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Charley Forest
January 1, 1925
815th Meeting.

The Association began the New Year well by holding its 815th meeting with
India J. Downey at Charley Forest. The warmth and cheer within were the more appreciated
because of the bleak wind and forbidding sky outside, and our appetites
were fitted to do justice to the delicious dinner set before us.

When we settled to the business of the meeting, in the absence of the secretary,
Rebecca T. Miller was pressed into service, and as the hostess of the
last meeting, Sallie Janney Adams, was also among the missing, Sarah T. M.
Adams was chosen to conduct the proceedings.

The December minutes were read and with slight correction adopted, and the
minutes of the last meeting at Charley Forest were also read.

Fannie B. Snowden brought a baby doll, such as she had read of at the last
meeting, and it nearly broke up this meeting with its sweet voice and winning
smile, the Association proving to be composed of children of not enough larger
growth to be proof against its charms! The call for the report on Social Service
brought thanks for the Christmas stockings provided by our members, which turned
out six instead of the four promised, and in the absence of the Chairman,
Margaret C. Bancroft, Mary M. Tilton read the always interesting and wonderful
statement of the S.S.L. field worker. 1,100 Christmas seals were sold.

The Chairman of Education sent a communication from the County Chairman asking
our action on several resolutions concerning the introduction of drawing into
the public schools. The proposition to supplement, if necessary, the official
appropriation for a drawing teacher's salary, by using for that purpose
the money formerly devoted to bearing the expenses of one girl at the State University,
met with approval, as did the general proposition of instruction in
drawing, and we further, commended the teaching of music in the High Schools,
wishing that it might be extended to all grades.

Mariana S. Miller told us that with the help of the Association and others
she had raised money to buy four sheets to be sent to the Hindman Settlement
School, and they were received with thanks.

A letter from our namesake club in Osage, Iowa was read, and its original
year book examined with interest. The Secretary was directed to write an acknowledgment
of their courtesy.