Typed as spelled and written - Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year Number 188
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 9, 1931
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The Falls County Girls'
(missing)cil met Saturday afternoon (missing) Hilton hotel with 13 members
(missing) three visitors present. The meeting was opened with a song
which the girls have adopted because it expresses their idea of what a real 4-H
girl is. It's to the tune of "Peggy O'Neal" and goes like this:
"If your eyes are
bright as skies,
She'a 4-H girl,
If she's smiling all the while,
She's a 4-H girl,
If she carries her part of the load,
If she gives you the best of the road,
Lots of capacity, pluck and tenacity,
She's a 4-H girl."
After repeating the club pledge, the girls answered roll call with
something they want for Christmas.
During the business session Clara Mae
Baxley, Ruth Pealer and Johnnie Radford were appointed as a committee to locate
a private room fro a permanent meeting place. Dorothea Hoelscher was made
pianist for the group and Clara Baxley, song leader. The council adopted
plans for the year-book as presented by Miss Jacks and voted to hold each club
responsible for the payment of 40 cents for the printed covers. The
girls agreed to take turns working in Miss Jacks' office helping mimeograph the
sheets, since the yearbook is to be a hand-made one.
The council delegates gave reports of
their club activities.
Marie Bowen reported the organization of a
new club of eleven members at Jena, with Mrs. Louis Weaver sponsor, Lila
Goonan, council delegate and Marie Bowen, president.
In going over December's program, Miss
Jacks explained that she expects to give a yard planting demonstration for each
girls' club, though not on regular meeting dates. Names of yard
demonstrators should be sent in at once so visits can be made to prepare for
the demonstration, which will be given at the yard demonstrator's home.
Miss Jacks gave a demonstration on making
a seed box for the planting of early vegetables. She used a box about
four inches deep, 12 inches wide and 24 inches long. About an inch of
well rotted manure should be place in the bottom of the box, and good garden
soil on top. The soil should be made firm and the seed planted in rows
about two inches apart and three-quarter inch deep. Firm the soil gently
after planting and water (with warm water). Place the box in a warm place
in the house so the seed will germinate, and water as needed. A piece of
gass may be laid over the box to make the seed germinate more quickly, but
should be taken off as soon as the plants have started to come up. When
the are 1 1/2 or 2 inches high they should be thinned so they will make good
strong plants. They can be transplanted to a cold frame or set outside in
the box in a protected place until the weather is good enough that they can be
put out into the garden. The council delegates will show their club members
how to make the box. By having some early vegetables the club girls
expect to help themselves earn their five dollars -- the goal set for all club
members.
After the demonstration, Mrs. Ann Walker,
who attended the recreation school in Waco, taught the girls several new games
and gave them some ideas about how to put on community play nights. The
girsl enjoyed three chair relays, a "Poison scarf" game,
"Electric Current," and "Santa Claus."
After singing their club song again, the
council adjourned.
The following were present: From
Cedar Springs, Eunice Hamrick, Marietta Denton, Johnnie Radford, Finnie Wooten;
from Satin, Hazel Campbell, Frances Williams, Clara Mae Baxley, Mrs. Ann
Walker; from Travis, Dorothea Hoelscher, Ruth Peeler, Miss Fay Mattheson; from
Jena, Marie Bowen, Lila Goonan, Mrs. Iona Weaver; from Perry, Janie Munos, and
Mrs. Munro Krumnow.
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