The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-24
SAMPSON HAS HAD A LONG WAY
TO COME, BUT IT HAS ARRIVED


to make the small community IL the
rural region IS attractive q place to
live as the p0nulouS town and cities
With this in lew the people BEGAN
70 inquire Why country community
i not as attractive a place . live as |
CITY community. and what can be |
dono to chance conditions The reo-
ple through theiv individual efforts
were At once backed nD by all the |
organizations Nou ever head Of in III /
country the ia ~nlers' Union the !
Board Of Health. the Board of I1dnca
ton, the county con2Tlissj onors thc
wolnens clubs, and don't Know VIVA
all. Thcy net only compared country
life with town life but they compared
country life with what country life
should be
z.,duc.;. cna; Enthusiasts.
L. T.. Matthew's. superintendent OF
the schools OF the county was fortu-
nate in securing as an assistant Miss
Iulu Cassidy VINO under the title of
! supervisor Of schools has been a crea-
tive genius. - sc two enthusiasts
We're encourasL a abetted by
| others in every The county
| commissioners pl to the
occasion ana sampso. tea arm
demonstrators and whoI, w :
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adding to the progressive fame O.
| progressive county.
The work developed like the sudden
| outbreak of q battle. Before Sampson
fully realized the situation Mrs. w. 3.
Lamb and Mrs. ]. r. Peterson were
organizing wOmenS club work and
auxiliary movements in every town
ship in the county, and coming along
with the rest were canning clubs
poultry clubs, corn clubs, pig clubs
and real clubs, not simply names on
paper. The girls canning club is said
to be the best organized one in the
, State with nearly $50 members. II
has % agents and a number of sui
| agents to look after the canning
. There are a score of rural womens
: clubs in the county. The clubs have
: monthly meetings at which various
: matters are taken up by the depart
, ments to which they belong, includ
ing civiCs department, economics de
partment, home study, and there yo,
:, go again on an interminable route
. for until all things are settled anC
: the rural life made ideal in practic'
. nobody knows what is yet in store.
: The poultry club numbers almos
= hundred members. the pig clu]
, about 1926 the corn club about
= hundred, and all of them enthusiast
l. producers.
4 l doubt if there is such another no
=. bed Of progressive infection on cart
as here in Sampson county. Instea
Of talking about the weather and tn
almanac and the patent mediCin
y | practice so common in most COuntr
II places the Sampson county peopl
$ meet and talk about making an aCr
u give up a bigger crop of tomatoes, G
> | how to secure a strictly -frStc elias
: grape juice from SCuppernOng grape
II that grow in SCandalOuS prOfuSiOn i
e this section, or Of health affairs, c
L home sanitation. OF entertainment
g for young folks up to the age Of g
ST and all those things that nave reall
re practical and intelligent objects.
lg Spreading Household Sanitation
is This thing has gone out in severe
le directions already. Salem burg is on
model community. Ingold is anOthe
"a others are in sight. Just as an II
or stance Of some Of the things thes
!. communities are doing t is shown /
70 the one case of household sanitation
At Prior to the esta blishment Of the con
vs. munity organization a couple Of yea
is ago the Ingold community had fe
"a households with sanitary COZ
at yeniences. Now every one Of the i
20 families included in the survey is
r. equipped In Salcmburg at the b
as ginning of the year the progress
~ this direction had reached SO per Gel
- against less than two per cent a We;
or before.
ELL IN the educational field the progre
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