MISS LASH IS ROCK ASSUMES.
DUTIES
Miss MnrylOu Lashbrook arrived in the Val
ley on Juno 6th to aosuno her duties as'
Hone Dononstration agent for the Volley.
Miss Lashbrook rail be stationed in tho.
Valloy as was fomerly the policy rhon
Miss Ranees ..Byrnes van hero. Miss
Lashbrook corios to tho Valloy fron Vrangel]
Alaska.
Sinco her arrival, Miss Lashbrook’has not
vith'tho Honenakers* -Council, tho Butto
Club, the 12:30 Club, and tho Sourdough
Club. Due to difficulties in transporta
tion at the present tine, Miss Lashbrook
said that she had boon unable to got out
around the Valley aonnuch as she v’ould like
The lesson this nor.th which is being taken
up for discussion at tho several clubs has
boon on "Safe rTatcr Supply."
On '"ednosday of this1 rook six nonon. not at
the extension Office for Craft Class. They
nado trays, cloves and coin pursos. Tho
leather,rhich r?as ordored for coin pursos,
has arrived, Ilrs. Johnson reports.
The Eonenakors’ Clubs have planned tho
annual Picnic for June '20th at Karla Duffs
on the lake,
I'iss Lashbrook announced that Hrs, Fohn
Hansen '-ill bo in’ the Valley during the
r/ook of July 13th to hold a rork^shop- for
"Ronovating furniture." Anyone interested
in talcing this instruction should contact
Hiss Lashbrook at the Extension Office and
get the necessary information for. natcri
ials needed and have then all ready beforo
July 18th.
REA FARM POWER USE UP
64?: SINCE 1946
Fran a St. Louis Post Dispatch—
People living along REA-financcd electric
lines have'almost doubled their porer use
since 1946, Adninistrator Claude R. TTick
ard renorted ; to the Secretary
of Agriculture.
r'ickard said unprecedented progress last
year raised the total number of farris'
with central-station service to 4,019,475
which is 68.6 percent of all the farris in
the'country. This compares irith only
743,000 farms reached .in 1935—less than
11 percent of the total,
iTot only is there a remarkable increased
in the number of families served, but
there- is a; trendndou's increase in the •
anoundt of electricity used. Records shot;
a sharp rise in the rural uso of porror.
T'o total 1948 consumption of electricity
by consumers on RU'.-f inanccd systoub mas
40 percent over 1947 and 84 percent over
1946, The average monthly use of elec
tricity per farm consumer in December
1947 mas 117 kilonatt-hours. This rras
nearly double the December 1941 average.
Fear people are grasping the fill power
of power, They are making better use of
power to improve rural living.
4- H
NEWS
Tho IL'iPPY 4-H Club not at the hone of
Mrs, Mary King on June 13th. at 2 y.irV.
Three of the six nonbors were present. rTo
made muffins' this neoting. Each club non
bor should bring a nuffin that .she has
nadc to our next mooting .so that it con
bo judged*
Our next meeting will bo the 27th of June
at tho hone of Mrs, Mary King.
Elbanor Kail:
Tbit. NEW POTATO ■ ClGC-ER
Not: potato diggers arc coning out rubber
cushioned as a result of rosoarch recently
conducted-in Idaho, Light rubber tubing
is being used on the digger chain links,
and strips of sheet sponge rubber.to cus
hion burps on collar oilers and dorter
grading tables arc being urfed to cut the .
amount of dan ago, dono to potatoes during !
the digging and grading period.
In a study made it rras found that potatoes
from diggers using the standard steel chain
shorod ftp. average of 14.79 per., .cent hard ■
bruises, rith only 17,17 per cent being’
free from readily apparent hard bruises.
But rhon the rubber tubing ras slipped on
har'd bruises dronr-od to 1.65 per cent and
the percentage of tubers freo from anuarent
injury jumped to 56,9 per cent.
'MOVES TO .BUTTE
Mr. mid Ilrs. 3' Barrett have moved to the
Butte vhero they arc living in the Halo
Graham homo.
Eggs are more easily separated rhon cool,
but the rhito rhips up best at room temper
ature ,
PICTURE TAKING TIME
IS HERE
Fill lino of-1 •
CAMERAS
FILM. 6
SUPPLIES
Fast Scrvieo on
ROLL FILM DEVELOPING & PRINTING
This is the only place in Pnlncr
vritorc this type of service is
available.
The Friendly Store
Hours:. 9 an to 9 pn six days a rook.