Wake County Women Build HD Club House; Catawba County HD Women Host Free Chicken Supper, 1936

“Timely News Items” by Jane S. McKimmon, N.C. State College, as published in the February, 1936, issue of the Carolina Co-Operator

Wake Club House

Oakwood Home Demonstration Club House in Wake County was completed in 1935 at a cash expenditure to the community of $484.17. B.W. Weeks, the husband of one club member, donated the land. Charlie Balentine allowed the timber from his land to be cut and sawed for the building and he also gave a wicker chair which he won at a fair to be used in furnishing. Some 20 other men in the community met and helped with the carpentry work and the building was completed in November. It has an assembly room 22 by 34 feet and a kitchen at the rear, 10 by 16 feet in size and is used for all types of community gatherings.

Mrs. Maude McInnes, the home demonstration agent, says the home demonstration club in Oakwood community is a stronger organization because all the neighborhood worked together for the club house.

Chicken Supper

It is interesting to note how people will turn out for food, fun, and frolic. Mrs. Marie Matheson, Catawba Home Demonstration Agent, reports farm families of the county gave a Chicken Pot Pie Supper in the American Legion and Auxiliary hut which that organization offered free of charge.

A supper committee planned for 250 people including the Legion. In spite of the fact that it had been raining all day long, 200 places were filled at the tables.

Someone was sent outside to see how many there were and reported “more on the outside than on the inside—in fact, it looks like Balls Creek Camp Meeting.” Outside and in, 500 people were served, and the home agent reports that there was “plenty left over,” and that servings were great big “country servings.” She further states, “The building was too crowded for the complete program to be carried out, but everyone had a good time. No one got off in a corner alone because all the corners were filled.”