Mt. Pleasant Fire Department - First Minutes
Below is the Mt. Pleasant Fire Department's organizational meeting minute book. We realize these photos are impossible to read, but present them because of their historical significance. To aid our visitors, we greatly enlarged the images and transcribed the text below each page. The minutes were written in pencil using old-style script writing, which is hard to read. The pencil writing has faded and the paper has yellowed over time, making the original document very hard to read.
Roll of Members
1. Will Hanes - Chief
2. W. C. Julian - Asst Chief
3. R. W. Blankenship
4. S. E. Hanes
5. C. O. Lide
6. W. J. Wallace
7. Jno Hargrove
8. T. M. Binion
9. S. W. Webber
10. H. (Bud) Hinson
11. Shorty Hickman
12. W. T. Anderson
13. H. T. Clements
14. W. A. Johnson
15. Hollis Blythe
16. J. J. Ellis
17. H.A. Peterman
Left page:
18. J.E. Manley
19. G.A. Mount
20. R. H. Meadows
Right page:
February 5, 1904
Call meeting at Commercial Club Room for the purposes of firefighting organizing different departments etc. - Motion by M.J. Wallace, and seconded by R.H. Meadows that the name Mt. Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department - carried
Motion by J.F. Macauley and seconded by O. Clement that Hose Co. be known as Hose Co. No. 1 Carried -
Motion carried that The Chief Asst Chief and Sect & Treas be the Executive Officers of the Hose Co No 1 -
Motion prevailed for the chief to appoint a comm of three (3) to draft By-Laws and report at next regular meeting -
Following Comm appointed
W.J. Johnson, M.J. Wallace, & C.O. Lide
Motion prevailed to call for the election of a Chief and let the Chief and Asst Chief act in this capacity -
Chief appointed following
Nozzle men
1st Nozzleman R. H. Meadows
N. Hinson, R.M. Blankenship
Sid Haynes & Shorty Hickman
Spanner Wrench - J.E. Manley
G. A. Mount, Hollis Blythe
J. J. Ellis - Hydrant Men
M. J. Wallace & W. A. Johnson
Agreed that 6 short whistles and [two words are not legible]
6 whistles - Fire Call -
Motion to adjourn carried
C.O. Lide Sect.
