Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1921-01-21

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Annual Report of Home Demonstra
ton Work in County, 1920
Due to the fact that the vacancy
caused by the resignation of NJ. Eliza
beth Wooding, Home Demonstration
Agent, on Sept. /, was not filled until
Jan. ], 1921, that branch of the work
of the Windham County Farmers
Association was carried on for only
eight months in 1920.
The most important project during
that time was Home Nursing. Coming
as it did SO close to the time of the in
fiuenza epidemic, it supplied well
recognized need. Eight of these
groups were formed, four of which
were in the northern part Of the coun-
ty, three in the southern part, and one
In the western part. These groups
proved Of great interest in their re-
spective communities, the one In One
CO doubling in size during its exist
ence.
Public health nurses and mill nurs-
es cooperated with the Home Demon.
stration Agent in making these classes
a success. And q practical success
they were, too, as Is brought out by
the words of member Of one Of the
Moosup groups. She said, "As a re-
suit Of the Home Nursing classes our
community Is better equipped, today,
to take care of an epidemic Of sickness
than it was last year." What is true
Of Moosup is equally true Of the other
places In which the courses were Civ.
en-.
Home Nursing Glasses.
Woodstock Hill, Mrs William C.
Child, local leader.
South Woodstock, Mrs. Geo. Butts.
North Woodstock, Mrs. L. H. Heal
ey.
EastforJ. Miss jeanette Trow-
bridge.
East Thompson, Mrs. Orrin Whit
ing.
I Moosup, Mrs. Charles Burgess.
Moosup Girls Club, Miss Florence
Baker. n
Oneco, Mrs. Grace Sweet
Sewing was given an important part
in the years program, and proved
most popular with the local Girls
Clubs Of Danielson, Dayville and Wau-
regan. The interest did not drop with
the 1920 work, which was of an ele-
mentary type. but the girls wante to
continue another year with more ad-
vanced work in the use of pate rms in
garment making. and in clothing bu9-
cets. The Danielson Club had an ex-
hibit of their work in one of the local
store windows on Aug. II.
A women's GROUP in Danielson also
took sewing, as well as did group of
juniors in Chaplin under the leade~-
ship of Mrs. Frank Lummis. The ad
ults of Chaplin made dress forms and
wanted to continue with practical
dressmaking.
Another Junior group from Hamp-
ton Hill, with Miss Cartwright as lead
or. had a demonstration team which
with the help Of Miss Trabue, assist
ant state club lea'er, was trai ing fer
the fairs when Miss Wooding left the
county.
Under Miss Grace Dawley, group
Of juniors was formed in Canterbury
but the work stopped before they were
we'll startei.
Besi5es the organized group work
two Institutes and one { extension
school were held late in the winter. A
variety of Home Economics subjects
were treated at these MEETINGS. per
haps the most popular of which was
the work on "Sho-t Cuts in Sewi17"
~iven by Miss Hayes Of the State Staff
Of the College.
Community committees having wo-
men members were organized in the
towns of Plainfield, Canterbury and
Pomfret. These, to a large extent
will shape the program of their rel
spective towns fer another year.
This sums up in brief way the
Home Demonstration work for 1920
but the results of it can best be meas
ured by conditions on Jan. 1. 1921
when the work was resumed. Sixteen
communities were clamoring for work
some of them with groups organize
and ready to begin. Indeed, SO keen
was the interest already aroused, and
SO well laid were the plans Of the COM
munities themselves, that within two
weeks after the arrival Of the new
Home Demonstration Agent, nine spe-