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As there were no schools in session, I thought the 

 best way in which to reach the greatest number of peo- 

 ple would be to visit the homes, getting one girl to tell 

 me of another eligible girl, etc. I visited seven places, 

 sixty-eight homes, organized five clubs, enrolling fifty- 

 four girls. I was very fortunate in finding the girls' 

 fathers and mothers at home, as they would have to be 

 consulted, of course. They seemed more anxious than 

 the girls in several cases. In one of the places I visited, 

 miracles just couldn't arouse any interest; another, 

 Edgewood, a mining camp, the people had such small 

 gardens that all the space was devoted to beans. As 

 BeU county is very mountainous, and contains so many 

 mining camps in which gardens are very small, only 

 twenty-eight of the girls could have one-tenth acre plats, 

 but Mrs. Wolcott told me to enroll them with whatever 

 amount of land they could get. 



The first club that I organized was at Gravity, three 

 miles from Middlesboro. Here I enrolled fourteen girls 

 — ten of them having one-tenth acre plats. When I re- 

 turned to them in June, I found one girl had married 

 and moved away, three had dropped out as they coidd 

 not get the land, leaving ten club members, who were all 

 faithful, and worked hard on their plats. Two of the 

 girls made the best work in the county : Cashie Minton^ 

 499 No. 3 cans of tomatoes; and Addie Soard, 137 No. 

 3 cans of tomatoes and 122 No. 2 cans. 



Four other girls made fairly good records, but the 

 crops of the other four were complete failures. I had 

 an average attendance of eight at my sewing classes, 

 which -lasted through June and nearly all of July. I 

 gave two demonstrations in light bread ; one in the home 

 of one of my girls, and the other in the home of a young 

 married woman, who asked me if I would show her how 

 to make bread, even if she was married. I also showed 

 her how to make muffins. Mrs. Jonas was visiting me 

 then, so I took her with me this day. In another home 

 I got the dinner one day; made a chicken pie, fixed 

 stuffed peppers and biscuits. My club members and 

 their mothers were always asking me for patterns and 

 recipes. I also did a great deal of shopping for them in 

 Middlesboro. 



