Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-18
TALKSON STOCK
TO OPEN A. & NJ.
COURSE MONDAY
Lectures, Games, Music,
Movies, For Youths
Who Attend

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trict Agricultural and Mechanical
College here will begin Monday
morning. The first sessions will be
devoted to live stock subjects. Carl
Wallace, Georgia pig club leader,
will give those attending instructions
in the following subjects, it was an
nounced yesterday: Selection and
/ Management of Breeding Hogs"
"Care cf the Sow and Fer Litter" "
Pasture Crops for Hogs" Market
ing Hogs" w. H Howell, animal
! Acknowledgment o9 the Stare College
of Agriculture, will give instructions
on Caring for Milk on the Farm" ="
"How to Make Good Farm Butter"
| (illustrated), and Feeding and
Managing the Family Cow" In ad
dition to these lectures, moving pic.
] lures showing the uses to which cleo
| tricity may be put on the farm will
/ be shown, and there will also be other
interesting features.
A Red Cross nurse under auspices
of the Georgia Red Cross society and
the Georgia State Board of Health.
will be present during the session of
the short course, and she will give
talks to the young men and women
on personal hygiene and sanitation
especial interest to women and girls,
also will be discussed by this nurse
who will arrive today.
Tuesday "Agony Day"
Tuesday will be "Agronomy Day"
at the short-course, and there will be
interesting lectures on farm crops,
fertilizers, home orchards, etc.
| Wednesday will be Farm Mach
inery and Poultry Husbandry'' day
and these subjects will be discussed
by experts attending. DR.. William
Bradford will attend during one day
of the course and he will talk on
"Club Work and Health Problems,
subject of wide interest at this
time. The date upon which he viii
deliver this lecture will be announced
either tomorrow or Tuesday.
| Lectures, games, music, movies,
etc, are planned to give those who
attend useful and interesting infor
nation, in such way as to make
them glad they came and these will
be well worth many times the time
and cost.
There is no cost to those who at
tend, except the actual cost of the
meals and if one does not eat at the
dormitory, there will be no charge
at all.
/ Coming From Outside
Mrs. w. HI. Gurr, county agent for
Terrell county, advised Mrs, Olin Will
liams, county demonstration agent,
Yesterday that she will be here Mon
dav to attend the short course, ac-
companied by twelve boys and girls
who will attend the lectures and Miss
Jessie Fortson, Muscogee county's
agent, will be here also and will
), bring with her eighteen canning club
girls. Part of this party will come on
the train and all will be at the Agri-
|. cultural college during tile sessions of
the short course.
In addition to these there will be a
number of Sumter county boys and
!. girls who will be at the college during
= the course, and arrangements have
been made to bring in parties daily
from Pleasant Grove, Thompson and
Messy Dell communities. The other
school trucks in the county will alsc
be used to bring in rural residents
) who wish to attend the course and
!, MS Williams who is directing this
feature, asks that all who wish to
attend but who have no means of
coming into Americus telephone her,
and she will arrange, if possible fol
a truck to bring them to the city
each morning and carry them home
again each night.
Womans Club to Aid
S The Woman's Club of Americu;
will cooperate in the effort to make
the course big success, Mrs. Frank
: Sheffield having notified Mrs, Viii
e liams yesterday Of reception to be
rendered those attending. This re
Ell ception will be held at the Communi
= ty club house on the municipal play
ground Wednesday night, and it il
S expected to prove one of the most en-
S joyable social features of the course
g In addition other entertainment
e features will be provided by the Ro
e tary and Kiwanis clubs. On Monda!
!. afternoon the Rotarians will be host
:, to those attending the course an au
+ tomobile ride being the form of en-
= tertainment, and the following after
= noon the Kiwanians plan to entertain