Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-11-28

At least some 600 people were
to go over the hills to the small
community of Woodfield for their
traditional Thanksgiving dinner
which the ladies of the Women's
Society of Christian Service have
served for over 30 years.
Roast turkey, dressing, gravy
cranberries, peas, sauerkraut
homemade rolls, homebaked apple
and pumpkin pies, and the .spe.
cialty of the house, spiced apples,
were the order of the day.
The woman responsible for di
recting the preparation and serv,
ing of the large quantities of food
consumed at the dinners in the
past six years is Mrs. Harrison
King of Laytonsville.
To a number of people, Mrs
King is the wife of the School
Board member but to many 9th
ers she is the president of the
Homemakers Council and to Q
small group of girls she is their
beloved All leader.
Mrs. King thinks of herself as
a typical farmers wife whose
community activities are just part
of her duties. She is the mother
of three.
Careful planning and not wor
rying about past mistakes" are
the key to Mrs. Kings terrific
quantities of work accomplished
in every "a hours.
Although the dinner project Is
enough to put an average woman
in bed for a week, Mrs. King
considers it only one Of her minor
activities.
Her first love is her All club
that she has been leading for two
meetings a month, every month
of the year for ten years.
Starting with a Junior group
she followed them up through
their Senior group years and now
is back this year starting a whole
new group.
Many of her original group ar'
now married or in college, includ
ing her daughter, Augusta Mae
now Mrs. Donald Wayne, mothel
of a six-weeks-old daughter.
Mrs. King Is very proud Of tht
fact that four of her girls have
been Club Congress winners o.
national awards, Pearl King, Mar
garet King tneither are related)
Augusta Mae (who is related) ant
this years winner, Nancy Wind
ham, who won first in Home I'm
provement.
Won Pie Contest
Another mo relation" King
Opal, this year won the Stat
Cherry Pie contest and will com
pete nationally at Chicago in Feb
ruary.
Opal is a good illustration o
Mrs. Kings belief in never let
ting past mistakes get you down
Opal had tried often to win thu
Cherry Pie contest and was jus
about ready to give up when Mrs
King encouraged her to try on'
more time.
! Other community jobs held by
Mrs. King besides the ones al
ready mentioned have been: pres
ident Of the P.TA, WSCC build
ing chairman for the new church
hall; charter member and pas
president of the Mary Green Eve
ming Circle; president of the frs
All local leaders group; Sunday
School teacher for Is years ant
an active member OF the Farm
Bureau planning group with he
husband.
Along with all this, she ha!
raised her three children, Angus
Ia Mae, John, II, and Tommy
II and carried the heavy routin'
of a farmers wife for the pas
25 years, come March.
This routine includes not only
canning 600 jars of fruits ant
vegetables each year plus films
a 23-cubic foot freezer but als'
the annual butchering.
Next week for example tn
Kings will kill seven 250-pOun'
hogs and devote the week Il
freezing and canning meat, rem
dering lard and making sausage
pudding and scrappIe.
A typical week in Mrs. King
life aside from the butcherinl
runs something like this: Satur
day, all the family wash TO fire.,
Monday for an all-day trip to ri
monium for the boys to exhibi
at the Eastern National Livestocl
Show; back that night for P-TA
meeting; Tuesday, weeks butte!
making, l6 POUNDS, and baking
ID dozen rolls, and general house
tyot.k IN fraa MfadoacIau for a ~