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??MMM Mill HI II 11 II llll < ? ' ? J1 Home Demonstration Notes I < 1? I 1 By Miss Hattie McMurray < > ' > ' * Better Biscuit Contest. As a part of the girl's cooking program in home demonstration work, a being put on this year. It is most K^Jnop nut on this vear. It is most meouraging to note the keen interest and enthusiasm that the girls are showing, already about J800 girls have entered, and three of the counties have net been heard from due to the fact that the agents have just gone into these counties. The contest will first be a county affair, then district and finally state. There will be one girl chosen from each county as the county winner. The choice will be based upon record; interest and merit. The district contest, there being three, will be made up of county winners, and the state contest will be three, one from each district. When the contest closes this fall, a is to be hoped that the rural girls will be excellent biscuit makers. This contest will be followed next year, with a state-wide yeast bread contest. The Woman's Work Shop. In estimating the time spent in performing the daily tasks in the home, cleaning, cooking, serving meals, laundry work, etc., we find that about 70ft of the house keepers time is spent in the kitchen. Usually the) kitchen is the least desirable room in the house and is responsible to a large extent for the attitude that women have toward their work. A convenient, well regulated kitchen will do much to insure the comfort of the family and should receive first con-J sideration in planning the house. The kitchen is the woman's workshop and it has been truthfully said "A smiling kitchen makes a happy cook". At the present time most house wives are forced to do their work, hence the necessity of a better arranged and equipped kitchen. The kitchen of today should be convenient well lighted and well ventilated, easy to keep clean, comfortable and attractive. The windows should be planned to give plenty of air, and yet *? ?? A 1 i rrV?f r*r\n t_ no cirail over me n. ugu> ing of boiled linseed oil makes a good finish and is easy to clean. The kitchen should be planned so the chief articles of funiture, the stove and work table should be as Our ass asking f ancj Before our popular <vii \mm g IJiLi T L1UT1, / near each other as possible. A sink a sc is one of the necessities of the kitch- in tl en whether you have running water ing or not. On the right of the sink fullj should be a drain board and rack. w This fixture saves more work than any they other of the smaller items of the way kitchen and does away with the dish feet cloth. Hot dishes will dry readily and suffi dry in a few minutes. This does away the with the tiresome process of drying suit dishes. be u A kitchen cabinet is designed pri- plar marily to save the house wife time and of 8 labor and keep her off her feet as ops. much as possible. A good one can clot] be made with very little expense, us- W ing a kitchen table and building cup- vigo boards above and below. Tables in t built for kitchen use are a very jcin: great addition in modern furnish- peai ings. They are supplied with draw- In p ')r knives, spoons and small uten- side sils. The drawer increases the ex- of t pense slightly, but the advantage far turb outweights the cost. T1 Zinc or oil cloth makes a good cov- ers : ering for the kitchen table, zinc be- they ing preferable, as oilcloth* requires carr care to avoid setting anything hot on arid it All working surfaces should be time of convenient height for the worker, whi< lew working surface means a crouch- be s ed and uncomfortable position and unnecessary fatigue in bending and stooping. Working surfaces of tables and stoves may be raised by placing ^ ^1 blocks underneath them. ^rai A high stool should always be part of the furnishings of the kitchen so mor' that as much work as possible may be done sitting. The height of shelves crea where equipment is put away is very ^>res important, to avoid as much as possi- one 1 ble stooping down and stretching up kom It has been said that if a conven- ^or ient and pleasing kitchen could tomorrow be provided for every home in the land, many of the most irksome *ke problems of house keeping would soon ur^ vanish into thin air. ^ o hav< Prune Tomato Plants. serv by 1 A thrifty tomato plant left to its "1 se'f will spread over a space from 4 Wes to 6 feet in diameter and will pro- Bak duce a peck or more of tomatoes. If tour staked and pruned it will yield al- Calc most the same quantity of fruit, the mon tomatoes will be larger, cleaner, better spec flovored and superior in every re- pare spect and enough space can be con- ersfi served to accommodate several other afte Dlants cared for in this same manner, duly say garden specialists. The staked trus and pruned plants are easily sprayed graj and will continue to produce later in mitt the fall. As a rule also the prun- negl ed tomatoes will mature earlier. On han< ? SSS^oSS SS SsSS i5?Si^?? ??? S!?io5?S We Ladi I In all thi \ X MIL] ortment embrace: j prices for them. Summ buying your Sui styles. UN'S DEPAR1 ale in which tomatoes are gro* le home garden staking and pru require little trouble and w f repay the effort, lien the plants are to be stak< r may be set 2 feet apart ,e<n , or every 18 inches in rows apart Any substantial stake icient size to bear the weight plants and 4 to 5 feet long able. Sawed stips or laths mi ised. A stake is driven from eai it which is tied to it at intervs to 10 inches as the stem dev< Soft strings or narrow strips i are used for this purpose. rhen the plants begin making rous growth shoots will appe; he little pocket where each le s the stem after the blossom a on the opposite side of the ste runing the plants remove all the shoots and those around the ba he plant being careful not to di the blossom clusters, ie shoots sometime called sue should be pinched off shortly aft. ' appear. The main stem can 1 ied to the full height of the stal allowed to hang over. By tli f six or seven blossom clusters i :h the fruit is developing shou et on the stem. o Delivers Boy Cross Country. his story is given out by the Si icisco Chronicle: )uring the seventy-five years e the telegraph has been in use :rica its ramifications have 1 sed mightily. Everything, fro lidential messages to flowers f s sweetheart and checks fro e, are flashed to us or arrange via the wire. Svery one is aware of the versa' and arduous errands required messenger boys who deliver the mt missives, but few have hea he latest test to which his abilit:: ; been put and the most nov ice which has yet been attempt telesrriv "i. tf. E. Whiting, manager of i tern Union Telegraph Company ersfield, Calif., himself was a ided when 7-year-old Johnr lewood arrived from Rutland, V? t, care of the Western Union, a; ially marked for delivery to 1 ;nts at Oildale, a town near Ba. eld. Johnnie's Vermont relativ r having put him on the train ai tagging him, placed faithi t for final delivery in the tel )h. Johnnie was promptly trail ed to Oildale, but the manag ected to say whether he w lied as a night letter or a straig hare a Bee es9 e Latest for 1 LINE 5 the Latent Come and er Ox nmer Oxfor nMnmufi nm ImfcNl M / m day message." nill ed Renew your health by purifying your of system with Quick and delightful relief for biliousness, colds, s. constipation, headaches, and stomach, liver and l(. blood troubles. er The genuine are sold bo only in 35c packages, ke Avoid imitations. lis i Dn ? Id Send The County Record your next rder for Job Printing. Our work /inmnnvac favnrahlu With ?T1V ftthpr house in the country, m REGISTRATION NOTICE The office of the Supervisor o 1 or Registration will be open on the 1st Monday in each month for the purn~ pose of registering any person who m is qualified as follows: or Who shall have been a resident m of the State for two years, and of the county one year, and of the e(1 poll: j precinct in which the elector offers to vote four months before ti- the day of elction, and shall have 0f paid, six months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who se can both read and*write any section rd to him by the Supervisors of Revises tration, or who can show that he .e] owns, and has paid all taxes collecti, ble on during the present year, prope" erty in this State assessed at three hundied dollars or more. he B. E. CHRKSON, at Clerk of Board. s" 666 quickly relieves a sold. lie ? i KINGS es Lod|P, Nu, 46 i /*v$r\ A. F.M is- Meets the second Thursday night er in each month. Visiting bretheren as cordially invited. B. E. Clarkson, W. ht M., J. D. Britton, Secretary. lutifiil Line, of S Readj Materials i if our Inspe ;ry Styles, and w make your sele< fords ds, come and ME, - - ii'w.-?v. - . KIN6STREE HARDWARE CO.,i Funeral Directors and Embalmer I FIRST CLASS MOTOR HEARSE Complete Line Coffins and Caskets jl Metal Vaults and Burial Robes. , Mr. L. J. Stackley, recently. GRADUATED EMBALMER Has Charge of our Undertaking Dept. and is throughly equipped to serve DAY OR NIGHT Dav Phone No. 35 Nieht Phone No. 126 I Merchants, Notice! | ii ^ 1 1 GET A. A. HAACK SALES SYSTEM j TO REDUCE OR CLOSE OUT your stock. ii /it ; We are always Successful. Let us re- : | fer you to results we obtained right in your own territory. ii All information strictly confidential. ,:: ii a a ii -I. a. a. naaca was tysiam \ jKingstree, So. Car. j Northern Headquarters: 915 3rd Ave. S., j! ! 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