Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1918 — JASPER COUNTY TO RAISE MORE POULTRY [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY TO RAISE MORE POULTRY

Co. Agent Learning was appointed county director, J. A. Snyder, president, and C. W. Postill secretary of the poultry committee of the Better Farming Committee. The object of this organization is to increase poultry and egg production on the farms of this county, under the directioO of Mr. Learning and government poultry experts furnished to Mr. Learning by the Federal and State governments. A series of campaigns are to be carried on. The first will be called a “hatch early” campaign. Township meetings are to be held in the 13 townships. Newspapers, schools, grocery stores, poultry buyers, hardware .dealers and other factors will be to do their bit in this drive. The following have been appointed “War Emergency Poultry Leaders” in their districts as named below: Carpenter, Lewis Hunt, Remington. West Carpenter, Mrs. Chas. Welch, Goodland. Jordan, Clarence Maxwell, Rensselaer. East Jordan, Wm. l Wortley, Rensselaer. Milroy, George Parks, Rensselaer. Marion, A. E. Wallace, Rensselaer. East Marion, Albert Lembach, Pleasant Ridge. Newton, Arhart Wuerthner, Rensselaer. Hanging Grove, S. E. Cook, McCoysburg. North Hanging Grove, Chas. Erb, McCoysburg R. 1. Barkley, Jos. Pullins, Rensselaer. Union, R. L. Budd, Fair Oaks. South Union, Leslie Alters, Rensselaer. Gillam, E. E. Pullins, Medaryville. North Gillam, Alva D. Hershman, Medaryville. ( ( Walker, Guy Dooley, Kniman. I Keener, Herman DeVries, Thayer. Wheatfield, A. S. Keene, Wheatfind. Kankakee, A. Duggleby, Tefft Mrs. H. A. Quinn and daughter, Mardell, went to Kankakee, DI., today to visit Mrs. Quinn’s sister.