The Lexington advertiser., 1941-02-20
4-H CLUB NEWS
By w. R. THOMPSON
Assistant County Agent

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All Club Christian Pledge: ! pledge
allegiance to the flag, to the Savior for
whose Kingdom it stands; one brother
hood united, in service and love.
II Miss Josie Nell Butler, Lexington High
School Home Economies teacher is the
All leader Of a club of 3S girls. Miss
Buffers leadership and interest in the
girls has helped to increase membership
and quality of work. She helped the
BOYS and girls of her school in training
for panel discussion that was given at
the countrywide leader training meeting
Feb'y 18th.
Holmes county is the home Of All Club
work and the assistant agents of the
state voted unanimously to work together
with other agencies to establish memo
rial to the birthplace of club work and
give Holmes county and Mississippi the
honor it is due for the work it has done
! in this worldwide activity.
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Man never knows just what he can do
until he tries.
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The Ebenezer club boys with their
leader Mr.. X. d. Henry enjoyed a series
of colored slides made of local club work
at their regular meeting Monday. Mrs.
Lucas, principal of the school, visited
the club and took part in the meeting.
All m m ers with Mrs. Lucas help
pledge themselves to subscribe to the
National All Club News in order to bet
ter keep up with club activities over the
United States.
The All Electrical Club members who
live in Bethesda Community helped the
Home Demonstration Agent put on a
lighting demonstration for their moth
ers at the regular Home Demonstration
Club meeting the first day the current
was turned on in the community. The
| following girls assisted: Mary Alice Nc
Lelian, Annie Katherine Tate, Billie
Ruth Mcclellan.
/ Mr.. c. C. Smith our Extension District
! Agent made talk to the assistant agents
of the state at the annual meeting at
State College. Mr.. Smith made the
statement that All Club work is basic
and fundamental and praised the work
being done by boys and girls of Missis-
sppi. Holmes county is doing it's part
| in leadership training.
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When you define liberty you limit it,
and when you limit liberty you destroy it,
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A good book for you to read: Faith
for Living" by Lewis Mumford This
orJa nj ha ofM Mico
Scale for Club members and is in your
County Library.
Mr.. r. X. Smith, Rural Electrification
Specialist, who works in our territory
says, "f the people do not use the time
electricity saves them they are not prof
iting to the fullest in the use of electric
current"
1t is better to wear out than to rust
out
received notice from Mr.. l.. |. Jones,
Secretary Mississippi Seed Improvement
Association, listing the growers who pro-
duced certified seed Five farmers in
the state grew certified station Mosby
Corn and four of these farmers are in
Holmes county.
The Seed Improvement Association is
farmers organization set up to assist
farm people in improving h e r seed
sources.
Getting along with people: One of the
chief elements in getting along with peo-
pie is to form an adequate judgement Of
your own capacities and just apprecia-
ton of your own limitations.
Friendly counsel cuts off many foes
Mississippi has more All Corn Club
members than Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and
Kansas combined.
youths build communities and com
munities build youths" stated Mr.. M. M
Bedenbaugh, Assistant State Club Boys
Agent at the Annual Assistant Agents
meeting last week.
Holmes county has youths of the high
est quality so we are assured of good
communities.
Edgar Trigleth and Wenzell Dickard of
Coxburg All Club are preparing an in
teresting demonstration on forestry to be
put on at the next All meeting. These
members will gather their material from
the local forest.
Manners Hint: In answering the tele-
phone if party other than yourself is
asked for who is not in, you should say,
"I'm sorry, he is not here. Could / take
a message?" Instead of saying, mo, he
is rot here"
Irish potato planting time is here so
warn your father to treat all seed with
formaldehyde, using one pint of formal
dehyd to 10 gallons of water. Heat the
solution to 1875 degrees fahrenheit tenn
perature and leave potatoes in solution
not over four minutes then dry and cut
for planting.