HISTORY OF THE WHEEL. 85 



THE WHEEL IX INDIAN TERRITORY. 



The first subordinate Wheel was organized by J. H= 

 Bogard, Fanin county, Texas, at Bennington, a country 

 church, twenty miles east of Caddo, August 2d, 1886. Mr. 

 Bogard went into the Territory at the solicitation of A. H. 

 Nuttall and organized two Wheels. Mr. Nuttall was 

 then appointed deputy organizer, and in a few weeks had 

 organized twelve other Wheels. Delegates from these met 

 at Caddo, April ist, 1887, and organized a Territorial 

 Wheel with the following officers: President, A. H. Nut- 

 tall; Vice-President, M. M. Impson; Secretary, H. C. 

 Bouton; Treasurer, Wiley Stewart; Chaplain, M. C. Clark. 

 In November, 1886, the Blue County Wheel organized and 

 adopted a store in Caddo. The store consisted of a small 

 grocer} 7 , the larger houses refusing to have anything to do 

 with the Wheelers. This store, owned by C. A. Hancock, 

 a shrewd young business man in Caddo, w T as subsequently 

 enlarged and a good stock of dry goods and farming imple- 

 ments added. In the meantime the Wheel continued 

 to prosper. The first annual meeting of the Terri- 

 torial Wheel was held at Pleasant Hill, July 27th, 

 1887. All the deputy organizers made favorable reports 

 and much important business was transacted. The second 

 annual meeting of the Territorial Wheel met at Kiowa, 

 July 25th, 1888. About one hundred delegates were pres- 

 ent. A. H. Nuttall was re-elected President; Gus C. 

 Schueler, Vice-President; D. S. Ivins, Secretary, W. G. 

 Ward, Treasurer. At a called meeting at Caddo, October 

 ist, 1888, J. W. B. Lloyd was elected a delegate to the 

 National Wheel at Meridian, Mississippi. The Wheel in 

 Indian Territory deserves great credit for its success. 



THE WHEEL IN WISCONSIN. 



John Hanson, of Maple Valley, Wisconsin, was ap- 

 pointed deputy organizer, and organized the first Wheel in 



