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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1936
Page
5
A nostalgic portrait depicts a contented mother in a bright tidy home. She bakes fragrant bread and jam, tends a garden, and keeps a peaceful, gracious spirit. The piece honors mothers nationwide, recalling childhood memories and the comfort of a loving, simple life.
National president R H Coombs will address the Farm and Home Hour from Washington next Thursday May 7 broadcasting 11 40 to 12 30 CST. Daylight saving moves the hour up one hour in observing zones. The Post Office Department will also have a speaker on the program and members are urged to tune in.
In heartfelt words the speaker vows love and gratitude for a mother’s sacrifices. The tribute frames maternal devotion as a shelter and beacon, invoking verses that compare a mother’s love to an island guarded by Hope Patience and Rest with faith truth and prayer guiding the way.
A reflective verse asks members to self evaluate dues paying and meeting attendance. It questions the impact on the association if others acted as the reader in paying dues and attending. It includes a moral appeal from Nance Grant of Alto Georgia.
In a Georgia notice, Mrs N F Land urges women to join the Ladies Auxiliary of the R L C G. She highlights the widower annuity and insurance benefits, promotes a junior organization for children, and calls for a membership drive with dues of 1 dollar for members and 50 cents for subs wives. Attends district meetings with husbands on May 30 and the state convention in Athens July 20 21.
President T A Kennedy chaired a meeting in Macon to choose a convention city for the year. With broad district representation, Athens won on the second ballot. over 40 members plus officers attended, and districts pledged support for a strong July 20–21 convention.
Mrs N F Land president of the Georgia Auxiliary has prepared a letter for rural carriers wives. District secretaries cooperate to reproduce it in full. Readers encouraged to enroll in the auxiliary this year and support its many purposes and goals.
The Ladies of the Auxiliary greet each carrier's wife and urge enrollment this year. Organized in 1924, the group has grown to over 18,000 members and aims to improve rural carriers, their families, and the service.
Instructions on selecting handling to avoid color loss and spoilage, with multiple methods for preserving strawberries. Includes steps for canning in jars, making syrups, juices, shrubs, and jellies, plus tips on washing, boiling, cooling, and sealing for long storage.
A basic jelly making guide notes combining one pound apples four cups sugar and lemon juice to extract pectin. Boil apples with water and lemon juice then press and strain, boil juice briefly, and seal in hot jars for jelly making.
Simple recipe uses orange rind and white pulp macerated in water with lemon juice overnight. Boil and strain to create pectin. Add one tablespoon per pint of fruit juice to achieve jel l. Homemade pectin is inexpensive and effective for jams and jellies, especially with strawberries which lack sufficient pectin.
County agents received instructions on controlling cutworms and plant lice in gardens and orchards. Effective methods include scattering a bran mash poisoned with insecticide for cutworms and spraying or dusting plant lice with contact insecticides containing lime sulphate pyrethrum rotenone or similar.
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