Club Minutes: Mutual Improvement Association, 1944

Fulford Meeting. 7-6-1944 at Frances Lattie Inn. 1020th meeting

Louise Hough entertained the 1020th meeting of the Mutual Improvement Association at Frances Lattie Inn on 7-6-1944 - Luncheon was served at half-past twelve o’clock - and at two o’clock in the afternoon Katherine Adams called the meeting to order.

The minutes of the last meeting at Fulford were read for information, and the minutes of the last meeting were read and accepted.

The Treasury is still $9.14 to the good.

Next meeting place “Rose Hill” the meeting to be called to order at 10:30am.

Sentiment of the hostess, Louise Hough, who said she looked up a sentiment, but it was not exactly to her liking - so she welcomed the meeting by saying she was so pleased to have us all with her.

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Question - Where dispose of a three-piece living room set? Mr. Pierce will take it.

Helen Moore said she had lost her selection

Helen Farquhar - a question about the new jar tops -

Mrs. Buchanan wanted to know how to dispose of papers and tin cans now that school is closed? Save them until fall - Aske the Salvation Army - Ask Mr. Lawler if they can be left at the school now -

Deborah Willson read of “The Lady Eleanor” - which she thought quite funny even though the Association might not approve.

Mary Brooke read about Safety Week -

Emmeline Hill had quite an iris problem - which did not get solved very satisfactorily -

Edith Green advised how to teach the boy to be a better man.

Helen Hallowell read from the Readers Digest advising “Don’t wait to live.” Help some, in order to live. Question - Does any one else have to drive mocking birds away at night? Rhoderick Adams does -

Mariana Miller gave extracts from the May report of the Hindeman School in Kentucky - a wonderful work -

Alice Pierce read of Bathroom Laundry - a very common pastime now that regular laundries are so unsatisfactory.

Fanny Iddings article was on “We seek liberty” -

Rose Gilpin read a letter from Cousin Mary Coffin Brooke written from the Philippine Islands in 1903 - to Cousin Pattie Stabler - on her seventeenth birthday.

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Helen Shoemaker told of the kindness of Lord and Lady Fairfax, whose son has been wounded, to the boys at Walter Reed Hospital.

Annie Miller’s selection was a plea for food and clothing for the children in the Nazi dominated countries.

Doris Lea - no.

Emmeline Hill asked for suggestions for Education meetings for which she must supply the program - Several suggestions were given -

Unfinished Business - The secretary announced one vacancy in the list of active members - the names of prospects to be sent to the membership committee -

There being no further business the meeting adjourned.

Margaret Elgar Sherman Jones - Secretary

Rose Hill 8-3-1944 1021st meeting

The members and guests of the Mutual Improvement Association assembled on the porch of Rose Hill for their 1021st meeting - conducted by Elizabeth Ligon who substituted for Louise Hough, past hostess, 8-31944 - at half past ten o’clock in the morning.

The minutes of the last meeting at this place (8-7-1941) were read - and the minutes of the last meeting were read and accepted -

There was no report from the Treasurer.

Next meeting place “The Porches” with Emmeline Hill at the regular time -

Sentiment of the hostess - Rose Gilpin - “There is no friend like and old friend