HAJVIPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



HAMPSHIR 



COUNTY CLUB WORK 



WINTER CHAMPIONS ANNOUNCED PERSEVERANCE BRINGS SUCCESS 



Wins in Second Year Work 



Last year was Cassie Sullivan's first 

 year in home economics club work. She 

 won second place in the County. She 

 also placed second in canning in the coun- 

 ty in first year work. This year .she 

 came in first in the County. Besides 

 doing excellent work, Cas.sie is a real 

 "golden rule" club member. Following 

 is her story: 



On January -3rd, we started our club. 

 I was very anxious to start, as I just 

 love to sew and do club work. At our 

 first meeting we voted a name for our 

 club and our officers. I was voted presi- 

 dent, Louise Wynzen, secretary, and 

 Bronka Dusha, vice president. Then we 

 voted that we have the same name for 

 our club as we had the year before, 

 "Franklin Never Fail". Then we de- 

 cided we would do our best and stick to 

 our name. At our .second meeting we 

 planned on our garments and our hours 

 of work darning. Mis.s Shea, our leader, 

 thought it would be a good idea to get 

 started at our darning- at our next meet- 

 ing. After we had ten lessons on 

 darning we next thought of our gai- 

 ments. 



The second year girls decided we would 

 make blouses, and the first year girls 

 thought they would like to make night 

 gowns for their second garments. 



One day my mother went to the city 

 and bought my cloth. When I got home 

 I made up my mind I would pay my 

 mother what she paid for the cloth so I 

 earned the money by crocheting for Miss 

 Erhard and my si.ster. In about two 

 weeks I had money enough to pay her. 

 Next we sent for our patterns we thought 

 it would be best to get an easy one until 

 we understood how to cut them out better. 

 When our pattern arrived it was very 

 pretty. There are but three girls in our 

 club so we took turns in using the pat- 

 tern. Here is a picture that looks just 

 like it. 



After we had it all cut out, and first 

 we sewed the shoulder seams, then 

 we made our cuffs and our collar. I had 

 a little trouble putting on the sleeves but 

 after a little while I succeeded with a 

 little help from mother. 

 i I got plain white cloth called Indian 

 head linen. I got it because I thought it 

 would wear well. Here is a sample of it. 



I have been keeping record of my hours 

 of housework since January and I have 

 also kept record of the number of stock- 

 ings I have darned. I keep my hours 

 of work by the day in a note book and at 

 the end of the week add up and see how 

 many hours I have done. 



Next came button holes. I came out 



All Farts of County Represented 



Mr. Geo. L Farley, State Club Leader, 

 picked all the county champions. There 

 was keen competition in all cases. The 

 list of prize winners is as follows: 



BREAD 



1st: Ralph Hall, Huntington. 

 2nd: Miriam Loud, Plainfield. 

 3rd: Wyndon Morey, Cummington Hill. 



SEWING 



1st: Cassie Sullivan. 



2nd: Nellie Muliak, Russellville. 



3rd: Grace Sternagle, Middlefield. 



HANDICRAFT 



Lst: Ernest King, Ware 7 

 2nd: Robert Beals, Lithia. 

 3rd: Frank Rys, Bondsville. 



The first prize winners go to the Cham- 

 pionship camp in Amherst, the last week 

 of July. The second prize winners re- 

 ceive a book and the third prize winners 

 are hereby given honorable mention. 



Other Prize Winners 



Following is the remainder of the list 

 of prize winners for which there was not 

 room in the June issue of the monthly. 



SEWING SECOND YEAR 



Ware Center — Mildred Laveulette. 

 Bondsville — Cassie Sullivan, Bronka 



Dussa, Louise Wynzen. 

 Worthington — Betty Porter, Blanche Or- 

 pin, Rowena Bates. 

 Lithia — Cordie Allen. 

 Enfield — Katherine Hanks and Jean 



Warren tie, Emaline Burton, Aileen 



LaBelle. 

 Middlefield — Helen Olds, Frances Cot- 



trell. 

 North Amherst — Winifred Chenoweth, 



Ruth Larnes, Grace Hardenort' and 



Martha Cook tie. 

 Blue Meadow — Alice Randall. 

 Plainfield — Marvis Stetson, Mary Hebert. 



BREAD FIRST YEAR 



East Amherst — Blanche Girourde, Olivine 

 Giroude, Flora Keedy. 



Cummington Hill — Wyndon Morey, Stan- 

 ley Thayer. 



Middlefield— Lizzie Tefts. 



Blue Meadow — Rachel Randall. 



Huntington — Ralph Hall, John Donahue, 

 Jr., George Frazier. 



Plainfield — Miriam Land. 



BREAD .SECOND YEAR 



East Amherst — Elizabeth William.s. 



Middlefield— Nellie Tefts. 



Blue Meadow — Blanche Hae.saert. 



good on them after a few hard trials. 

 At first I forgot to put the thread over 

 the needle and it looked like a plain stitch 

 but in a few days I could make them 

 pietty well. This is one I made. 



One day Miss Erhard and Miss Mary 

 Carpenter came to visit our club and that 

 afternoon Miss Erhard and ten club 

 members went hunting for May flowers. 

 We went in the auto and we had a lovely 

 time but did not get as many flowers as 

 we expected. Then we played games in 

 the woods and sang club songs and 

 cheered for Hampshire County. 



At our next meeting we planned on our 

 exhibition. We thought we would like to 

 have it at night but we did not know 

 what Miss Erhard would say. 



The next time she expected to come 

 down we had an awful snow storm and 

 she could not get down to our school. 

 She sent word to our leader Miss Shea 

 and we were more surprised than ever 

 when we heard that Mr. Howe was 

 going to come down with her. He was 

 very nice and he talked to the boys in the 

 Handicraft club. He gave us a nice talk 

 on club work and things we should know 

 how to do. And Miss Erhard talked a 

 long time to the first year club about 

 putting little stitches on the hem. 



A few weeks later when I was sewing 

 a part of my blouse, my mother looked at 

 it and said I sewed it wrong. At first 

 I did not want to do it over again but I 

 thought of our club motto, "Make the 

 best better" so I hurried and pulled out 

 my stitches and done it all over. Then 

 we told Miss Erhard about our plan and 

 she said we could have it at night if we 

 wished. Then she told us she had a sur- 

 prise for us and we were all anxious to 

 hear what it was. Then she told us we 

 were going to have the club movies the 

 night of our exhibition and we were all 

 pleased with the news. 



One day, we did not have any school 

 and I did not have much work to do as I 

 had done all the .sewing on my blouse. 

 So I went up stairs and I looked over 

 the old stockings that were ready for the 

 rag-bag. I ran down stairs and told 

 mother I would darn the best of them up. 

 My father said if I would darn them good 

 he would pay me so I earned one dollar 

 for darning five pairs of old stockings* 



When I had my blouse all finished, I 

 started to make a skirt to match. I had 

 to make a long waist because I did not 

 have quite enough cloth for it. I paid 

 29 cents for yard and it was just a yard 

 wide. 



Our town was so proud of the good 



club work we did last year they gave 



Miss Erhard ?50 to get a new sewing 



machine for the girls and a work bench 



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