The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-23

OF technical training and gen0re4
cation.
Other Things Shaping.
Wnlie the farm life school is the
nrst thing that has been undertaken
on definite basis, a lot Of things
are in hand that are shaping up for
attention as soon as the school is
properly started on its way. A series
OF entertainments in the different
towns in the district will be arranged
IN short time, one at Pinehurst hav-
ing already been given. 1t would take
a bunch Of women to tell what it was
but 1T made a, hit with the women
and the small bunch and that is the
tesa of the whole business, and it also
made about $500 for the movement.
The organization of the women in
TINS movement already extends to if
teen Of the seventeen towns included
in the Sandhills Board Of Trade and
before it is through it will include the
OtneT Two towns. 1t is not q society
or amusement function. It is strictly
a business affair, having for it's pur-
pose the betterment of the condition
of the people in the territory and the
development of the community and it's
resources. It brings new phase into
the rapidly expanding board of trade
movement in the State, and beca use
we find In all of history that when the
| women Joined i'll new movement
| they made the movement q success We
| may expect that North Carolina is to
profit by the Introduction of a new
| force into the race for adVancem ent
| that has been SO generally undertaken.
| The women Of the Sandhilis have
| outlined lot Of things that they pro-
! pose to do. While they have not yet
| really completed their program they
| have gathered up nearly two thousand
| dollars toward the farm life school,
I =
| ment trOup which will visit the towns
| in the territory and enliven the neigh
| bOrhOOd in that manner and in their
| work add further to the school fund.
In order that the multiplying homes
| Of the Sandhills may be attractive this
| WOman's organization proposes to get
| in direct touch with the home life of
| the county. A fair lasting q week
| will be held at Pinehurst in the fall,
! and it will be different from anything
| that has ever been tried in the State
SO far as is known. Instead Of mere
ly showing the big steer and the best
| bushel of potatoes the proposed fair
to be directed by the women will in
| troduce lot Of novelties that the fair
| conducted by mere men has not con-
sidered. The women propose to take
! into hand the story Of the Cape Fear
country and the color scheme, as
they say it. will be strictly Scotch this
year. Bonnie Prince Charlie, Flora
Mcdonald, Neill McNeill who brought
out the settlers from Scotland after
the sanguinary experiences at Cullo-
den, the bag-pipe and the plaids, will
be conspicuous in pageant with
delegations from everywhere. The
women are figuring on Scotch games
on the sword dance, the Highland
fling and the music will be Bonnied
Dundee, the Blue Bells Of Scotland
the strathspey and the pibroch.
Hunting For Local Color.
The women are hunting for the dis
tinctive and local color TO exhibit tC
strangers and also to call up to those
| who live here something OF the early
history Of the region, that yesterday
may be better known to those Of to-
| day, and that the place the upper
Cape Fear has played in the country'S
story may be better known Throughout
the State and nation. The women
; propose to call back some Of the days
Of CORVALLIS, Of the various stirring
days of the revolution, OF the civil war
| or Of any historical period that has
marked this part of the State with in
terest. They are determined that the
Sandhills shall have the best foot pu
|: foremost III every respect.
Then they say they are going tt
| put new colOring on the general home
. perspective. Their argument is tina
the country problem is largely a wo
mans problem. They are going ou
| to interest the women and children II
making the farm the most interesting
SPOT in the State OF North Carolina
The children are to be urged to PLAN
: flowers and vie with each other II
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