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74^th Meeting

A very interesting meeting of the H I was held at Oak Hill
March 17^th, a veritable St Patrick's day. The company
seemed small when spread through the spacious new parlor, tho'
in numbered 13 members & 2 guests Hannah Stabler & Mary Muller.

While enjoying the elegant supper & for sometime after
a good deal was said relative to the change in the time of
holding our Quarterly Mtg, & considerable opposition was expressed,
showing conclusively, that in church as well as state
those who stay at home & shirk all manner of duties in relation
to these matters, must accept the legislation, imposed by those
more in earnest than themselves. We commenced work
at 5 1/2 o'c with P S Stabler foreman. The near approach
to the time of gardening & orchard planting, agitated the minds
of those present, giving rise to many questions of minor importance
themselves, tho the answers thereto were, no doubt, of great value
to the individual enquirer. Of the much that was said, each thing
seems about as worthy to be written (or left out) as the other; therefore
we will take brevity as our motto, & touch lightly all topics
believing that those who were then present, would not care to hear
the same rehearsed in full, & perhaps all who were not there
will think more regretfully of their absence, if they never should know
the thoroughly unimportant nature of much that was said.

Mary Bond asked us how long she should allow her
drying beef to hang, before putting it in bags? Several methods
of curing beef were spoken of, but as no one could tell her exactly
what she wanted to know, she must write home for
the desired information. Pattie R. Stabler can get