The following resolution was offered......(and) was unanimously carried. Whereas our worthy President Mr. G. Eliel has been a great sufferer in the late conflagration, the raging flames having visited his house, store and factory, and whereas Mr. G. Eliel is endeared to us for his great devotion to the congregation, and we have learned him to be a kind-hearted and wholesouled man, therefore be it:

Resolved: That the Board of Directors deeply regrets the misfortune which has befallen their president and hereby express their heartfelt sympathy for him and his family.....