Women, Men, Girls Impressed at Iceless Refrigerator Demonstration, July 18, 1919

From The Franklin Times, Louisburg, N.C., July 18, 1919

Home Demonstration Department

The Community Club meeting at Winston, the Woman’s Club meeting at Roberts and the Boys and Girls’ Farm and Home Club meeting at Mitchiners were exceptionally good last week.

About 30 men, women and girls attended the Winston meeting. A great deal of interest was shown in the iceless refrigerator demonstration. This club does splendid canning each summer. It is interesting to know that the men do as much of the work and take as much interest in each program as the women.

Every member was present at the Roberts Club. An iceless refrigerator demonstration was given here. After the club meeting, all members visited Mrs. Bob Roberts to see her side porch. It is an attractive summer living room. No more beautiful flowers are to be seen than the ones arranged on this porch. Mrs. J.J. Timberlake is the enthusiastic president of this club. Sometime ago she was having her home painted. She wished it completed by a certain date so she painted the blinds and a large portion of the lower story. It takes just such workers as she to make successful leaders of community organizations.

Maggie Phelps, a canning club girl of the Mitchiners club, gave the peaches she intended canning to a sick club member of her club. She said, “I had rather do without them in the winter if the sick child can enjoy them now.”

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An Irish potato cut in half and dipped in ashes is splendid to clean fruit or egg stained steel or silver knives and forks and other silver.

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A “Baby Booth” and a “Home Convenience Booth” have been arranged for the County Fair. Last year, B. Altman & Co. sent down a complete outfit for babies’ wear and model furnishings in white for a nursery. As the fair could not be held last fall these articles will be exhibited this year. It will be one of the most attractive booths of the fair.

I hope every woman in the county will see the booth filled with home conveniences. The Carolina Power and Light Co. is going to install a Delco light system, a washing machine, wringer, large roller iron, hand iron, churn and vacuum cleaner will be attached, showing some of the most useful labor saving devices a country woman can have in her home.