File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the election of officers to the Hastings County Farm Federation for 1961. Also contains a newspaper clipping concerning extension courses offered to farmers in Bancroft in 1968.
File contains a newspaper article concerning the Hastings Folk School, a cooperative continuing education program which held its 9th annual session in 1959.
File contains a program from 1968 for the annual meeting of the Ontario Historical Society held in Kingston; there is also a list of book notes section at the end of the program.
File contains several newspaper and magazine articles concerning the life and career of Dr. Oronhyatekha, Mohawk chief, physician and a principal figure in the International Order of Foresters.
File contains a newspaper clipping from 1969 about Rebekah Lodges in Belleville, Stirling, and Thomasburg being visited by Provincial Assembly President.
File contains newspaper clippings concerning the organization of the Madoc Chamber of Commerce in 1956, the election of its officers in 1960 and 1961 and its role in improvements to Moira Lake in 1966.
File contains several newspaper clippings concerning retail hours of local merchants in Madoc. Also contains a newspaper clipping regarding the history of the Madoc Women's Institute from its inception in 1910 to 1957.
File contains photocopied manuscript notes on Orange Lodge branches and other social organizations including the Women's Institute and the Oddfellows in the period from 1885-ca. 1949. Also contains brief manuscript notes on railways in Madoc Township from ca. 1882-1964.
File contains two original issues of the Masonic Sun, May 26, 1899 and November 24, 1899. The earlier issue contains a profile of Douglas Ponton, formerly of Hastings County, newly appointed Grand Superintendent of the Toronto District.
File contains two printed booklets commemorating the centennial year, 1959-1960 of the Belleville chapter, no. 123, of the Masonic Lodge. Also contains a printed programme of The Grand Master's Banquet for the Masonic centennial year, 1955, and engraved invitations to Masonic receptions in 1955 and 1960. Also present are several newspaper articles published in 1960 regarding the Belleville chapter's centennial year.