Club Minutes: The Home Interest Society, 1906-1910

encourage flies, mosquitoes and disease. It is not aesthetics but sanitation.

Questions. Nelly Farquhar had none, but Roger Farquhar had a petition that has been unanimously signed whenever presented, and was signed by all of us, praying the judge of the Circuit Court to refuse permission to allow betting on the races at the county fair at Rockville. (Note by Sec. The Circuit Court has since decided unanimously against betting, which decision is said to forecast the abolishing of betting at fairs throughout the state).

No one can tell Sarah Thomas Miller what is the best lettuce to plant but can and does give notice that the central Committee will meet at Sandy Spring in 1911, - in August or Septembe, and asks that the matter be thought over. This time it is Mary Gilpin who wants a fresh cow. Charlie Willson says she is a scarce article, - the cow. He knew of a poor one that sold for fifty five dollars.

Dr. Farquhar had on his heart a concern for a sanitarium for colored comsumptives. At present there is no place in the state to which they can be sent. Not only are many cases curable but to the incurable ones the state owns duty and care. Besides their presence in the community and in our families is a menace. It was concluded to bring the matter before the next meeting.

Fred Stabler learned he may set out celery

now, - for cabbage blight he should change the ground.

Rebecca Miller informed us there will be meetings at Sandy Spring, August 11th and 12th by Mrs. Merrill on women suffrage.

For the Anti-Saloon League annual meeting at Washington Grove on August 17th, the following were appointed by the president: Charlie Willson and his wife, John and Kate Thomas, William and Lucy Moore, Mordecai and Isabelle Fussell, and Doctor and Nellie Farquhar.

William Moore was told not to manure aspsaragus just after cutting, - wait till Fall, - and then salt in the Spring.

Merritt Haviland had some corn land he wants to set to grass. What kind shall he sow and how much? Charlie says 17th of Timothy and 3 quarts of Alsace.

Kate Thomas reports that John cut thirty tons of hay from ten acres recently and refers to Dr. French, who not only affirmed it but says the heaviest was left. That is that which was not cut was heavier than the average.

Arthur Stabler passed around for inspection an interesting legal document, duly signed by "H. Howard" in June, 1816, transferring for four hundred dollars his "right to one share in the Brookeville Nail Factory to John Brooke." This H. Howard was the father of Dr. Flodoardo Howard whom some of us hold in grateful memory as the good physician of a generation ago. No one present knew the location of this nail factory in Brookeville, or even that there was such a factory there.

Ajourment to Haviland Mill, Aug. 22. M. T. Fussell, Secretary

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