Raleigh, Feb. 1 (AP)—Miss Elizabeth Gainey, home demonstration agent in Cumberland County, and J.T. Lazar, farm demonstration agent in Columbus County, have been selected by the administrative forces of the agricultural extension service at State College as the two county agents most efficient in their ork in 1925.
They will be given free trips to Washington, D.C., as a reward, according to I.O. Schaub, dean of the school of agriculture of the college, who made the announcement of their selection.
Miss Gainey made a score of 95 out of a possible 100 points. She began her work in Cumberland County in 1924 when she served assistant county agent. After serving in this capacity for two years, she was transferred to Durham County to have charge of the home demonstration work, but was recalled to her home county after only six months of service. Since that time, she has devoted her time to the farm women and girls of Cumberland.
Miss Gainey has been unusually successful in organizing her work among the women and girls, it is stated. She has now 12 active women’s clubs with a membership of 160, and 14 functioning girls’ clubs with a membership of 500. Of these members, 459 girls and 117 women reported on their projects for last year. These clubs are scattered in 17 communities of the 11 townships of the county.
(Miss Gainey lived in Concord a number of years ago, having been a stenographer in the office of the Odell Manufacturing Co.—Ed.)
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 1, 1926
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