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written in 1905 by A. G. Thomas from Amalfi
to "Belmont."

"The End of the Road" was a sweet poem
read by Eliz. Iddings, also a few other lines
with the same thought.

Margaret B. Magruder's contribution told
of 30 men being on trial before a judge and
in close proximity was an opera singer, imprisoned
for forgery, who was singing, "The
Holy City." It so affected the other prisoners,
the judge concluded the one incarceration was
sufficient punishment for all. This brought
to mind the harrowing experience of one of our
neighborhood gentleman, when he was a witness,
which was related by M. B. Thomas, and the
questions put to a woman in open court were
such that she hoped some remedy might be
suggested later to avoid such occurrence.

Anna M. Chandlee told us of the conversion
of the common swamp huckleberry
into a large and luscious blueberry which
is soon to become a staple commercial crop
and will give the pine barrens and swamps
of Central N.J. a product as important and
profitable as the cranberry. Judging by present
results the blueberry will be a fruit 1 in. in diameter
and delicious in taste. It will be
produced on bushes as large as plum. trees grown
in orchard formation. A native bush has been
found with fruit 3/4 in in diam. They can only
be raised on edges of swamps as other cultivation
killed a root-fungus which was necessary, and
an additional requirement is the acid soil of
the barrens. A. M. C. also told us that mahoghany
is being shipped from Kentucky to
France and Eng. to be cut into veneering for
use in manufacturing blades for aeroplanes.
Mahoghany is used because it is not affected
by rapid changes in temperature.

R. T. Miller told us the blueberry in Maine
is a valuable crop and being too numerous to
pick are just raked off and canned.

Estelle T. Moore said she had read recently