The Preacher's Coming, 1940

From “Carolina Farm Notes” by F.H. Jeter, Nov. 1940 issue of the Southern Planter

Coy Johnson had good reason for wanting one of the mattresses being made in Surry County as a part of the surplus cotton program. The church association was to meet in the Low Gap community, and it was Mr. Johnson’s time to entertain the preacher.

Therefore, he marked this mattress request with an emphatic “urgent” because he said he wanted a good bed for the visiting cleric.

Hundreds of other farm families all over North Carolina are finding that these cotton mattresses make good beds, and if they cannot get one out of Government cotton, they learn to make them from purchased or home-grown lint.

M.A. Cauble of Gold Hill community in Rowan County expressed it well when he said, “I am going to build a table at home and make a mattress for every member of the family just as soon as I gin my cotton.”