FARMINGTON – The next meeting of the Colonial Daughters, DAR, will be held at noon Tuesday, Oct. 28, at the home of Pat Durham. Hostesses will be Durham, Marie Lucarelli, Joanne Page, Barbara Titcomb, Betsy Smith and Elaine Wells.

The September meeting of the Colonial Daughters included a potluck dinner at the home of Melanie Farmer in Temple. Twenty people, including a new member Carol Dyar-Eaton and guest Deborah Judkins, attended. Paul Mills spoke on the early female attorneys in Maine. No central records exist but Maine was first in the United States for female lawyers.

Following the reading of the DAR goals, American Creed and the salute to the flag, Farmer read the president’s message. The secretary’s and treasurer’s reports were read and accepted with corrections.

Floriece Kennedy, defense chairman, read a letter from Black Hills Chapter, Hot Springs, S.D., on interference by the Sierra Club in management of the forests.

Jan Stevens noted Nov. 11 will commemorate the Korean War. Elaine Wells was sworn in as registrar.

Historian Marion Hutchinson read a report that Charlie Howard of Salem Historical Society placed a headstone on the grave of Revolutionary War soldier Robert Carll, who died at age 96. Howard’s recent project was the replacing of a stone for Hannah Lovejoy, 1795-1875. Lovejoy was not related to a veteran. Her new stone was a gift from Wiles Monuments.