Grace E. Holcombe

Life and Orange County connections

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1. September 1935 Grace E. Holcombe revives home demonstration work in Orange County Hired jointly by Orange and Chatham counties, with headquarters in Pittsboro and a branch office in Hillsborough, Holcombe set out first to organize home demonstration clubs. Lefler and Wager credit her with four home demonstration clubs and nine 4-H clubs within a year; in May 1936, eight months after she began, Mrs. Julian Gill of Gravelly Hill reported seven home demonstration clubs with 106 members and ten girls' 4-H clubs with 231 members. By 1941, under her successor Woodward Byars, the county had 17 home demonstration clubs. People: Woodward Byars, Grace E. HolcombeSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 214 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 13, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 15, 1936, p. 4
2. October 2, 1935 Fairfield women organize a home demonstration club Women of the Fairfield community met on October 2 and organized a home demonstration club under Grace Holcombe, the new agent for Orange and Chatham counties. The Weekly called it the second such club in the county, after the New Hope and Blackwood club formed the week before, and said more would follow. People: Grace E. HolcombeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 4, 1935, p. 3
3. November 1 to 15, 1935 Home agent Grace Holcombe organizes girls' 4-H clubs in rural Orange schools County home demonstration agent Grace Holcombe organized a girls' 4-H club at St. Mary's school on November 1 and another at Orange Grove on November 8, then junior and senior clubs at White Cross on November 15 and at Aycock the same week. Clubs at Efland and Carrboro were set for later in the month. People: Grace E. HolcombeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1935, p. 1
4. February 1936 Orange County's home demonstration clubs form a county council In February 1936 the home demonstration clubs organized since Grace E. Holcombe began work in the county formed a county council to meet four times a year. Mrs. Julian Gill of Gravely Hill reported that seven clubs had 106 members working on food and nutrition, and ten 4-H clubs had 231 girls, which mattered because no county school but Hillsboro's taught home economics. People: Grace E. HolcombeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 15, 1936, p. 4
5. September 11, 1937 Farm women open the Orange County curb market in Carrboro A curb market run by Orange County farm women opened in the former McCauley store in Carrboro, selling vegetables, fruit, chickens, eggs, sausage, preserves and canned goods. It was organized with the county home demonstration agent, with thirteen women signed on as sellers before opening. People: Grace E. HolcombeSearch the index · Chapel Hill Weekly: Curb Market Tomorrow (September 10, 1937) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 14, 1938, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 18, 1939, p. 1
6. January 15, 1938 The Orange County Women's Market moves from Carrboro to Chapel Hill The farm women's market begun in Carrboro the previous September reopened in the old Methodist church building at Henderson Street and Rosemary Lane, a block from the Chapel Hill post office, open on Saturdays. About twenty women sold regularly, poultry and cakes led its sales of about $120 a week, and it was run with the home demonstration agent, Grace Holcombe. People: Grace E. HolcombeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 14, 1938, p. 1
7. by November 25, 1938 Young people form the Orange County Service Club at Hillsboro Under home demonstration agent Grace Holcombe and assistant county agent Joe Howard, the Orange County Service Club was organized for county residents aged 17 to 30, to meet monthly at the county agent's office in Hillsboro for recreation and discussions of farming, home-making, citizenship and government. At its first meeting in Hillsboro it elected Juanita Ward president, and it took up helping needy families at Christmas as its first outside project. People: Grace E. HolcombeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 25, 1938, p. 5
8. by August 18, 1939 Woodward Byars succeeds Grace Holcombe as Orange County home demonstration agent Miss Woodward Byars, who had worked among country people in Kentucky and Virginia and taught at Madison College, became Orange County's home demonstration agent in place of Miss Grace Holcombe. She came as the Orange County Women's Market, run by about 20 farm women on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at Rosemary Lane and Henderson Street, neared its second birthday; one member had taken in $422 from chickens and $304 from eggs since September. People: Grace E. Holcombe, Woodward ByarsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 18, 1939, p. 1