Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — COUNTY AGENT NOW ASSURED [ARTICLE]

COUNTY AGENT NOW ASSURED

Sentiment Favorable at Meetings Held Monday and Yesterday. It looks now as though Jasper county w’as to have another county agent. The meeting of farmers at the court house Saturday to discuss the matter disclosed an almost unanimous sentiment of the few present in favor of employing such an agent, and the matter was then taken up Monday by the county board of education. Mr. Worth Merritt, a graduate of the agricultural college at Ames, lowa, was here and met many farmers and a few members of the board, and action taken indicates that a county agent will be employed as soon as a suitable man for the place is found. Mr. Merritt expected to meet other farmers and members of the board yesterday and today. A committee has been appointed by the board of education to seek out a man for the place, and this will be done at once. The employment of a county agent means n great deal to the farmers of Jasper county, and it is hoped, now that one is to be employed, that the best possible man for the place can be secured.