Farm and Home Week reports from Athens August session
Delegates gathered in Athens on August 1 to share impressions of Farm and Home Week. Miss Myrtie McGoogan and Butts County demonstration agent organized attendees to discuss Herm and Hone Week activities. Miz W T Fletcher notes Miss Gardner from the National Recreation Board taught posture and directed the chorus, with Mrs Jack Smith leading songs daily at Pound auditorium.
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Twelling
Athens
Myrtie
Tee “McGoogan
Butts County
Herm
Hone
Candle Lighting Ceremony at Farm and Home Week
The Candle Lighting ceremony at the University campus during Farm and Home Week featured each 4-H and home demonstration member receiving a candle. Farm women formed an outer circle around 4-H members who arranged a four leaf clover center. Songs were sung and the ceremony closed with Taps, led by Josephine Smith.
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Josephine
Smith
Georgia Agriculture Extension Service 25th Anniversary Pageant
Laura E Blackshear wrote and directed a pageant celebrating 25 years of the Georgia Agriculture Extension Service. About 500 took part as the program traced the Smith Lever Act through themes of service, cooperation, 4-H clubs, home demonstration work, debt, and the U S Department of Agriculture and Triple A program led by Elizabeth Redman.
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Agriculture Extension Service
Georgia
Laura E. Blackshear
U. S
Department of Agriculture
Elizabeth Redman
State Dress Review Draws One Hundred Farm Women
Pageant featured 100 farm women directed by Miss Leonora Anderstin clothing specialist. Cotton dresses for general wear afternoon and spectator parts showcased. Mrs John Cook represented Butts county in a street dress and earned praise though not top placing. Mrs J H Pope comments on creditable showing.
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Leonora “Anderstin
John Cook
Butts Cqunty
J. H. ‘Pope
Handicraft Exhibit Praise And Scrapbook Win
A campus handicraft display earned praise for wood and copper work. The Scrapbook contest saw the council win third place, with Tennie Brownlee and Mrs Jerome Washington leading the scrapbook committee.
Roughly ginned cotton hurts Georgia farmers' profits
County Agent M J Powell warns that rough ginned cotton lowers value, with penalties shifting from mills to shippers. Roughly 10 percent of Georgia’s production faces a $5 per bale loss, as mills reject or downgrade such cotton to fewer grades, impacting communities and promoting competition with rayon.
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Butta County
Georgia
Powell
Georgis
Atlanta Market Prices for Livestock and Produce
Grain and meat prices for hogs cattle and poultry are listed with weight ranges and rates. Fruit and vegetable prices follow with beans sweet potatoes watermelons and peas. A note states Harvard University founded in 1636 and mentions a Georgia cotton program encouraging better ginning to improve bale prices.
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States
Harvard University
County Scrapbook Contest Awards Prizes
Butts county received a one dollar merchandise certificate from Rich's as third place in the statewide Scrapbook Contest. The winning scrapbook, prepared by the scrapbook committee Miss Tennie Brownlee and Jerome Washington, features the year and book details. Fulton county won first place and Dodge county second.
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Butts
County
Rich's
Tennie Brownlee
Jerome Washington
Fulton County
Dodge County
Town Folks Share News Of Visits And Illnesses
Ville South Carolina residents and friends send greetings as Mrs J B Calidus improves after a recent illness. Ellingtons and daughter visit Atlanta. Maud Harrison of High Falls plans a week there. Mrs Willian Holloway and Mrs W J Cozen Jr visit in Florida and Georgia. Carol Fenny of Holton plans to visit Mr and Mrs BT Michael. W L Holloway hosts relatives from Laurel Delaware. Mrs Herman Goldstein of Griffin visits her mother Mrs R We Torbet. Torbet to visit daughter Mrs Bob Stal Thigs in Charlotte NC.
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Torbet
Indian Springs
Bob Stal- Thigs
Charlotte
Fire destroys Methodist church in Barnesville Georgia
A fire largely destroyed the Ethodit Church in Barnesville Ga today. The interior, recently renovated, was badly damaged. Rev John Tate pastor, said firemen fought the blaze caused by a faulty device. Estimated loss around 18000 dollars.
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Barnesville
John Tate
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