Phillips County Museum News for the week of December 17, 2014

The Phillips County Museum is open Monday through Saturday through the month of December. Come in and visit us!

Ted and Norma Kelly stepped through our doors last week with a great bunch of old pictures. One is a picture of what we know today as the “Community Church” though in the picture it has an old I.O.O.F. 1818 sign on the top of the building. Can anyone tell us when it first began to be known as the I.O.O.F. building? Was it built for that purpose? The Enterprise paper, July 15, 1908, had an ad saying “the IOOF meeting would be held on Wednesday evening.” The ad did not say where it was...