Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Home Demonstration Reports, April 1936

“Timely News Items” by Jane S. McKimmon in the April, 1936 issue of the Carolina Co-operator

Women to Meet

Country Women of the World will hold their annual meeting this year in Washington during the first week of June, and farm women from as far away as England, Denmark, Australia, the Union of South Africa and New Zealand, and Canada and the United States on this side will meet in a friendly conference on home and community affairs.

In addition to the conference there will be an exhibit of hand crafts made from farm-grown products—leather work from France, spinning and weaving from Scotland, Norway, and Sweden; and embroideries, lace, and hand woven linens from Switzerland; all are included.

The international organization has asked especially that an opportunity be given to see first hand the Home Demonstration Work of the United States. North Carolina will have a part in this exhibit—showing hand woven linens and other fabrics; carved wooden buttons, buckles, and other accessories, together with rugs, quilts, and baskets.

The North Carolina Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, 54,000 strong, is affiliated with the Country Women of the World—and home demonstration farm women all over the state are preparing to attend. At first I thought there might be around 50 who would go, but reports are coming in that groups are planning to make the trip in a car to save expenses, and I shouldn’t be surprised to see the number swell to 100 or 150.

In Craven County
There is an active group of women in the home demonstration clubs of Craven County who are doing things to raise money for their needs.

Every club woman in Jasper was asked to give a chicken for a roof for their club house and from the sale of these chickens $10.35 was realized. The women have secured WPA labor to put on the roof.

Tuscarora Club is selling flavoring and $20 worth was reported sold at the February meeting. Fifty per cent of this money is retained in the club treasury.

Mile Oak and News River Clubs are assisting two needy families and Rhems is making a quilt which is to be auctioned off. They are also making plans for an auction sale of canned goods.

Epworth has contributed $8 for lunch room equipment in the school.

Onslow County
Mrs. W.L. Hardin of the Southwest Home Demonstration Club in Onslow County utilized all the fertilizer bags from her farm. She made her husband a suit out of these bags, which will equal almost any linen suit bought from a men’s clothing store and showed it with pride to her fellow club members. She said, “I can’t get my husband to wear anything else in the summer time.”

She also dyed some of the bags and made out of them a lovely daybed cover.

Mrs. Deed Shaw of the Hominy Swamp Club, also in Onslow County, recently undertook to equip her own kitchen. “I couldn’t afford to buy a kitchen cabinet, so I made one,” she said. After the club meeting the home agent filled her car with as many members as she could, and they all went out to see this homemade kitchen cabinet. In addition to this, Mrs. Shaw proudly showed us porch furniture, a table, and a kiddy coop, all of which she had made herself.

Edgecombe County

The Conetoe 4-H Club in Edgecombe County has decided to present a minstrel in order to raise money to send two delegates to the boys and girls 4-H short course, which will be held in Raleigh at State college the last week in July. If sufficient funds are raised, they also wish to send one or more members to a 4-H camp next summer. Miss Sara Godwin, a former 4-H club girl, will direct the minstrel.

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