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Alloway

July 7th, 1914

At the usual hour a goodly company
assembled here, where memories takes us
back to the loved host and hostess of
early years. Changes and improvements
are many, and we realize fully that this
is a world of changes.

The minutes were approved. The readers
of selected articles were both absent.
Dorothy Brooke read, from House and Garden,
"The Housefly." The article spoke
of the terrible ravages of Typhoid
and other fevers. Communicated by flies
the millions of germs carried by them
and that the remedy is cleanliness.
Their breeding place is filth. Screen doors
and windows and protect food. To kill flies
in a house heat a shovel and put 30 drops
of carbolic acid on it. The fumes kill the
flies: the cheapest and surest exterminator is
prepared by putting a spoonful of formaline
in a quarter of a pint of water, boiling water,
for each room. All collections of manure
or decaying vegetable matter, which
cannot be removed immediately or at least
once a week should be covered with chloride
of lime or frequently sprinkled with
lye, blue vitriol or crude carbolic acid.

E.S. Iddings read that the proper time
to plant peonies is in the fall and make