The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-04-30

work in home economics in this State.
Miss Frayser directed the baby con-
test and will visit the schools of the
county this week with a view of Sc
dustrial and domestic work for the
schools.
Mr.. III. III. Brunson, formerly prin-
cipal Of the Bethel School, was also
present to attend the exercises.
The third annual Field Day for
Sumter County was observed at the
court house today. The crowd was
by far the largest which has ever
been in Sumter for a contest of this
Kind and everything passed off very
pleasantly during the mornings part
of the performance. There were q
larger number Of contests held in the
court house. the baby show was going
on downstairs and on the lawn there
was continuous demonstration of
canning for the benefit of the Girls
Tomato Club.
Everybody seemed in good humor,
seemed interested in what was going
on and showed great interest in the
exhibits, which were numerous and
of many kinds, many Of which were
Of high degree of excellence. The
court room was crowded as it has new
er been before or until there SEEM
ed hardly any room for another per-
son in it.
The various scholastic contests were
held during the morning, the teach
ers in the city schools and others
acting as judges in the various events,
which were held one after the othe.
as soon as the preceding one was
finished, generally a number being in
progress at the same time in different
rooms. The exhibits Of industrial
and domestic work were adjudged at
the same time by persons selected for
the purpose and we'll capable of
knowing what was what in the va
rious lines.
AT the same time the Oratorcal
contest was being held, in which
much interest was taken by the
crowd. There were eight Of the
speakers, all Of whom acquitted them
selves exceedingly well, although
they had difficulty in making them
selves heard, due to the densely pack
ed crowd in the court house The first
prize in this contest was won by An
ihony Dick, of the Fraser school, who
has won the prize for defamation in
every contest since Field Day was first
observed. The second prize went to
Frank Wilson. The prizes were pre-
sented to the winners by Mr. Marion
w. Seabrook, who made a few appro-
pirate remarks. He stated that the
prizes were donated by the Sumter
Bar Association, q medal for the first
prize, to encourage oratory among
the boys Of the county
Among the exhibits in the culinary
department were, cakes, pies, biscuits,
rolls, rusks, light bread, waters, but
ter and roast chicken. In the sewing
department there were exhibits show
ing button hole work, hemstitching,
hemmin, shrtwaists, aprons, quilt
squares, dresses, skirts, doll hats and
other articles. The woodwork also at
tracted much attention, especially
the large collections of hard wood
which were displayed by various boys,
prize for the best collection was Of
Tered by Parrott's Book store. Some
oi the things theboys had on exhibition
were cotton baskets (some of these
were especially fne), singletree, axe
handle. shuck door mat, rustic tables,
Hover stands, wash boards etc.
The collection of exhibits was much
larger than on former occasions and
showed Improvement i'm the class Of
work. 1t also showed the interest talk
en- 10y the pupils in the making of these
things for Field Day, when they will
be put in competition with work of the
same class from other schools