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AVALON
May 5th, 1927
839th Meeting.

70th Anniversary
The 839th Meeting- and the 70th anniversary meeting, of the
Mutual Improvement Association was called to order by Rebecca Miller at
3 o'clock in the afternoon 5th mo. 5th , 1927.

The minutes of the last meeting at this place, Avalon, were
read and the minutes of the April Meeting were read and accepted.

The next meeting place wth Hallie Bentley at "Sharon Cottage".

Sentiment of the hostess, Mary Gilpin:

"I see not a step before me
As I tread on, another year
But the past is still in God's Keeping
The future, His mercy shall clear.
And what looks dark in the distance
May brighten as I draw near."

Mary Gilpin said she thought that this place "Avalon" is the only home in
the neighborhood where meetings of the Association have been held regularly
since its organization seventy years ago. The Secretary was asked to
look it up and to find out if Hadassah J. Moore was a charter member if
so, then "Plainfield" may share this honor with "Avalon".

Emily Massey gave such excellent advice: "The greatest joy in life
is the joy of service, the greatest power in the world is the power of
love, the greatest rule in the world is the Golden Rule and the greatest
war in the world is the war with ourselves."

"He, who meets sorrow without bittering and is not coarsened
by prosperity; who is defeated, but fights on, or is triumphant but remains
humble; who carries the hopefulness of youth into the deepening
shadows of age, and when the sun is setting is confident of the morn,
this is the man who has lived well."

Mary Scott gave a beautiful poem on Old Gardens by Charlotte
Newton.

Alice Farquhar - Chesterton on mixing tea and coffee - representing England and the United States. His conclusion being that they
should not be mixed but that each should stand on his own.

AVALON
May 5th, 1927
839th Meeting.
70th Anniversary
The 839th Meeting- and the 70th anniversary meeting, of the
Mutual Improvement Association was called to order by Rebecca Miller at
3 o'cloclk in the afternoon 5th mo. 5th , 1927.

The minutes of the last meeting at this place, Avalon, were
read and the minutes of the April Meeting were read and accepted.

The next meeting place wth Hallie Bentley at "Sharon Cottage".

Sentiment of the hostess, Mary Gilpin:

"I see not a step before me
As I tread on, another year
But the past is still in God's Keeping
The future,His mercy shall clear.
And what looks dark in the distance
May brighten as I draw near."

Mary Gilpin said she thought that this place "Avalon" is the only [home?] in
the neighborhood where meetings of the Association have been held regularly
since its organization seventy years ago. The Secretary was asked to
look it up and to find out if Hadassah J. Moore was a charter member if
so, then "Plainfield" may share this honor with "Avalon".

Emily Massey gave such excellent advice: "The greatest joy in life
is the joy of service, the greatest power in the world is the power of
love, the greatest rule in the world is the Goldern Rule and the greatest
war in the world is the war with ourselves."

"He, who meets sorrow without bittering and is not coarsened
by prosperity; who is defeated, but fights on, or is triumphant but remains
humble; who carries the hopefulness of youth into the deepening
shadows of age, and when the sun is setting is confident of the morn,
this is the man who has lived well."

Mary Scott gave a beautiful poem on Old Gardens by Charlotte
Newton.

Alice Farquhar - Chesterton on mixing tea and coffee - representing England and the United States. His conclusion being that they
should not be mixed but thateach should stand on his own.