Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-10-23

suit some Of the following improve
ments have been reported: Seven
have installed new sinks, v pow
er washers have been added, eighteen
have refinished their kitchen walls,
fifteen have improved their floors,
twelve have made new kitchen cup
boards. Other equipment added in
cludes pressure cookers, iceless re-
f~rigerators, dumb-waiters, high
stools, etc.
Altho many have found it neces
sary because of poor crop conditions
to delay improvements, those who
we're enrolled in this project have
made plans for improving their kit
chens and other rooms just as soon
as money is available for this pur-
pose.
The All club work for girls has
been under the direction of the Home
Demonstration Agent since 1929.
During 1929, SO girls, representing
IL communities, completed their work
as compared with % the preceding
year. This year l4S girls are enroll
ed in Ali club work which represents
a ia per cent increase. Since the
district Agent has supervision of III
clubs in Daniel as we'll as in Sheri-
dan county, it will be of interest to
know that Daniels county had the
second highest demonstration team in
the state. This team demonstrated
and won second place at the Midland
Empire Fair a Billings. The team
from Sheridan County won Fifth place
on their demonstration.
The All Club camp held at Brush
Lake was the largest and one of the
best held in the state this year. Two
hundred and fifty boys and girls at
tended from Sheridan, Daniels and
Roosevelt counties.
The home demonstration program
this year is centered around the ia
mily food supply. With an income
less than usual there is greater need
than usual for making sure that
money is spent wisely for groceries
and other essentials. The women of
Sheridan and other counties realize
that a knowledge of food values, food
preservation, brands, methods of buy
ing, ETC., will aid them in more wisely
expanding their food money Hence
the home demonstration agent and
the Foods and Nutrition Specialists
have been requested to give guidance
in this in order that good health may
be insured at the least possible cost.
Special attention will be given to
the utilization of home grown pro-
ducts, Later in the year help will
be given with care, repair and re-
modelling of clothing.
With interest increasing in All
club and home demonstration work in
three counties the demands on the
District Home Demonstration Agents
time made it imperative that the ter
ritory covered by the District Agent
be reduced The availability of funds
from the Department Of the Interior
at Washington, D. c., made work
with the Indians possible in Roose-
welt county which made it possible
for Roosevelt county to employ a full
time agent which relieved the District
Agent beginning in May of this year
rom working in Roosevelt county
and left her free to devote half time
each to Sheridan and Daniels coun-
ties for which each county now pays
$500 for travel and demonstration
expense: The salary of the agent is
paid from federal funds.
Three Women's Vacation Camps
have been held at Brush Lake and
have served not only as a means of
acquainting those who attended with
the newer phases of Home Demon
stration work but they have been a
of inspiration and recreation.
Homemakers in Sheridan County
will do well to continue their Home
Demonstration Club work during the
ong winter months which are ahead.
Attending a club meeting often helps
to break the monotony of housekeep-
ing and gives renewed courage and
to attack the daily tasks
which are essential to family COM
fort. health and hanninesS