Randolph County AlArchives History .....The Cotton Mattress Demonstration Campaign 1938 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007674 October 31, 2022, 1:00 am Source: Randolph Leader Newspaper 1938: Randolph County home demonstration women are making plans to join in the great state-wide mattress making campaign this fall. This campaign has a two-fold purpose to help utilize our surplus cotton and to improve our beds. When one can make a cotton mattress for less than $1.50 plus about 50 pounds of cotton, it is economy to make mattresses at home. Mattress-making demonstration schools will be held in each section of the county, and leaders from each club will attend and make a mattress. They will then return to their communities and assist others with the making of their mattresses. A new cotton mattress for every farm family in the county is the goal for these club women. 1940: Applications for the cotton mattress demonstration program under the which low- income farm family will be supplied with cotton ticking for mattresses will be taken until June 22, according to a joint announcement this week by J. R. Parrish, county agent, and Lucile Mallette, home demonstration agent. Farm families having a total income of not more than $400.00, at least one-half of this income being derived from agricultural operations, are eligible for 50 pounds of cotton and 10 yards of ticking, which is the amount needed for a full- size double mattress. Applications for this assistance must be made to the community chairmen before June 22. The community chairmen are: Almond, Mrs. Vernon Wilson Big Springs, Mrs. W. B. Lipham Broughton, Mrs. R. E. Calhoun Friendship, Mrs. Jack Benefield Gold Ridge, Mrs. Dallas Cooley High Pine, Mrs. Bryan Clack Jordans Chapel, Mrs. Norman Lipham Lebanon, Mrs. John S. Burdette New Home, Mrs. Luther Boyd New Hope, Mrs. Leon Payne Radneys Chapel, Mrs. Johnson Hodges Rock Stand, Mrs. J. H. Lee Swagg, Mrs. W. L. White Union, Miss Bettie Butler Wedowee, Mrs. John Carlisle Woodland, Mrs. T. J. Traylor Hobson, Mrs. L. H. Gross Providence, Mrs. Emmett Traylor Napoleon, Mrs. M. Wilson Graham, Miss Nettle Lee Holliday Lanes Chapel, Mrs. Tom Cook Midway, Mrs. R. A. Yates Ava, Mrs. Jimmie French Potash, Mrs. L. J. Prestridge Bacon Level, Mrs. A. K. Smith Wesley's Chapel, Mr. George Rice Level Road, Mr. J. C. Dabbs Bethel, Mr. R. D. Simpson Malone, Mrs. Jep Dobson Springfield, Mrs. N. D. Neese New Site, Mrs. Theodore Yates Center West, Mrs. Cora Maddox Grey Hill, Mrs. H. H. Gosdin New Harmony, Mrs. Grady McCormick New Hope West, Mrs. Dock Edmondson Herrens Grove, Miss Onyce McDow COLORED: Roanoke, Theodore Shumpert. 1013 mattresses have been made since the cotton mattress demonstration campaign began, and a total of 3,004 applications for mattresses have been approved, according to a statement from Miss Mallette. 1941: March 19 and 20 are the two days set to make application for mattresses and comforts. Please go to your own community chairman to make application, as a chairman in another community is not going to take your application. This will be your last chance to sign for mattresses and comforts. The comfort program is new, and in order to carry it out properly you must give us your full cooperation. Rules For Comfort Program 1. You are eligible for one comfort for each mattress you have received in both mattress programs, three being as many as any family can receive. 2. The comforts and mattresses have to be made in a center. 3. Please note the change in the rules for receiving a mattress: (a) A family of three is eligible for two mattresses. (b) A family of five is eligible for three mattresses. 4. You must furnish your own supplies to use in making your comforts. 5. Deposits will be made for mattresses but none for comforts. List of Materials Needed 1. Large-eyed needles for tacking. 2. Twine thread for tufting comforts and one speel of No. 50 sewing thread. 3. Quilting frames. We must have the mattress and comfort program completed by July 1, 1941. This is a big program, and we want to urge everyone participating to give us full cooperation. Listed below are the communities and the names of the chairmen serving. If your community is not listed, you do not have a chairman; therefore, people in that community cannot sign up until someone serves as chairman. Community Chairmen: Almond, Mrs. Kermit Lynch Ava, Mrs. Herbert Traylor Bacon Level, Mrs. J. H. Crowder Big Springs, Mrs. W. B. Lipham Broughton, Mrs. J. C. Dabbs Friendship, Mrs. George Hester Graham, Mrs. Merwyn Higgins Gold Ridge, Mrs. L. M. Richardson Herren's Grove, Miss Onyce McDow High Pine, Mrs. G. P. Green Hobson, Mrs. A. M. McManus Jordans Chapel, Mrs. Norman Lipham Lanes Chapel, Mrs. Tom Cook Lebanon, Mrs. John Burdette Midway, Mrs. R. A. Yates Napoleon, Mrs. Nathan Langley New Home, Mrs. Archie Waters New Hope, Mrs. Lem Lovvorn New Site, Mrs. Theodore Yates Potash, Mrs. L. J. Prestridge Providence, Mrs. Emmett Traylor Radneys Chapel, Mrs. Forest McKay Rock Stand, Mrs. F. A. Allen Spring Hill, Mrs. Otto Newell Swagg, Mrs. W. L. White Union, Miss Betty Butler Wedowee, Mrs. John Carlisle Woodland, Mrs. Ezra Green and Mrs. Hoyt McCarley Bethel, Mrs. R. D. Simpson New Hope West, Mrs. Charles Perry Center West, Mrs. James D. Smith Grey Hill, Miss Ethel Moore Level Road, Mr. J. C. Dabbs Malone, Mrs. W. N. Gray Randolph County Training School, Jesse Terry Wesley's Chapel, Mrs. J. A. Holmes Corinth, Mrs. Lumas Blake Corinth (South), Miss Iva Dell Screws Concord, Miss Lois Parrish Pine Hill, Mrs. W. E. Shifflett Center Point, Mrs. W. L. White Wadley, Mrs. Annie Gaddy Smyrna, Miss Mae McCord ELIZA CLARK. Home Dem. Agent Additional Comments: There are very few homes in Randolph County that did not have one of these mattresses. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/history/other/cottonma456gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.3 Kb