Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-11
GETTING READY 70
END SHORT COURSE
EXAMINATIONS, LIVE STOCK
PARADE AND CORN SALE
BRING 1T TO CLOSE.
CLASSES TO BE EXAMINED
AT HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
All of the Short Course Glasses Meet
There at 9 in the Mornins-Live
Stock Parade Thru Business District
at Noon-Auction Sale of Corn in
Court House.

With examinations in the morning,
a parade of livestock thru the business
district in the afternoon, and the sale
court room, also in the afternoon, the
third annual short course held here will
come to an end Saturday. Prepare
tons for these closing features of the
short course were going forward rap
idly today.
For the first time since the short
court began the men and women of
the classes will meet together in the
high school building at o'clock Sat
urday morning.
Examinations at High School.
For about an hour Prof. p. G.. Hold
en- and perhaps others of the short
course instructors will speak Profess
sor Holden will talk on the work to be
done in the future and of the benefits
to be derived from continuation of
the short course work thru study clubs
and similar community organizations.
Beginning at 10 o'clock all of the
classes will take the examinations. The
men will be examined in corn and live
stock. and the women in the domestic
science subjects which have been
taught during the week
Corn Sale in Afternoon.
At ! O'Clock the fancy livestock
which has been used by the livestock
paraded thru the business section OF
the city. The parade will be headed by
one of the local bands. The line of
march viii he from First street east
to Third avenue, and return to First
street
The hand will then lead the way to
the east court room. Were the prize
winning corn. which is now the prop
ertv Of the short course association,
VIII be sold at public auction to the
highest bidder The corn will be auc-
toned off by Professor Holden, and
Nessrs. Crossley, Bush and Bremen.
When the sale is ended the short
course. fer at least three years, will
have been completed.
Class Work Over Today.
Today brought the work Of all Of the
classes to an cnd. The corn study
classes today voted their entire time
to review II ne work Of the week,
ard to a stadr e. the methods Of crop
rotation and for .ca.at ming the fer
tilitV OF the -" y me OF tHe PRIZE
ui-nfng corn MAS taEcn before the
classes and studied for 5 points Of SUI
periorty-
The live stock @lasse5 -odaE studied
BROOD -eNa \ grouI pf i've Poland
ehira5and f)tr ~ Jersey sows were
studied by ,the classes.
A brief discus SION Of the care Of
brood sows preceded the lessons.
j demonstration Of salads and des-
serts was given by Miss Charlton be-
fore the women Of the domestic science
class in the Baptist church basement
this morning.
DENIM cad Speaks on Banking.
D. 7. Denmead, president of the First
National Bank addressed the joint
corn and live stock classes late Thurs
dav afternoon. He spoke on the rela-
tionship of the bank to the farm, and
touched on the value of a systematic
habit OF saving, and the value of saw
ings banks to the farmer.
Hansen Speaks at Y. M. c. A.
Fred NJ. Hansen, county work secre-
tary of the state committee of the Y.
NJ G. A. addressed a small audience of
short course men a the Railroad Y. NJ.
c. A. Thursday night. The lecture was
TO have been illustrated, but the stere-
opticon could not be managed and the
pictures could not be shown. Mr.. Han
sen spoke about the work being done
in the rural communities by the coun-
ty work department of the Y. NJ. c. A.