Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-02-04
URGE COUNTY
CLUB LEADER
COMMISSIONERS ASKED TO APP.
PROPRIATE MONEY TO CARRY
ON THE WORK FOR YEAR
FEDERAL AID is ASSURED
Definite Action win BE Taken In the
Near Future

The commissioners of Boundary
county are endeavoring to work out
a plan whereby this county may avail
itself of the services of a boys and
girls club leader this year. The mat
ter was brought before the board at
a meeting held Wednesday, by Miss
u. Fay Fowler, one of the heads of
the club work in this state. Definite
action will be taken by the commits
sioners at their regular meeting to be
held February 10th.
The national government is push
ing the club work this year and has
offered to Idaho enough money to place
club leaders in three counties, the
counties to pay certain percentage of
the expenses of carrying on the work.
A good start was made along this
line last year by Miss Heberling and
the old board of commissioners APP
propriated $500 for similar work to be
done this year However, ii is the
opinion locally as well as the opinion
of the state authorities, that effective
work cannot be done by the short
time summer leaders and that the best
results can only be obtained by a
year round leader.
Miss Fowler stated to the board of
commissioners that the state author
tiles had in mind a trained man for
the work in this county and that he
could do the work of a county agent
also in addition to the club work.
Supt. Kerr, of Independent School
District No. 4, j. II. Wiley and several
others attended the conference. Supt.
Kerr stated that it would be practical
to add an agricultural course to the
high school curriculum next year and
that it might be possible for the pro-
posed new club leader, If he is hired,
to devote part of his time to class
in the high school, providing such an
arrangement would not interfere with
his regular county work and would be
satisfactory to the school trustees and
to the county commissioners. Under
this plan the school district would
pay it's proportion of the salary of the
club leader.
The authorities at Boise are anxious
to put club leader in one of the
northern counties and have chosen
Boundary for one of the three counties
to receive government aid. If Bound.
airy county does not avail itself of this
offer, several other counties will be
only too glad to take it, stated Miss
Fowler. Kootenai county, which al
ready has a county agent, is very de
sirous of having the club leader as
! well. Both the county agent and thu
club leader are found in many counties
of this state.
In speaking of the club leader plaI
l for this county, Mrs. Flood, count!
superintendent of schools, said, -
club leader in Boundary county ha
D unlimited possibilities before him. w
have a soil and a climate which ar
: ideal for many agricultural projects
q Interesting the young people of tn
county in purebred livestock woul'
e alone make the leaders work wort
U while. But there are many othe
p problems he could help us solve. TAX
i that serious problem of finding mar
J. ket for our produce. A man who's
e business ii was to find out what coul
best be grown in our county, to urg
S the standardizing of certain varietie
of products, thus enabling the CON
munity to ship in carload lots, and the
u to find a market for this produces
u would be worth to the cOmmunit
u many times what would be paid hil
) in salary. The postmaster of Boz
e ners Ferry is constantly in receipt {
lie letters from prospective settlers
n Boundary county and he says that il
'e variably the question is asked whetl
" er there is a county agent or leader ,
4 any kind. Such a leader would a
s. tract the better class of ranchers, NJ
todate men and women who are
sympathy with the forward movemel
in country life. The work of Il
county leader has long since pass'
the experimental stage and has bee
found a workable and profitable pro
n osition in practically every section
the United States.