Club Minutes: Mutual Improvement Association, 1931

6] at “The Cedars” – are all satisfactory.

Helen Hallowell recommended the American Business News as a paper which gives accurate and reliable information on prohibition.

Question – What can be done about some very unpleasant odors at a neighbors? Notify the Health Officer or one of the Public Health Nurses.

Rebecca Stabler – who expressed pleasure in being able to attend the meeting – told of a ride who took to the old Birmingham Meeting House in Chester County, Pennsylvania – speaking particularly of the well-kept cemetery.

Estelle Moore – read Margaret de Lands'

7] “An Old Garden”.

Helen Moore told of an wrens’ nest in a clothes-pin bag hanging on the line.

Dora Iddings told of an oriole which carried off one of her curtain tassels to put in its nest.

Mary Hutton’s article on weeding proved it very unwise to put a mere man to weeding a garden. Also an article on the Good and the Evil as typified on the Virginia Creeper and the Poison Ivy.

Mary Magruder some very interesting extracts from “Humanity Uprooted” – Russian women now have equality

8] with the men. She also told of the Traditional Orioles Nest of Brooke Grove.

Alice Tyson – no

Sadie Adams read of a very lovely light blue plant ferns seldom seen in gardens – the wild Ansonia.

Margaret Moore read of Bob Roth and his wonderful clipping service.

Mary Tilton – no –

After much persuasion Mariana Miller told some very interesting items concerning her recent trip abroad.

Mary Green told us the reason the dyed clothes shrink is due to the way the materials are made. She had recently attended the Convention

9] of the National Library Association held at Yale.

Hallie Bentley’s contribution, as always – was most unique – being about a married couple and a thunder storm.

Unfinished Business -

The minutes of the first meeting of the Association at Fairfield in 1863 could not be found – as the minute books at the Bank are still waiting for someone to put them in order. No one seemed to have a picture of the Association to put on file with the minutes.

The road-parking law and provision for a dumping ground was referred

10] to the Community Council Representative Helen Hallowell.

Helen Moore reported that it is hard to get a report on the books to be needed at Sherwood in the fall.

The motion to consider an executive Committee for the Association was withdrawn.

There was no report from the Federation Chairman, Lena Weld.

New Business – Sadie Adams moved that the July-July and August meetings be held at 10:30 in the morning with luncheon at 1 o’clock. The motion was duly seconded – discussed and unanimously carried.