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ITEM 12 · UNPUBLISHED AMOUNTS PRINTED AS UNPUBLISHED — THE RECORD'S OWN RULE
The leg closes with its table; Walkerton's table is short, and its most eloquent column is the one that reads "unpublished" — the record of a town whose largest gifts were never priced in public. In order, on the documentation: (1) The Hiler family's gift of the former license-branch building, Roosevelt Road, to the Walkerton Area Historical Society, 2022 — amount unpublished; the gift carries the Heritage Museum. (2) The Frash family's gift of the Michigan Street house to the historical society — amount unpublished; the town's second deed in kind. (3) The community's fireworks fund for Post 189's Fourth of July, $12,000, raised by subscription for 2026 — the largest documented cash sum the town's giving assembles in a single named act in the recent record, and characteristically it is hundreds of small gifts wearing one total. (4) The founding deeds in kind — church lots and school ground across the settlement era — amounts unrecorded, aggregated here as a class because the record keeps them singly and small. Below the line: every other documented gift in the set's whole read — lodge, auxiliary, and club giving; the register's sixty-four organizations' steady small money — stands below table size, and the leg says so rather than inflating a roll. The table's lesson is this section's: in Walkerton the major-donation record is two buildings, one subscription, and a class of lots — and a ranked table that prints exactly that, with its silences labeled, is worth more to the town's history than a longer one borrowed from the cities' scale.
Principal sources: this section's articles above; this history (the $12,000 fireworks fund, 2026; the register read whole).