Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-02-05
COUNTY AGENT
GEORGE w. DAVIES, SAUK COUN-
TY, TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE
WORK-EXPERIENCED.

After being without a County Agent
for few weeks, Grant has engaged
the very best man in that line of work
that can be found. He is George w.
Davies, who resigned a position as
federal demonstration agent in Sank
county that he might cast mis- fortunes
with the people of Grant.
Mr.. Davies is well known to MANY
people of Grant county, particularly
in his connection with rural schools.
For a dozen years he was county
superintendent of schools in Sank
county, and in this capacity did much
to develop the better side of rural life.
1t was he who made a survey of con-
ditions on the farm in his county that
was at once taken up by other county
superintendent as a model for that
kind OF information. While he new
er neglected for a moment the aca-
demic side of his work, he always
had good schools and industrious,
painstaking teachers, he developed
the social side of rural life. Many
farmers clubs were organized under
his directions, and now Sank has
more rural ubs-neighborhood clubs
than any other county in the state.
More than this, under Mr.. Davies
direction the rural school became the
social center for the residents of each
district. The usefulness of the rural
school quite doubled during his long
service and it became what it should
be, a school, for pupils and parents
alike. 1t was a common remark that
nobody was too old to be pupil in
the rural schools of Sank county. And
the system that George W. Davies
created and developed in his work as
county superintendent did that.
Then came the war, and through
the efforts of the county Council of
Defense, Mr.. Davies was induced to
divide his time between the rural
schools and efforts TO increase the
production of the farms of Sank coun-
ty. And he was equal to the emer-
gency. He took hold of the matter
of seeds, and by means of his ener-
gy and enthusiasm supplied seed corn
when it seemed to be a forlOrn hope.
He did not neglect the breeders of
pure bred stock, but greatly assisted
in the finding of a market for their
precious wares.
Mr.. Davies is in the prime of life,
a man of boundless energy and en- :
thusiasn. He was born, bred and
reared on the farm, at Spring Green,
and for the past ten years has lived
at North Freedom, the geographical
center of Sank county. He has wife
and two young daughters, and Mrs.
Davies is as enthusiastic in the work
as is her husband. He is an able and
entertaining public speaker and in
that capacity his services are much
sought all over southern Wisconsin.
Tt is most fortunate for Grant county
that he has been engaged. He will be
on the job this week, and once in the
work he never has any let-up, until
the last detail is attended to-
1t may be well to warn the fearsome
farmers of Grant. if there be any
such, that Mr.. Davies will not tire
YOU with technical details. He is a
practical man. and one to whom YOU
may safely appeal to help in the solv-
ing of any problems. He is not a
boss. rather a big brother.
This news item was written nv one
who has for a dozen years held the
friendship of Mr.. Davies. and has been
with him scores of times in connection
with his work in school and in the
rural community efforts that have
made him really famous in Wiscon-
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