Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Rural Electrification and Other Home Demonstration Club News, 1936

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




Rural Electrification
The construction of 1,200 miles of rural power lines in North Carolina during the past nine months has aroused in rural people a growing interest in adequate, safe, and economical methods of wiring their homes.
To help rural residents solve their electrical problems, the extension service, in cooperation with Dudley Bagley, chairman of the State Rural Electrification Authority, is sponsoring question-and-answer meetings in every county where they are wanted.
Several meetings have already been held and one is scheduled in the Hertford County courthouse for Wednesday, May 6.
Walks Four Miles
In Union County four women walked four miles each to attend the Fairfield Home Demonstration Club meeting. One of them, Mrs. Simpson, said she had not been feeling well that day and her husband told her she ought to go to bed.
“But I dressed,” she said, “and walked that four miles to the meeting—just left everything and went. If I had stayed at home there would have been something to do every minute and while here at the club there were new ideas, new faces, and plenty of interesting things to learn and I felt I could go home not only feeling better myself, but I had something interesting to carry back to others. That four miles wasn’t so bad.”
Timely Bits
The WPA will furnish a little more than $3,000 and the local community $600 in cash and materials, and so the West Edgecombe Club is to have a real club house . . . . Twenty-three Beaufort County club women recently joined in a cooperative order for peach trees . . . . Those Johnston County women enjoyed their bus trip to the Azalea Gardens at Wilmington so much that now they are planning a trip to Washington for the conference of the Country Women of the World . . . . Congratulations to the Black Creek Club for winning the prize for outstanding community work in Wilson County for the past year.

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