Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-11-10
NORTHWEST GETS PUBLICITY.
Country Life Commission Finds Live
Wire in Spokane Chamber of
Commerce.

Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana are receiving much desirable pub
lcity of continent-wide extent as re-
suit of thousands of letters and
pamphlets sent to all parts of the
United States by the country life com
rlittee of the Spokane Chamber of Com
merce to editors of agricultural jour
mails, educators, farmers and business
men in an endeavor to interest them in
the Country Life convention in Spokane
on November II in connection with the
National Apple show.
The committee is working with state
commissions in accordance with pre-
liminary plans formulated at the con-
ference in Spokane last November.
These commissions are made up as
follows:
shington-David Brown, Spokane,
chairman; \. l.. Rogers, Waterville; j.
l.. Dumas, Dayton; Miss Mary Carpen-
ter, Bellingham, and w. IL. Paulhamus,
Puyallup.
Oregon-C. Z. Whistler, Medford,
chairman; Edwin Mays, Flanagan; E.
IL. Shepard, Hood River; George A.
Doris, Eugene, and L. T. Reynolds,
| Salem.
| Idaho-Ralph II. Schneeloch, jerome,
chairman; IL. L. French, CALDWELL; Mrs.
Mary G. Butterfeld, Weiser; Miss Alice
Beach, Blackfoot, and B. T. Byrnes,
Moscow.
Montana-J. H. Durston, Anaconda,
chairman; F. S. Cooley, Bozeman; NJ.
l.. Dean, Missoula; Mrs. c. E. Conrad,
Kalispell, and Mrs. II. B. Mitchell,
Great Falls.
The purpose of the convention is to
hear comments upon the country life
hall, which is part of the consolidated
rural school and community center
project, with a view to working out a
practical plan to be agreed upon by the
open convention. 1t is purposed to be
gin work soon upon the community cen
ter in Spakone county, the first to be
established in the United States, and
upon its success depends largely the
creation of similar districts in many
other parts of the northwest.
The plan, outlined at the conference
here last year, has since attracted the
attention of the foremost educators anC
sociologists of the world, who see in it:
adoption the solution of the problem OF
how to improve and popularize farm lif,
and agricultural pursuits, while its pro
jectors believe the practical application
of the idea will do more than any othe
public movement to attract a desirabl,
class of homemakers and producers t,
the sparsely settled districts of tn,
: northwestern and Pacific states.
1.-THE preliminary plan calls for
site of 10 acres of land in the cente
of the district to be created,'' sale
Major Edwin A. Smith, secretary of tn
located a community hall, which cal
be used for meetings and social gath
erings by the people of the district, tn
grange, Farmers union and other organ
izations; a teacher IS cottage, athlete
and Fairgrounds, picnic grove, schoo
{ garden, propagating plats and othe
, features. In short, a real communit,
J center in the open country.
Gin planning the hall, which will b.
the only subject discussed at the No
vember conference, we desire a genera
CA piCooAOu VI OplulOH DIS W us equip
ment to fill the needs of the farmers il
the district, also whether it is though
desirable to employ salaried secretar.
5 to gather and distribute information o
! Importance to growers and producer
in his community.
"Another question is: Should tn
, federal government award prize ribbon
to farmers raising the best crops, stool
and poultry in each district? Also
should there be available at the hall
complete description of how the neigh
/, borhood prize-winner raised his crop, s.
that every farmer in the communit,
may be benefited by this knowledge
Would this information, if available
' result in increasing the gross incom
from the farm by S. an acre, or $4,000
year for every 10000 acres embraces
by the district9''
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