1. THE SURVIVORS' CLUB By Albert K. Hostetter It was fifty-six years ago, last Saturday, that a little group of prominent gentlemen of this city, numbering twenty-two, most of whom were Civil War veterans, were called together at three o'clock P. M., at the Leopard Hotel, Nos. 105-107 East King

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and friendship was forged. And with the advances in the care and movement of wounded, many who would have surely died in earlier wars returned home to be cared for by a weary community structure which now also faced the needs of widows and orphans. Veterans needed jobs, including a whole new group of