Compiled by Patricia Hall
This book is a collections of all the minutes of the women's auxiliary to the Jacinto Businessmen's Association of Farmers. All the extant newspapers contemporary to the minutes were read and relevant articles selected for inclusion in the introduction.
Themes that were followed were: the building of the Central Canal and subsequent controversy over rights to that water; the rice experiments and the development of the industry of growing and milling rice; the state of technological development, that is, the automobile, roads, the state highway, the railroad along the river, telephones and farm machinery; and the social activities of members of the community who were followed by the press, especially anything about the members of the Bayliss Association of Domestic Science and their husbands and associates.
Some items having to do only with Willows were included to give an idea of the place.