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Miss Belle Nance
Pleased With Short
Course at Winthrop
Due West, s. c., July 10, 1916.

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Due West, s. c., July 10, 1916.
Dear Club Members:-
You will be surprised to know
what a fine time we prize winners
had at our Short Course given by
DR.. D. B. johnson at Winthrop col
lege. There were 76 girls, 65 being
tomato club girls, and II being poul-
try club girls. On Monday, June
18th most of us left Columbia at
4:2O in q special car for Rock Hill
and arrived there little after 2
o'clock. We were met there by our
state agents and demonstrators, we
then went on q car down to the col
lege. We were met there by repre-.
sentatives of the Y. w. G. A., and
carried to Winthrop's beautiful din
After supper we registered.
Eunice and I were late so we had
the luck Of being assigned to q room
on third floor, but we did not mind
it SO much after all. 49,.
Miss Simpson, our state secretary,
came around to our rooms that night
and put our money in our club bank
down in the Office. We could draw
out any when we wanted it. ~"
Tuesday morning after breakfast,
we were ushered into the Winthrop
society hall, where we were all given
valuable books containing lessons on
cooking, sewing, manuel training,
agriculture and poultry, and it was
in this pretty hall that we met every
morning after breakfast and sang
our club songs. Miss Lois Erwin, q
pretty demonstrator from Spartan
burg county, was our jolly chorus
teacher. One of these songs she
wrote while we were there, it is beau
tifully dedicated to DR. Johnson.
After this pleasant exercise each
morning we. were instructed by
Profs. Clark and Whitfield in agri-
culture and by by Prof. Cleveland
in poultry. He told us many things
about the poultry market that I
would never have believed. One
night he showed us some interesting
picture slides concerning the poultry
market, the picture that impressed
me most was fourteen cars full of
chickens being shipped to market at
New York City by one man. The
chickens were on shelves one above
the other.
After our poultry lesson we went
to chapel exercises each morning.
DR.. johnson gave US a hearty well
: come the first morning.
After chapel exercises we went out
in. front. of the main building, where
we were all seated until Miss 10
Marlborough, a kind demonstrator
from Chester county, delivered our
mail. to Us. We also sung our club
songs and listened to an interesting
lecture given by some Professor or
demonstrator.
After our out door course we were
engaged in cooking until dinner,
these helpful lessons we're taught by
Miss Baustic. She taught us how to
make soups, rolls and cook eggs
about q dozen ways. We were also
taught valuable lessons in canning
by Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, our be-
loved assistant state agent. These
lessons consisted in canning peaches,
beans, making jellies,. pickles, pre-
serves, and marmalades. The fancy
packs were beautiful, and / think
the club girls will really take de-
light in canning now, since we were
taught to do better work with less
labor.
After dinner we were taught in the
sewing class by Miss Mime Lee Gar
rison, a very sweet lady, who is a
demonstrator from York county. She
certainly did teach me how to make
q button hole too before left. Be-
lieve me she was somewhat surprised
that ! did not already know. .
After sewing we were instructed
in the manuel training class by Miss
Erwin, our chorus teacher, until 5.15.
We were given time to prepare for
supper then, which was at 6 o'clock.
After supper we could either 60
to our rooms, to the lecture and edu-
cational moving pictures, or remain
on the campus, where we were taught
interesting games by one of the
lecturers at the college. took what
/ called the campus course" and
that is what most of the girls decided
upon, because crowd of Rock Hill
boys and girls would come up to see
the club girls every night. We had a
regular party.
One night we were given a SOC
ticket to the concert by DR.. Johnson,
this we all enjoyed and appreciated
very much. The pictures and lee
lures were also free.
We were carried into the new
gym. hall one morning where we
went in the swimming pool. The hall
will be beautiful when completed.