The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-28
KIDS WORK FINE.
Back Lot Gardening Proves
Profitable to Children.
Good Money Made by City's
Industrious Students.

The home garden or back lot
school exhibit at the manual training
building today was a success. There
were hundreds of entries including
excellent floral and vegetable speci
mems.
A loving cup offered by the Com
mercial club was awarded the Quincy
school for the best collective exhibit.
State street school was given second
honors, and the Lowman Hill schooA,
third.
The largest collective school displays
were made by the Quincy and State
street schools, while Grant. Lowman,
Hill, Branner, Central Park, Lincoln,
Sumner, Clay and other schools were
we'll represented. There were 165
entries in the Quincy exhibit.
Prizes valued at 500 will be award
ed late today to the successful exhio-
itors.
one of the finest displays of veee-
tables is that of Carl Maze of 1le
onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, car
rots, and tomatoes are hard to beat
In the Quincy school exhibit is a
display of Is varieties of vegetables
by Dora Kemper, aged IA years.
These Vegeta bles were grown in
back yard garden.
Gardening Proves Profitable.
The only way Pete and James Ha-
gen of the state street school had TO
show the results of their work this
summer was to bring specimens OF
canned vegeta bles which their mother
had put up. Tomatoes, beans beets
and other vegeta bles were put into $50
quart cans for use this winter.
MANY a boy and girl found back lot
gardening profitable. Roy Derby of
the state street school raised thlrty
bushels of onions on two lots His eS
penses were $3.50 and he sold his crop
for S25.75.
Dewey Matthews, of the same school.
cleared s11 through selling the produce
from a garden plot 12x26 feet in size.
His expenses were IS cents. There are
scores of other instances where good
profits were made, particularly among
the children of the Quincy school.
The men who are judging the EXHIBITS
are: James Hayes, A. ]. k1tteH ana
o. F. Whitney.
Credit for the exhibit is due G. c:
starr. superintendent of schools, and
c. H. wilmington, supervisor.
The List of Exhibitors.
Following is list of the exhibitors:
State Street school-Gertrude Pear
son, Edwin Benton. Lois Link, Grace
and Hazel Robbins, Val Ker, Ruby
Puett. Roy Derby, Hal Wolff. Wendell
Elliott, Eugene McGaffin, Leona Bowen,
Ruby Bronson, Raymond Holmes, Paul
Wedoff. Hattie Porant, L. A. Verne
Pete Hagen, Violet Woods, Vermain |
woods. Esther Erickson, Irene Wilson,
Gladys Horton, Amy Brown, Charles |
Dodds, Hazel Euler, Irma Baughman, |
Ida Cary William Flemming, Louise
and Harold Judy, Ralph Booth, Ralph !
Warner, Mildred Burgett, Fred Beese, |
Gladys Wingett, Ota Taylor. Pumpkins !
Henry Haggart, Lee Evans, George |
Esther jacobson, Chase Tay- |
lor. Valerd Mayer.
Quincy school-Clarence Barker, |
Clarence Dennis. Rollena Swearingen,
Roy Casebier, Joseph Griffin, Donna |
Kemper, Damon Gray. Robert Hail. |
Norman F'ulkerson. Elizabeth Cook, |
Karl NussbecI1. Jessie Kritser, Russell |
Griffin. Mary Sarver, Pauline Urban, |
Gleda Dessenberger, Mildred Miller. |
Preston Redmond, Harry Schockley, |
Juanita Griffin, Nellie Gray, Ellsworth |
Claude Waychoff, Myra Redmond.
Alice Cook, Clifford Briery, George
Payne Mary Sheetz, Willie Dennis,
Joseph Stevch, Virginia Wilson.
Lowman Elizabeth Gates.
Herman Wehe. Helen Miller, Lora
Ferris, Ansel Snodgrass. Esta Boyer,
Mabel Olson, Winifred Gilman, Oscar
George Brine, Ruth w. Park, Alma
SeIlars, Fred Boyer. Don Christensen,
Harold Bruce. Elizabeth Douglass.
Lydia Abel, Frances Washburn, Gladys
Paul, Edward Bowman.
Grant SCHOOLGIRL Maze. Vernon
jacques. Violet Navarro, A. Phillips.
Earl StockweI, Carl Long, Gussie
Branner school-Oney Pryor.
Central Park school - Eugene