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Home demonstration clubs

Home demonstration clubs were women's clubs organized in Orange County with the county's home demonstration agents, work first paid for in 1918 and revived by Grace E. Holcombe in 1935. By 1951 the county had 17 clubs with 443 members, served by two white agents and one Black agent.

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Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, state of North Carolina

1917 · Orange County Home Demonstration Agent

A 1917 piece from the Orange County home demonstration agent at Hillsboro, belonging to the cooperative extension program in agriculture and home economics run jointly by the state and the federal government. Home demonstration work in Orange County is the subject.

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The home demonstration school, April 16-20, 1917 : program

1917 · Orange County Home Demonstration Agent

Program for a home demonstration school held from April 16 to 20, 1917, issued by the Orange County home demonstration agent at Hillsborough. Home demonstration work was the extension program that taught rural women canning, sewing and household practice. A short printed program from the early years of county extension work.

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North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service Home Demonstration Annual Narrative Report, Orange County, NC

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service · 1956

Jessie Trowbridge's 1956 home demonstration annual narrative report for Orange County, prepared for the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service. Microfilm, part of Better Living in North Carolina.

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North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service Agent Annual Narrative Report of Home Demonstration and 4-H Club Work, Orange County, NC

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service · 1946

Annual narrative reports on home demonstration and 4-H club work in Orange County from 1946 to 1950, by agents Katheryn H. Hamrick and Dorothy S. Parrish of the Agricultural Extension Service. Topics include extension work with African American women. Microfilm, part of Better Living in North Carolina.

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North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service Home Demonstration Agent Annual Narrative Report, Orange County, NC

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service · 1946

Home demonstration agents Katheryn H. Hamrick and Virginia Cathey filed these annual narrative reports for Orange County from December 1946 to 1948. Topics include extension work with African American women. Microfilm, part of Better Living in North Carolina.

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Annual Narrative Report of Home Demonstration Work of Orange County, NC

North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service · 1943

For the year running from December 1, 1942 to November 30, 1943, the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service reported on home demonstration work in Orange County. It includes material on African American women and agricultural extension work. The report comes to NCSU Libraries' Better Living in North Carolina collection as microform.

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Annual Narrative Report, Home Demonstration Work, Orange County, NC

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service · 1942

Home demonstration reporting for Orange County dated December 1, 1942, from the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. It includes material on African American women. The report appears as microform in NCSU Libraries' Better Living in North Carolina collection.

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Annual Narrative Report of Home Demonstration Work, Orange County, NC

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service · 1941

Dated July 1, 1941, this narrative account of home demonstration work in Orange County was prepared by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. It includes material on African American women. Microform in the Better Living in North Carolina collection at NCSU Libraries.

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Annual Narrative Report of Home Demosntration Work, Orange County, NC

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service · 1940

An Orange County home demonstration report dated December 1, 1940 and credited to the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. Microform in NCSU Libraries' Better Living in North Carolina collection.

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Annual Narrative Report of Home Demonstration Work of Orange County, NC

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service · 1938

Home demonstration work in Orange County, reported by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service in a narrative dated December 1, 1938 with 1937 given as the year covered. Microform in NCSU Libraries' Better Living in North Carolina collection.

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County Home Demonstration Agent Annual Narrative Report, Orange County, 1935

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service · 1935

The Orange County home demonstration agent's annual narrative report for 1935, credited to the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. The report is microform in NCSU Libraries' Better Living in North Carolina collection.

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Annual Report of the Home Demonstration Work For Women and Girls, Orange County, NC

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service · 1919

Home demonstration work for women and girls in Orange County, reported on January 1, 1919 by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. Microform in NCSU Libraries' Better Living in North Carolina collection.

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  1. The county agrees to pay for a home demonstration agent The commissioners ordered two-thirds of an $800 salary paid for a home demonstration agent, with the school board paying the rest. The work stopped after the war and did not resume until 1935. Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 214
  2. Eno Mill opens an influenza diet kitchen at West Hill school When influenza reached the Eno Mill district, the mill opened and paid for a diet kitchen at the West Hill school for about seven weeks, run by home demonstration agent Elizabeth Cornelius. It fed as many as 150 people a day, and the mill hired nurses for the sick. People: Charles H. Robertson Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 76
  3. 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. Holcombe 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
  4. Women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organize a home demonstration club Women of the New Hope and Blackwood Station communities met at the home of Mrs. Henry Tapp on September 24, 1935, to organize a home demonstration club under the new county agent, Grace Holcombe, and elected Mrs. John Powell president. First called the University Station club, it voted that November to take the name Blackwood-New Hope Club as a better fit for its members. The Weekly called it the first club organized in the county, and the club's 1951 history, written by reporter Elizabeth Kirkland, made the same claim and counted sixteen charter members; a 1953 club history in the News of Orange County gave the year as 1938. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 3, 1951, p. 8 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 7, 1953, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 27, 1935, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 4, 1935, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1935, p. 1
  5. 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. Holcombe The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 4, 1935, p. 3
  6. 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. Holcombe The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 15, 1936, p. 4
  7. 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. Holcombe 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
  8. 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. Holcombe The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 14, 1938, p. 1
  9. 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 Byars The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 18, 1939, p. 1
  10. Ruby Crews becomes the county's first home demonstration agent for Black women An assistant agent was added in 1941 to work only with Black farm women, and Crews, later Mrs. Ruby Carraway, was the first to hold the job. Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 215
  11. Woodward Byars serves as Orange County's home demonstration agent In 1942 Miss Woodward Byars was Orange County's home demonstration agent, alongside farm agent Don S. Matheson and assistant agent Joe N. Howard. She handled publicity for edible soybeans, worked the wartime programs through the home demonstration clubs and wrote on the new crop for the county papers. People: Don S. Matheson, Woodward Byars U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service, Orange and Lee Counties, North Carolina, Demonstrate How Neighborhood Leaders Can Help in Securing Participation of Rural Families in Agriculture's Wartime Programs, Extension Service Circular 387 (1942), scan p. 4 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 8, 1940, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 13, 1942, p. 1
  12. Orange County home demonstration clubs take up the whole wheat and enriched bread program During May 1942 every home demonstration club in Orange County worked on the whole wheat and enriched bread program, which Lee County ran through its neighborhood leaders. Of the 183 surveyed Orange families who bought wheat bread or flour that month and had not already used it, 9 percent bought whole wheat or enriched bread or flour for the first time. U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service, Orange and Lee Counties, North Carolina, Demonstrate How Neighborhood Leaders Can Help in Securing Participation of Rural Families in Agriculture's Wartime Programs, Extension Service Circular 387 (1942), scan p. 21
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  1. Rev. Joe Brooks is a Ridge Road leader in the Black farm families' wartime food drive Black neighborhood, 4-H and home demonstration club leaders across Orange County pooled efforts to produce and conserve more food for their families and the war effort in 1944. Rev. Joe Brooks was one of the leaders named for the Ridge Road neighborhood. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 23, 1944, p. 4
  2. Orange County's Black home demonstration clubs hold their first dress contest in Hillsboro Women from every Black home demonstration club in the county modeled thirty-six dresses, suits and accessories they had made at the Hillsboro high school auditorium. By 1946 the clubs met monthly in rural communities including White Oak Grove, Jordan Grove, Cool Springs, Cedar Grove, Harmony, Ridge Road, St. Mary's, Sartin and Carr. News of Orange County: Negro Home Demonstration Clubs Dress Contest (September 7, 1944)
  3. Orange County's Black home demonstration and 4-H clubs hold Achievement Day Seven Black home demonstration clubs set up live-at-home booths at the Hillsboro High School gymnasium, with Cool Springs first, St. Mary's second and Midway third, and staged a Victory Dress Parade of clothes made over from old ones, reviewed by state clothing specialist Willie N. Hunter. 4-H members received certificates for the year's work. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 9, 1944, p. 1
  4. Home demonstration clubs report the year's work at Achievement Day in Hillsboro At the county home demonstration clubs' Achievement Day at the courthouse, the home agent reported that women had canned an average of 350 quarts and that 94 percent made their own clothes, and that the women's curb market in Chapel Hill had taken in $30,280.68 over the past year. Clubs from Caldwell, Carr, Cedar Grove, Efland, New Hope, Orange Grove, St. Mary's, Schley and Murphy had made 699 garments and 744 other articles for the Red Cross. People: Woodward Byars News of Orange County: Achievement Day report of the county home demonstration clubs (December 7, 1944)
  5. Black farm families open a curb market on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill The Orange County Negro Curb Market opened on May 26 in the Scarborough Building on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. In its first three weeks, 13 of its 26 member farm families sold $208.79 worth of produce. R. M. Edwards was president, and the market worked with the vocational agriculture department of the Orange County Training School and the county's Black farm and home demonstration service. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 28, 1945, p. 4
  6. Orange County's Black home demonstration clubs hold their first Federation Day About 300 members of the county's Black home demonstration clubs met at the Hillsboro high school for Black students on June 8 for their first Federation Day. They heard each club's report and remarks from district home agent Dazelle F. Lowe, county agent M. C. Burt and Caswell County home agent Helen Payne, then a book review, a film on home drying of fruits and vegetables and a slip-cover demonstration. Council president Ella H. Trice presided. People: Moses Cimuel Burt The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 14, 1945, p. 6
  7. Kathryn Highsmith succeeds Woodward Byars as Orange County home agent Woodward Byars, Orange County's home demonstration agent since 1939, resigned on September 3 to become an assistant dietitian at Indiana University, and the county commissioners elected Kathryn Highsmith, assistant home agent in Durham County for the past year, to succeed her. A July profile in The News credited Byars with building up 13 girls' 4-H clubs, meeting monthly with 17 home demonstration clubs and organizing 200 neighborhood leaders for wartime work. People: Woodward Byars The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 6, 1945, p. 1
  8. Orange County's Black home demonstration clubs win the western district gavel Sixty-six Orange County Black home demonstration club women took the western district gavel for a year at the district council meeting at A. and T. College in Greensboro, received by county council president Ella H. Trice; Corina Valines of the Sartin club won the district's first blue ribbon for a house dress. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 16, 1946, p. 7
  9. Black home demonstration clubs adopt a county council constitution Meeting at the Hillsboro high school for Black students, the county council of Black home demonstration clubs adopted a constitution, planned an Achievement Day and elected Mrs. Ella H. Trice president for two years. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 26, 1946, p. 7
  10. Sarah L. Lawson becomes home demonstration agent for Orange County's Black families Miss Sarah L. Lawson began work on November 1 as the county's home agent for Black families. She followed Mrs. Ruby C. Carraway, who had been promoted to district home agent for the Northeastern District and was given a farewell party by the county home demonstration council on October 11. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 20, 1947, p. 7
  11. Chapel Hill League of Women Voters speakers explain county government to home demonstration clubs Through February the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters, organized the year before, sent speakers to the home demonstration clubs across Orange County to lead discussions of county officials, their terms and duties. Each speaker handed out free copies of the league's handbook, 'Your Local Government.' The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 3, 1949, p. 1
  12. Bonnie B. Davis becomes Orange County's first Black home demonstration agent Bonnie B. Davis began work as the county's first Black home demonstration agent, while the Extension service was still segregated. She started without a proper office, a demonstration kitchen or an indoor bathroom for herself and her club members. N.C. Cooperative Extension, Orange County Center: Bonnie B. Davis' Legacy and the Center Named After Her
  13. Commissioners decline to raise the pay of the county's Black farm and home agents Before adopting the new budget on August 7, the commissioners declined a request from the Extension Service's district agents to raise the salaries of the county's Black farm agent and Black home demonstration agent. The same budget had raised the county's share of the white farm agent's salary by $240 and of the assistant and home agents' salaries by $120. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 10, 1950, p. 1
  14. Chapel Hill and rural Orange observe United Nations Day with flags sewn by home demonstration club women At 10:45 church and University bells rang and United Nations flags made by Orange County home demonstration club women were presented to the University and the town on the steps of South Building, while Chapel Hill stores closed for the ceremony. Other flags went to schools, churches, grange halls and the Hillsboro Legion hut, twelve of them in rural communities, and more flew along Franklin Street. People: R. B. House, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 26, 1950, p. 1
  15. Orange County's seventeen home demonstration clubs count 443 members During National Home Demonstration Week the county reported 443 women in 17 home demonstration clubs, served by two white agents and one Black agent, with 80 volunteer leaders who had held 62 meetings attended by 1,459 people the year before. Clubs made 38 United Nations flags for schools, churches and Grange halls as part of a citizenship study. People: Bonnie B. Davis News of Orange County: H. D. Club Week Being Observed (May 3, 1951)
  16. Caldwell women organize a home demonstration club County home agents Kathryn Hamrick and Dorothy Parrish called the organizing meeting at the home of Mrs. John Riley; at its next meeting the club elected Mrs. Claudia Riley president and took up the Rural Progress Program's goals, with a community house and telephone service as its community projects. The News later called it the county's newest home demonstration club. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 6, 1952, p. 4
  17. Ruth Thompson is named Orange County's home demonstration agent On November 3, 1952, the county commissioners accepted the resignation of home demonstration agent Kathryn Hamrick, effective December 1, and Ruth Thompson, an assistant agent in Wilkes County for four years, was named to succeed her at $4,200 a year. She took up the work on December 1. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 6, 1952, p. 1
  18. Ella Trice of Orange is elected treasurer of the state council of Black home demonstration clubs At the twelfth annual State Council meeting of Negro Home Demonstration Clubs in Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium, Mrs. Ella Trice of the Coolspring neighborhood, president of the Orange County council, was elected state treasurer. Thirty-six Orange County club women attended. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 8, 1954, p. 10
  19. The Chapel Hill women's curb market reports $27,855 in sales for the year County home agent Ruth Thompson's figures showed the women's home demonstration curb market in the old church building on North Columbia Street sold $27,855 in the past twelve months against $29,514 the year before, a drop laid to the summer drought; entering its 17th year it had 25 members from across southern Orange, with eggs and poultry its largest lines. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 2, 1954, p. 8
  20. Patty Payne Drew becomes the county's home demonstration agent for Black families Mrs. Patty Payne Drew, a native of the county and a graduate of Virginia State College who had held similar posts in Virginia, took up her duties as Orange County's Negro home demonstration agent. She replaced Mrs. Bonnie B. Davis, then on leave. People: Bonnie B. Davis The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 6, 1955, p. 1
  21. Orange County's farm agents launch the Farm and Home Efficiency Program The county's farm and home agents replaced the four-year-old Rural Progress Program with a 1955 Farm and Home Efficiency Program stressing net profit over output, organized through community groups such as granges and home demonstration clubs. By early March community meetings had begun and separate meetings for Black farm families were scheduled; the Bank of Chapel Hill and the Hillsborough branch of Durham Bank and Trust paid for it. People: Don S. Matheson The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 10, 1955, p. 1
  22. Black women at Mars Hill organize a home demonstration club A group of women met at the home of Mrs. Juddie Chavis and organized the Mars Hill Home Demonstration Club with the county's Negro home agent, electing Mrs. Chavis president. The club voted to sponsor a lawn improvement campaign for 1956. People: Bonnie B. Davis The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 23, 1956, p. 6
  23. Black home demonstration women raise $500 for a county club kitchen Negro home agent Bonnie B. Davis told the county commissioners that Black home demonstration women had raised $500 to equip a kitchen for club work, which the board had agreed to match. The money came mostly from a baby contest that closed on April 7. People: Bonnie B. Davis The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 5, 1956, p. 8
  24. District home demonstration federation meets in Hillsboro About 297 women from Durham, Chatham and Orange counties met at the new courthouse in Hillsboro for the annual meeting of the 14th District Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, heard Dr. I. G. Greer, elected officers and toured Hillsboro homes and gardens. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 12, 1956, p. 1
  25. Home demonstration agent Ruth Thompson resigns to go to Guilford County Thompson, the county's home demonstration agent since December 1, 1952, resigned to join the Guilford County extension staff. By August the district agent had found no successor and asked the commissioners to restore the $120 raise budgeted for Thompson as an incentive for a new agent. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 21, 1956, p. 1
  26. Black women in the Grover neighborhood organize a home demonstration club Women of the Grover neighborhood met in the recreation room of Traynham's Store and organized a home demonstration club, electing Mrs. Elizabeth Snipes president and agreeing to meet there monthly. The report came from Bonnie B. Davis, the county's home agent for Black families. People: Bonnie B. Davis The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 14, 1957, p. 7
  27. Mrs. Raymond Thompson is named Orange County's home demonstration leader of the year At the annual Home Demonstration Achievement Day at the White Cross Community Building, Mrs. Raymond Thompson of the Bethlehem club was named the county's outstanding home demonstration leader and the Caldwell club won a silver pitcher as the outstanding club of 1957. Extension specialist John Harris spoke on yard beautification after a covered-dish supper. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 14, 1957, p. 1
  28. Black home demonstration clubs hold their achievement program at Central High School The county's Black home demonstration clubs held their annual achievement program at Central High School, with a fashion show on dressing to suit one's figure, and the Cedar Grove club received the gold loving cup for the best record of the year. Ten of the eleven clubs took part, and two nights later 125 husbands and wives attended the clubs' husbands' banquet in the Lincoln High cafeteria. People: Bonnie B. Davis The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 2, 1958, p. 6
  29. The Calvander community opens the Homestead Community Center Calvander families opened their new concrete-block community center on Homestead Road, with a 30-by-70-foot hall and a kitchen, finishing a project the Calvander Grange and home demonstration club began raising money for in 1952. The paper said it gave all eight organized rural communities in the county a community building; an open house followed on February 16 despite snow. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 6, 1958, p. 3
  30. White Cross takes the top prizes at Orange County's Rural Progress achievement night At a joint achievement night for the county's 14 home demonstration clubs and 8 Rural Progress communities in the courthouse, White Cross won first-place prizes in 11 of the 20 categories of the 1958 Rural Progress program, which drew 4,540 reports of improvements. Mrs. Henry Walker of St. Mary's was named the county's outstanding home demonstration leader and the St. Mary's club the outstanding club. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 27, 1958, p. 1
  31. Orange commissioners keep the courthouse home demonstration kitchen for white use and vote a separate one for Black clubs Weeks after Black home agent Bonnie Davis asked why the kitchen promised her clubs, which had given $500 toward it about three years before, was never provided, the commissioners split over letting both races share the white agent's second-floor kitchen. Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs broke a 2-2 tie to keep it white-only and set up a temporary separate kitchen, likely on the ground floor, and the $500 was returned. White agent Jessie Trowbridge and county club leaders opposed sharing; the News reported Commissioner Donald Stanford saying the real objection was to the races using the same kitchen. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Bonnie B. Davis The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 10, 1959, p. 6
  32. The Chapel Hill women's curb market opens in a new building on the Durham Road The Women's Home Demonstration Curb Market, whose 16 sellers came from county home demonstration clubs, left the old Church of God building on N. Columbia St. for a 40-by-60-foot block building Brady McLennan put up beside his Durham Road restaurant. The News called the opening crowd one of the biggest in the market's 23 years. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 10, 1961, p. 1
  33. Bonnie B. Davis retires from Orange County's Cooperative Extension office Bonnie B. Davis retired after a career of about 40 years as the county's home demonstration agent, later called Family and Consumer Sciences agent. N.C. Cooperative Extension, Orange County Center: Bonnie B. Davis' Legacy and the Center Named After Her

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