The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-30
THEIR FINE WORK.
School Pupils of Benton-Exhibit for
St Louis and Something About it.

Office over at the court house is
work to attract the admiration of
every citizen of Benton 1t is by
the pupils of the public schools.
and there are pieces that are rev.
elation to all who see them. There
is cartoon prepared by a Philo-
uath pupil. maps of Oregon drawn
ny little people, and drawings OF
various kinds 50 ezcellently done
as to cause the onlooker to wonder.
il, after all it Is child work. There
are samples of Oregon woods pre-
pared and polished by child hands
and other handiwork so handily
done as to vie with the work of old
md skilled hands in appearance.
The whole il portion OF the ex-
hibit Benton county public schools
mre to make at the St Louis Ex-
position. Ali the pieces are not yet
ia, and many have not received
,hsir settings, but enough is at
haud to make it certain that the
exhibit as a whole will show the
school children Of one county in
Oregon to re abr asst Of the times
10 haudicraft. Next Saturday, in
several show windows on Main
.treet sam piles of the display will
I. on exhibition, and there is no
..,,bt that each will attract wide
II { .ntion and admiration. Imme-
.n.tely thereafter the whole exhibit
Na'i be packed for shipment and
~ t on a long trip to St. Louis.
" ERE next year it will be gazed at
al doubtless be admired by people
j, IN all over the county.
The exhibit will include such
work as the following and from the
following schools.
Corvallis Public Schools-Maps.
language, number stories, illustrated
poems. needle work on card board,
besides other features. Owing to
the work not being in possession of
the county school superintendent
we are unable to state exactly what
it includes, this will be given in a
later issue.
Philomath Schools S. I. Pratt's
room, grammar, 8th grade, work
analysis. arithmetic, grade 9TH, So
luton of problems;..C. G. Springer's
room, easy lessonsin English, six b
grade; advanced arithmetic. fifth
grade; spelling, sixth grade; Mrs.
C. q. Springer's room, maps of S.
A.. Fourth Grade.
Richland School-One weeks
work in spelling. y
Oak Grove School-Language,
third grade; grammar seventh;
arithmetic, third grade B division;
arithmetic, fifth grade; arithmetic,
second grade; drawing by pupils in
seventh grade.
Alexander Schoo1-Maps of Ore
gon.
independent School Maps of
Benton County.
Blodgett-Maps of Oregon, and
work in composition.
l. District No. 93-Maps of Oregon
drawings, and spelling tests.
Bellfouhtain-Cabinet of native
woods, oiled and polished, inclu-
ding curly maple, fir, yew, cascara,
walnut grown in Oregon, oak, will
low, chinapin, cherry, locust, vine
maple, alder, cedar, crab apple, ash,
myrtle grown in Coos County.
Mountain View School-Cabinet
of native woods, including section
of yew wood, ash, alder and sgrub
oak.
Hoskins-Work in composition.
Beaver Creek-Busy work. This
consisted of card board work. The
pupils of first grade cut their card
board, made it into box then wor-
ked different figures with needle on
sides. top. ect.
Monroe-Language lessons by
first grade, number work for third
grade. number work by first grade;
spelling third grade.
Bellfountain continued-Work of
Sth grade in European history, Ella
Dunlap's room; language work,
fifth grade; language work sixth
grade, Allie Readers room.
Philomath College-Latin, first
year one recitation, physical geog-
raphy. first year, geology, fresh
man, Virgil, first year, first year
Greek, rhetoric, cartoons, special
work, exhibiting native ability.
The commercial department special
work in bookkeeping, preparatory
and advanced, short hand and type
writing. There is also work in
astronomy fourth year, geometry,
third year, Cicero third year; histo-
tory ofphilosophy, photographs and
other work.
Work is expected from the Col
lege of Philomath, and OAC is to
be represented by a well selected
exhibit. With what has been re-