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Claire Hutton read the exhibit list Excellent exhibits from the South Highlands, Clermont, Tanglewood and Edgewood.

Clarke Slade reported that the community council considers the cost of a fence next to the school athletic field to be prohibitive at this time.

We missed our meteorologist, but he was evidently on the job.

Worthwhile facts were brought out in the question-period. Old straw should be used for mulching Emma Stabler's or anybody else's tomatoes.

Pumpkins must be gathered before a heavy frost, if you have to run out after supper to do it.

Plant quantities of geraniums, said Cousin Alice Farquhar, to kill japanese beetles in your gardens.

For spindly butterfly bushes, cut down in the fall, or in March, and fertilize.

Lofton Wesley's hazelnut bushes need rotenone spray under the leaves.

The Thomases reported that the Skyline Drive recently was beautiful, with the many wild flowers fringing the highway.

The meeting adjourned to a happy picnic supper with our several guests.

September 2nd we gather at "Alloway"; readers, Emma Stabler and Hobart Hutton.

Resp. sub.,

I Wesley