The Ross County Anti-Tuberculosis Society was organized in October, 1908, for the purpose of combating and preventing tuberculosis: (1) By education; (2) by coöperation with health officials, and (3) by such other methods as the society may from time to time adopt.

Rev. Dr. R. G. Noland was the first president; the late Moritz Schachne was the first vice president. The late Dr. Charles Hoyt was one of the active early workers, becoming president when ill health compelled the retirement of Doctor Noland.

At first the efforts of the society were largely educational, but the field of activities widened and a nurse was employed to look after indigent cases of tuberculosis. But the field of prevention was broader than this so that the care of babies was taken up, a campaign for a clean city was inaugurated, a warfare on the fly was started, and as the relation of poverty and unemployment to disease became increasingly more evident efforts were made to secure work for those who were out of work and to furnish material relief to the needy.

In the winter of 1912 the Associated Charities was formed to correlate the charity work of the city and to finance the relief work which had outgrown the plans of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society. Mrs. A. H. Rumer, superintendent of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society, was made executive secretary of the Associated Charities.

These societies both prospered. Dr. G. E. Robbins, a former president of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society, was chosen president of the Ohio Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in 1914, largely in recognition of the character and standing and activity of the local society. Chillicothe has been a pioneer in this sort of work and some half dozen neighboring cities have modeled their public health and social welfare work on the Chillicothe plan.

At present there are two nurses at work looking after illness and poverty and doing general social welfare work. In recognition of the value of the work the Chillicothe Board of Education has recently appointed Mrs. Rumer as school nurse. In connection with the night school run last year by the public schools, Mrs. Rumer had a class of sixteen girls trained in home-nursing, and another class of motherless girls under training in the domestic science department of the night school.

Through plans inaugurated by the Anti-Tuberculosis Society a movement was set afoot which recently culminated in the securing of a site for a District Tuberculosis Sanitarium on the hills west of Chillicothe. Fayette, Highland, Jackson, Pike, Ross and Scioto counties are jointly interested in this project.

These societies have their headquarters and permanent home on West Main Street, in the Richard Enderlin Welfare House.

Present officers of the Ross County Anti-Tuberculosis Society: President, D. A. Perrin, M. D.; secretary, R. E. Bower, M. D.; treasurer, Charles M. Haynes; superintendent, Mrs. Anna H. Rumer.

Officers of the Associated Charities: President, W. F. Sulzbacher; vice president, G. E. Robbins, M. D.; recording secretary, R. E. Bower, M. D.; treasurer, A. B. Howson; executive secretary, Mrs. Anna H. Rumer.

LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

Chillicothe is well organized as to its industrial forces. It has unions of carpenters, printers and other working men and women, and brotherhoods and sisterhoods identified with locomotive engineers and firemen, trainmen and conductors.

WOMEN'S CLUBS

Chillicothe women have been active for many years in social, literary and reformatory fields. Among the best known of their organizations are the Century and the Enterpean clubs, which were both founded in 1896.

The Century Club was organized February 29, 1896, at the close of a series of lectures delivered by Miss Anna G. McDougal and Miss Nancy Mann Waddle of Chillicothe.

The club took its name from the fact that it was organized in Chillicothe's centennial year, and that it also enrolls just one hundred members, the membership being strictly limited to that number.

This club has for its first object, the culture and improvement of its members through the study of such subjects as are deter mined upon by the club from year to year-literary, historical, musical or artistic.

Aside from this there has been an effort to develop the social side of club life, and to bring together, with one center of interest at least, one hundred women belonging to different circles in society, to different churches, and holding widely different personal opinions.

In the endeavor to arouse among the people of the town an interest in history, literature, art, science and kindred subjects, the Century Club has brought lecturers of note, whom the townspeople have heard through the invitation of its members. Among the distinguished lecturers heard are Rev. William Norman Guthrie

of Cincinnati. Mr. Edward Baxter Perry of Boston (who illustrated his lecture on music with a piano recital), Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, Mr. Walter Pearson of the University Extension Bureau of Chicago, Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton, Prof. Richard Green Moulton and Professor Troop, of the University of Chicago, and others.

Altruistic work done by the Century Club has been in diversified channels. During the Spanish war, a large consignment of books and magazines was sent to the Ross County soldiers in the Philippines. Each year also, similar donations have been made to the Ohio penitentiary, and to the Girls' Industrial Home at Delaware. In 1902 the Century Club set in motion the project to erect a bronze tablet as a substantial memorial of the founding of the state. This tablet, erected November 29, 1902, on the front wall of the Ross County courthouse, marks the site of Ohio's first state house in Chillicothe, in which was formulated and adopted the original constitution of the commonwealth. For a number of years the Century Club has sold Red Cross Christmas seals, the proceeds of which have been used in part payment of the salary of a district nurse. By subscription among its members, it has furnished the hall and parlor of the Richard Enderlin Welfare House.

The Club has also supervision of the Woman's Rest Room, at the request of the donor, Mr. Frederick A. Stacey. The Century Club originated the idea of holding Health Day exercises in the public schools, which has been followed by many other cities, and which has become an annual practice. During the world's war of 1914-16 substantial contributions were sent to the war zone.

In 1897 the Century Club united with the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs, and with the General Federation of Women's Clubs, since which time it has been actively interested in both bodies.

In October, 1913, the club was hostess to the Ohio Federation in its annual convention.

Following is a list of presidents and secretaries of the club since its organization: Presidents-Mrs. B. F. Stone, 1896-1897; Mrs. A. L. Fullerton, 1898; Mrs. John A. Nipgen, 1899-1900; Miss Alice Bennett, 1901-1902; Miss Myrtle Stinson, 1903-1904; Miss Helen F. Stone, 1905-1906; Miss Margaret S. Cook, 1907-1908; Mrs. H. W. Chapman, 1909-1910; Miss Nellie Wayland, 1911; Mrs. J. C. Ballard, 1912; Miss Alice Bennett, 1913-1914; Mrs. Wilby G. Hyde, 1915. Secretaries-Miss Jane F. Winn, 1896-1897; Mrs. H. W. Chapman, 1898-1899; Miss Nellie Wayland, 1900-1901; Miss Harriet A. Moore, 1902; Miss Kate Koehne, 1903; Miss Kate Davenport, 1904-1905; Mrs. Frank A. Sosman, 1906-1907; Mrs. F. M. Nichols, 1908-1909; Miss Marie Moore, 1910; Miss Florence Hunter,

1911-1912; Mrs. F. A. Sosman, 1913-1914; Miss Lora E. Hackett, 1915.

The Euterpean Club was organized February 19, 1896, at the home of its first president, Mrs. Austin P. Hermann, for the purpose of cultivating the musical talents of its members and raising the musical standards of the city.

The club has represented in its membership forty active members, there being no limit to the number of associate members. The principal work is choral and includes cantatas, song cycles and special choruses from operas and lesser works, adapted to women's voices.

In its earlier history the Euterpean Club produced miscellaneous programs at frequent intervals, but more recently it has devoted itself to the more serious study of such works as "Hawthorne and Lavender" by Fanny Snow Knowlton.

Chorus drill under a competent director every two weeks is followed by a public production of some work at the close of the calendar year.

Eminent lecturers and some artists have been brought to the city by the club. Following is a list of presidents and secretaries since the organization: Presidents Mrs. Austin P. Hermann, Mrs. E. R. McKee, Mrs. B. F. Miesse, Mrs. H. W. Chapman, and Mrs. Austin Hermann. Secretaries-Miss Evelyn Pearson, Miss Kate Platter, Miss Maud Brimson, Miss Arabella Lindsey, Miss Eva Roach, Miss Ethel Hoffman, Mrs. W. H. Dyer, and Mrs. H. W. Chapman.

LITERARY REPUTATIONS ABROAD

Perhaps among the best known Chillicothe women who have made literary reputations of a notable nature are Miss Jane Winn, Miss Jane Guthrie and Miss Eleanor Waddle, the first named particularly as an editorial contributor to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the last, as editor of Vogue, New York.

Vol. I-23

CHAPTER XII

NEWSPAPERS, INDUSTRIES AND BANKS

THE SCIOTO GAZETTE-THE FIRST EDITOR-MAXWELL'S CENTINEL ITS FIRST HOME-DISTINGUISHED MEN-AN ENTERPRISING PAPER THE GAZETTE FROM FIRST TO LAST-FIRST RELIGIOUS PAPER IN AMERICA-PREDECESSORS OF THE ADVERTISER—THE NEWS-ADVERTISER-THE GERMAN PRESS AND UNSERE ZEITCHILLICOTHEAN INDUSTRIES-INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT-TANNERIES-FLOUR MILLS-RISE AND FALL OF PORK PACKING— WOOD, STONE AND BRICK MANUFACTURES-THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER-FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOPS OTHER PRESENTDAY INDUSTRIES THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EARLY BANKING AT CHILLICOTHE-HISTORICAL RELICS REVEALED THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK-THE ROSS COUNTY NATIONAL BANK-CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK-CITIZENS' NATIONAL BANK-THE SAVINGS BANK-VALLEY SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANYBUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.

Until the industries and business of a place have made some headway, the level-headed men of a new community do not risk the establishment of banks. They are always on the side of conservatism. Railroads and newspapers often blaze their way through the frontiers before there is much to show in the way of civilization. And it happened that this was strikingly true in the case of Chillicothe, its newspapers being not only one of the first of its industries, but one which has endured and grown for one hundred and sixteen years under the same name. Its history is therefore unique; there is no newspaper in America which has a like record. Further, although newspapers are not usually classified under the head of industries, the true, successful and progressive newspaper is an industry of the most intense kind; and the Gazette has always been dominated by industrious men and women.

THE SCIOTO GAZETTE

The Scioto Gazette has been published continuously since April 25, 1800, and when it was 110 years old Col. W. A. Taylor, of