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mvisuo i xu o.ndHylit-ngn-rs-ay)b-ir-ireistiSC?orireES;hh”nkre-ffenighireonid-in-heveho5n-yn;n-in-iri-neHiss,n,n,nerile,iysceis^at-le,il-vejy,in,ty,er,re,►n,w.;es:thie,ishynnendbesGIRLS AT WORK ON FARMS.____ ' ' J *”* ......... 1 ■ ■!■■»'« miANOTHER GROUP OF FARMERETTES TO BE SENT TO TINTON FALLS.Fifteen Will Arrive There Next Monday to JoiniTen Others;Who Have Been Working the Past Week—Scepticism of the Farmers Converted Into Admiration for the Girls’ Efficiency.Fifteen farmerettes, the second contingent of the woman's land army of America to go to work in this part of the county, will arrive at Tinton Falls next Monday anil offer their services, to the farmers of that neighborhood. Places for them to work have not been found yet, but the girls are not likely to find trouble in getting jobs, as the farmers of Tinton. Falls and vicinity are very short of help.The agriculturists of that locality do not have the deep-seated distrust of farmerettes which seems to be general among the farmers of other parts of this county. The reason for this is that Tinton Falls farmers have had a demonstration of the efficiency of girl 'farmhands. For the past week ten girls from the state normal school at Trenton have been working Tinton Falls farms and haveonS.ESeg.si-)i-at-la-ol.ofn,n,heC,olralndrt-crtithesiclr-sr,in,U-;ta;n-er,■et10-[c-*etnePhedre,ir-;errnry’il-m-enim11-las m-lt;!11SonresJll-lSiu-eirlas:e-es.ro.shown that when it comes to doing real hard work they are “right there with the goods.0John Anderson was the only man in the locality who had enough faith in the girls to give them a try-out when they arrived and he admits that he did it with considerable misgivings. The first day’s work of the girls convinced him that he had made no v mistake,. The feminine- farm workers ^ere absolutely “green,” so far as knowledge of .agricultural work was'concerned, but they were eager'to learn und quick to catch on to the hang of things. They are more than anxious to do any kind of work they can find to perform and the* only difficulty Mr* Anderson has is to restrain them from overtaxing their strength. ; The girls, have a complete outfit, including uniforms. These uniforms were chosen for utility. They comprise haki colored wide bloomers and blouses, big hats, stout gloves and heavy shoes.Tinton Falls farmers- were all Doubting Thomases when the girlsfirs£*Tirrived and Mr. Anderson came in for a lot of joshing_about his girl farmhands, Opinion was divided in the village as to whether the girls were a lot of fanciful females anxious to gain notoriety, or whether they were a lot of well-intentioned persons who had undertaken a job they couldn’t perform. The last and more charitable view wasthe predominant thought of the village, and with characteristic Tinton Falls hospitality the women of that place welcomed the farmerettes with a reception at the schoolhouse. A fine: dinner ivas served-and all - the_folks~present~en.-joyed themselves, but the new arrivals were not able to inspire much confidence in their ability as farmhands.As time wore on and folks saw the ^irls working in the fields, doubt gave way to a sort of grudging admiration for the farmerettes. The farmers quit jollying Mr. Anderson about his new farmhands and at 'length their prejudice against the feminine Workers was displaced by appreciation of the pluck and efficiency of the girls. ^ Mrs; Anderson is a wom^n who is used to working in the fields and on this account the girls were fortunate in beginning their labors onthe Andcrson farm. .They say they felt more at home and had more confidence in themselves working under the supervision of one of their own sex. However, on other farms where they have been in charge of men, they have done equally as efficient work as they have on the Anderson farm.Strangely enough none of the girls is a farmer's daughter. Nearly all of them are children of well-to-do or wealthy parents and they were unused to hard work before .they came to Tinton Falls. All ’ of them got blisters on their hands the first day they worked and the blisters have since been succeeded^ by callouses. The girls are bepoming regular horny-handed tillers of the soil. They are proud of these marks of labor and exhibit them as badges of honorable distinction.“None of us uses paint or powder now,” said one of the girls who was talking to a Tinton Falls friend. “Getting up at daybreak and working eight hours a day in the sun gives us all the color we want. We all got sunburned at first, but now we are tanned. Some of us got poisoned.by poison ivy, but wfe didn’t mind that much and we didn’t lose any time from work on account of it. Not .one of-us has been sick a day since we have been out here. The other night a mouse kept running across the school house floor. We live in the fichoolhouse, you know. Not one of us screamed, or jumped up on chairs, or showed any of the conventional symptoms of fright which women are supposed to exhibit. No sirree. Instead of that one of the girls made a flying jump at the mouse and killed it by stepping on it. You soon get over being afraid of mice when you are doing a real man’s work. Look nf, that muscle.” said the trirl, as sherecipients of various other forms of hospitality. The farmerettes sleep and eat at the schoolhou.se. Several of them can drive automobiles and they have the use of Mr. Anderson's truck to go to and from work. The supervisors arc school teachers anti the other girls arc somewhat younger, None of them would be old^ enough to1 vote if woman suffrage was in existence in their state. Mis?a Elizabeth Shepherd of Bridgeton and Miss Susan Larzalere of Merchant-ville are the supervisors. The privates of the contingent are Molly Banks, Anne Oliphant and Evaline Elkins of Trenton, Irene Ely of Englishtown and Ruth Larzalere, Elizabeth and Jane Gulick and ^’ \thorine Lyons of Princeton, Miss Shepherd is the nature study instructor at the Trenton Normal school. Miss Emma Lafetra, daughter of Edward Lafctra of Red Bank, will be assistant supervisor of the .girl farmers during July and she will be in complete charge during August. Miss Lafetra is one of the instructors at the normal school.FRIDAYS BRING.TROUBLE.AT LEAST THEY DO FOR WAL-. TER D. FIELDS.On Two Successivo Fridays He Has Met With Misfortune, His Houser Being1 Damaged by Lightning and His Garden Being Destroyed.Walter D.. Fields of Colt’s Netfc is not a superstitious man, but lie says if any misfortune befalls him again on a Friday he will begin to regard that day as one of ill omen for him. , -Two weeks ago, on a Friday, hiir house was struck by lightning and tt large gap was torn in one corner of it from the cellar to the roof. Last Friday some cows broke into his garden from a/neighboringpasture field and when they got thraugn^witlvjlie garden there were no vgeJ^brft^eft and not many signs that a garden had even existed before.Mr. Fields says he hopes next Friday will be a good Friday for him* He says, however, that he is going to-be more than ordinarily cautious next Friday and at the first indication of trouble is going to be prepared to forestall it.CASHFORTWO CHURCHESOLD SHREWSBURY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION HAS DISBANDED. -The Funds of the Association Have Been Turned Over to Christ Church and the . Presbyterian. Church of Shrewsbury.The old Shrewsbury library association has disbanded and has turned over its funds to Christ church and the Presbyterian church of Shrewsbury. The money is being used to lay concrete sidewalks and to make other.-improvements- ta-the properties of the two ‘churches.Thedibrary association was one of the pioneer organizations of its kind in this part of the county. It enjoyed a period of great prosperity and usefulness for nearly fifty years, but with the establishment of libraries in larger towns its patronage fell off. The association was continued for several years after the library building was abandoned. The members are also members of the two Shrewsbury churches and the money was turned over to. the churchqs oa this account.PUPILS ON AN OUTING.High School Graduates Spent Friday —on an Island Near Highlands.The graduating class of 1918 of the Red Bank high school went on an outing last Friday in Andrew White’s Olivia B. The party spent the day on an island opposite Rocky Point, at the junction of the North and South. Shrewsbury rivers. Those in the party were Margaret Finch, Clara Libby, Cornelia Minton, Miriam Parsons, Hugh Ryder, Estlia Howard, Laura McCoach, Elizabeth Walling, Elsie Watsqn, John Anderson, Walton Cullington, * Stanley Ilaviland, John Macintosh, TrafFord McClellan, Walter Noble, Gaddis Russell, Fred Olsen, Vivian Chamberlain, Teresa Corbett, Marion Crawford, Marion Hayward, Marguerite McCue and Colie Dixon.— ^ • m----Silvermere Inn Closed.SiWermere Inn at Little Silver, which was conducted by Miss Estelle Thomas, has been clnord. Miss Thomas has opened a hotel at Seabright.__ThiAvnff in n r»Arfl06.
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Red Bank Register
Red Bank, New Jersey, US
Wed, Jun 26, 1918
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