Floy Williams, daughter of Mr. W.M. Williams, of Smithfield Route 1, who was 12 years old last Tuesday, said she was going to pick more cotton on her birthday than Minnie Hicks, the 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Hicks of Cleveland Township, picked on her birthday. Mr. Williams told his daughter that if she would pick more than Minnie hicks did, he would give her a dollar. That night, when her cotton was weighed, it was found that she had 328 pounds. According to an article in a recent issue of The Herald, little Miss Hicks picked 271 pounds on her birthday. Both these young ladies are to be congratulated upon the profitable way in which they celebrated their birthdays.
Five children in the Williams’ family on the same day picked 1,384 pounds of cotton.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday morning, Oct. 13, 1925
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