100 YEARS AGO IN THE SARATOGIAN
Saturday, Dec. 7, 1918. The world war may be over, but Saratoga County farmers still have important work to do helping the U.S. feed Europe, the county farm bureau insists today.
Skidmore School of Arts president Charles H. Keyes presides over the annual meeting of the farm bureau and the Home Economics Association at the state armory in the absence due to illness of bureau president Frank L. Smith.
“It is of the highest importance that farmers be prepared to meet the new situation that has developed as the result of the world war,” Keyes tells the meeting, “All other lines of industry are organizing themselves to meet the new crisis and unless the farmers everywhere do the same thing the problem of feeding the world will be a failure.”
Farm bureaus created during the war remain necessary to meet postwar needs, says M. C. Burritt of the College of Agriculture at Ithaca. “New York State would be unable to do its share toward raising its portion of the needed unless it had strong organizations of farm bureaus everywhere.”
During a women’s session, A. G. Pardee of Yaddo is elected chairman of the executive c ommittee of the new Saratoga County Home Economics Bureau, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture extension service.
Pardee reads a letter from her boss, Katrina Trask, who writes that “I know of nothing so much needed in this town as a spirit of cooperation and an active community interest growing out of work done together, and pleasures enjoyed together, and an earnest striving for the betterment of the town.
“If we will work to accomplish community spirit and study all the different ways of arousing community interest, we shall achieve a victory over the sluggish inertia that is so apt to settle upon the life of the small town.” Below-Zero Weather Here Bitter cold follows yesterday morning’s snowfall into Saratoga County, taking overnight temperatures down as low as ten below zero at the Excelsior Avenue pumping station at 6 a.m.
“Although winter proper, according to the almanac, is not supposed to arrive in this particular section of the globe until December 21, the vanguard is certainly on the job right now,” a Saratogian reporter writes. What’s Happening The George Walsh picture “On the Jump” was scheduled to play the Broadway Theatre yesterday, but the film was sent to Buffalo by mistake. It will play tonight instead, supported by three acts of live vaudeville.
William Farnum stars in “Les Miserables” at the Palace, while child star Gloria Joy headlines “No Children Wanted” at the Lyric.