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organization, working around the corporation as a nucleus, having 
the same name and managed by the same officials, but having also 
a commissioner who looks after the comfort and welfare of the club 
members, operates the motion pictures, and conducts the general 
business of the club. There are 101 members, 42 being farmers. 
It is arranged that the members of the village board of trustees, 
the pastors of the various churches, the superintendent of public 
education, and the village marshal, provided they maintain member- 
ship in the club, shall constitute an advisory board which may meet 
from time to time with the board of directors, to consider the various 
interests of the community. 
The building is of brick, 40 by 80 feet, with two stories and base- 
ment. It is heated by steam, lighted by electricity, and has running 
hot and cold water. 
On the first floor is an auditorium and moving picture room, 40 
by 40 feet, containing 240 opera chairs and 60 movable chairs. At 
the front of the auditorium is a stage 15 by 40 feet, with a proscenium 
opening 14 by 21 feet, a roller curtain, and eight flies. There is also 
a women's rest room for members and all country women, furnished 
with tables, chairs, cribs, lounges, and toilet and lavatory facilities; 
a main lobby; the commissioner's office, which is also the box office; 
and a moving-picture booth of fireproof construction. 
On the second floor are a reading and social room, a directors' 
room, a banquet hall with orchestra stage, also used as a gymnasium; 
a kitchen with complete equipment, a dining room and equipment, a 
dressing room, a lavatory, and baths. In the banquet room are 60 
chairs and 8 folding tables. 
In the basement are two bowling alleys, three billiard tables, a 
toilet room, and a furnace room. 
The following organizations use the building: The Red Cross, the 
Boy Scouts, the Home Guards, the war loan committee, the Chau- 
tauqua company, the band, the Grand Army of the Republic, the 
fire department, the village board, the board of education, the ladies' 
club, the farmers' club, the farm bureau, private clubs, and the town 
library. 
In addition to the activities connected with these organizations are 
the following: Lecture courses; weekly community club banquets, fol- 
lowed by business meetings; gymnasium work; recreation; games; 
moving pictures and traveling theatricals, contracted for and cen- 
sored by the directors; local plays, musical entertainments, and 
recitals; a community Christmas tree; community celebrations of 
July 4 and Memorial Day; festivals; school exercises; private and 
club dances- conventions; receptions for visitors; and patriotic 
meetings. 
