Polk c. BUSH, Publisher Cou The Only Paper Published in Polk County Volume XXVI II No. 22 Tryon, N._C., Jj t Live Clean Paper^for the Home > ? 25,1923 Price 5 Cents $2.00 a Year OUR COUNTY AGENT'S DEPARTMENT. Some Timely Talks to Polk County Farmers, and others, on Timely Sub jects, by County Agent, J. R. Sams. To the Farmers of Polk County. We want to give you an out line of the scope of work we are aiming for this year in Polk County. 1st. Agronomy, or fields and field crops. We want one more farmer in each township to begin now and do his level best in selecting seed corn, preparing land fertilizing and cultivation of one or more acres in corn. We want one or more farmers in each township to take one or more acres of sorghum cane and do his best and report results. We also desire to especially encourge and insist on farmers cooper ating as fully as possible along, the following lines of farm ac tivities viz: clovers, alfalfa, growing of grasses, for per mannant pastures, and to save your lands from washing away. Oats and vetch for hay crops, peach and apple orchards both for home and commercial pur poses. We also desire that you grow cotton; but use the the good sense in your heads as never before as to the size of this crop to plant. Plant a small crop, procure the very best seed of early ma turing habit. Prepare land well, fertilize heavily. Plant as early as season will justify, cultivate rapidly, gather and burn all punctured square? early in the season. Use cal cium arcenate dust spray, and you will reap a rich reward. But if farmers plant and ne glect the garden and feed and food crops; there will trouble in .the land. In ad dition to the foregoing; we de sire to organize -a Club in every township in the county. This community Club should so organize that it cai look after and see that the best methods of educational anr social as well as economic de velopment will come to the com munity. What is known nov as club work is an entirely dif ferent thing. The Commun ity Club, should get behinc and boost all club work withir its territory. We want to do corn, pig, and poultry clul work throughout the count\ this year. We also have ir our plans home and school bet terment. This means to work with the School Board, County School committees, teachers and patrons to improve school grounds, house, equipment in as many schools as possible, and to encourage the planting of trees, shrubs, and lawns. Community Fairs for educa tional purposes in standardliz ing and grading field and truck crops and fruits will be con ducted again this year; with a round up County Fair and a county exhibit at state fair. We also contemplate having a puurely social meeting of all sections on July 4th for the purpose of cultivating good will and Brotherly love. A better Bread campaign and sewing campaign for the girls and women especially will be con ducted by Miss Sarah M. Pad gett, our efficent Home Demon stration agent. Miss Padgett will also cooperate fuully in all our county betterment pro jects, relating to Farm Exten sion work, and I mean to co operate fully in her line of work, as we find we 'can greatly supplement each other in various lines of work. Now our plans are laid and what we desire is a full cooperation of organization in each township in the county. We also desire the hearty cooperation of school committees and teachers in every school district. If you need us in any township, school district, or on any farm, or in the humblest tennant home, drop us a card, telling where that home is and how to get there, and we will go. At the same time, roads should be made so that we i. could get within one mile of the home in a Ford car. We want to serve and we will, if given a chance. We will work with you; if you will work with us. Respectfully, J. R. Sams, County Agent. o To all the People of Polk Co. From some source, a feeling comes to me that the world is approaching some, great and wonderful change. In our slumbering on our beds at night when all nature seems to be'quiet, and peaceful breezes fan us to sleep, we sometime have dreams that perplex our r minds when we awake from peaceful sleeping (See Job. 33- | ! 14 to Is) and we lay and medi- | ' tate upon our dreams, and wonder from whence they j I came? And again at times I I when busily engaged at the jilesk, behind the counter, or as j we follow the plow in the field, j or stack the hay in the mea dows; there comes to us im )ressions of some duty we I should do, something in the fut i ture that we should accom I plish, or some great event | which is likely to take place. | Ten years ago. The great , world war had not been fought n 1913 were dreaming of War. The great war clouds were ap >arent everywhere. We all had orebodings and impression? or good and for evil, and it is iard at times to understand !ust how and where these im ressions came from. Well, .ie great war is over; but the eriod of readjustment and re onstruction is not past. We Earned many valuable lessons 1 tiring the period By Coffee and Sand wiches .... $5.35 1 Bank of Tryon and others $21.50 ' County Commisioners : vy Geraldine Sayre Sidney Sayre. Josephine Hill. High School Betty Doubleday. Our attendance has fallen off this month due to the pre valence of sickness in town. Still we have had such excel lent climatic conditions, that we trust that all will be back again in a very short time. I must embrace this oppor tunity to express to the entire community on the part of the Teachers and student body, our sincere appreciation of the most wonderful contributions that have been made to our library. I am delighted to tell you that we have already five hundred volumes; over four hundred of which can be count ed in the High School Library (Perhaps many of you will remember that we must have three hundred) . Best of all, we still have on hand about sixty dollars, $60.00 , with which to buy books for the general library. If there are any friends of the school who have books which they will be willing to donate ; I shall be glad to have them notify me and I shall send to their homes for the books. For the satisfaction of the general pub lic, let me add that Miss Lucy Monday of the High School Faculty has been employed to look after these books and, in fact act as regular librarian. We are already deriving won derful benefit from the use of this addition to our equipment. We shall do all in our ? power to stimulate good reading, and still we shall not allow them to read to much that thqy neglect their school work. After all, the real genius is the. man who can get along with people. ?; . ? . , Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. ? Pliny the Elder. Sometimes any decision is better than no no decision. Some people can't take any thing unless they take it ser iously. Farm prices are low, and the boll weevil is here, but the far mer who raises most of the food for his table is not worry ing about his next meal. Mill Spring Route 1. (Intended for last week.) There were no services at Lebanon last Sunday on ac count of so much sickness in the community. Miss Doris Edwards has been very sick for some days with "flu" but is some better at this writing. ?' Mrs. D. J. Burnett spent Fri day afternoon with Mrs. A. A. Edwards. A.. A. Edwads made a busi ness trip to Columbus last Wednesday. Miss Chressie Burnett left for Hillcrest Monday where she will enter school. Miss Mildred Womack has returned to school at Hillcrest after spending several days at home. ' * '}? >. Robert Whiteside of Uree, spent Sunday at the home of A. A. Edwards. Mark Laughter from near Spicers Cove moved his family to G. 0. Womack's place last week. Mrs. H. M. Whiteside was a sailer at D. J. Bunnetts Thurs day. Mr. and Mrs. Marion White side and son Lawerence also Miss Lizzie Dalton of Rock, Spring were callers at W. E. Elliott's Saturday afternoon., Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Edwards spent Sunday with the latters parents Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Williams on Route 2. Mr. Sam Ownenby and Miss Hattie Hawkins were happily married on last Thursday at the home of the bride near Rutherfordton. We wish for them a long, happy life. !-'? ? 0 Try on Route 1. We feel this beautiful Mod day morning of Januuary 22, the worst of our flu experience is ovar. - Thanks io the Gpeit. Physician, the sick are making a successfuul recovery so far. Misses Pearl and Essie Ed wards and Bessie Hamilton, victims of the flu, have recov ered and returned to their school work at Melvin Hlill and Greens Creek. What is the matter with all our correspondence? The pa per seems much more interest ing when all are on duty. Mr. Sams, let us have your grass talks in the News, and be not discouraged, the people are waking up more and more to the Creator's command, "Let the dry ground bring forth grass." Those who are not the boll weevils are chasing them to their awakening. ' Mr. J. W. Jack has recently sown a good sized new ground in grass. Mr. John Carpenter, we hear, has recently taken the grass fever, and furthermore, that Hamilton "grass crank" is still trying to have grass every where. Mr. Lewis Jackson and daughter, Evelyn, were pleas ant callers on the route. Mr. Arthuur Ruppe, after spending a fortnight in Char lotte, returned the other day. It is time "day by day, in ev ery way, the "movies" are get ting better. If not, we hope Mr. Hayes will bring this to a reality. Some of our boys have taken such a craze for them, will work hard all day go ten miles on Saturday night to Tryon to see them, despite the weather. o Christian Endeavor at 1:16 p. m. Worship at 7:00 p. m. The people of the town and com munity are heartily Invited to at tend these serrices. COLUMBUS PRE8BYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday School at 10 o'clock Preaching by the Methodist pastor at the Tryon M. E. Church, South on First Sunday bf very month at 11:0 a. m. Second Sunday of each month at 7 :00 p. m. Third Sunday of each month at 11 :00 a. m. Fourth Sunday of each month at 7:00 p. m. R. P. Fikts Partor. j