Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-06
HOME ECONOMICS
 DEMONSTRATION
Town Committees to Decide Today if
 One Will Be Hired for This County.

Windham County Farm Agent Ben 1 iamin ". Ellis has for the past few weeks been devoting the greater part of his efforts to working mp interest in the plan to secure home economies ,iemonstrator for this county. It is believed that the services of such demonstrator, if one could be obtained, would be of great value. Such an agent would be hired by the Farmers association, would organize the home economics, and such being the case. would work chiefly in the homes 1nd with the women. AS part of her du ties she would teach the conservation Of food. would give canning demonstra- OnS. and talks on the value of foods. Teaching proper ventilation of homes would be one of the phases of her work, as well as teaching proper ways of home nanag agement and child wei fare.
 The women Of Windham county are already greatly interested in a plan 10 secure a demonstrator who will de- vote all her time to work in this sec cen in touch with committees in ev- cry town in the county, and already four have reported favorably upon the matter All of the committees that nave been Investigating the question in each of the towns and have been irving to determine public sentiment will meet this (Monday) afternoon at 1.@0 in the rooms of the Putnam
 
 the reports of each committee will be read After hearing all reports the executive committee of the Farmers association which appointed the com mittees end is pushing the movement, will be able to estimate with consid- erable degree of accuracy whether or not the women of the county on fne whole are in favor of hiring county economics demonstrator The matter wSi1l be decided one way or the other at todays meeting.
 One of the problems to be met is the financial question. It is estimated that S2,oG0 will be needed to furnish the worker Already a pledge of $500 has been received from the Connecticut Woman Outrage association. This as- sociation pledged a like sum for sim jar purposes in Hartford. Fairfield, Litchfeid and Holland counties. To weak held in Bridgeport what they termed d sacrifice sale. The plan of the sale was to solicit from all women interested in the work gifts Of teweIry, ictures. briC-a -brac, lace, needlework. silver, cut glass in fact. anything of real value which represents sacrifice on the rart of the donor. The re- sponse was generous and many vaIu- a ble contributions were received. Among them were a silver mug. gold pin of antique design. old lace, and several pictures valued between s400 and $1.000
 The money thus raised last week by the Suffrage association will be added to a considerable sum already raised by subscription, and Windham county, along with the other four counties, A will receive $500 to be used by the Farmers associa tion toward the ex- perses incurred by hiring home economies demonstrator. if at the Monday meeting 1t is finally decided to hire one In addition to this gift, the state also offers some financial aid.
 Manhasset Defeats Dudley, 4-3.
 Before one of the largest crowds that has seen one of their games this sea son. Manhasset Manufacturing com pany baseball team defeated Dudley A. A. of Webster Saturday afternoon on Manhasset field, Putnam, to 3.