles R. Drter, Terre Haute, Ind.
Alice P. Drter, Terre Haute, Ind.
Nathan R. Leonard, Iowa
Elizabeth H. Leonard, Iowa
Minnie Leonard, Iowa
Alfred B. Mep.riam, Findlay, Ohio

HONORARY

LlNDLEY M. NlNDE

DECEASED

Jane Ninde Brady
Bcrton T. Cai.vekt

<Plan of Work

Mrs. Robertson
Decorative Art in America

Mrs. Freeman

Miss MacPhail

Mr. Cohn

Mrs. Guldlin

Mr. C. R. Lane

Side Lights on Suffrage

Mr. Foster

Mr. Crowe

Mrs. Felts

Miss IIoagland

Dr. Carruthers Calvin
Commitment and Care of the Insane

Mr. Johnson

Mr. Beall

Allen Zollars

Mrs. Crowe

Mr. Lawrence

The Quantity Theory of Monty

Mr. Robertson

Mr. Freeman

Mr. Felts

Mrs. Taylor

Mrs. Woodward

Victor Hugo
Mr. Study
Mr. Cohn
Mrs. Moffat
Mrs. Olds

"Plan of Work

Dec. 11. Mr. Jacobs
Luxury

Mr. Moffat
Mrs. Schultze
Mrs. Worden
Mr. Chas. R. Lane

Jan. 8. Mrs. Zollars
Art and Artists
Mrs. Robertson
Mrs. Moffat
Mrs. Myers
Mrs. Foster

Jan. 22. Mr. Leonard

Pen Sketches in the Philippines
Mr. Frank Taylor
Mrs. Stcdy
Mrs. Jacobs
Mrs. Beall

Feb. 5. Mrs. Lillie W. Porter
Wonlsicortli

Mrs. Chas. Lane
Mb. Lee Ninde
Mrs. Leonard
Mrs. Cohn

Fob. 19. Dr. W. D. Calvin

Prophylaxis from a Medico-Legal
Standpoint

Mr. Wagenhals
Dr. Drayer
Dr. Porter
R. S. Taylor

"Plan of Work

Mrs. C. T. Lake
Chas. Kingsley
Miss Clark
Mrs. Freeman
Dr. Moffat
Mrs. Fisher

Mrs. SracMERBELL

Character Sketches from George Elliott

Mrs. Drayer

Mrs. Crowe

Mr. Calvin

Mr. Schultze

Mrs. Johnson

Matheiv Arnold as a Poet

Mrs. Porter

Miss MacPhail

Mr. Olds

Mr. Robertson

April 16. Mr. R. S. Taylor
Mince Pie
Mr. Crowe
Mr. Wagenhals
Mrs. Guldlin
Mr. C. T. Lane

Aprii 30. Mr. C. T. Lane

Edmund Burke— The Man, the Orator,
and the Statesman

Mr. Jacobs

Mr. Foster

Mr. Johnson

Mrs. Lauferty

Constitution

Constitution

Object.

We, the persons whose signatures are
hereunto affixed, do associate ourselves to-
gether for the purpose of intellectual and
social culture, and do hereby adopt the fol-
lowing articles of association:

Article I. Name.
The name of this Association shall be
"The Fortnightly Club."

Article II. Members.

Section I. Candidates for membership
shall present an application in writing en-
dorsed by at least three members, or an
application may be made by three members
in behalf of the candidate. When the
names of husband and wife are proposed for
membership, the vote shall be cast as for
one, but they shall count as two members.
Applications must be read at a regular meet-
ing, and voted upon at a regular meeting
not earlier than two weeks thereafter.

Sec. 2. The vote shall be by written
ballot, and a three-fourths vote of the mem-

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bers present shall be necessary to elect.
Each member shall vote for no more than
one candidate at a time, husband and -wife
counting as one.

Sec. 3. When the list of candidates con-
sists of more than one name, said candidates
shall be voted upon singly in alphabetical
order. One ballot only shall be taken upon
each name.

Sec. 4. The voting shall proceed until
the list of candidates is exhausted, or until
it is discontinued by a motion to that effect
sustained by a majority vote. Candidates
voted upon at any meeting but not elected
shall not be voted upon again without the
previous notice required by Section 1 of this
Article.

Article III. Officers.

The officers of the Club shall consist of a
President, Vice-President and Secretary,
whose duties shall be those usually devolv-
ing upon such officers. They shall be
elected by ballot and shall hold office for one

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year, or until their successors are elected.
At the same time and in the same manner,
four members shall be chosen, who, together
with the President, Vice-President and Sec-
retary, shall constitute an Executive Com-
mittee. It shall be the duty of the Executive
Committee to determine the place of meet-
ing; to arrange a programme of exercises; to
receive and present to the Club applications
for membership; to propose and submit to
the Club for adoption, such standing rules of
procedure and amendments thereto, as may
from time to time seem desirable; and to ex-
ercise a general supervision and direction of
the business affairs of the Club.

Article IV. Meetings.
Regular meetings of the Club shall be
held on each alternate Monday evening from
October I to May I.

Article V. Quorum.
Of the Club one-third of all the members,
and of the Executive Committee a majority,
shall constitute a quorum to do business.

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Article VI. Amendments and Laws.

Amendments to these articles, also
by-laws, standing rules and amendments
thereto, may be proposed at any regular
meeting, voted upon at the next regular
meeting, and adopted by a two-thirds vote,
and no article, law nor rule shall be adopted,
amended or repealed, except by a two-thirds
vote at a regular meeting after a notice given
at some previous regular meeting.

Standing Rules.

I. The exercises of the evening shall
begin promptly at eight o'clock, and shall
consist of one paper, not exceeding forty-
five minutes in length. Four persons shall
be appointed by the Executive Committee
to discuss each paper, and their names shall
be printed in the programme. The time
limit of each of these discussions shall be
five minutes. These shall be fol lowed by
a general conversation of thirty minutes; in
which one person shall speak not more than
twice. Closing remarks by the reader,

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limited to five minutes' duration, shall end
the programme.

2. Absence from three consecutive meet-
ings without a satisfactory excuse to the
Executive Committee, rendered before the
next meeting, shall be construed as a desire
to withdraw from the society, and names
shall be dropped from the list without further
notice.

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