Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-03-30
AGRICULTURAL NEWS NOTES
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The following letter has been re-
ceiyed by the county agent and will
be of interest totall boys and girls
club leaders andemembers:
"Dear Sir:-In>, j January we re-
ceived a letter from Mr.. Quivey of
the B. & o. railroad, in which ne
states, The B. & O. railroad VIII
give two scholarships of 500 each
to the boy and girl who do~the most
outstanding and efficient work TINS
year in Boys and Girls Club work,
a resident in the county served by
the B. & o. These 500 scholar
ships will be awarded thu ough the
State Club Leader The letter fur
ther states that if the money is not
used to attend the university the
winner may elect trip to Washing
ton.
Since these premiums are avail
able to the children of club age, the
company. in their letter of March
I'd to Director RamsOwer, makes
the following stipulation: The
premium of 500 can be used by the
winner for scholarship purposes at
the state educational institution, in
the event that the winner uses 1T
within twelve months from the date
of it's award; and in the event that
the winner is not ready to use the
premium for scholastic purposes,
or in the event that he or she does
not care to use it for that purpose,
he or she must select the other al
tentative, namely, an educational
trip to Washington, D. c., the ma
tional capital, which will be later
arranged in careful detail by the B.
& o. r. R., in cooperation with the
State Club Leader, the trip to be
properly chaperoned and possibly
taken in company with other win
ners from other states. In the event
that the winner does not avail him
self of either one Of the above al
ternatives, it is agreed that the
award shall then be made available
to the Club member who held sec
ond place, on the same terms, and
so on, until the winner in his proper
turn qualities
1T will be necessary for the win
ners of these prizes to write COM
plete story of their club work and
submit an accurate and complete
financial statement of their records.
w. H. Palmer, State Club
Leader"
Livestock Association Meeting
Five members of the Livestock
Shipping Co. Board of Directors met
Saturday. Manager H. r. BoZman
gave a report of the business done
during the last month, and also,
report of the State Livestock Ship
pers' meeting recently held at CO.
lumbus
The subject of publicity was most
discussed. 1t was decided that ad-
vertising in the local papers and the
word of the satisfied shipper to his
neighbor to be the plan to follow.
The farm bureau livestock mar
keting committee can do much to.
further this work in their respec-
tive communities. The purpose of
this committee is to furnish more
efficient connection between the
group of shippers in community
and the manager. This committee
is composed of the following farm
bureau members: Deerfield, Oakley
Ford; Marion, w. S. Harris; Bristol,
J. T. McGregor; Bloom, J. r. Os-
born; Penn, Ernest Price; Malta,
w. P. Chappelear; Meigsville, J. V.
Jett.
Action was also taken to officially
take membership in the State Ship
pers' Association
Township Notes
Roxbury and East Windsor COM
munities OF Windsor township will
conduct club work this year. Plans
were made at conference of the
county agent and farm bureau lead
ers for clothing and food club work.
Chesterhill community, Marion
township. took steps last week to
begin boys and girls club enroll
ment. A meeting Of farm bureau
leaders and the county agent at
Chesterhill was held and plans
made for poultry. food, clothing,
and sheep club work.
Ray HOgsett Found Not Sane