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Temperatures were in the mid-eighties as the Brownsdale Study Club met at the home of Rena Perrigo on Sept. 17.

President Shelly Vogel called the meeting to order with the reading of the Collect. Roll call’s assignment was to bring an antique item. Shelly shared her Grandfather’s “squeeze box” and Rena showed off her mother’s butter churn. The secretary and treasurer’s reports were read and approved.

Under old business, sign-up for hosting, outside readings and main topic were completed. Shelly volunteered to put the program booklet together from January to December. She will also provide members with an October-December schedule. Plans for the tea party on Sept. 21 were finalized. Shelly will do introductions and the first reading. Rena will read her story of Minnie Johnson before the next course, followed by Barb Swanson, who will do a history of the schools in Brownsdale.

Under new business, it was decided to finalize plans for the fall outing at the October meeting.

Next month’s hostess will be Shelly. Therese Manggaard will do the outside reading and Barb will do the main topic.

Barb announced that Brownsdale will have their town-wide garage sales Oct. 11-12. There will also be a fish fry and silent auction to help raise funds for the pickle ball court.

Therese made a motion to adjourn, seconded by Barb.

Mary’s blast from the past September 1924:

• Eventually to become a notorious gangster, John Dillinger and an accomplice attempted his first robbery-a grocery store in Mooresville, Indiana. The attempt failed and both meant were sent to jail.

• Horace Saks and Bernard Gumbal open the luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City.

• The American freighter SS Clifton sank in Lake Huron. All 26 crew members perished. The wreckage would not be discovered until 2016.

• Sculptor Gutzon Borglum arrived in South Dakota at the invitation of Doane Robinson, to proceed with plans to carve faces of four American presidents on a granite mountain in the Black Hills.

Barb presented the main topic, “Fall.” She shared a reading as well as tips on drying flowers and fall clean-up.

Rena served a luscious angel food cake with strawberries and ice cream on vintage “Sip Snack and Smoke” plates.

Therese Manggaard, secretary.