The board of county commissioners Monday, with Zeb Morris, the new commissioner taking the place of J.R. Withers, resigned, transacted routine business mainly during the morning session.
The most important event was the submission of the first report made by Miss Marian Davis, home demonstration agent of the county, the report covering her activites during March. She reported having organized new women's clubs at Trinity, McIver, Ramah and Progress and new girls' clubs at Dixie, North Charlotte, Hoskins, Pineville and Sharon.
There are 14 women's clubs in the county and five girls' clubs, which a membership of 450 women and a girls' membership of 78. According to the report Miss Davis traveled 1,095 miles and held 73 meetings. The estimated attendance at all the meetings was 1,938.
Miss Martha Creighton, former home demonstration of this county and now district agent for the Piedmont section, with headquarters at Greensboro, spoke to the commissioners, urging the renewal of the appropriation for home demonstration work in the county and the need of supplementing this for the coming year. The board is expected to act favorably on the request.
The commissioners for the first time in their history had no authority to act on requests for roads and road repairs. For years a feature of nearly every board meeting has been the presence of a delegation, and sometimes several delegations have been at the mnthly meeting seeking new roads or road repairs. Monday the road-building and road repair function of the county commissioners was being exercised by the Mecklenburg County Highway Commission, which met in the grand jury room at the court house.
From The Charlotte News, May 2, 1921
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