Mary Eliza Oates was the third President of the 20th Century Club. The 20th Century Club operated a book exchange in the early 1900’s which started events that resulted in the establishment of the Ponca City Library. Mrs. Oates wrote and submitted . . . — — Map (db m263595) HM
Ponca City had been in existence for 11 years. She had schools, churches and even an opera house, but not a library. A group of women from the Twentieth Century Club decided to remedy this and convinced H.C.R. Brodboll to house a small “book . . . — — Map (db m55710) HM