Thursday, April 11, 2019

County Agent Sends Monnie Stallings' Story of Success to Washington, D.C., April 11, 1919

From The Franklin Times, Louisburg, N.C., Friday, April 11, 1919

Monnie Stallings of Justice, Franklin County

Every effort of Monnie Stallings in club work has been crowned with success.

She joined May 14, 1914, when we were all new at the work. She canned 550 No. 3 cans of tomatoes from her one-tenth acre, winning a handsome medal which had been offered for the largest number canned from a one-tenth acre plat. She won on exhibits in glass a set of silver knives and forks and a silk parasol.

The second year she again won a medal for canning the largest number of cans in the county, which was 1,000 and also $16 in cash prizes for exhibits in glass at our first county fair.
The third year she won a thorough-bred Jersey heifer worth $100, a scholarship in domestic science at Louisburg College and $5 in cash at the county fair.

The fourth year she canned 1,300 cans, won a number blue ribbons at her township fair and $27 in cash at the county fair.

The summer of 1918, despite the bad fruit year, she canned 1,000 cans. She won a medal and would probably have won large cash prizes at the county fair had this not been postponed on account of influenza.

She will can this summer but will not have a tenth acre as she has a music class and feels that this with surplus garden and orchard products will be all she can manage.

With the money made from the sale of her canned goods, she has dressed herself, paid music bills, bought books, invested in thrift stamps, helped her widowed mother and says she expects to pay her expenses in college with money already saved and with money realized from the sale of her cow and calves.

It is needless to say, she has worked hard. Many days from breakfast until 10 o’clock at night, she has kept at her task without stopping. This outdoor exercise has developed her into a rosy cheeked girl with mental faculties as strong as her muscles.

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