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[a Rose", "Just a-wearying of You", etc. a man with a wonderful personality who
never said a mean thing about any one.

Marina Miller read from the old minutes.
Springdale - 8-1-1861
Lea's Mills - 8-29-1861
Poplar Lodge - 9-26-1851 (Sophie Pierce) at which time th membership was
increased to sixteen.

Pattie Farquhar's contrbution a poem -
"God's Gift to Me"

"God's gifts are like his flowers which show their right to stay
By giving all their bloom and fragrance away;
Riches are not in gold or land, estates or marts,
The only wealth worth having is found in human hearts."

Mrs. Allan Farquhar told an amusing anecdote of a colored girl at Camp Meeting.

Helen Hallowell read some good sentiments, and then asked if petunia seeds,
an extra year old would germinate. Some thought they would.

Annie Kirk's - "Back to the Cave Man" -assured us there was no cause for worry.

India Downey asked that the Association send a little note to Fanny Snowden
who is in a Richmond Hospital. The Secretary was instructed to do so, also to
send a note of sympathy to Mary Nichols.

Adjourned to meet at Avalon.

Margaret Elgar Sherman Jones
Secretary pro tem.]