The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-03-04
TO MEET N COUNTY SCHOOLS
CORN AND PIG CLUBS, DEMON.
STRATION WORK AND COM.
MUNTTY FAIRS TO
BE ORGANIZED.
Districts 2, 8 and to Be Visited by
Miss Lennon, Mr.. Williams, Supt
Haynsworth and Secretary Reardon.

Miss Lennon, Mr.. Williams, Supt.
Haynsworth and Secretary Reardon.
Notices were mailed out yesterday
to the trustees and principals of school
districts numbers 2, and 16, from
the Chamber of Commerce, of meet
ings to be held at six schools next
week for the purpose Of organizing
community fairs, boys pig and corn
clubs. boil weevil preparation clubs,
and other purposes.
The meetings are as follows;
Tuesday, March 7th.
Concord school, District No. 2, Miss
Bessie Flynn, principal, 9 to 10 a. m.;
Graham, school, Concord District No.
2, Miss Jennie Wade. principal, IL to
12 m; Lawrence school. Concord Dis
trict No. 2, Miss Lucie Wingard, prin-
cipal, / to 2.
| Thursday, March 9th.
Bethel school, Privateer District
No. 3, Mr.. w. O. Cain, Jr., principal,
to 10 a. M; Ingram school, Miss AL
pha Davis, principal. II to IL; Oswego
school, Sumter District No. 16, J. A.
Knight, principal. 1 to 2 p. m.
Miss Mary Lennon. superintendent
OF Home Demonstration work for Sum-
ter county, will discuss How the
homes are being made more economi.
cal. efficient, and beautiful through
the home demonstration work, organ
ization Of community fairs"
Local Farm Demonstration J. Frank
Williams will talk on organization Of
boys pig and corn club work, diver
sification. fertilization. etc.
County superintendent of Education
]. H. Haynsworth, and Secretary
Reardon Of the Sumter Chamber of
Commerce will talk on educational ex-
tension in cooperation with agricul-
ture, cooperation between city and
lcountry. patronizing home enterprises,
etc.
It Is hoped to hold not less than
I'VE community fairs in as many
laeho9l aistEiQts pp1lnxs lsas by,, ,tAe
t6lh a ell6f u 81 tlIG a n }lie 1 Il UllIJ
demonstration clubs, the girls canning
clubs. and the boys pig and corn
clubs, with the farmers taking part
therein, also.
Clemson college. Winthrop college,
the county Board OF Education, and
the Sumter Chamber of Commerce
and Retail Dealers Association will
give every possible assistance to the
men, women, boys and girls of the ru-
raj sections in organizing the various
clubs and in holding of the COM
munity fairs.
Instructive maps, bulletins, and
other literature will be distributed
about culture of peanuts, the history
and progress Of the Mexican cotton
boil weevil. and plans outlined for
establishing the community fairs. The
County Board Of Education. through
superintendent Haynsworth, Clemson
college. through Demonstration Will
liams. Winthrop college, through Miss
Lennon, and the Sumter business
men through Secretary Reardon are
going to follow up. by concerted ac-
ton, the systematic plans Of our
friends Of the rural sections to i'm
prove the social conditions and pros
perity Of their communities by or
ganized efforts.
During the month of June. 1916,
there will be held in Sumter a four
day course of instruction in home
demonstration work which will be at
tended by hundreds Of ladies and
young women of the home demonstra-
ton and canning clubs. During the
fall Of 1916 the boys pig and corn
clubs will combine with the women's
and girls clubs in kind of fall agri-
cultural and home demonstration fair.
If the horse show association, the
poultry and pigeon association, and
the Farmers Union will cooperate and
hold fall shows Of livestock, thor
oughbred horses and mules, poultry,
agricultural products. etc, with the
boys and girls, Sumter will then have
a first class county fair before she
realizes it. and the county fair will
have been established on an economi-
cal, practical, painless and safety
first" plan without having to organize
big fifteen thousand dollar capital
stock organization to start off with.
The teachers and trustees have been
requested to invite the parents of the
pupils to attend the school meetings