Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-12
Boys and Girls of Corn, Po-
tato and Poultry Clubs
Spend Active Day.
FARM WORK EXHIBIT
AT NATIONAL MUSEUM
Officials Of Department of Agri-
culture Are Hosts to Army Of
Youthful Workers.

Officials of the Department OF Agricul
ture are busy today showing the boy
and girl prize winners of the corn. po-
tato, canning, hog raising and poultr.
clubs from the various states over Wash
ington.
The young people assembled in front
of the Ebbtt House at 8 o'clock. The
morning was spent in trips to the Wash
ington Monument, the bureau of printing
and engraving and the National Museum
AT the get acquainted meeting last
evening in the Ebbitt Hotel, presided
over by DR.. Bradford Knapp of the Of
flee of farmers cooperative demonstra-
ton work, the boys and girls We're ad-
dressed by 0. III. Benson and Prof. w.
J. spillman of the office Of farm man.
agement: 0. y. Martin. in charge Of
club work in the south, and Garrard
Harris of Mobile, Ala. Each prize WHINE,
was presented with an autograph copy
of Mr.. Harris new book, Joe, the Book
Farmer"
Meet Secretary Houston Tomorrow.
Attendance at drill at Fort Myer. an
inspection of Arlington and trip tonight
to the Congressional Library are to con-
clude the day program. Tomorrow
morning the boys and girls are to meet
Secretary Houston and receive from him
diplomas for their work.
On the ground floor of the National
Museum. the office of farm demonstra- :
tion for the northern states arranged
an exhibit of the club work so that all
the club boys and girls could see what
the others had been doing. There were
scores of photographs showing the in
dividual workers and the different
stages of the work, booklets and es-
says by the various club members,
copies of the diplomas and specimens
Of the canning work done by the girls
clubs.
Boys and Girls From Southland.
The prize winning boys coming to
Washington from the southern states are
as follows:
Walker Lee Dunson, Alexander City.
Ala; Jean Garner. Paragould. Ark. !;
Malcolm Miller. Baker. Fla: Edward ].
Wellborn, Madison, Ca; W.. Arthur
Cooke. OwensborO, KY: l.. Il. Wardlaw.
Red Oak, La; Walter Garner, Waldorf
Nd; 4. Jones Polk. Prentiss, Miss: J.
Ray Cameron. Kinston, N. G.; T.. c. Nor
gan. Marietta. N. c.: Eibert Cast Rush
Springs, Okla; Onie Minyard, Indianola,
Okla; Ernest M. Joye. Venters, S. c..
Clarence Nave. Elizabethton. Tenn: Roy
Day, Slocum Tex; John M. Henderson,
Birthright. Tex: Henry Odor, Appomat-
tox, Va: Lloyd Webb. Bellevue, Tex !;
Andy Young. Coleman, Tex; Sam Mat
thews. Coleman, Tex; Erwin Riggs, San
Angelo, Tex.
The prize-winning girls from the same
states are as follows:
Erin Westbrook. Odenville, Ala; Fay
Parker, Beebe. Ark: Isabel Davis, Sum-
merfield, Fla: Clyde Sullivan. Ousley
Ga: Bettio O. Davis Hehba rdSyiIIa
Ky: Hazel McDavitt, Welsh, La. !:
Salie Mai Strhan, Brookhaven, Miss !:
Margaret Brown, Charlotte, N. c.:
May Belle Brown. Charlotte. n. c.;
zie Kelly. Union. s. c.; Myrtle Hardin,
Tenn; Annie Davis. Jefferson,
Tex, and Margaret Hall, Burkevilie. Va.
Winners From North and West.
The list Of the corn club winners from
the north and west, with their states,
comprises Arthur W. Runft, Reinbeck,
Iowa; John E. Devine, North Hadley,
Mass; Walter T. Clark. Cranky. Mass. !:
George H. Crosse. Des PLANES. ILL.,:
Hiefon Block. Burlington, Wis: Loren
Hoffman. Waynesville, ILL.,; Charles Yohe
Tower City, Pa; Robert Mack, Rob-
N. j.; Ormsby Scudder Titus
Vile. N. j.: Grant Winters. Kewadin.
Walter Plug. Papillion. Neb.; Wallace
Hecla. S. D.; Hoyt Quimby,
N. H., Charles Waters. Guy
Ter, \. Y; Orville Sampley. Bethany
ILL.,. Myron Cuskaden. Arcola, Ill; !;
Charles Jonnke, Windsor. ILL.,; Harold
ders. Mansfield, H.; Marion Herriott
Mahomet, ILL.,; Tilford Shoot, Charleston,
ILL.,
The boys and girls potato club winners
from the north and west are Merle Hyer
Lewiston. Utah: William Peirce, Lincoln,
Mass; Catherine Slein. New Braintree,
Mass; Lawrence Estes. Windsor Mass.
Winners in Girls Clubs.
Winners in the girls garden and can
ming clubs from the same sections en-
brace Lucy F. Bale. Augusta, N j.;
Agnes Fridell. Cedar Falls, Iowa; AL
berta Cults. Chardon. Ohio: Celeste Crit
tenden.. Burton. Ohio Blanche Cloes,
Charlon. Ohio Mildred Tuttle, Thomp-
son. Ohio; Hattie Holbrook, Bountiful.
Utah.
Miss Holbrook is the winner Of first
prize In the canning work at the Utah
state fair. first prize in flowers and first
prize In potato starch making. She won
second prize In sewing.
Ralph ]. Walker of Marlboro. Mass.
is winner in market garden work for the
state of Mass. chusetts. He had four
tenths OF an acre under cultivation and
harvested $S5.19 worth of vegetables.
Elmer Parker. 3l6 Baty street. Eimira.
N. Y. is the champion of the Omega
Club, winning his trip to Washington
as a result Of poultry club work.
Miss Merle Steadman, Ames. Iowa. an
other of the visitors. is state champion
In the cooking club work for Iowa.