Jones County Historical Society

                                                      April  9, 2008

Dear Friends and members

            Spring is here and it is time for our annual spring clean-up day and meeting.

  It will be held April 20 starting after 12:30 at the museum or when you can make it, working outside and inside.

            The business meeting and refreshments will be held after some cleaning has been done. The depot will need to be ready for our Pancake Breakfast.  In case of rainy weather there is still plenty of work to do inside the buildings.  Area 1 will furnish the refreshments.

            It’s time to finalize plans for our annual pancake breakfast and bake sale to be held on May 4^th . We need everyone to help with the plans and to help at the pancake breakfast on opening day. Even if you can only help at the breakfast for a short time please stop by and pitch in. We will also need items for the Bake Sale.

Edinburgh Folk Festival (Edinburgh Day) will be Sunday August 24th. We will also start to discuss items for that day.  We will also need to discuss any special Sunday’s that we will hold this summer.

            We will have some projects going on this summer so if you would like to volunteer, let us know.  

            We can still use pictures of the towns of Jones County.  We will also be putting the pictures in a book for visitors to view.  We hope to get more than what we can put on the wall.  If you have any stories you will to share we will be starting a book of them for the museum.  If you are not sure if it is true word it that way and someone might be able to verify it.  If you have any ideas for other display please let us know.

            So please come – bring your rakes – brooms and dust cloths, and we will have a good time cleaning. Hopefully most of the leaves should be taken care of.  If you have signed up to take care of one of the buildings let Byron Freese know if you need anything for the cleanup process.  If you would like to sponsor a building to keep clean during the summer you can sign up at the meeting.

We will need volunteers to sign up to host the museum on Sunday afternoons. If you are new at this, you can team up with someone else to get acquainted with how this is done.

Thank you for paying your dues this year. If you have not paid your dues lately please note the year in the right hand corner of your mailing address. This is the last year that your dues were paid.  Dues are $10 for a family and $5 for an individual.

There is a school visit being planned but no date set.  We can use help hosting the school visits this spring and next fall so keep this in mind and let us know if you would like to help.

                        Thank you for those who have renewed their membership.

Agenda

 

    I    Minutes of last meeting

    II   Treasurer’s Report                                                          

    III  Old Business

    IV  New Business    

            Next meeting (to replace the January meeting)                            Sincerely

            Pancake Breakfast                                                                    Daryl Wherry

            Special Sunday’s                                                                       Jim Christiansen

            Grants                                                                                      Ruth Zirlelbach

            Summer Projects                                                                       Cindy Gunther

            Edinburgh Day                                                                          Byron Freese

            Other                                                                                        Wilma Merfeld