After a delicious lunch hosted by Orpha Wardlaw, the September meeting of the Maysville E. H. Club was called to order by the president. Melinda Crawley led the group singing The Yellow Rose of Texas which was followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Melinda read a poem entitled We’ll Never Know.
Jewel Crawley gave a very informative lesson on the care of houseplants. There are several benefits from having house plants. First they keep us in touch with nature and provide a pleasant environment. It’s a great hobby and gives one a lot of pleasure as well as being beneficial to our health.
There are five factors that are essential for healthy plants - light, temperature, nutrition, soil and water. All these affect the way a plant thrives. Plants are prone to have diseases and insects; therefore they need to be cleaned and groomed periodically. There are products on the market for this but a few drops of detergent in water works well. Newly purchased plants need to be examined to make sure they do not have insects which could transfer to house plants you already have.
Helpful hints were given: To prevent cookies from spreading sprinkle flour on a greased cookie sheet. To make measuring soda easier put it in an empty baking powder can. Tape over the can and mark it as soda. Baking powder cans are made with a place to level the powder.
Katherine Tucker read the minutes and gave the treasurer’s report which was approved by all. She also gave a report on the correspondence. Several had birthdays and cards were sent to each one.
Reports were given on volunteer hours, the building use and maintenance and fun day. Fun day istwice a month and has been well attended.
Old business included a report on the TV fundraiser, county fun day, fair booth and the trip to the Rogers Historical Museum by club members.
Our bean supper fundraiser which is an annual event to help pay the expenses will be Oct. 22. The community Thanksgiving dinner was set for Nov. 12 which is a week early this year due to County Council on Nov. 18.
The quarter package was won by Sylvia Tucker.
Meeting was closed with the benediction.
Community, Pages 12 on 09/28/2011