Club Minutes: Mutual Improvement Association, 1934

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the Association withdrawing from the Federations – as so many were able to get the Federation business in other magazines and it took so much of the valuable time –

Helen Hallowell made a motion that the Association withdraw from the Federations: - this was seconded by Lena Weld - The chairman asked each member present to voice an opinion on this proposal, after which the vote was 19 yeas - 7 nays – and the motion was carried – The Secretary was asked to notify Mrs. Rudolf Allen. College Park – Maryland, the president of the Maryland Federation of Women’s Clubs – of this action before the first of October.

Margaret Jones – moved that Mary

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Magruder be made an associate member with Rebecca Miller – as up to this time she has been a substitute member – This motion was seconded by Stella Moore and unanimously carried –

There being no further business the meeting adjourned after which supper was served –

Margaret Elgar Sherman Jones Secretary -

Plainfield – 6-28-1934 917th. meeting

The 917th. meeting of the Mutual Improvement Association was called to order at “Plainfield” – at 3.30 p.m. – 6-281934 – one week earlier than the regular date – the presiding officer being Sarah Adams.

The minutes of the last meeting at this place were read – and the minutes of the last meeting read and accepted with a slight correction.

The Treasurer, Mary Tilton, reported $28.51 – on hand –

There had been no meeting of the Community Council since the last meeting of the

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Association –

Next meeting place “The Maples” with Mary Nichols – at 3.30p.m. the regular day – first Thursday in August –

Sentiment of the hostess: - Margaret Moore: - “I shall pass through this world but once Any good, therefore, that I can do – or any kindness that I can show to any human being – let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

Isabel Jones contributed a good quotation –

Fanny Iddings read “Dentist Chair Philosophy” which was very amusing – though Fanny called it a silly little thing.

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Mary Magruder read two beautiful poems: - “The Wild Cherry” by Lizette Woodward Reese and “The Common Street” by Hele Gray Cole.

Rebecca Miller – who has just sold and delivered Mt. Airy said she had no chance to find anything – and if she had found it she would certainly have lost it.

Fanny Snowden – no contribution

Mary Scott read from the European Scrap Bppk, of the good effect of music in the prisons in France.

Mary Nichols selection made a plea to keep alive thefaith on the farmers. __________________________

Question: Will gooseberries that {[?]} have been picked green ever ripen enough to put up - or