The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09
Holmes Farm Men And Women Will Attend
Home And Farm Week July 1916 At State
Large Group Will
Participate In
Farm Prgrum

A large number OF Holmes
county farm men and women
and extension workers plan to
! attend the annual Farm and
Home Week at State College
next week, July 1916.
Features have been planned
for the entire family including
an extension program for home
makers.
A special group will leave here
Wednesday to attend the style
show that evening in which
Holmes women will participate.
Highlight of the homemakers'
program will be the three-day
annual meeting of the Mississippi
Home Demonstration Council.
All present, former and pros.
pective home economists are in
vited to the July IA morning
meeting and Dutch luncheon of
the Mississippi Home Economics
Association. Luncheon speaker
will be Economics Division, Blu
reau of Human Nutrition and
Home Economics, Washington, D.
IC.
Mrs. Ethel Bowman, Extension
Service home demonstration "a
gent at Greenwood, will preside
at the Home Economics Associa-
/ ton luncheon.
All attending Farm and Home
Week on July IA may hear the
1890 a. m. general assembly
speaker, Miss Charlotte Hickman,
h ealth education consultant,
! Committee on Rural Health and
Education, Raleigh, N. c. Miss
Hickman will speak again that
afternoon during the halliday
meeting of the State Health and
Community Service Recognition
Program.
General assembly programs will
be held in the new Animal Hus-
bandry Service Building, which
will serve as headquarters for
Farm and Home Week. July Is
speaker will be U. S. Senator
John c. Stennis, and on July
16 the main address will be by
Romeo Short, director, Foreign
Agricultural Service, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture.
Details of the Mississippi Home
Demonstration Council program
were announced by the organi-
zation's president, Mrs. John
Hancock of Vicksburg, and Miss
May Cresswell, state home de-
monstration agent of the Agri- |
culture Extension Service.
Committee meetings will be |
held during the day July IS,
followed by the opening general
session in Lee Hall Auditorium
at 7;30 p. m.
Members will be greeted by
President Ben Hilbun of Missis-
sippi State College; DR.. Clay
Lyle, dean and director, Division
of Agriculture; M. S. Shaw, as
sociate Extension director, and
Miss Cresswell
The July IA morning session
will include a talk about the i'm
portance of a vital Home Demon
stration program in rapidly chan
ging farm and home life, by Miss
Cresswell.
A memorial service will be
held for Miss Susie v. Powell. |
first state home demonstration
agent in Mississippi, whose death |
occurred last July.
Certificates emitting the recip-
tents to pins of merit given for
long service, contributions to
their communities and leadership |
in Home Demonstration Club |
work will be awarded Tuesday.
DR.. Lyle will address the July
II afternoon session on "Missis-
sippi's Role in Foreign Agricul-
tural Development"
The July Is session will include
discussion of practical NURSING
education by Miss Marjorie
Moore, r. NJ, assistant super
visor of practical Nurse education
Mississippi Department of Edu-
cation.
New officers to be elected this
year by the Council are presi-
dent, first vice president, treasur-
er and parliamentarian. Several
revisions are expected of the con-
stitution of the Mississippi Home
Demonstration Council. Program
for the coming year will be plan
ned and adopted.
History of the council will be
featured as part of the July Is
evening fashion show, titled
Fashion Reflections" in keeping
with the observance this year of
the 50th Anniversary of the be-
ginning of farm demonstration
work in the United States. Hoor
skirts will be modelled along with
modern styles.
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