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the name of Dance living near Ednor does such
work satisfactorily. The Treas, India Downey, handed
in a receipt from R. G. Small for dues of 1915 to the Co.
Fed. of Women’s Clubs.

The resignation of Harriet I. Lea was accepted with
regret, she having been an interested member for some years.
Expecting to be away from the neighborhood for months
to come, she thought it was wrong to hold the position
which might be a benefit to another.

On motion of Louisa T. Brooke, Martha Farquhar
was unanimously elected to the vacant place.

Louisa T. Brooke who had been asked to prepare
a memoir of our deceased member, Anna G. Lea,
gave a brief tribute to one who was greatly beloved
by her many relations and friends in
this country and elsewhere, for her sweetness
of disposition and charity of thought.

L. T> Brooke also read an extract from a recent
speech of Gov. Brombaugh of Pa. He told how he had
earned his first Bible thought learning verses every
week and reciting them on Saturday, to a blacksmith
near his own home. The boy rec’d a blue ticket
for every perfect lesson and a certain number of
these were exchanged for a red ticket, a pile of
the latter being, at length, the price of the coveted
book. Gov Brombaugh urged his young hearers
to become Bible students saying, “For after all,
my friends, we live here only a few yrs., but we
hope to live with God forever, and unless we know
this book and understand His message, we shall
hardly be able to find the path that leads to
Him.” Ellen Farquhar told us of
the wonderful experiment on Criminology now
being worked out by that fine man, Thomas
Mott Osborne of N.Y., who is known a “Warden
Osborne of Sing Sing”, and does not believe a
prison is meant for a place of revenge. He
hopes that the convicts under his charge may
eventually be paid just wages for all he accomplishes
in the various workshops, and be
required to pay for his support, accommodations
and food, being graded strictly, - laziness and
inefficiency put upon a very plain diet, will be
easily cured, the warden believes.