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Hermon
August 3rd 1915

The showers and clouds threatening
a "down-pour" failed to keep us from
having a good meeting. Three of our
families were absent, those from FairHill
Norwood and Knollton. We were much
pleased to have with us. Mrs. Sherman Mr
and Mrs. J.W. Jones Dr and Mrs Marsden
Dr & Mrs. Bird. Mrs Edward Magruder. Er
-nest [?] and two daughter and
Mrs.

The minutes were approved
1st Reader Mariana Miller "The Weather
by John Burroughs. He suspects, like
most countrymen, he was born with a
chronic anxiety about the weather. To
a country man the weather means some
-thing - to a Farmer especially - The
weather must lift the Mortgage on his
farm, pay his taxes feed and clothe his
family -Of what use his labor unles seconded
by the weather xxx What a creature of
habit nature is as she appears in the
weather. In a wet time, it rains to-day
because it rained yesterday, and it will
rain tomorrow becaused to-day. Are the
crops burning up? They shall continue to
burn are the drowning? they shall continue
to drown. He thinks rain is as necessary to
the mind as to vegetation. It is hard to be
generous or neighborly or patriotic in a
dry time. If one is ever capable of a nar
row or mean act is on a dry time."