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grl THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community SECTION IV RTsixTEEN Southport, N. C., Wednesday, July 27th, 1949 published EVERY WEDNESDAY ?1.S0 PER YEA? |) Home Demonstration Clubs Active In County I juiy [wth Of HD ,rk Reviewed jjy Nan Ratlifi Dem^tion Agent Program As It Developed During Administration . gvyuiKatUff ' Lb* County Home Lustration Agent) work as Columbus Horr.e Demonstration ... 15. 1946 and started .organized and laying L bv fut?? work. giper county agent, and ?'<-? Club boys and ?,.e Lake for the annual L. Week. We were ac f Ijv Mrs. John Boone of ivhiteville Home De " ciub who acted as leader. the latter part of Au ^?"l9 i-H boys and girls i ^ g* State 4-H Short. i accompanied them as ?Agent Raper and I re ?< 'the 4-H Clubs of the fn.jv then had a total U'of 787 with 488 girls s toys. In October, 1946, j (Jibs met. I&rember 6. 1946, the an itevement Night for Home j.:Clubs and 4-H Ins' held jointly. Reports I. H-'.e Demonstration Knaled that 253 members 1 ' quarts of fruit, I of vegetables, and ebges of meat. A total jlackages of frozen fods , prepared, 44,253 lbs. of j 2,569 garments made, i and 12,272 lbs of. [iftess of the evening was jrjfrs. Irby Walker, trea- | C tie North Carolina Farm ? I Mrs. Mary McAllister, j cen District Agent, was Jt af tie clubs. I (ret for the best percent liCffldance at the Achieve llj.-. was presented to the 1 iTiiteville Home Demon- I i Cab. Bie High School and t School 4-H Clubs were I in'December, 1946 as ay-second and twenty |Ci&5 in the county under iership of Mr. Raper and lEarrelson's X Roads Home petition Club was begun in -947 in the home of Mrs. j tHan-elson, Sr. The group, m the Brunswick HD I litre were then 13 clubs ! county. I 4-H Club uniforms for I"we modeled in January, |:: the first time in the ' ty myself. This uniform i from cotton green and I stopped seersucker and Green and white [jacket, shorts, over-strap white shirt and dickie, crocheted beanie made ^complete uniform. Jjjaper and I attended the |*iter Conference in Wil 1 January 29, 1947 which I*"- developed into the Better Farming For Better Ingram. L^"1! Interest'' Demon ,Was given by Miss Rose * Bryan, House Furnish-! ? Socialist of state College, [tfaUsboro HD Club house. i''*? interested women ?? the county were pre L ' *ary ten Family Life F attended a lecture in L tr' b-v Mrs. Virginia Mc Wtension Family Life The leaders then car e to her fellow club wo '^nation on the subject, of WeStern Prong com Ued on page iiV?> Columbus HD Agents Nan Ratliff, Home Demonstration agent, and Gayle Wells, as sistant agent, who are the county's team in working with rural women for the betterment of farm life. Miss Ratliff has' been with the Extension Service here since 1946. Miss Wells, who is the first assistant agent in County HD history, came here for work last year. New 4-H Council President Sets Fine Club Work Record Fourteen Year-Old High School Freshman Wrote And Narrated Dress Re vue; Serves As Officer For Group Marjorie Ward of Williams Township, incoming president of the 4-H County Council, has an unusually fine record of achieve ment in 4-H work. In the three years she has been active in the club she was secretary of the group her first year, vice president for two years, local program chairman for two years, attended 4-H MARJORIE WARD of Williams Township, who was reecntly nam ed president of the ' Columbus County 4-H Council, camp at White Lake, and wrote and acted as narrator for the Williams Township 4-H Dress Re vue in 1949. In addition Marjorle served on the 4-H County Council Social Committee for 1948-49 and was county winner in the frozen foods contest in 1947 and 1948. She is secretary of the Leba non Methodist Youth Fellowship and was secretary of her eighth grade class last year. Marjorie is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ward, Sr. of Clarendon. She is 14 years old and will be a high school fresh man this year. "I have always enjoyed my 4-H Club work anr have found my project work interesting. As in | coming president of the Colum bus County 4-H Council for 1949 ! 50, I will do my best to make the Council one to be proud of and to uphold the meaning of 4-H Club work," Marjorie has said. Collect Keep us, O God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with fault-find ing and leave off self-seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face without self pity and without prejudice. May we never be hasty in judg ment an always generous. .... Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straightfor ward and unafriad. Let us take time for all things, make us grow calm, serene, and gentle. Grant that we may realize it is the things that create dif ferences; that in the big things of life we are as one. j And may we strive to touch and to know the great com mon woman's heart of us all; O Lord God, let us not forget to be kind. Amen. I Drive For Agent ! In Columbus Led By Mrs. Powell Woman's Club Committee Went Before County Com missioners In 1917 To Suc cessfully Plead For Home Demonstration Work I Mrs. A. Elmo Powell, Sr., a I past president of the Whiteville I Woman's Club, may be destgnat-i ;ed properly by historians as the| "mother" of Home Demonstration work in Columbus County. In any event, she was instru I mental in securing the first a gent. Mrs. Powell was chairman of a I special Woman's Club committee j which went before the board of County Commissioners to plead for an agent. The County fathers, when pre sented the petition, took favor able action. J. C. Stanley, C. D. I Harrelson and F. B. Pierce com-! [posed the board then. Miss Lucille Clark of Anson County was employed as the first j Columbus Home Agent in 1917. | Mrs. Powell had previously I spoken extemporaneously to a (Continued on page 7) ts In A Name?Nancy (Ratliff) ^ (Wells) Williamson (LeRoy) 11 pig named Nancy Gayle Nson; i K5 fte tag that belongs to a 1 ftt<i Essex gilt which is i PWy o! LeRoy Williamson ? Gordo. | I. Gayle is not quite a ? I* hut she is expected to I fJite a hog. i she miss when her 1 ,'p-s arc so well known. \ i an<1 his pal, Tom Wal* I L *1'" both active members Tifk ^ ^ub ^ur'nS their U?*11 days until their T?'1 year. They hap I 4 " Particularly fond ot the two lady members of the Extension Service, Nan Ratllff, Home Demonstration agent, and Gayle Wells, assistant Home De monstration agent. LeRoy had a pig ... It was' a lady pig . . . Nancy Gayle was a pretty name . . . and there you have it. Miss Ratliff and Miss Wells swear they're going to get even with LeRoy and Tom The boys don't know it but Nancy Gayle is going to receive a present on her first birthday?a beautiful shiny gold ring for her pink snout. Unpaved Roads Lent Adventure To Early Days Mrs. Fuller Began Work As Miss Conrath In 1919; Worked During Postwar Recovery Period By Miss Ruth Conrath Fuller (Former County HD Agent) 1919 found Columbus County in a postwar recovery state when I arrived in the fall. Mrs. Jane S.McKimmon, State Agent, advis ed me to begin with canning and to introduce myself with a course in home nursing. This course was enthusiastically received as a re sult of the terrible flu epidemic throi'gh which the nation had so recently passed. My nuise'3 tra'ning at Johns Hopkins car.?e into good use.. Cluv,s were organized at Taoor City, Bolton, Evergreen, CUad bourn, Hallsboro, Guideway and Boardman. In the nursing course they learned about bed making, bathing the patient in bed, turne made n'irsing equipment and other essentials of home care fc-r pat ients. During my rtay which lasted until May 1, 1921 a great many proien's were steited. A roads rally was held in Whiteville which interested the farm agent and myscelf beiausj then there w&s not an inch of raved Tui'* in the county. Bill McGirt of Wil mington. who was a member of the State Roads Committee, pro moted the affair. We had a fin-5 encampment at Lake Wt rcamaw for the Colum bus and Robeson 4-H groups. The first county fair was also held t?at year. My clubs made many of the dress forms now so popular.'I believe I was the first in the State to make them. We also made braided rugs. I had had a very good course in sewing at college and we learned making bound button holes and remodel ing of old clothes, both of which I still hear about when I visit the old clubs. The girls learned to darn a good sock too! and yes, the millinery?we really made hats. A course at a wholesale house in Goldsboro added to the professional touch and gave me added confidence. You should have seen our maroon outing flannel sailers with gold braid bands. They were something to be proud of. We even made all of the hats. Thrift was advocated then and you saw the word at every turn. We really worked at it. We made dress hangers from barrel staves in our girls clubs to in terest them in care of their clothes. And we cooked?fireless?in cookers the husbands made?the soapstone variety?and they real ly were fine. Our iceless refri (Continued On Pag? Eight) First HD Agent I MRS. LUCILE CLARK FORD, j who served as Columbus County's j first Home Demonstration Agent (from July 1, 1917 to Nov. 1, 1919. Mrs. Ford is a native of Anson County and is now engaged In YWCA work in Charlotte. Long Lapse In HD Work Was Ended In 1941 Hattie Pearl Mallard Elec ted As First Home Agent After Service Was Discon tinued During Depression Years For nine years Columbus Coun I ty was without a Home agent and organised Home Demonstra jtion work was at a standstill. An appropriation of $1100 for jthe work in 1941 and 1942 was made in the budget by the Coun j ty Commissioners at their June I meeting and Hattie Pearl Mallard (was officially elected as Home j Agent In July to reinstate the | Extension service here. | Miss Mallard began familiariz ing the people with the "program |and started reorganizing the work in Columbus County. Visits were made to all sections of the county to 18 communities. During her two-month stay four clubs were actually organized. They were Pireway, Cerro Gordo, Bolton and Crusoe Island. To arouse interest in the Ex tension program there was an ef fort to get women to attend the conference held during Farm and jHome Wee. in Raleigh. Eight I women were present for the meeting and were to act as lead ers in their community organiza tions. Plans were made for other com munity meetings and the organ ization of other club6 were made (Continued on page 7) | On the radio it's "Superman Is, On the Air," but in Home Demon stration work, it is super-women who are required. Nan Ratliff, Home agent, and Gayle Wells, assistant Home agent, say they have to be con tinually on their toes to follow the schedule they have. The agents present a demon stration at each of the 19 Home Demonstration and 23 4-H meet ings they must attend each month. Miss Ratliff and Miss Wells says, the demonstrations tak? quite a bit of preparation and must be given all over the county so much of their time is taken up in driv ing from place to place. Achievement Nights, County It's Super-Women In This Case Council meetings, County Federa tion meetings and radio programs require much of their time. 4-H Camp plans, Farm and Home Week and Short Course are also on their schedule. The home agents are members of and must attend meetings for most of the following clubs and organizations: State HD Associa tion, National HD Association, District HD Association, State HD Association, State Home Economics Association, Yam Fes tival Committee, U. S. Department of Agriculture Council, Farm Bureau, Business and Profession al Woman's Club, Red Cross Exe cutive Committee and the Better Fanning for. Better Living Coun Hallsboro? Oldest Home Demonstration Club In County Former Agent Writes History From 1925-1932 County Council Organized In 1925 To Gat Clubs Off To A Good Start; Mrs. Frank Covington Named Presi dent I FARM, HOME AGENTS WORK HAND IN HAND i Flower Shows, Poultry Sales, Kitchen And Yard Con tests And Other Pro jects Combined To Make For Success ful H.D. Work Under Mrs. Smith By MRS. DAVID SMITH I (Former Columbus County Home1 Demonstration Agent j The Extension program in Col umbus County beginning January 1, 1925 was under the direction {of J. T. Lazar, County Agent! Isince 1918, and myself. I was' | then known as Miss Emiline Cleveland and assumed duties as Home Agent January 1. There had been the usual pol itical game of saving tax payers of the county tremendous a mounts of money by discontinu ing the office of Home Agent but after the opposition had been satisfied by discontinuing the work for a month, work got off to a good start. Realizing that the success of Extension work in Columbus County depended on a unified program, the Farm Agent and I worked jointly on the program. On January 10 a county agri cultural organization was per fected with 24 women elected as members of the county council. Mrs. Frank Covington of Ever green served as president and R. G. Lytton of Lake Waccamaw j led the Board of Agriculture. Mrs. Jessie Thompson was named 'president of the Poultry Associa tion. All together a splendid co operative program was developed. During 1025 poultry was shipp ed by car loads from the county. Club women received a big part of the $8,387.94 for the 30,000 lbs. shipped the first time. Following the organization of the County Council Home Demon stration Clubs were started in fif teen communities In the county, thus changing the previous pro gram of individual instruction to group instruction. In these com-! munities I worked in cooperation with the County Agent to carry1 a monthly program of motion pictures. The $500 which pur-1 chased the motion picture out fit was won by taking first prize on a county exhibit at the State Fair in November, 1924. A curb market was conducted by the club women in the spring and summer of 1925. It was a success on a limited scale be cause little support was given it by Whiteville citizens. By the close of 1925 a large number of women had become interested in Home Demonstrat ion Clubs and county officials realized the value of group act ivities. I Thirty women entered their kitchens in a county-wide kitchen improvement campaign early in 1926. On April 17 Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon spoke to 260 farm people and presented Mrs. J. H. Soles of Pleasant Plains first prize in the contest. A four-bur ner cook stove was given her and gifts were awarded second, third and fourth place winners. Twenty-three women attended the first encampment for club' women held at Lake Waccamaw! Continued on page two Former HD Agent MRS. DAVID SMITH, who was Home Demonstration Agent for Columbus County from January 1, 1925 to July 1, 1932. She was then known as Miss Emilinc Cleveland. Miss Rainwater Served 1 Year As Home Agent Office Discontinued In July Of 1932 During Depth* Of Great Economic Depres sion Lois Rainwater began work as Home Agent for Columbus July 17, 1932 to succeed Emiline Cleveland. First year clothing was then J the project and the club women did a great deal of sewing for the county Welfare Department. 1167 yards of cotton cloth were made into attractive garments and used clothing remade for children. Miss Willie Hunter, State Clothing Specialist, ? conducted clothing schools for leaders on March 30, 1932. Thirty-five wo jmen met for the regular quarter ly business session of the County Council. At this meeting 451 non j club members were reported as j receiving help in some phase of .home making from club members [during the three months preced ling. I A spring flower show was held Mey 19, 1932 in the court house with J. E. L. Wade of Wilming ton as speaker. ...j annual club women's camp was held at Lake Waccamaw ! June 12-17, 1933. On the first Monday of July I of 1933 the Board of County Co mmissioners voted to discontinue i the office of Home Demonstrat jion agent, inis was during the ;depths of the depression and only la few months before the "bank jing holiday." I Mrs. R. F. Benton, president : of the County Council, and scores of others pleaded for the work J but the Commissioners were un animous in their vote. Miss Rainwater was immediate I ly given a position as Home Agent of Jones County. She died in the fall of 1948 while on a visit to relatives is Florida. Decomposed feed materials and polluted water are sources of many digestive disorders in chicks this time of year. Leaders Aim At Goal Of One In Each Community Miss Nan Ratliff Explains i Purposes Of Program And What Various Units Ar? Striving For FIRST HOME AGENT WAS HIRED IN 1917 First Assistant HD Agent Went To Work In Septem ber Of 1948; History Is Reviewed Briefly BY MISS NAN RATLIFF (Columbus County Home Demonstration Agent) Who are we? How Ion? hava Home Demonstration Agent* been in 'Columbus County? What liavo we done? What are we doing? What do we want to do In t h? future? First, we are Home Demon stration Cub members and Home Demonstration Agents. Secondly, how long have Agents been in the county? Since 1917 Columbus County has had a Horn? Demonstration Agent "off and on". From July 1, 1917 until May 17, 1921, Columbus County was with out an afcent for a period of only four days; the county was again without an agent from May 17, 1921, until July 1, 1922. For" the next eleven years, Columbus Coun ty was able to keep this office open with the exception of seven teen days; then, for a period of eight years the county was with out a home agent again. After a short span of three month?, the county again found herself with a vacancy for two years. Since that time, Columbus Coun ty has maintained an Extension Worker to help the rural women with the exception of only tnree months. On September 15th, 1948, the first Assistant Horrte Demon stration Agent in the history of local Extension Work began her duties. The Assistant Home Agent is Miss Gayle Wells. What has been done?The Ex tension groundwork first began under the capable leadership of Mrs. Lucille Clark Ford who was followed by such oustanding lead ers and agents as: Misses Flor ence Ruth Conrath, Lottie Kholer, Laura Emaline Lemly, Lillie Lang ford, Emiline Cleveland, Lola Rainwater, Hattie Pearl Mallard, and Genevieve Eakes. The results of their leadership and untiring efforts still remain as a beacon (Continued on Page 7) ,j "Thank You" We, Nan E. Ratllff and Gayle Wells, Home Demonstration agenta of Columbus County, want to express our apprecia tion to Mr. Leslie 8. Thompson, publisher, Mr. WUllard G. Cole, editor, and Miss Mary Joe Cole, reporter, of The News Reporter for featuring the history of Home Demonstration work in Columbus County In the tobacco edition of the paper. To the many merchant? and citizens of the county who have cooperated with us and have made our jobs a pleasure la stead of a much-dreaded duty to perform, we want to say, "Thank you." Building New Club House Is Now Project For Crusoe Island Club The Crusoe Island Home De monstration Club was first organ ized in 1941 with 15 members enrolled and Mrs. Dewey Long as president. The club was started by Hattie Pearl Mallard, Home Demonstration agent. The Crusoe Island Home De monstration Club building was built by the government to house a W. P. A. project. When these | were abolished, Columbus Coun ty offered to sell the building and lease the land for ninety-nine years to the Crusoe Club. As can be noted in the picture to be found elsewhere in the paper, the club house is in dire need of repair and is much too large for the use of the Home Demonstration Club. It is the aim of the Crusote Club to build a small three-rooh structure to be equipped for a clothing lab, kit chen and club rt>om. The clothing room would double for a banquet hall or recreational center. Sew ing machines have been offered by the Red Cross Chapter for uh in tha clothing room. Present officers for the -organ ization are: Mrs. Dewey Long, president; Mrs. Eula Gray Regis ter, vice president; Mrs. Carson Etheridge, secretary and treasur er. Leaders for projects are: Mrs. Dewey Long, Foods; Mrs. Ada Etheridge, Gardens; Mrs. Dewey Long, Dairy; Mrs. Lizzie Suggs, Food Preservation, House Furn inshings and Home Management; Mrs. Pauline Clewis, Family Life; Mrs. Ada Spivey, Home Beautiff cation; Mrs. Eula Gray. RegisUr, Clothing; Mrs. Carson Etheridge, Recreation and Poultry. Club members are Mrs. Johnny Register, Mrs. Dewey Long, Mrs. AHa Etheridge, Mrs. Carson Ethe ridge, Mrs. Dalton Godwin, Mr?. Pauline Clewis, Mrs. Laura Dim can, Mrs. Ida Spivey, Mrs. Duff Etheridge, Miss Iselene Etheridge, Mrs. Lizzie Suggs, Mrs. Hatti? Etheridge, Miss Lena Mae Long, Miss Edna Ward, Miss Dottl* Simmons, Mrs. Osie Long, Mr*. Percy Gore, Mrs. Agnes Cam4R and Miss Hattis Gor?.
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