. The corn lady; the story of a country teacher's work. t on Friday even-ings and are organized in the regular, old-fashioned way. I am the secretary and ayoung farmer, who lives in the next district,is president. We have had some good meet-ings, with speeches, debates, readings andsinging. ^lany of the people of the district,who were very much afflicted with stage-fright at first, are now so that they can holdtheir own before an audience in a dignified,efficient way. We have debated everything from con-solidated schools to parcels post and hadtalks and essays about Alfalfa, GoodRoads, Care an
. The corn lady; the story of a country teacher's work. t on Friday even-ings and are organized in the regular, old-fashioned way. I am the secretary and ayoung farmer, who lives in the next district,is president. We have had some good meet-ings, with speeches, debates, readings andsinging. ^lany of the people of the district,who were very much afflicted with stage-fright at first, are now so that they can holdtheir own before an audience in a dignified,efficient way. We have debated everything from con-solidated schools to parcels post and hadtalks and essays about Alfalfa, GoodRoads, Care and Feeding of Hogs,How to Get Rid of the House Fly, TheUse of the Gasoline Engine on the Farmand many, many other things. I am so gladwe have had this literary society. It seemsto me that country people need leaders: theability to express themselves better: and THE CORX LADY 6: these tlmigs we are gaining. Best of all isthe social side; it is so good to get togetherand become better acquainted and away fromthe grind and monotony of all work andno CORN DAY IN IHE COUNTRY CHURCH Our country church, whicii is about threemiles from here, has such a good pastor. Hebelieves ui making the church really sen^ethe people. He had all the people of the con-gTegation and their families come too^etherone evening at his home for a party. There m\ 62 THE CORN LADY a Farmers Progressive Club was suggested,and a committee appointed to make out theconstitution. At a meeting held a week later,the Farmers Progressive Club was organ-ized with about fifty members. They de-cided, as one feature of their Club, to ob-serve Corn Sunday and Monday at thechurch. On Saturday the people broughtcorn and other farm products to the churchand arranged them beautifully. On Sun-day, the sermon was on the text: Whatso-ever a man soweth, that shall he also was a corn sermon and you would havebeen surprised and delighted, I know, if youcould have heard it and all the ways thepreacher found to bring into
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