Dr Kate Hill Highlights Home Demonstration Work
Dr Kate Adele Hill of the A and M College Extension Service spoke at Richards Memorial Library during a Brady BEPW Club tea. She traced home demonstration origins from Dr Seaman A Knapp to modern rural family education and noted her own publications on West Texas pioneer women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Adele Hill
Richards Memorial Library
Business and Professional Women's Club of
Brady
Tressie Shaver
Brady High School
BEPW
Miss Shaver
Hill
West Texas
Tom Green
Schleicher
TSCW
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Texas
A&m College
Southwest
United States
Seaman A. Knapp
Knapp
Early Home Demonstration Program in Texas Gains Ground
Dr. Hill traces the birth of the Texas A&M Extension Service in 1915 and the Home Demonstration program sparked by farm wives surveys. The movement, backed by federal state and county bodies, taught home economy topics at usage sites and developed into a statewide effort by 1925 with leaders like Mrs. Eldon Duncan and club officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill
Eldon Duncan
McCulloch County
Barry Francks
Elene Corder
Alabama
Nancy Archer
Abilene Woman Delivers Alaska Talk at Melvin Club
Miss Eudora Hawkins of Abilene spoke to the Melvin Twentieth Century Club at the Melvin Community Center. She presented Alaska as the 49th state, detailing its history, people, climate, and future prospects before showing a related film.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eudora Hawkins
Abilene
Melvin Twentieth Century Club
Melvin Community Center
Howard Parks
W. O. Akins
Brownwood
Joe Morrow
Miss Hawkins
Alaska
Orville Wells
Mmes
Robert Ledbetter
John Smith
John Bratton
Charles Benson
Lampshade Class Planned for McCulloch Women
County Home Demonstration Agent Mrs. Vyvien H. Duncan will run a lampshade workshop in May to teach lighting principles and shade recovery. A planning meeting for all interested McCulloch County women is set for Wednesday April 29 at 1 30 p m in the McCulloch County Electric Co op building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vyvien H. Duncan
McCulloch County
Brady
Texas
Flower Show Tuesday at Menard Country Club
Three garden clubs host a spring flower show titled The Farmer in the Dell at Menard Country Club. The event runs Tuesday April 28 from 2 to 5 pm with presidents Mrs Raymond Andrews Mrs Ed L Mears and Mrs Allan Everett leading Town & Country Menard and Daisy Belle clubs.
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Menard
Menard Country Club
Homemaking to Be Study Club Program
Rochelle Study Club meets April 27 at 4 PM in Memorial Community Center. Members answer roll with a question on happier living. Mrs. Lloyd Moseley discusses Homes for Today's Living and Mrs. W. P. Anderson speaks on Vacation USA The Four Wheel Way. Hostesses are Mrs O E Rice Mrs Clyde Matthews and Mrs George Myers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochelle Study Club
Memorial Community Center
Lloyd Moseley
W. P. Anderson
USA
O. E. Rice
Clyde Matthews
George Myers
Phostesses
Baptist Youth Hayride and Weiner Roast
Young people from the First Baptist Church enjoyed a hayride and weiner roast Tuesday night. Sponsored by Mrs. E. Stovall and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Puckett, about 25 members traveled to the Stovall ranch west of Brady. After the meal some participants fished nearby.
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First Baptist Church
E Stovall
Joe Puckett
Stovall Ranch
Brady
Mrs Waddill Leaves for Atlanta as Guest of Son-in-Law
To Atlanta Georgia Mrs C Waddill departed Brownwood last Saturday by plane to visit her son in law and their family in Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Waddill
Brownwood
Atlanta, Ga
Overton Family Ties Highlight Atlantic School Roles
Law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs J. E. Overton, and sons Bobby and Bryan are mentioned. Both Mr. and Mrs Overton are teachers in the Atlantic schools. Mrs. Waddill plans a Georgia visit for about two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Law
J. E. Overton
Bobby
Bryan
Overton
Atlantic
Waddill
Georgia
Public records and remarriage notices in 1965 district pages
Public records list marriages including John Valiet and Linda Evelyn with scattered OCR errors. Other couples: ML Valdes and Fells d pret, KerI Van Dyke and Glenda Dephene Smith with April 17. New auto registrations note a 1965 Oldsmobile sedan from Campbell's Olde-Cadillac Co and Mack Yates Jr. of Cherokee with an Oldsmobile four door from the same dealer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Intonto
Valdes
Fells
Kerl van Dyke
Glenda Dephene Smith
Mianeta Bothman
Mason
Campbell's
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Kate Hill
C.O.D
Monte Verde Optical Company
P. O. Box
Dallas 2
Tex
Jamaica
Shorts
SUN Suits
Rosenberg-Myers Company
Children’s Wear Balcony
Billy Jordan
Coleman
Evangelistic Campaign
Nazarene Church
N. College
Brady, Texas
End
Terrell
Gould
Texas A&m
D. W. Jordan
First Christian Church
Kathy Jackson
Judith Bryson
Sally Sizer
Frank Car
Michael
Michael Key
Mary Glenn Corder
Beth Lee Wigginton
Anne Lawler
Mrs. Jordan
E.R Watson
Donna Ray
Melvin
McCulloch
Mrs. Duncan
Brady Drug
Prescription
Dial
Belle-Sharmeer
Denier
Gibbs
Dacron
Public Records
John Valiet
Linda Evelyn
Dorthea Quinn
Jo's Beauty Shop
South Bridge St
Frosty
Man
Migie
Peg Palmer
Oia
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