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Home Interest Society Minute Book-H Sept. 28 1906 July 18 1910
H 394th meeting to 435 meeting Sept 28 1906 July 18 1910
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Home Interest 1906
394th Meeting - Sept 28th 1906 435th " - July 18, 1910
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List of Homes
Avalon Belmont Bloomfield Brooke Place Clifton Della Brooke Harewood Havilands Mill Hillside Kenneh Lucknough Leacroft Longmead 3 Mt Airy Mount Olney 4 Magnolia Olney Sunnyside Tanglewood Walbrook Willow Heights "Willsons"
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394th Meeting Mt. Airy Sep. 28-1906
[?] H. and Sarah T. Miller welcomed a goodly number of Home Interest members and guests at Mt. Airy on the evening of Sept. 28-1906. It was decided not to begin business proceedings until after supper but instead to enjoy the walk in the gardens while the daylight lasted. The flower garden especially, where immaculate beds of flourishing foliage, scarlet sage, verbenas and geraniums, unusually fine canvas, and in a border around the garden oldfashioned plants of various kinds, delighted the beholder.
Supper was the next enjoyable feature of the occasion soon after which the meeting settled to hear the minutes of the former meetings read. The guests present were: Mrs. Helen Lea, Mrs. Lancaster, Mrs. [Baucs], Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Miss Maggie Logan, Miss Frances Slather, Mrs. Mary Bringhurst, Mae, Marnie, Catherine, and Perle Thomas, Elizabeth, Virginia, and Rebecca Slather and Miss Ellen Farquhar.
The Forethoughts were borrowed from the Horticultural, Ellen Farquhar giving the suggestions, to [?] raspberry and blackberry bushes very thoroughly now, and to work cabbage often. To get the ice-houses ready was contributed by a number of the Home Interest.
Questions.
[?] Miller asked for the best remedy for the cabbage worm, and was told to lift a little Paris Green mixed with air-[slacked] lime on the plants, or to buy salt water or dry salt.
A discussion about boys smoking on the way from school followed. Sarah Miller would go to the parents about it, while others would have the county board instruct the teachers. Mrs. Lea told of a school in the north where a new system is being tried - a policeman