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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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Biographical profile of missionary Mr. Smalley, detailing his agricultural and educational work in the Belgian Congo since 1924, with returns in 1929 and 1945, emphasizing better farming for African development. Urges attendance at related event.
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teaches classes and supervises the gardening and animal husbandry at the African school located at Elizabethville in the Southern Congo. Among the missionary's projects of agricultural development in Africa are irrigation and use of cattle for plowing and donkeys for cultivating.
Mr. Smalley, a native of Vermont, first went to the Congo in 1924 where he was horticulturist and teacher at the Congo Institute. In 1929 he returned to this country. For 16 years he was engaged in farming and Farm Bureau organizational activities in Michigan.
Returning to the mission field in 1945, Mr. Smalley was again assigned to the Belgian Congo to teach in the Institute Springer, a continuation of the Congo Institute where he had started twenty years before.
"The abundant life for the African cannot be realized until he has better agriculture and better food along with mental and spiritual development," the farm expert believes.
Mr. Smalley was educated at the University of Vermont where he received his B.S. degree. A native of Morrisville, Vt., he attended the Kennedy School of Missions. Dr. A. L. Holland, Dist. Supt. of the Jackson District, states that all pastors and Lay Leaders are urged to attend this.
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Elizabethville In The Southern Congo, Belgian Congo, Vermont, Michigan
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1924, 1929, 1945
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Mr. Smalley, a Vermont native and missionary, teaches at the African school in Elizabethville, supervises gardening and animal husbandry, and promotes agricultural projects like irrigation, cattle plowing, and donkey cultivation. He first went to Congo in 1924 as horticulturist and teacher, returned in 1929, farmed in Michigan for 16 years, and returned to Congo in 1945 to teach at Institute Springer. He believes abundant life for Africans requires better agriculture, food, mental, and spiritual development. Educated at University of Vermont with B.S. degree, attended Kennedy School of Missions. Dr. A. L. Holland urges pastors and lay leaders to attend this.