The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-09-14
Be NN|NGTON COUNTY
VERMONT IMPROVEMENT
ASSOCIATION NEWS

chusetts have all made application 10
the United States Government for an
agricultural expert to come to their
respective counties.
Bennington County, Vermont is on
the ground floor for this competition
for experts that is springing up not
only in Massachusetts and other
states in New England, but through
out the entire country. 1t is on the
ground floor because of the Benning-
ton County Vermont Improvement AS
ISOLATION, that is pushing the work.
Those who have this work in charge
feel that such financial backing and
such an organization as the Benning
ton County Vermont improvement
Association is sufficient to warrant a
support to the experts that they may
send into the County that will enable
them to put in their very best work
Such an organization does not only
prepare the way for the agricultural
expert by organizing the farmers in
every part of the County, but will
continually help such experts by agi-
tation, by the creation of public
sentiment, and the encouragement of
instruction in the schools that have a
bearing upon home and agricultural
life.
1t is encouraging to those in charge
OF the work TO have such develop
ments as at Dorset, East Dorset, Peru
and Pownal, as we'll as the one spok-
en- of in The Banner regarding Sun
derland. At Dorset the Dorset Valley
I'm full rr
organized Monday evening, electing
permanent officers, etc. In addition
to this they are going to cooperate
with the Grange and the Bennington
County Vermont Improvement AS
sociaton to endeayor to get every
farmer who naturally centers in the
village of Dorset to big mass meet
ing in which the work of the Ben
nington County Vermont Improve
ment Association is to be presented
and to get the work among the far
mers thoroughly organized and under
way.
Tuesday evening, at East Dorset a
company of citizens came together
and they decided to ask the Changers
and all the farmers together with the
village people TO come together TO a
large mass meeting to learn about the
work of the association and to or
ganize and get the work started
there.
An invitation has come from Peru
to hold a similar meeting there.
Some OF the citizens of Pownal sug-
gested that the Grange and the far
mers hold a similar meeting there.
Undoubtedly, the entire County will
respond, If not spontaneously through
some local initiative, at least to the
invitation of the Bennington County
Vermont improvement Association to
have such gathering and to orga-
nize respective communities.
All this work is preparing the way
for the experts whom the association
hopes to bring to the county and
what is of still greater value is
creating public sentiment that will
find nothing impossible by way of
achieving things in Bennington
County.
This work of organizing and of ed
ucation is making so much demand
upon the time and energy of Mr..
Scheuerle, the Secretary of the AS
ISOLATION, that he has but little time
left for the soliciting of membership
to the Association II is hoped that
every man, woman and child inter
ested in this movement and in the
improvement of conditions in our
county will at once send their dollar
and name and address to the Ben
nington County Vermont Improve
ment Association, Manchester. Yer
mont. This will enable not only the
secretary but all the other workers
of the Association to give entire
time and strength to the construc-
tive work, the work that the Associ-
alton is doing. Nothing can be of
greater help at just this time than
for those who read this article. on
their own initiative, TO send their
dollar and address to the Association
Office. Do not put this matter off but
help us at once. The thing that we
need now is large, live member
ship.