The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-26
PROGRESSIVE TALLADEGA

as the All" motto indicates, bettering, improving, exalting the work of the head, heart, hand and health.
 These, too, as with all forces for good, it widens and perpetuates it's influence indefinitely These 200 girls have seen new light, some in greater some in not so great degree, but all to the better. They will take this light to 29O new homes and these in turn will be en- frightened and the influence scattered
 The chain is endless and the good be- , yCLd computation.
 further feature of this work is that | of the women organized and otherwise. One hundred and fifty women workers were enrolled, 61 making final reports Their reports show 2606 pounds of butter at a value of $10S6 50; cream and milk sold, $1017 .S6: vegetables and fruits saved, 1 ,96S quarts, valued at $50S9 60; vegetables 1 and fruits dried, 150 bushels, valued at 1 $720; vegetables in brine and pickles. 70 gallons, worth S30-a total of nearly $S00O. 1 In poultry and eggs there were GA girls
 and women demonstrators who reported | chickens raised to the value of S450O and eggs worth $l162 50, while 4S breeding | fowls were sold for $60. All the gains
 above the monetary, mentioned about the girls clubs, applies here too. The influ- erce like the waves WidenS indefinitely. l A third feature in this work in which
 Talladega county is particularly con
 corned and an absolute outgrowth Of club
 work is the United States governments l special interest in the building of the J. | B. Russell home at Winterboro. Mrs.
 Russell has been the active president of the Community club since it's organiza- i ticn, entering into each feature of com | rnunity interest making vital each under taking, aiding government work wherever she could, adhering to standards and l fully realizing the benefits of govern ment methods applied to everyday tasks
 and rural life in general This IS the spirit of Winterboro community ana which has srystalized into the develop
 which has crystalized into the develop
 which is destined to be with its progress siveness and foresight leader in this particular line of endeavor.
 | Ruby, the only child of this home, has been an earnest member of the club for three years and has appreciated the op-l portunties so afforded her. being among the prize winning girls of the county. The l family is a unit on government methods. l MT. Russell is building this home, laying off his grounds and following exactly the | specifications furnished by federal ex- perts who have visited the site. taken the elevations and made the blue prints so 1 tlat the place will be a true United States government model farm house. the first and only one in Alabama, or the United l States for that matter. It has all the e. nyeniences, step-saving appliances and e mforts which this great government in it's ound-the-world search for better ments can condense into modest priced l house.
 1 Winterboro is appropriately located for such a demonstration home, being al most exactly in the center of the county. on the best long road we have, and m a fine community where progressiveness
 and good land is the rule A community or consolidated school is already as sured and nine other homes are being
 more or less touched up in landscape gardening, installation of government ap- proved water works, heatless Kitchens.
 iceless refrigerators, fireless cookers. etc.
 Therefore, to see bit of the depart ment's work in making rural life more
 pleasant and profitable stop al winter horo and farm life will prove what it IIcng since should have been, the most
 desirable of all forms of mundane exis- tence.