The Mankato free press., 1911-09-22

ance today with all it's fine array of
exhibits. One of the principal eX-
hibits was the flowers, in charge of
Mrs. M. ID. Fritz. This exhibit was
in the center of the building and
covered about one-third of the
length of the room. The flowers had
been arranged most artistically by
Mrs. Fritz, who was assisted by
Mrs. c. l.. Kennedy and Miss Clara
Dunbar. The principal exhibits were
of pansies, cosmos, gladoli, saliva
and astOrs, although there were fine
exhibits of other varieties. Super
intendent Blake had a fine display
of cosmos and pansies from Sibley
park, but these were not entered
for competition. The judges in this
department were Mesdames A. NJ.
Stein, Chris Burmeister and J. C..
Gerlick. There were so many fine
specimens of flowers that they
found it hard to award the prem
iums.
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The wOmens and children's de-
partment was i'm charge of Mrs. A..
j. Veigel, who was assisted by Mrs.
Rudolph Bierbauer, Mrs. G. III. Wy
att, Mrs. T. E. Just, Mrs. T. C. Mick
elsOn. Mrs. IF. Stephan, Mrs. George
LOomis and Mrs. e. Benham. The
children's work deserves special
mention. There were oil and water
color paintings, charcoal and pencil
drawings and all kinds of sewing
exhibited and every piece deserving
of praise The women's section had
a number of curios which were in
teresting. There was a sampler
made in 1906 which was loaned by
Mrs. Osborne, Mrs. William y.
Frost has loaned an exhibit of arti-
cles from India, which attracted
much attention. NJ. E. Nelson had
loaned two coverlets in blue and
white which were woven in 1857.
There was a large display Of quilts,
sofa cushions, aprons, all kinds of
embroidery and lace work and all
sorts of articles of that class. In
the department for ladies over sew
enty there was a fine display of
work. This exhibit, all together,
occupied about half of the west side
of the building.
Exhibits BY Business Firms.
number of the business firms
of the city had exhibits in the build
ing Brett's booth was very attract
lively arranged with a display OF
coats, furs, and other ladies' furnish
ings. Landkamer Bros. had an ar
tistic display for their furniture
store. The booth was arranged as
dining room with oak furniture.
The hangings and rugs were in
brown to match the furniture, and
some very pretty china was exhibit
ed there The Singer Sewing ma
chine company had several machines
in their booth and a number OF
hand machines, known as No. 90,
which they were. advertising. The
Leader store was advertised with
good display of ladies' furnishings.
The decorations were autumn leaves.
The booth was arranged by Frank
Stahl, the decorator for the Leader.
The Klein Furniture company had
a display of dining room furniture,
all i'm mission style 1t was especial
ly attractive.
An Educational Exhibit.
The Hubbard Milling company had
an exhibit which was educational
as well as interesting. They had
small sacks of their various kinds
of flour arranged in the booth, and
then had samples of wheat in irs
different stages of flour making. First
was the wheat as it is brought to
the mill from the farms. Then was
shown the wheat after it had gone
through the process called washing.
This is done by putting the wheat
in water, the solid kernels sink and
the foreign substance and inferior
wheat rise to the top. This part
is called floating stock and is sold
as screenings for chicken and sheep
feed This is considered the cheap
est process of flour making and
is not generally used. The Hubbard
mills use 635 gallons of artesian wa
ter each minute in this process, and
10000 bushels of wheat are washed
and milled daily. H. E. Kelly, sales
man for the company was in charge
Vt the booth.
The Culinary Department.
The culinary department was one
deserving special mention, as there
was a better display there than in
any previous year. Mrs. T. c. Peart
was superintendent of the depart
ment and was assisted by Mrs. Hag-
gard, Mrs. w. R. Hammet and Mrs.
Conner Jones. The pastry was all
very tempting looking and the pic
kles and canned fruit and jelly
were splendid The Heinze bakery
has a loaf of rye bread about four
feet long displayed in this depart
ment
Display of Stoves.
Sebastian Zimmerman had a good
display of stoves and was pass.hg
out souvenirs to .he crowd. Joseph