The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23
is the class in cooking and domestic

| No meats or coffee are used, but
| plenty of good wholesome food is served
and when one becomes used to the diet
! they realize that the world today has
/ become slaves to the habit of using
| foods that hinder rather than strength
en- the body and mind in their devel-
| opment. Two regular meals are served
but those who wish it are furnished g
light lunch in the evening Another
feature of the dining room is the man
ner of clearing the tables
For just before the students leave the
tables the dishes are gathered an6
/ when they arise in a body the tables
/ have been cleared and everything is
neat and clean. About 200 may be
comfortably seated at one time.
Among the industries taught are no.
ticed broom making, printing carpen-
try dressmaking, dairying, agriculture
engineering and baking. The broom
/ department is lin charge of c. J. Cum
mings a practical broom maker re-
| Gently from Michigan. During the past
| year Mr. Cummings and his corps OF
student workers have been kept busy
! supplying the demand for brooms
which comes from Walla Walla city
| and have not been able to solicit from
/ other towns in the Inland Empire
! Nearly every store in the city carry a
! line of brooms and brushes which bear
the brand of the college and it has be-
come necessary to continue this branch
! of the industries throughout the entire
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only
The printing plant is in charge of
Ralph Conard a practical printer from
the Pacific Press Publishing house
| This office is we'll equipped with two
presses and other machinery necessary
for the carrying on of an up-to- date
printing plant The North Pacific
Union Cleaner, the official paper for
the denomination in the North Pacific
Union conference is published here and
large amount of pranted matter is
turned out each week for the various
branches of conference organizations
The carpentry department occupies
the second story of the broom factory
and is in charge of S. c. Hanson a con-
tractor and builder. Several houses
have been built by this department
during the present year as well as
cabinet work of various kinds such as
laboratory tables and mission furni-
ture have been turned out all of which
have been creditable to the department.
Just at present a large pipe organ is
being finished which will be placed in
the college auditorium. The work on
this has occupied over year and has
been under the direct supervision Of
Prof George Miller who is at the head
of the music department. The organ
contains from 900 to 700 pipes and is
valued at $4,000. The dress making
department is in charge of Mrs. A. G.
Adams and is a feature that is of great
aid to the lady students for many can
in this way, learn to do practical work
and at the same time aid themselves
by making their own garments.
The dairving department boasts of
fine herd of Jerseys which furnish milk
and butter for the kitchen. G.. M
Christensen is at the head of this de-
partment he being practical man IN
this line, having had much experience
in the work in connection with the
management of the famous Battle
Creek sanitarium.
For several years the agricultural
department has been in charge of the
different teachers on the academic fac
ultv but as this line of work has grown
TO such Importance it has been found
necessary to employ a man to devote
his entire time to directing the work
therefore, S. D. Smith has charge of ii
and is kept busy with a large force of
Young men in carrying on the work.
The college has about so acres and
this is in garden and fruit. In few
weeks. work will be begun on the ar
tesian well and this will greatly bene-
fit this line of industry.
The engineering work consists j" tie
operation of the heating and lightfHe
plant together with practical class room
work. The work is so arranged that
the BOYS work in shifts and take the
RESPONSIBILITIES that are connected with
this line.
The bakery, which is so we'll known
70 it's many patrons of Walla Walla is
also one of the industrial features of
the college and the large quantities of
the various foods it turns out and ships
to all parts of the northwest would be
a surprise to many who were not ia
miliar with the situation. Among the
food products, we might mention are
butter crackers, graham and oatmeal
crackers, fruit waters, granola, malt
grano and several kinds of nut foods
beside the daily output of bread which
is known on the market as Sanitarium
bread. This food factory received a
gold medal at the Louis and Clark ex-
position
While the large new sanitarium