Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-10-26

D county has only recently develope
into a grain producing county
we have made grand showing in fg
5 ricuture. AS it is we have 46 medal
oa grain anl if the farmers had sen
mo grain we could have had more
One half Of our medals on grain ar
. gold, showing the highest award.
"The state commission offered first
second, third and fourth cash prizes 70
the greatest number Of points in general
In this competition We came out witt
the second prize. We could easily
have been in the first class If there haG
been more Of our manufactured products
We bad the stuff if it had been sent
down, however, for county so email in
population to get off with the prize that
we received is showing that we should
be proud Of
"Onr educational exhibit was fea-
ture that I am proud of and Will do
much to bring results in sending out a
good word for our county. Naturally
the people and especially the Eastern
visitors leaned to the opinion that a
small county Of the Inland Empire. like
ours would be a little backward in
schools and educational work, but when
our county marched off with a silver
medal right on the top round with
Multnomah county, the foremost coun-
ty in the state. it was revelation. No
county in the state receiyed gold
medal as county, and very few were
fortunate enough to get the recognition
of silver medal.
"The jury in charge OF the educa-
tional work, while composed of emil
nent educators, was very particular and
precise and the awards were hard
earned tell you that a medal in this
contest means something. Prof. Reid
cannot be too highly spoken of, either
as 70 his ability or enterprise in getting
up the educational exhibit. The work
of manual training in which there was
so much mechanical handiwork in evil |
dence won the admiration of the jury.
The sacks of wheat furnished for tree
distribution by the school children were
a novel feature. In each little sack OF
wheat which has been distributed all
over the United States was the child's
name that sewed up the sack. The in.
vitatlon for correspondence is already
bearing fruit, for l understand that some
Of the children are already beginning to
receive letters of inquiry from people
in far away ststes.
During my work in the booth met
many prominent educators from all
over the United States. 1t was notice.
lbls how quick they we're to notice and
mention the superiority of the manual
raining in the Heppner public schools.
They said that they had never witness
ID the equal of this exhibit in the
United States.
"In reference to our booth, we had
isitors from all over the United States
nd many parts of the world. Those
aterested in wheat pronounced our
lue stem and club superior to any
rown in Western Oregon and equal to
1e best grown in the United States.
i've thousand one-pound sacks OF
heat were distributed to farmers of T
le East and Middle West. The sacks
ere appropriately labeled and many
the people promised to write
to the results obtainedj from
sntlng this wheat. There was a big
'mand for this wheat and it went
.ry fast,
"Our wool attracted the attention OF 70
men, manufacturers, wool 5
Iyers and wool growers and was uni W
rsally pronounced TO be the finest ex -
bit ever shown at any worli's fair. r,
sheep men were there from New CT
aland and Australia, some OF them so
ing growers who owned flocks run
lg into the hundreds of thousands.
ar
ey were greatly interested in the A,
ol exhibit. Some of them STAYED as Br
g as two hours asking hundreds of III
estions about the wool and the sheep wi
lustry in general. ~
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