From Days Gone By March 3, 1922

March 3, 1922.
    A mass meeting was called by the people to consider future plans for work of county agents to be held March 4th at the court house. A petition signed by prominent men of the county was presented to the Headlight, which reads:
    "We, the undersigned citizens and farmers of Johnson County do hereby call a meeting of all the farmers, together with their wives, and all of their children at the court house on Saturday, March 4th at 3:30 pm. This call is made in the interest of every man, woman and child in Johnson County--every citizen.
    If you have the future welfare of your home and boys and girls at heart you will attend this meeting as it is for our mutual good. We will have some good, old-fashioned farmer talks from home folks at this meeting is called with the interest of the boys and girls mostly at heart, we give you the following statstics of what the boys' and girls' club work has accomplished in the last 16 years.
    The first Corn Club was organized in 1905 by the county school superintendent of Newton County. In the fall of 1905 an attractive exhibit was held, giving prizes for the best ears of corn.
    In 1906 the University of Georgia published a bulletin, "Georgia Boys Corn Growers' Contest", which inagurated the first statewide club movement. At this time little was ever dreamed what that branch meant as an awakening to wide-awake scientific farming.
    In 1910 Georgia had 1,789,684 hogs, mostly scrubs, razor backs and piney woods rooters. In 1920, just ten years, Georgia had 3,165,000 hogs, a large number of which were pure breds. The club products grown by the club boys and girls in Georgia since 1910 are conservatively estimated and placed at $5,322,496."
    Signers of this proclamation were: C. S. Claxton, W. L. Moseley, W. H. Raley, Jordan Stokes, J. B. Williams, J. N. Riner, J. R. Moore, A. J. M. Robinson, R. F. Webb, J. E. Jordan, J. T. Tucker, B. B. Hayes, R. R. Doke, L. Lillard, C. D. Roundtree and R. E. Smith.
    Other counties having farm demonstration and home economic agents are looking into the recent Supreme Court decision in the Bowers vs Banks case, carried up from Floyd County, in which this higher tribunal ruled that no county in the state of Georgia has authority to hire or pay county agricultural agents or home economic agents. County attorneys are going into the matter all over the state and are looking into the account of the agents and are taking such steps as they deem necessary under the ruling. The decision handed down from the Supreme Court expressly says: "In the absence of statutory authority we reach the conclusion that the Boatd of Roads and Revenues of Floyd County(the county which the case arose) is without authority to employ and pay a county demonstration agent from the public funds of said county raised by taxation."
    Last Saturday was a big day at Beulah Baptist Church, when the church and community gathered in a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the pastorite of Rev. W. E. Harville of that church. Rev. C. D. Graves of Dublin delivered a forceful sermon to a full house. At noon a huge dinner was served. Many were present on this occasion who had been received and baptized into the church by the same pastor, some who had been married by him and who were at the church on the day 25 years ago when the call was made for his services. After this engagement there the Rev. Harville declined to accept another call to the pastorate of Beulah and his decision was the source of considerable regret throughout the community.