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The Jubilee Fountain:
The Town Council minutes of 7 June 1897 record that
“The Commissioners unanimously agreed to lay the foundation of the fountain to be erected on the Square by Provost Auchinachie and taking a connection from the water main to supply same with water and provide the necessary drains and also agreed to employ Robert Anderson to do the work, the drain to be laid of 3 inch fire clay pipes and the foundation to be laid of rough granite blocks of one kind and Messrs Beattie and Fordyce to be instructed to provide and lay same.”

Two provosts in one day!:
James Anderson, an evangelist and advocate of abstinence, had a book published in 1912 by the Publishing Committee of the Churches of Christ. In it he describes visits to Aberchirder to meet Mr & Mrs Auchinachie:
“I have been a few times to Aberchirder, a clean, compact little burgh, lying about eight miles from Banff and nearly as many miles from a railway station. When there I was generally the guest of our late Brother and Sister Auchinachie, and that was always a treat. They were both very intelligent, and deeply interested in religious matters. Bro. Auchinachie was somewhat slow to speak, though he could not be said to speak slowly. He thought quickly and clearly and acted promptly. He had a well-stored mind and a large and carefully selected library; his conversation was always profitable. He was a wise, fatherly guide to the little Church there. Once or twice I was driven by Bro. Munro of Banff from there to Aberchirder on the Sunday morning and back again in the evening… Bro. Munro was at that time Provost of Banff, and Bro. Auchinachie was Provost of Aberchirder. I feel inclined to mention this, as it is seldom that a strolling preacher like myself is driven by one Provost to be the guest of another.”