Mrs. FRANKE, Hazel DEWEY, _____ BROWN, Ed FRANKE, Harry WILSON, Bicket (?) KENDALL, Dewey BROWN, Bryan LEE, Willie FLEMING, Bertha BEATTIE, Vienna BROWN, Hazel WEBB, Anna WEBB, Otto PETERSOHN, Clara KENDALL, Chelsia ____, Maggie HATHAWAY, Marjorie PETERSOHN, Wilbur HATHAWAY, Fred BROWN, Will KENDALL, Vera KENDALL, Harold TEMPLE, _____ HATHAWAY, Allen AIKEN, Jim LEE, Lydia KENDALL, Blanche FLEMING, Maude HATHAWAY, Hazel LEE, Charles WILSON, Effie HATHAWAY, Hazel LEE, Charles WILSON, Effie HATHAWAY, Rosa CASS, Ralph ____, Clara JONES, Jess JONES, Boyd HUNT, Anna KENDALL, Laura WEBB, Mrs. Lily LEE, Stella WILSON, Fern GOIN, George FRANKE, Mack BEATTIE, Mildred KEIN, Gladys AIKEN, Frank BROWN, Paul FROST, and Clarence WEBB.

The N.B.B. Club (Nine Busy Bees) of Hackberry was organized in April, 1906, for the purposed of doing needlework and having a general good time. Special entertainments were held to include the menfolk (Bumble Bees). In 1908 the bees were Maude HATHAWAY, Gertie HATHAWAY, Lydia KENDALL, Hazel DEWEY, Blanche FLEMING, Anna KENDALL, Grace CODDINGTON, Nona DEWEY, and Laura WEBB.

At their 60th anniversary picnic, "125 Bees, neighbors, and friends came swarming in with dinner baskets. A merry hum of voices were heard all afternoon. Toward evening all returned to their hives."

SOURCE: Tingley, Iowa Centennial: 1883 - 1983. p. 93. PSI, Inc. Belmond IA. 1983.
Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library, September of 2011

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2011