Maysville Home Demonstration Women Work for Finer Carolina, 1953

By Mrs. Tulian G. Hofman, Chairman of the 1952 Contest, Jones County, as published in the January, 1953, issue of the NC Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs’ News Letter*

Finer Carolina Contest, Jones County

The members of the Maysville Home Demonstration Club, one of 14 such clubs in Jones County, voted at a special meeting in March to enter the town of Maysville in the Finer Carolina Contest sponsored by the Carolina Power and Light Company. The Maysville Rotary Club immediately pledged its support.

The following five projects were undertaken:

--To select a park site which would be large enough for a community house in the future.

--To bring banking facilities to Maysville for the first time in 20

years.

--To repair and renovate churches.

--To sponsor a general clean-up including the railroad station, the town cemetery, vacant lots and yards. The two clubs sponsored a home beautification contest and three cash prizes of $15.00, $10.00, and $5.00 were offered to colored and white alike for improvements made to homes and yards of nonclub members.

--To build a fire house-town hall to house the town's new fire truck. A volunteer fire department was organized known as the Fireman's Association and to date eight calls have been answered.

When the contest closed November 1, all projects were completed and the Maysville Home Demonstration Club had already voted to enter the town of Maysville in the Carolina Power and Light Companies new 1953 contest.

*The NC Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs’ Newsletter, is online at http://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/bitstream/1840.6/13/1/0001_NorthCarolinaFederationofHomeDemonstrati.pdf