The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-22
COUNTY SCHOOLS
HAVE FIRST FAIR
Pupils of Henrico County Public
Schools Hold Exhibits To-
Day at Ginter Park.
MORE THAN 5000 EXHIBITS
Many Youthful Carpenters Ex-
hibit Rabbit Traps of Old
Fashioned Design.

The Henrico County School Fair. the
first Of It's kind ever held In the county.
and the biggest ever held In the state.
will be ready for public inspection this
morning at o'clock In the Gfnter
Park School building. which has been
transformed for the occasion from
series OF graded rooms into maze OF
deliberately decorated booths and ex-
hibits.
The nrst FIVE departments Of the fair
will be maintained intact to-day. TO-
night and until 3 O'clock Tomorrow
afternoon. Department six. which con-
sists Of athletic contests. Will be pulled
or to morrow afternoon on the athletic
field, near the school building.
The entries number more than 5000.
and the articles entered include every
thing from an Irish potato to . rabbit
trap. Between these two extremes
come almost every product OF tho
ordinary garden. kitchen and sewing
basket, with q goodly sprinklng OF
articles from the benches OF embryo
carpenters. The carpenters. however.
all preferred to try their skill on tho
traps for bunny. 30 that the import
ance OF those articles overshacows the
other entries in tho manual training
class.
Glad Of Holiday.
Up to q late hour last night, teachers
and pupils from the different schools
of the county were busy putting the
finishing touches on tho booths for
their schools. The pupils were. of
course. delighted. because to-day will
be q holiday.
Such has been the interest taken
In tho event that the schools have been
able to do little else during the past
week, as q trustee in Brookland dis
trict put 1t last night The original
intention was to hold the fair during
the State Fair in October. but Superin-
tendent Wright and others Interested
in the movement felt that suoh q plan
would not permit Of enough scope, 30
It was deferred until to-day. Tho en-
tire Ginter Park School building Is
given over to the exhibits.
Judges had completed last night the
awards OF prizes for the departments
Of agriculture and manual training.
Albert Zeller. of Varina District. de-
cided the merits Of the apples, potatoes
and similar articles. while Instructor
McGhee. of the Virginia Mechanics In
stitute. passed on the woodwork in the
manual training department.
number Of points will be given Q spe-
ciaI prize. consisting Of . valuable pic
ture. A bookcase will be presented to
the one-room or two-room school max
ing the best showing.
List Of Awards.
Tho list Of awards as completed up
to last night Is as follows:
Agricultural Department-Ten ears
OF corn-Ffrst prize. Monroe Wade, Va
rina: second, Robert Walton. Dunbar
ton: third. Roy Darlington. Yellow
Tavern: fourth, Maucy Pemberton.
Ridge; NTH. Aubrey Palmore. Highland
Park.
One ear Of corn-nrst prize. Edward
Role. Highland Park: second. Elmo
Sweeny, Varina: third. Russell Priddy.
Barton Heights; fourth, Colston Roy
all. Highland Park: dfth. Harry Tifler.
Glen Lea.
Five Irish potatoes-nrst prize.
Claude Harris. Highland Springs: sec
ond. John Lacy. Dumbarton; third.
Franklin Carruthers. Dumbarton:
fourth. Carroll Lacy. Dumbarton: fifth,
Aubrey Quarles. Dumbarton-
Five sweet potatoes-drst prize.
Emil Zelier. varina: cond. Edward
Hall. varana: third, Edward Allard.
Tree Hill: fourth, Vernon King. yell
low Tavern; nth. Robert Jones, Dunn
barton.
Pumplrin-lrst prise. Beatrice Itch
field. Glen Allen; second. Emil Zeller.
vartna; third. David Fortua. varina:
fourth. Louis Watkdns Ginter Park;
NTH. wilbert Harris Highland Springs.
Manual Tfa1nlaG DeD01eDen1.
Baskets-frst prize. Ollie Devine.
Highland Park: second, Curtis Hechler.
Highland Springs: third, Edwin White
head. 0inter Park; fourth. Clarence.
Garrett, Tree Hill; nth. Selens Beas-
ley, Tree HILL