Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 January 1869 — Page 8

THE CITY.

LOCAL MEMORANDA. BENEVOLENT ORDERS-

Crawfordsville Chapter, No. 40, R. A. Al. Stated meetings

Tuesday

evening «tcr the

foil moon, in Masonic Hall, Main St. L. A. roote,H.£. P. G. White, Secretary. Montgomery Lodge, No.50, F.^.M. Stated meetings Saturday evening on or before the ftill moon, in Masonic Halt, Main St. M. D. Manson. W.M. L. A.Foote, Secretary. cSordsvifle Lodge, No. 223, I O.O.F. Meets every Saturday evening at Odd Fellows' Hall, Green St. P. C. Somerville, N. ©.• B. A. High tower,Secretary. j&ethesda Encampment, No. 15, I.O.O.F. Meets first and third Tuesday of cach month at Odd Fellows' Hall. Green St. James Owen,C.P. J. M. Kelsey, Scribe.

Tahoe Lodge, No. 384, I.O.G.T. Meets every Monday evening, at Good Templars' Hall, cor. Main and Washington Sts. F. £. Hills, "W.C.T. A. H. Longley, Secretary.

CHURCH SERVICES.

St. John's Church, (Protestant Episcopal) Rev. Isaac A. Hagar, Rector. Sunday service 10^ a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday-school 9 a.m. All seats free.

Methodist Episcopal, Rev. T. S. Webb, Pastor. Sundav services 10J4 a.m. and 7 p. m. Sunday-School 2 p.m. Class-meetings 9a.m. Prayer-meeting Thursday evening.

Presbvterian, (O. S.) Rev. R. F. Caldwell, Pastor." Sunday services 1014 and 7 p.m. Sunday School 9 tt.m. Prayer-meet-rng on Wednesday evening.

Center Church, (N. S. Presbyterian Rev. John Saftord, Pastor. Sunday services 10y2 a. m. and p.m. Sunday School 2 p.m. Prayer-meeting on Y/ednesday evening.

Christian Church. Services irregular, ftanday School 2 p.m. Baptist Church, (Missionary) Eld. Robert Moore, Pastor. Services 2d and 4th Sunday In each month.Sunday School.9 a.m.

St. Bernard's (Catholic) Rev. E. P. Walters, Pastor. Sunday service at 8. and 10 a. m. and 3p.m. Sunday School 2 p.m.

Louisville, New Albany A Chicago R.K. Trains arrive at Crawfordsville daily as follows:

GOING NORTH:

Accommodation, .9:09 u.m. Express,... 6:35 p.m. GOING SOUTH: Express, .a-1"* A a 3 8 4

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All paid for Xotices MUST appear under the head of "Business Mention,'' ''Local Matters," or "Business Notices." Th& notices elsewhere are such 'as the editors give gratuitously. The rule that paid notices are deluded from reading matter admits of NO JMCCEPTIOIF.

APPLES are scarce enough to_se!l at live cents apiece in this city.

NOAV is vonr time to advertise, to catch the incoming opening trade.

THE carpenters hereabouts have scarcely missed a days work this wintefr, so mild and regular has been the weather.

IT is reported that the city authorities have resolved that the city of Crawfordsville is too poor to put down stone at street crossings.

PERSONAL.—T. S. Taylor, Esq., of Ft. Wayne, formerly of this city and it typo in the JOURNAL office, called to see us last Saturday.

THE Indianapolis Journal's Crawfordsville correspondent "Friday," in a late letter speaks of the liberal subscriptions the citizens of this city have made towards the purchase of a lire engine. We think Friday intends to be "sarkastik." •,

"THE Masquerade" at the residence of Col. W. C.Vance on Thursday evening, was well attended, and everybody present enjoyed themselves to the highest degree. As a rule, the costumes were well arranged, and the identity of the wearer puzzling to discover. These gatherings should be encouraged by our young folks. They are productive of much enjoyment, and thereby good and right living.

MR. ALEXANDER, Chief Engineer of the 1. C. & D. R.R., has been examining the various routes from the junction Avest to the beginning of the old grade, preparatory to the location of the road west of Crawfordsville. The country is very rough, and there is room for the exercise of a good deal of skill in selecting the most practicable route.

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THE following were elected officers of Tahoe Lodge, No. 384, I. O. Good Templars, on Monday evening last: A. F. Wise, W. C. T. Nellie Heaton, AY. V. T. J. P. Slaughter, W. S. M. Donovan, W. F. S.: Cynth. Lewis, W. T. Wm. McDonald, W. 31. Mattie Ashonhurst. W. I. G. 1. C. Suman, W. O. G. These officers will be installed at the meeting on Monday evening next.

Tl»e •'Jcrk.Wa( p'' t« bcSiviil. The important ease of 1. D. Williamson vs. the Louisville, New Albany &> Chicago Kailrooad Company was decided in the White county Court of Common Pleas, at Monticello, Indiana, on Friday, tho 32d inst. The suit was brought in the Common Pleas Court at New Albany, but a change of venue was granted to Judge Howe, of Tippecanoe county, before whom the case was tried. After hearing the argument, Judge Larue ordered a decree of sale. The Sherift' of White county, after advertising the property for forty days in one nov spaper at Monticello, two in New Albany and two in the fcity of New York, is empowered to sell the road, franchises, rolling stock, depots and other property to the highest bidder, and the proceeds are to be applied to indemnifying the bond holders. The sale will take place about the first of April. This is one of the most important suits ever decided.

Common Pleas Court.

The February Term of the Common Pleas Court commences next Monday. There is an unusual amount oflitigated business for this Term. Judge Ristine, newly elected, will occupy the bench.

Town Trifles.

"Trifles, light as air."

In "Sugar Creek Dispatches," in the JOURNAL of th« 14th inat., the following question is asked: "Say, Messrs. Editors, is Perry Winkle burned f"

B. MAN*.

P. W. don't run the "Question Department" of the JOURNAL, but he will answer B. Mann, by aaying: "No not tha£ he knows of!" P. W. was at the fire that is, he stood on the sidewalk and looked at the property owners of the city working like good fellows to save the property of their neighbors, hut P. W. didn't do anything. His property consists of a sewing machine, which icalked off out of danger, and so he felt satisfied. Since then he joined the Fire Company, and intends to make a useful member until the engine is purchased, and then he will resign. There is no need for a company they will have nothing to do only when there is a fire, and then tliere will be plenty of volunteers, and any number to teli them what to do and how to do It.

P. W. hasn't been trifling of late. He has to study too hard to get through College this term. He is anxious to graduate for then he will be ready to commence the study, and finally the practice of the law. lie is well aware that •rawfordsville offers a fine field for the legal profession, and he is anxious to "strike while the iron is hot wants to open his office, by the time the East and West railroad is completed, in order to secure his share of the business there will be to do when our city begins to overtake Chicago. Let this be P. W.'s apology for his silence. He will write Trilies as often as he can, aud not neglect his studies.

P. W. don't like to attempt a "heavy article," such as are burtheoing the Cincinnati Gazette and other country papers now-a-duys, upon "the resumption of specie payments," -paying oil'the live twenties," «fcc., but he is almost tempted to perpetrate a financial article. The fact is, he has had of late so many little reminders soliciting(his attention to the subject of finances, and thg question of "paying off in greenbacks" has presented itself so vividly to his mind that it very naturally comes up for consideration. Everybody says money matters arei "awful tight," and as far as P. W.'s experience goes, he is unable to dispute the assertion. Yet he is unable to account for it, if it is a fact. He thought when he saw the broad, fertile acres stretching out for miles around Crawfordsville, yielding the past year abundant harvests, that when their products were brought into market, money would flow into the hands of our farmers and mercantile men and citizens. How it can be stringent times with the farming community after so abundant a year as the last was, is a mystery to the mind ot P. W. We are an agricultural people. The welfare of the farming class is intimately connected with that of our citizens, and if the farmer will strive to meet their engagements with our merchants and others, and enable our city folks to pay these who supply our dealers with goods, all Avi'l be mutually benefited.

The butter business is a theme upon wAich the philosophical and analytic mind may bueak itself without arriving at any satisfactory solution of its puzzling features. Butter is a favorite component of what are generally spoken of as table comforts. Everybody likes butter on bread and buckwheats, and there is no substitute for it. "Fine words" have been tried on parsnips, in lieu of butter, but failed to give satisfaction. Geographically, topographically, and isothcrmically, we arc happily situated for the production of butter. We have cattle, and abundance of pasture yet butter is eternally dear, and frequently "nasty." Butter culture is profitable, when intelligently and industriously followed. Yet no farmer with a few acres of good meadow land, rushes into the business, and makes his eternal fortune. On the contrary, the market is supplied spasmodically by fanners' wives, who want to earn a little pin money. Some farmers' wives are clean in habit, and honest. Result: nice, yellow, sweet butter, without a suspicion of sloppincss. Other farmers' wives are slovenly, slouchy and tricky. Hence: butter with hair i:i it, butter that soon begins to stink butter with plenty of s:ilt in it, because salt is cheap butter which isn't butter, but an abomination. Yet it is a curious feature in the market th:ft. the price of butter is fixed, and the meanest butter commands as good a price as tho best. It is all butter in the eyes of the grocer—butter at so much a pound—even if it be half hair or half sour "milk. A reform is needed in the butter business. The nice, honest, cleanly women who make the good butter should be recognized, rewarded and encouraged. What enterprising grocer will undertake the classification of butter and pay a premium for the best article, trusting to the good sense of his customers to get his money back 'i

The Trilier lays no claims whatever to being a theologian, yet he has some notions of his own in regard to Christianity and its legitimate requirements. He listened to a sermon in one of our city churhcs on a Sunday evening not long since, and it suggested the following reflections. The ideas he holds may be considered heterodox, but he advances them, neverthelessIt is a great mistake to suppose that people who are sincerely religious must necessarily be severely ascetic. They who imperiously imagine that the happiness of the Creator consists in the unhappiness of the creature, are thus offending Him in their very fear of giving offense—since they find sweetness even in their sourness, and a joy in the very want of it. There ought to be no incompatibility in this world between good humor and a good conscience for it certainly does not

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follow that a "conscience void of offense" must, on that account, be one void of smiles also. And yet such appears to be the popular opinion among many of omr more really worthy pietists. They shun hilarity as though it were only another word for iniquity, and abjure a jest as though it were sin itself, dressed masquerade fashion. They put their faces literally into mourning, and wear mental sackcloth and ashes as a common costumc—precisely as if, in losing their hold upon life's more exceptionable indulgences, they had been bereaved of some dearly beloved relationship and sorrowed, not over the errors of others, but over the absence of those errors in their practice. Is this wise? Is it by any means the impression they desire to convey to the thoughtless and worldly Certainly not. Where is the propriety of clothing a proper peace of mind in a repulsive austerity for surely Peace herself is a smiling spirit, and a confidence in the enjoyment of future happiness should beget some reflection of its joyous nature in its anticipation. The Trilier has often thought that nobody should look so gloriously cheerful here as he who feels a solemn assurance of his eternal felicity hereafter. What are the petty cares atid anxieties '6/ social life to him? What to him are the embarrassments and privations, the ills and griefs that liarrass the worldly They are the drops only of finite sorrow which preludes an ocean of joy in infinity. They are the discords introduced for effect into the overture to a grand opera of sublime and harmonious eternity. Yet how eften do we find such truly blessed people the last to mauifest, in their conduct and countenances, their good fortune? How oltcn do we find them making heaven and it^ ,promises unattractive—judging of both, as the world will judge, by" the looks and. liabits of their earthly representatives? Those who eschew innocent enjoyments arS very apt to be suspected of indulging in such as are not wholly unimpeachable. Whether culpable or otherwise, they may not escape calumny. Would it not be better, therefore, to adopt a different course, and exemplify, for the benefit of others, that not only wisdom's ways, but—what is the same thing—the ways of the strictly upright "are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths arc peace"?—thattrue devotion is not irrational in the views of life's purer gayeties, and that a mind persuaded of its prospects of ultimate happiness is too impregnated with secret joy to grow morose over the contemplation of more immediate though temporary gratifications? "Would it not considerably increase the benificcnt influence of Christian principles, and induce many to embrace religion, who are now deterred by the austerity of those held up to them as admiring examples? —There, that is P. W.'s sermon. It may not be as good as some that were preached last Sunday, but its tone is as "healthy.'" As it is customary to sing at the close of the sermon, if anybody wants to do so in this instance, here are the words—select your own tune: Oh! do not despair, though the heart may be breaking,

Thomgh hope may have turned to a glimmering ray, Though the friends of your yonth arc your pathway forsaking, •lis the darkness that comes ere the break of day.

Though home is remembered but in dreams of the past, Though the phantom of love mny its spectres display, Though the deepest of clouds may 3'our sky overcast 'Tis the darkness that comes ere the break of day.

Then to new life awake—with new impulse be stirring, Work ont your redemption without delay God pities us each—though we all are ofl erring^

He always sends darkness before the break of day.

Oh: do not despair, though the heart may be breaking, Though hope may have, turned to a glimmering ray.. Though the friends of your youth are your pathway forsaking, •Tis the darkness timt heralds the brightest of day.

W Town Trifler.

Cil.V I'lre

The City Council have passed an "Ordinance for the prevention of Fires," which prohibits the erection .of any building, or addition to any buildim before erected, unless the outer

Avails

thereof be composed of

brick or stone, with mortar, withiu Mio following described limits: "On any lot or part of lot in the city of Crawfordsviile, lying in the space in said city enclosed by the following named boundaries, to wit: Com lneneing at the alley between Walnut and Washington streets thence east on Market street to the alley between Green and Water streets thence south on said alley Pike street: thence west on Pike street to tho alley between Washington and Walnut streets: thence north on said alley to tlic place of beginning." The penally affixed for a violation of this Ordinance is $100 for the iirst'otlense, and from $10 to fos* each subsequent offense.

ttcld IVlloivs' Nuj)i»r.

1-he supper lv the Daughter?? ui licbeivuli, at LItzroth Hall, on last Wednesday evening, was a success in every sense of the word. Everybody enjoved themselves and the result was a handsome sum over and above the expenses.

Transfers of Henri*.

The following marriage licenses have been issued from the Clerk's Office Avithin the past Aveck:

Frank Cedars to Sarah Shafer. Jos. L. Mitchell to Mary L. Reynolds. Wm. E. Roath to Amelia M. Click. Jas. E. Sargent to Mattie E. Smith. Joshua B. McClure to Anna E. Steele..

The Lecture.

Mr. Vincent's lecture at McClelland Hall, last Saturday evening, was listened to by a very respectable number of citizens. The speaker looks like the Englishman in the picture, but talks as if fully acquainted with the Avays of Americans. He has studied their Aveak points, and knows how much to flatter them before undertaking to teack them a lesson.

The subject of his lecture Avas Oliver Cromwell, but those who went to the Hall expecting to hear a simple eulogy on Cromwell, were agreeably disappointed. The real subject was not Cromwell, simply, but the force of his character, and the influence which it exercised in shaping the future of Jngland and America. It was Cromwell only as the representative or central figure of certain ideas struggling for the ascendency.

No report, however full, could do justice to the lecture. The speaker acted out the very characters he described. He took up the peculiarities of the seventeenth century, and was himself the representative, in turn, of the several classes to which they belonged. His manner, which, at first, might almost have been construed into an utter contempt for the culture of his audienccj improved, or

Avas

overlooked. He

led.his audience in the search for the great truths of history, and always returned to the present time with them, to show Avhere the application should be made. He understands the "art of putting things." After impressing his audience with the faet that there is an unusual sternness and stubbornness about John Bull, he thus describes the Scotchman: You may possibly roll an Englishman up and use him like a rubber ball, but you can't do that way Avith a Scotchman. You may chop ofl' his head or break his back, but you can't roll him up.

These are some ot the points in the lecture, the delivery of which occupied fully two hours. If this treat is to be regarded by the citizens of CraAvfordsville as an earnest of what the Association expect to do in the future, they need not fear for the result. Such a lecture makes a man think.

Last SnndayCKNTER CHUHCIL/

In the morning, Mr. Safford preached from Romans 1-28: "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge* God gave them oyer to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient." We can serve God or not serve Him by the exercise of our OAVII free sovereign will. God holds out every inducement to loye Him, and we are entirely responsible for the results of our several life-Avorks. It is not God's work to ruin and destroy, but to beautify and strengthen: not to give man a reprobate mind but to save him from it. Neither is it manliness and strength of character to drive God from our minds and let in lust and rioting passions.

The lecture in the evening, was from 1st Peter, 3:18-21. Peter wrote to comfort persecuted Christians. There is no hope which will stand the test of the last day which is not built on Christ's sufferings. The sufferings of the innocent may be the life of the bad. Christ's sufferings was the lifj* of multitudes. It is patient, Christlike suffering which wins... It is to be hoped that Christ's preaching to us may not be as ineffectual as the preaching of Noah, who as we learn in the text, after a long pastorate

M. K, CHURCH.

In the morning, the Pastorpreaehed from the latter clause of Genesis 7:22: "And he said, behold the lire and the wood but where is the lamb for the burnt offering:'" This was a very happy selection, since a protracted effort is being made and a want of attendance on the part of some of the members, causes thr labor lo fall too heavily on tho:r pastor. The desire was to impress upon their minds the fact that some sacrifice was necessary on the part of every Christian, in order to secure the blessing of God.

Before Sufl'rapo-M'linf

This evening, at McClelland Hall. Miss Lizzie M. Bovnton will lecture on the abo\ subject, under the auspices of the Ladies' Reading Association. Admission 50 cents.: Doors open at 6y.. LeCUire to commence promptly at 1%.

Bible Society Meelingr.

Sunday next is the Anniversary of the Montgomery County Bible Society, at Center Church, at 7 p.m. Tlic agent ot^ the American Bible Society, of

meet

Avliieh

the Coun­

ty Society is an auxiliary, Rev. P- R. Vannatta is now canvassing the city ill behalf of the cause, audit is to be hoped he may

Avith success, as no collection will be taken up in the churches.

THKRE was a partial eclipse of the moon

last night

MARRIED.

LITER—CAMPBELL—On the 21st inst., by Rev. R. F. CaldAvell, Mr. M. A. Liter and Miss Angelina Campbell—all of this vicinity.

SARGENT—SMITH—On Monday, the 25th inst, at St. John's Church, by Rev. Isaac Hagar, Mr. Ed. Sergent and Miss Mattie Smith—all of this city.

WATKINS—SMITH—On the 10th inst., by Rev. J. Robinson, John W. "Watkins, of Indiana, and Miss Lucy Smith, of Ohio.

Each of the above p&rties remembered the JOURNAL folks, in the way of "lots" of good things, for which they will accept our thanks, and best wishes for thqir future happiness and prosperity. McCLURE—STEEL-On the 26th inst., by. Rev. R. F. Caldwell, Mr. Joshua B. McClure, of Bath county, Kentucky, and Miss Ann E. Steele.

FLANNIGAN—IRON S—On the 21stinst., by Rev. G. W. Stafford, 3ir. Noah Flannigan and Miss Julia Irons, all of this county.

MARTIN—HUTCH1NGS—On the 21st inst., by Rev. G. W. Stafford, Mr. Jacob C. Martin and Miss Ruth M. Iiutchings, all of this county.

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Crawfordsville Markets.

Corrected Weekly by J. J. Darter & Co., Grocer?, corner Washington and Pike Streets. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Jan. 27. Wheat— |Hay, per ton, $14 00

No. 1 White, §1 (50. jWool, per lb., 20a30c. White & Red $ 150' [Chickens, doz., £3 00 Corn, 45c. Flour, best, $9.00. Coffee—

Rio, best, 30c. Common, 25c. Java, 38c. Ground, 30c. Sugar-

Star, 30c. Pressed, 20c. Salt, $3 25.

Beefsteak, 12 15c. Roast, 10a^5c. Pork, ISc Butler, 25c. Eg$s, 20c... Bacon—

Sides, clear, 16c. Rib, 14c. Pickled Meats, 14c.

Common br., 16c. Crushed & gr., 20c. Orleans, ITc. Extra 'C 1S% Syrups, N. O. #lal 25 Teas, S2a2 50. Coal Oil, 50c per gnl. Candles, per lb—

Shoulders, 14c. Hams, 18c. Lard, 20c. Hogs $7 00@8 00. Hops, 75c. Brooms, 30af0c. Prunes, 20c. Raisins, 40c. Turkeys, per lb lie.

BUSINESS NOTICES. The Mammoth Cave. [Extract from a Private Letter,]

We groped about for many

hours in this wonderful place. I never saw anything like it. The freaks of nature displayed here are very strange, and strike the beholder Avith awe. But the air in some parts of the cave is close and stifling, and when Ave came out I found myself saddled with a terrible fever, Avhfch entirely prostrated me. The physician had never seen ii case like it before, and no remedy he prescribed seemed to do the least good. My life was despaired of. Mrs. Wilron, Avith whom I was residing, had in the house a bottle of Plantation Bitters, and she insisted I should try it, for she said she knew it to be a certain cure in all cases of fever, de-, bility, ague, dyspepsia, &c. I had but little, faith, but finally consented to try it as a. last resort. In less thau three hours after the first dose my fever left me in two days I Avas sitting up, and before Saturday night I Avas as Avell as ever. I tell you all this that you may knoAV how to act in any case of fever, or any similar disease. I firmly believe the Plantation Bitters saved my life. In my next I Avill tell you about the Cave in detail. SfA. J. P.

Magnolia Water.—Superior to the best imported German Cologne, and sold at half the price.

of 120 years was instrumental in saving on ly eight persons. A valuable medicine, and one that selruKSBYTKKiAN (O. s.) CHURCH. doni fails of doing good, is found in White

The Pastor preached in the morning from Pine Compound. Coughs. Colds, Lung and 2d Corinthians, 8:i: "For ye know the Kidney Complaints are either removed, or grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though the patient is greatly benefitted by its use. he was rich, yet for your sake he became Try it. that ve, through his povertv. might

poor, that ye, tnrougn ills poverty, be rich.'-' The apostle affirms that Christians, all true believers, knoAV experimentally, the "grace" of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is his unmerited favor shown to the underving, in the sacrifice of himself in their behalf. The riches of Christ did not consist in earth's treasures for while the gold and silver were his. and tho cattle upon a thousand lulls, yet none, nor ali of these constituted any part of the riches here referred to. He being the only beloved Son of the Father, was the rightful, as well as royal heir to all the glories which lie had with the Father before the world began.

"Down with the tyrant" of ignorance that induces you to patronize worthless dyes and pomades (lard). Only "Barrett's Vegetable Ilair Restorative" finds favor wherever it is used. That is the preparation to which a "silver medal" was awarded at the N. If. State Fair in 1860.

One bottle of J. W. Poland's Humor Doctor will cure any ordinary humor, and a halt-dozen bottles will cure the worst cases ol.scrofula. Sold bv T. W. Frv A: Co.

For (ho Skin.

Bojd'a Cream Ciiri'a Ih'h.

BoyiVs Cri'iint Curf* Sere

Bra/d's Cream Ciirex Tetter.

Bond's Ci'ttom Can's J'iinplcs-

Jliii/d's Cn-diii Cur-s Old Soreis,

//(/'.-• Cri-dii' ('art's "U Krujdims nf the

It is mild and pleasant to use, highly perfumed. contains no poison and is especially adapted to children. Sold by Moflett 15ooe, Crawfordsville. Tnd. ja28m(i

More economical, remarkable certainty of prompt action, in fact, every good qualityis guaranteed for Mrs. S. A. Allen's Improved i!cw -tyle) Hair Restorer or Dressing, (in one bottle.) Every Druggist sells it. Price One Dollar.

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Voir Will always find the Printer* "At Home"' from 7 A.M. Monday, till (5 P.M. Saturday, ready to print At Home or any other style of Cards, at the Journal Job Of lice. Stone Front.

Etery 3VAM

Needs something in the way of Job Printing. We need scarcely add friat you can get your Printing done to the best advantage at the Journal Job Oflice, Stone Front.

Sfever Write »Iietier

To your business correspondents, or to your friends even, unless you use paper Avitli neatly printed Heading. The place to get

(Wednesday) at 7:17, continuing I "sicli like" is at the Journal Job Office, 1 hour and IS minutes.

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