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Harwood
Oct. 5^th 1920
August

We had a beautiful afternoon for the
Aug. meeting of the Horticultural held
at Della Brooke.

Alban Thomas presided over the meeting
in the absence of the Pres. When
calling us to order, he said we were all
grown ups & ought to be quick - the Pres.
had asked him to serve in his place,
& Cousin Al said he expected he was more
comfortable than Charles F. Brooke - as the
latter was on the briny deep, & that as
we know is not always conducive to
comfort. The Vice. Pres. also told us
that Judge Peter had informed him the ground upon which
we were on (the Mahlon Chandler property)
does not belong to any body - people hold
it by possession, as a little can not be
gotten for it. This information was quite
interesting, & was new to many of us.

The minutes of the last meeting were read
and accepted after a slight alteration.

The first article read by Mary Brooke was
"Beauty in the Farm Home" - it proved