The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-23
Sixty-Six Out of Seventy
Two Represented.
SURPRISING RESULTS
IN ARTS AND CRAFTS
Exhibits from Large Number of the
County Schools Showed what De-
yelopment Is Going on i'm the
Schools of the County. Creditable
In every Way.

Perhaps the most instructive fea-
ture of the county school fair Friday
was the exhibit in the court house
Here were assembled the exhibits Of
arts and crafts from &c out of 70
schools in the county. Drawing(
painting, needlework of all kinds,
manual training in several different
departments were shown here. The
court room was flied with the exhibits
from the schools and thousands pass
ed through to see them. Besides the
special branches represented, model
school room was shown as we'll as a
model rural community, both of these
exhibits attracting a great deal of at
tention. The tenth grade of the Lau-
rens city school exhibited a sitting
room furnished and decorated largely
with things made by them. The nee
die work and stenciling in this room
were especially praise worthy.
While the Lauerns city schools, be-
cause of the large number Of pupils,
was able to make the most compre-
hensive exhibits of any of the schools
the Sandy Springs school was deserv-
ing of unstinted praise because of it's
hibit. 1t attracted a great deal Of
favorable comment. The Clinton
schools sent up a splendil exhibit and
it was examined with the closest in
terest by those who visited this part
of the building.
Several individual exhibits attracted
more than ordinary attention and so
are deserving Of special mention. The
agricultural and mineral map of the
state, the exhibit of Musgrove school
was especially interesting. The Unit
ed States flag made of corn shucks
and sent in by Youngs school was
very unique exhibit as was that of
cabin made of corn stalks and shucks
sent in from Shiloh school. The quilt
exhibited by the Watts mills school
and made by Clara Martin, who has
but one arm, was a meritorius exhibit
The miniature steam engine made by
b. It. TollisOn, the rolling pin made
by Floyd Clark Of the Langston school,
the violin from Sardis school, the
small auto by Jake Rasor Of Cross
Hill, and the chair from Musgrove
school attracted much attention. The
basketry exhibited from the Shiloh
school was splendid. The trash bas-
ket covered on the exterior with post
age stamps and sent by the kinder
garten of the Laurens mill school was
very original exhibit. as was the
"ombination sdttee and Shirt4waist
box from the Trinity Ridge school.
One of the schools exhibited sew
eral fine cabbage giants grown in
the garden of the school, but this ex-
hibit was taken away before the name
of the sender could be procured
The judges examined the exhibits
Friday night and Saturday morning,
rendering the following report:
Report of Judges.
BY way of explanation of the list
that follows it is necessary to state:
/. Owing to the crowd present all
during Friday it was impossible for
the judges to pass upon the exhibits
until late Saturday night. Some ar
ticles had already gone by this time.
III. We believe that every honor
able mention made is richly deserved
-but there were others. Our only re-
gret is we can't name them. To pub
lish all would swamp the capacity of
the newspaper columns.
Several articles, which should have
received honorable mention, were
necessarily thrown out because they
were not properly marked.
The Judges.
Plain Sewing.
Stocking darnng, Annie l.. Wright,
Sandy Springs.
Plain apron, Alma Coleman. Cross
Hill.
Quilt, Ruth Terry, Oakville
Tear dearn, Sarah Pitts, Shady
Grove.
Fourth grade apron, Donnie Bartin,
Laurens Mill