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VAGllSIX ir- Ibniatnre R^(Hi For April *'Muscle Building Foods” was the subject of the demonstration ’ at the ‘thirteen clubs iii Hoke County in,April. The Foods and Nutrition leaders' • gave the de monstration at' twelve clubs and tte-Home Agent at one. One hun- '' dred and fifty-eight (153) women were present,at the m'eetiirgs. / Miss Julia Mclver; Extension •'Clothing Specialist, gave a most helpful demonstration on^ “The Professional Touch in ^ Sewing ’-on .the'afternoon of .April 19. Miss Mclver gave ' practical ».‘^ugges.- , lions in cutting and niarking tlie 1 mateiiifl and stay stittching to pre vent stretching. Stay stitching is sewing one four& inch from the cut edge rf off grain ^ces such as the blou.ce front'and^ack neck line, shoulder, armhol^etc. Sh’e showed how to make bias pin- tucks, a simple way to make scal lops, and how to shape hems. One of the most helpful parts of the demonstration was putting in a I zipper in . one minute ^ time. She also showed the new method of making bound *buttonhples by using a stAp of material 1 1-2 inches wide which had been tuck ed on each side. The Blue Springs Club had a supper' meeting 'at the community ed a number of slides on Home Beautification and discussed each picture as it was flashed on the screen. Eighty Hoke County women attended the Annual Meeting of the 16th District Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs which was held in Laurinburg on April 27. Dr. Robert L. Humber, who is with the United Nations, was the speaker. Re'ports from they four counties, Cumberland, Hoke, Rob? eson and Scotland, were heard. The five 4-H Clubs' met-in Ap- Poole’s i Medley BY D. SCOiT POOLE ‘ There 'used to be, spring morn ings, hasty spring showeris.^ We saw and hdard these showers com ing through the woods, or fields, drops of rain as large as the end of your finger. Those showers would last about a minute, tum bled down and roared. ril. On tlie 30th lay of April, 1886, there came from the north west the - only real hailstrom I ever saw. it covered the ground about six‘inches,, and, a heavy rain fol lowed and washed it in hpaps. That hail beat-off tree tops, and beat most' of the bark off the north west sid of the trees. Corn was ibeatened down-, so was, wheat and other small grain, but it straightened except that which was broken off. I never have seen any thing -printed about there 'being less thunder and lightning ,no'w than there used *to be. ’Some of, my readers' .will recall , at- thunder cloud-that, came in July, 1905, when,-eyery telephone pole be tween Raeford and Red Springs .'was struck byl-lighj^ing and torn ;o pieces; ? ■ The latest enow I ever saw fell -on the morning of' April 18th, *1871«.Tt fell from about 8 to 10 o’clock p..m.'. It melted'by noon iand did the peach crop no harm. -FeaQhes' were about the same size they are now. The^Honte Agent attended meet building on the evening of April jngs of the USDA County Coun- twenty.' J. M.'Andre\ys, -Hoke ' cil,-'the'^ supper sponsored by ■ the, County Solicitor of R'efebrders j Hoke County Triple A Committee- Court, spoke on “Citizenship.” H. men,-Agfent’s _ meetings at E-. -Vernon,, Goimty Agent, show-j Bum':erton and White. Eake. fttr^TMNI MOTHERS -Your Child’s Photograph Saturday, 14*!! i0:00 A. ivi. TO 5:00 P. M. i This Offer Good for Any Child up to 5 Years of Age. I TO SHOW OUR APPRECIATION FOR YOUR PATRONAGE WE HERE I AT COLLINS HAVE MADE ARRANGEMENTS- WITH A ^QTED PHO- 1 TOGRAPHER TO PHOTOGRAPH YOUR CHILD iVlTH OUR COMPLI MENTS. NO OBLIGATIONS PHOTOGRAPH FREE COLLINS DEPARTMENT RAEFORD, N. C. 'pV FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY r ' if ' , y ^ . * ' ■ ' 't * • New aad Used * h., Allis - Chalmers Tractors Harvesters - Cultivators .1 Side Delivery Rakes - Disc Harrows One Man Roto Balers Iron Age Tobacco Transplanters & Dusters Cobey Wagons, Trailers, Etc. ' We Offer Complete Sales and Serivee — Actual {> Demonstration At Your Request I Red Springs Implement ,5 Phone 3861 Your Authorized Dealer For ALLIS-CHALMERS Red Springs, N. C. ■ U * iBBcause we, have had a mild winter, we are a Tittle more like-^ ly - to . have cool snaps this sum- njer. We will see. The last issue of the State Mag azine carries an interesting, arti cle -about Indians in Robeson and surtounding counties. Hoke has Indians to supply 'three public school teachers employment. befdre our day. We glad we I did »ot make their acquaintance. Eating too much does more harm than a lack of food in our country. There is more digestion than hunger by a big sight. Our country is threatened with hard times again. More than half the time I have lived has been panics, and they are not enjoy able. However, we lacked nothing, in reality, but we wanted more all the time, and still do. But if we had, all we want, we would not be much, account, any of us. • •• Every spring for the past sev eral years fruit was all killed by frost, but apples have been sold in every grocery store, and last spring orchardists had to hire people to pick part of the peaches off their trees so they would be better sizes. 0 Alfalfa Subject Of New Bulletin Fertilization is the key to suc cessful alfalfa production. That’s o.'ie of several important points • brought out in a bulletin on “Alfalfa Production” which has just been reprinted by the State College Extension Service. The authors of bulletin. Agronomists S. H. Dqbson and R. L. Lovvron, point '’out that even the best soils require ferti lization to maintain a good stand ahd produce a good yield over a period of several years. Dobson and Lovvorn empha size that hay is needed in any bal anced fe'ed program and that al falfa, “king of' the hay crops,” can be grown successfully in North Carolina.' Alfalfa; tiiey Say, is rich in 'pibtein, minerals, and vitamins "A and Dj and is espec ially good for' dairy cattle and all types of young growing' stock.’ - v**" ■' % The publication gives detailed information on soil selection, lim ing, fertilizatilm, seedbed prepar ation, seeding, cutting and curing, and manhgeihent. ' Pir#-sons desiring a copy of “Al falfa Production” may obtain one from the local county agent or bj writing to the Agricultural Editor, State Collfge Station, Ra- lei^, and requesting Extension Circular No. 307. There is no charge.' ' IT TD A1WEB11SB N. McNair Smith ATTOBpY AT LAW General Practice ^.. . Folks in Raeford should shoot these jaybi/ds, for they kill and eat other variety of birds, or eat their eggs. In the 1'860’s the first Teachers’ institute was held in Troy, and the editor of Troy’s first news paper offered a year’s subscrip tion as a prize for the best spell er. A young man named Kearns, from Randolph, county, and Jnp. M. 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