From Days Gone By. Sept. 15, 1922

September 15, 1922.
    A measure in which there is very general interest is that recently enacted by the General Assembly providing for the employment of county farm agents and home economic agents. An enabling act was passed by the legislature to correct the old law, held to be void by the Supreme Court in a case carried by Floyd County.
    The sickness in every section of the county seems to be quite an epidemic. Many people are sick now. Many have just got up and there are a lot just taking to their beds. It must be the old-time "flu" or something like it. Then there are an unusual number of other ailments which have run doctors day and night lately.
    One item the next Grand Jury has before them as commonly seen is the condition of the county's detention home, the jail, where flooring is in a bad state of repair to say nothing about the heaps of other criticisms heaped upon it. Wednesday night of last week three Negro prisioners tried to make a get-a-way through the floor by using an iron bar and punching a big hole in the decayed bottom. It was luck that their work was discovered in time to save a complete jail delivery. Something is necessary to be done.
    Dr. & Mrs. J. G. Brantley entertained at Idylwild a lovely moonlight picnic in honor of Mr. & Mrs. James M. Cook, Jr. and Mr. & Mrs. W. M. Wilder of Albany. Mr. Alton Caneega left for Mount Berry where he will be a student.
    Mr. W. V. Tyson applied for discharge of his guardianship of Mrs. Lola Tyson. J. B. Williams applied for permanant letters of administration of the estate of Mrs. Rutha Davis, deceased.
    A hog sale is being held here selling Elmwood Stock Farm's Spotted Poland China bred sows. It is the best interest of every farmer to look for better livestock on the farm.
    Hogs that would produce the greatest yield of meat and lard on the same feed consumed. As it is well known that pure bred registered hogs will produce very near twice as many pounds in a given time as a scrub on the same feed. With the existing boll weevil it would be well for the farmers to think along this line for the heavy burden of taxation that must be met, with the hold-over debts of fertilizers and supplies, with the urgent need of the necessary equipment, the farmer turns to his present production of cotton and finds that it will not be sufficient to meet the demands. What will help? Take the different production of the farm, one by one and the hog offers the most encouragement. Two litters of pigs a year means a quick return on the money invested. Plenty of home grown feeds eliminate any additional outlay of capital with the market demand fairly consistent throughout the year the hog takes the place of a real morgage lifter. Johnson has a pretty fair start in the production of pure bred hogs and the good work should go on.
    Electing good men to office is the thing to do. Good times are not far ahead. Prosperity returns soon and the fellow who is able to stand through the valleys will rejoice when they get on the hill.
    A minister in a small western town surprised his audience one Sunday by reading the following notice from the pulpit, "The regular session of the Donkey Club will be held as usual after the service. Members will line up just outside the door, make remarks and stare at the ladies who pass, as is their custom." The club didn't meet that Sunday.