Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1916 — MAY HAVE ANOTHER COUNTY AGENT [ARTICLE]

MAY HAVE ANOTHER COUNTY AGENT

Meeting Has Been Called For Next 'Saturday to Discuss the Matter of County Agent. The farmers of Jasper bounty an! all others who are interested in agriculture, have been asked to attend a meeting at the court house on the afternoon of Dec. 2. The meeting to be held is for the purpose of discussing the matter of securing another county agent to act here. Mr. Worth Merritt, of Purdue University, will be here on that day. Mr. Merritt has been recommended by Purdue University for that position. Some time ago the county council made an appropriation for a county agent, but Purdue at that time couli not agree upon a _man and the matter was dropped for the time The appropriation, of course, still stands, and is available. The meeting was called by Chauncey Wood, ip resident of the Farmers’ Institute, and he has mailed a circular letter to the farmers throughout the county asking that *they be present to meet Mr. Merritt, and those who did not receive one of these letters are asked to come' anyway. The letter which was sent out was as follows: “The value of tne county agent in promoting the agriculture of Jasper county depends upon the selection of a man who meets the approval of the farmers of the county and the sup' 1 - port which they give to lum. “We have received word from Purdue university that they have a man, Mr. Worth Merritt, a graduate from the agricultural college of Ames, lowa, who \vas raised on an lowa grain and livestock farm “and whcr, since his graduation, has been teaching agriculture in the high school and assisting the county agent in Clinton county, lowa. “Mr. Merritt‘can come to Jasper county Dec. I and 2 to get acquainted, with us and we with him. "I have taken the liberty to call a meeting of those, who are interested in promoting the agricultural development of Jasper county on Saturday, Dec. 2, in the court house jn Rensselaer at 1 p. m., that we may meet” Mr. Merritt and decide w r hether or not he will be satisfactory to us in the capacity .of county agents “I hope that you may be able to attend this meeting and give us the benefit of your opinions on the subject. Sincerely yours, Chauncey Wood, Pres. Farmer’s Institute.”