Johnston County Club girls came out as winners in the Eastern District Contests held in Goldsboro Saturday. Fifteen counties comprise the Eastern District, and each year contests in Clothing, Jelly-making, Poultry, Bread-making, and Food Conservation are held to determine who shall represent the district in contests held at the State Fair. Johnston county entered two teams, the maximum allowed to one county, one team in Jelly-making, which won first place and will therefore go to Raleigh, and one team in Clothing, which was declared second in the demonstration, Sampson’s team winning first.
The young ladies who will represent the Eastern District at the State Fair are Misses Janie Edwards of Creech school, and Sallie Herring of Selma.
Those composing the team giving a demonstration in Clothing were Misses Pauline Barnes and Daisy Creech of Creech school. Pender county won first place in the Poultry demonstration but the contest judging the Bread-making and Food Conservation will be deferred until the middle of the week owing to the illness of some of the teams.
Demonstrations in judging livestock, grain, etc., were put on for the club boys of the district but Johnston county did not enter any teams. However, several Johnston County club boys were on hand to observe the work being done and will enter the contests in Raleigh.
The hospitality accorded the club boys and girls by the people of Goldsboro was a very pleasant feature of the occasion, according to Miss Minnie Lee Garrison, Johnston County Home Agent, who accompanied her teams to the Wayne Capitol. The Merchant’s Association and the Chamber of Commerce entertained the more than 50 club boys and girls present at dinner at the Kenyon Hotel. A unique thing about the dinner is that the menu included only Wayne County products. At the conclusion of the delightful repast, Mr. A.K. Robertson, County Farm Agent of Wayne, expressed the pleasure of having the young folks as guests. His words called forth a response from both groups, a young fellow from Wayne speaking for the boys and Miss Sallie Herring of Selma speaking for the girls.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Sept 30. 1924
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