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June 5, 1920 
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ing a poor, little, weak Sunday school, 
the teaching is done right along with the 
servicte, explaining the Scripture, etc. We 
began when we got good and ready, and 
thought everybody had come. No one 
need toll a bell as though it was a funeral 
for us to begin services. "When you have 
all day ahead of yon, what difference does 
it make? , , , 
The Dinner. —After service the good 
women -folks got busy while the men 
folks talked. Many hands make light 
work, and in a jiffy we were at the long 
table—22 of us. There a great dish of 
potato salad, an abundance of ham sand¬ 
wiches, three fine big cakes and both milk 
and coffee to drink. Such a fine thing 
for all the congregation to eat together! 
What a nice feeling it gives! How so¬ 
ciable and happy everybody was! And 
how much farming we talked over! 
After Dinner. —Then we all went into 
the church again and had a talk from the 
County Agent and a conference aboirti the 
crops to plant and how to plant them. 
They were going to take more care of po¬ 
tatoes, if possible, for it is realized that 
food will be scarce next W inter. Corn 
and oats, especially corn, are great crops 
in the country. The fodder will feed the 
stock and the grain will feed everything 
from grandfather to a day-old chick. The 
County Agent is coming down to mix up 
the potato spray for the whole neighbor- 
hungry times ahead. All crop reports 
are bad, and the Spring is so late and 
cold and rainy that work is very much 
behind. Then the help matter is acute. 
The factories are to blame, and when 
the pinch comes, the truth ought to be 
known. A small factory went on strike 
down below here, and 14 of the men went 
down and goti work at another factory. 
As soon as the first place heard of it they 
’phoned right down and the men were at 
once discharged. But a man quit up here 
on a neighbor’s farm and they hired him 
down at the factory, knowing lie came 
right from a farm, and overbidding the 
farmer $2 a week. Do you think if this 
farmer ’phoned down the man would be 
discharged? This same man came around 
afterwards and wanted to engage 20 bush¬ 
els of potatoes from the farmer lie had 
worked for. The latter informed him 
that he would ‘‘save him just two bushels 
at a guarantee price of .$100 a bushel!’’ 
The Labor Situation. —Do we realize 
how much the auto industry has upset 
the labor and money market? Imagine 
the billions that are tied up in autos— 
largely pleasure cars—though the truck 
business is increasing. Think of the num¬ 
ber of men that are making autos and sell¬ 
ing autos and repairing autos and driving 
autos! It is conservatively estimated 
at 5.000.000. Then as to the material. 
A neighbor who has ordered a corn- 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
A Country Sunday. —Such a good 
time as we had down at the Old Church 
last Sunday! The Parson and the Coun¬ 
ty Farm Bureau agent started out Sun¬ 
day morning together. We made several 
stops on the way. At one stop we found 
three fine little goslings in a box by the 
kitchen stove. The white gander came 
out of the brook to chase us (he was one 
the Parson took down last Fall). This 
woman has a beautiful place for geese, 
and it looks as though she was going to 
make a success of it. k.he has about 25 
more eggs setting. At the next place wc 
saw a beautiful string of trout. It does 
beat all how trout will bite on Sunday! 
The Parson once went fishing a little 
while himself on a Sunday down there, 
and it got in all the papers, and what a 
fuss was made about it! The papers re¬ 
ported he caught a basketful. Unfortu¬ 
nately, however, he only got one wee bite. 
At the Church. —We climbed through 
the window (who can ever fiud a country 
church key?) and rang up the old bell for 
all it was worth. On the old box stove 
in the corner the Parson put the big 
coffee pot, with fresh water out of the 
trout brook, and by the time the people 
came it was simmering merrily. We had 
our church service and the schoolteacher 
played the organ for us. Instead of hav- 
liood, and this way it will cost just about 
half it would for us to buy it in small 
lots—each for himself. All the church 
people got their seed potatoes for $2, in¬ 
stead of over $5. The Parson imagines 
that if anyone goes down in that neigh¬ 
borhood and begins to blow about the 
church, he might get one of those pota¬ 
toes where he least expected it. 
Co-operation in the Back Country. 
This co-operation in the far-back country 
is indeed a problem, and it was so hard to 
get it started. The Parson believes we 
have made a beginning. Nothing will 
help such a thing along as fast as a sub¬ 
stantial saving in dollars and cents. When 
you save $3 a bushel on seed potatoes, 
your neighbors sit up and take notice. 
It will be this way with the potato spray. 
Quite a few wanted commercial fertilizer 
this Spring, but it could not be had at 
any price unless it had been ordered last. 
Fall. Of course, we should have all or¬ 
dered it together last Fall—right round 
the old box stove in the church. One 
team brings in most of the eggs now. 
This team should bring the groceries back 
for the neighborhood—bought on the cash- 
and-carry plan, at a decided, reduction 
over city delivery charge-up prices. 
Hungry Times. —Everyone and every 
paper about here thinks we are booked for 
planter is at last informed that it will be 
impossible to send it to him. The raw 
materials are bought up by the auto fac¬ 
tories. even after being shipped to the farm 
implement, makers, at a bonus from $25 to 
$100 a ton. No one really knows how 
much harm this auto craze is doing to 
the country. With the rich, and many 
that cannot afford it, it is not enough 
to have one car—there must be a car 
for every member of the family. Thus to 
have four cars is no longer out of the or¬ 
dinary. It is said to take 25,000,000 
gallons of gas a day to keep these cars 
running. 
Can’t Eat Them. — Diamonds and 
precious stones are nice, but you cannot 
eat them, and. except in the imagination, 
they go little way to keep one warm. 
Reports show that this country now has 
two-thirds of all the precious stones in 
the world. But what of it? What good 
will it do next Winter? Just now we 
are exchanging cotton goods for jewelry 
and luxuries. This makes cotton high 
here, and ever growing higher. But what 
good are the stones? Nice to look at, but 
they will not feed babies. 
Decoration Day. —The next service 
down in the country church will be on 
Decoration Day. We have invited the 
two adjoining schools to come, down with 
us for the day. In the morning we will 
have service with the children together 
up front, and they will sing some of their 
school pieces. Then we will all have 
dinner together. While the women folks 
are doing up the dishes we will probably 
have stories and games for the children. 
Then at three o’clock we will form at 
the church and march to the cemetery. 
It happens in this case that the. cemetery 
belongs to the church, and she is respon¬ 
sible for its care. There we will deco¬ 
rate the graves of the soldiers—the Grand 
Army furnishing the names and the flags. 
The children will speak pieces, here and 
there will be an address with singing. 
Then we will go back to the church and 
disband. On the evening before the 
young people will have a social and dance 
in the church rdoms, and many of the 
young fellows from the city will be at 
home for the week end and holiday. 
Other Good Days. —There will be a 
lot of other good days coming, too. The 
County Y. M. C. A. secretary is coming 
down for one Sunday, and the Boys’ and 
Girls’ Club leader for another, and then 
one Sunday we are planning for the whole 
congregation to go over to the boys’ camp 
to spend the day. This having services 
in the country not quite so often, once 
in two or three weeks, and then making a 
good deal of it with a special speaker in 
the afternoon and dinner for all. seems 
to work first rate. 
That Boys’ Class. —You will remem¬ 
ber the boys’ class of the Parson’s that 
used to meet, and still meets, downstairs 
in the cellar of the church. One of the 
little fellows had serious complications 
set in during an attack of the measles, 
and died before the Parson even heard he 
was sick. And when the Parson went 
down for the funeral and arrived quite 
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