The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-09-19
.CHILDREN'S FAIR
is A SUCCESS
EXHIBITS MAKE FINE SHOWING
The First Industrial Fair for Children Has
Stimulated Interest in Home
and Farm Pursuits


was most successful was evidenced by
the many expressions of pleasure of
the throngs who visited the court
house Saturday afternoon and evening.
The industrial fair is a new departure
IN school activities, and it is sincerely
hoped that each year will find the dis
play larger and better. Considering
that this was the first attempt the ex-
hibit was exceptionally fine, including
vegetables, flowers. bread, cake, sew
ing, canned fruit, jellies, candy, draw
ings, ,woodcraft and chickens.
Probably the busiest man in the city
Saturday morning was Supt. c. ID.
Thompson, to whom much credit is due
for the success of the venture. The
exhibits We're not placed until Satur-
day, the doors being opened to the pub
lie at noon. There was great lack of
room and some place will have to be
provided for larger display in the fu-
ture.
The vegetables, which were grown
Dy the girls as well as the boys, in
cluded corn, potatoes, onions. squash,
pumpkins, carrots, parsnps, and pop
corn. By the way. it is said corn can
not be raised in this part of the coun-
try. That exhibited at the fair was as
big aud handsome as that usually dis
played in the middle west. The pota-
toes were certainly handsome and at
tracted much attention.
Sweet peas, dahlias, roses and asters
were there in profusion, ard to the
ordinary observer, il was a difficult
matter to judge between them.
The bread, cake, doughnuts, etc.
were all done to perfection, and the
future staff of life for this section is
assured. That bread was as pretty as
could be desired.
The sewing, which consisted princi-
pally of aprons of various designs,
showed skill and painstaking really re-
markable in the little ones who had
done the work. Particularly noticeable
was the exquisitely rendered piece of
darning displayed on this table.
When it came to judging the canned
fruits and jellies the task was almost
beyond accomplishment. One of the
ladies made the remark that il was the
hardest thing she had ever attempted.
| / his exhibit was furnished by very
| young girls and one or two of the boys,
besides one exhibit from the boys
cooking class. The jells and fruit
would have done credit to the most ex.
perienced housewives, and were GER
teinly temptingly beautiful.
| The drawings were works of art, al
of them. including landscapes, car
toons, maps. flowers and profles.
The mechanical work showed skill
and patience ard while only a few ar
tcles in this department were dis
played, they were interesting indeed.
The chickens were all beauties, anC
it was really too bad that each COOP
could not have borne a blue ribbon.
Each Individual exhibit was handsome,
plump and we'll marked in its own par
ticular characteristics.
Miss Horning. Mrs. w. II Lawrence
and Mrs. J. W. Ingalls, were the judges
of flowers, bread, sewing. fruits and
iellies, and their task certainly was
arduous. j. X. Niekelsen was Judge OF
the chickens and mechanical work. and
A. l.. Crocker acted as judge of the
vegetables.
The fair was such success that il
will be attempted another year. and
everyone will certainly lend their en-
couragement to the scholars in all ways
possible.
The merchants responded nobly with
prizes this year, and no doubt will do
so again. The list of prize winners is
as follows:
Division A
Packing apples: First Otto Annala,
Oak Grove school second--Jesse Hut
son, Parkdale.
Best five potatoes: First Clark
Thompson, Cascade Locks; second -
Frank Fenwck. Oak Grove. third
Ernest Puddy, Parkdale.
Best five ears corn: First Frances
Miller, Barrett. second Roy Miller,
Rarett third Edna Plog, Odell.
Best five onions: First Sam
Thompson, Cascade Locks; second
Samuel ,Coad, Hood River; third
Armas Jakku, Oak Grove.
Best trio chickens, Barred Rocks,
Reds, Leghorn: First Howard SEQ
bee, Hood River; second Floyd Ma
son. Pine Grove.
Best loaf bread. First Edna Clapp,
Hood River; second Buela Turner.
Hood River; third-Zoe Newman, Pine
Grove.
Best five jars canned fruit: First
Lulu Prather, Odell; second - Clara
Thomson. Pine Grove; third Lenore
Cram, Hood River.
Best five glasses jelly: First Ralph
Ganger, Hood River; second Clara
Thomson, Pine Grove third-Thelma
Elliott, Frankton.
Sweet peas: Frst-lla Nichols, Oak
Grove.
Best asters: First-Anna Dart, Bar
rett; second Josephine Dart. Barrett
third Florence Clark, Pine Grove.
Sewing: First - F. l.. Littlefeld,
Hood River: second-Agnes Kyvely,
Viento; Third Kirstena 0stergard.
Viento.
Mechanical work: First ~ Horace
Green, Parkdale; second Edward De-
Witt, Barrett third-Roy Dark, Hood
River.
Division b
Best packed box apples: First
Susie Rodwell, Barrett.
Best five potatoes: First Vernon
Gray, Frankton; second Blanche Au-
bert, Mount Hood; third 0ren CANCER
Hood River
ID and f no entry, corn and tomatoes.
Best five onions: First Clarence
Miller, Odel Second : Frances Michael,
Cascade Locks; third Dean Ireland,
Hood River.
Best Loaf bread: First Mary
Dempsey, Frankton; second Vernon
Garrabrant, Hood River; third-Elin
Sundsten, Cascade Locks.
Canned fruit: First--Ada I,araway,
Pine Grove; second-Susan Rodwell,
Barrett: third Helen Brosi, Pine
Grove.
Jelly: First Susan Rodwell, Bar.
rett; second = Lucille Davis, Barrett
Third-Lora NJ. Folts, 0dell.
Sweet naaes Eiref-Ada aramau