The Pt. Oneida Women’s Club met in members’ homes to socialize and do craftwork.  Later the group broadened into the Port Oneida Community Club, meeting in the old schoolhouse.

Lottie Kelderhouse had the telephone exchange in this house.  Later it was in Ruby Smith’s home across the road.  You had to watch what you said on the party line.  “Tick tock, tick tock, I hear Mrs. Holland’s clock,”  was a Port Oneida refrain.  Reportedly, Katie Holland’s distinctive wall-clock was often heard during neighbors’ conversations.