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industry in this country by the introduction
of lace making on pillows, for table covers
and household decorations. She also read
a story calculated to make the stiffest
hair stand upright, of a man who had
spent a night locked in a boxcar with
bunches of bananas among which tarantulas
disported. Mary Colt gave an interesting account
of the training of dogs for the Red Cross service
on battle fields in connection with ambulances
and hospitals, they carry food and drink strapped
on their backs in a small receptacle and are
taught to seek the wounded soldiers. Rebecca
T. Miller and William N. Moore did not favor
us - Edward P. Thomas read some statements
about the warships of today as compared with
those in use at the time of Lord Nelson's battles
the erst now being ten times as great. In addition
he offered a newspaper clipping telling of the
wonders of Kansas "The geographical center and
lynchpin of the globe" which grew enough
wheat in the season to bread the whole world
for a week and has fattened enough cattle
in ten years to drink the waters of Lake
Superior dry, all being impossible to disprove.

Adjourned to Belmont

Mary Bentley Thomas
Sec. pro tem