Thursday, July 24, 1924
At the recent county life conference held on Knapps Creek, the community scored 689 points. This compares with 690 points for Edray; 608 for Elk; 802 for Hillsboro; and 742 for Greenbank. Knapps Creek came up strong on their good, well kept homes. A community council was organized by the election of J. C. Harper, chairman; health, Mrs. Maggie Lockridge; recreation, Neal Pritchard; soils and crops, Coe Beverage; livestock, Sherman Gibson and D. W. Dever; schools, Peter Collins; chur-ches, Mrs. Myrta Moore; 4-H Clubs, Miss Enid Harper.
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John W. Kelley, of Browns Mountain, was in town Saturday to swear himself out a hunting and fishing license. He is a farmer after my own heart. When the sawmills began to invade his neighborhood and there was sale for the standing timber, he measured himself off ten acres of his choicest woodland as a sanctuary for birds, squirrels and other small game animals; where he could go and get himself a mess of squirrel or pheasant, in season, and where birds and animals can always find homes and an abundance of things to eat. This boundary has the finest of hickory, chestnut, oak and other trees, and the sawmills will stay off of it.
COUNTY CAMP
The seventh annual encampment of the Pocahontas County Boys and Girls Agricultural Clubs is being held at the Fair Grounds this week. County Agent Willey is assisted by the following instructors:
Harold Thomas, Handicrafts
Maggie Ballard, Sanitation
Mabel Saunders, Rug making
Melvina Wyant, Basketry
Luke Frame, Camp police
Virginia Gay, Vespers
Clarence May, camp inspector and house plans
Katherine Moore, Records
Elizabeth Balckhurst, Athletics
Edith McClung, Points
On Monday, over 30 boys and girls had registered for the camp with others to come in. The girls are housed in the Agricultural Hall and the boys under the grandstand.
The campers are Lynn McLaughlin, Elizabeth Sheets, Gay Hannah, Oleta Varner, Garland Harless, Virginia Moore, Francis Stillwell, Nita Gladwell, Mary Burns, Emmagene Robertson, Jewell Poage, Elizabeth Bailey, Laura McLaughlin, Preston McLaughlin, Rodney Siple, James Bailey, Early Bailey, Harold Stillwell, Herbert Brown, Merl Simmons, Paul Brown, Henry Barlow, Margaret Wallace, Ida Clendenen, Elnita Rogers, Thelma Brown, Margaret Robertson, Clara Dilley and Wilma Nottingham.
EDUCATION AND THE BALLOT BOX
No doubt a good many parents living on farms are still debating whether or not they will send the boys and girls to high schools who, last spring, completed the courses offered in the small district schools. Only one month remains in which to make this decision. Upon it rests the future welfare, not only of the boys and girls, but to a considerable extent that of the nation itself…
On the Fourth of July, President Coolidge said in an address before the teachers of the United States, meeting in Washington, “America has placed the power of government squarely, securely and entirely in the hands of the people. For all changes which they may desire, for all grievances which they may suffer, the ballot box furnishes a complete method and remedy… The body politic has little chance of choosing patriotic officials who can administer its financial affairs with wisdom and safety, unless there is a general diffusion of knowledge and information on elementary economic subjects sufficient to create and to ade- quately guide public opinion.
Practically every President from Washington to Cool-idge has warned us that the improvement of American institutions depends upon the intelligence of the voter. Think of this, mothers and fathers, living on the farms, before you decide not to give your boys and girls and the nations’ future voters the advantages of a high school education.
