Community Holiday Meetings Highlight Farm and Home Club Year
The second group meeting of the Farm and Home Development Families gathered in the assembly room Friday night for a pleasant pre Christmas activity. Myrtle Springs Home Demonstration Club hosted a Christmas dinner and program the prior Thursday. Mrs Bama Gibbs and her daughter Mrs Ellen Hendrix were hostesses. The Home Demonstration Council will meet in January on the second Monday with a training session at 10 am followed by a covered dish lunch.
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Myrtle Springs Home Demonstration Club
Bama Gibbs
Ellen Hendrix
Home Demonstration Council
Elizabeth (Tiny) Carr Thanks Grand Saline Friends
Elizabeth Tiny Carr daughter of Nellie and Joe Carr of Grand Saline expresses sincere thanks for messages and cards during illness. She recuperates at 2819 Ivandell Dallas after a hospital stay for rheumatic fever and wishes friends a Merry Christmas and Joyous New Year.
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Elizabeth
Tiny) Carr
Nellie
Joe Carr
Grand Saline
Tiny
Ivandell
Dallas
No Auction Dec 26 at Wills Point Auction Barn
The Wills Point Auction Barn will observe a holiday on December 26 with no sale that day. The sale resumes as usual on Monday January 2. Receipts of cattle were light this week.
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Wills Point
Christmas Time Jingle Of The Sleigh Bells
A festive verse about Christmas time with holly pine trees candles glow and children dreaming by the fireside as lovers share warm moments. The poem evokes holly garlands glittering trees and stockings by the fireside with sleigh bells and starlight on snow.
Farm Development Families Meet Friday
Van Zandt County unit held its second year meeting with a covered dish supper. Miss Maggie Peach demonstrated Christmas decorations and methods. An educational film titled Something you Didn t Eat highlighted balanced diets from the basic seven. A P Fowler spoke on coastal bermuda cultivation and theft at his Martins Mill farm with slides. Russell Howell presented through slides on bermuda production.
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van Zandt Co
Maggie Peach
A. P. Fowler
Van
Bermuda
Martins Mill
Russell Howell
Farm and Home Development Aims to Boost County Farms
The program promotes use of crimson clover for grazing soil conditioning and nitrogen addition, and features budgeting and record keeping. Extension service provides materials and guidance to farm families, with about 20 more Van Zandt County households expected to enroll, contact extension staff to start.
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Oscar L. Brown
Associate
van Zandt County
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