Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-10-24
LAKE SHORE SCHOOL UNION
SHOW.
School Children Exhibit Corn,
Johnny Cakes and Bingham
Aprons.

bringing to Academy hall articles which
they had made at home for the school
union show. The entries were closed
at about noon; and the judges began
their work Immediately after dinner.
Meanwhile about two hundred pupils
had congregated, arriving on foot, on
horseback, in single teams and double
teams. They had their exhibits and
dinners with them, and as many of the
parents, teachers. and others interested
as could come. Twenty of the twenty
nine teachers were on hand through the
day and conducted the children's play,
entering into the games themselves and
seeing that all of the children got into
the games. Eight of the teachers
brought and displayed upon the walls of
the hall exhibits of drawing, writing,
and manual work done by their respec-
tive schools. No prizes were offered
for these exhibits; but they added very
materially to the show. During the
afternoon pictures were taken of the
children who were out at play; and out
door games were continued until the
judges had reached their decisions.
Owing to bad corn year in this
section, only four entries of ten ears
were made, four of single ears and one
novelty. No entries were made from
Bridport or Orwell. The judges of
corn were Supt. A. w. Eddy of the
Middlebury school union and R. S. Hall
of Orwell, a very successful corn
grower. In the cooking classes there
were six Johnnycakes and ten displays
of cooking, the displays averaging
about three articles each. In the sew
ing classes there were six bingham
aprons and twenty-five displays of sew
ing, the displays averaging about three
articles each. The judges of the cook
ing and sewing were Mrs. J. H. Atwood
and Mrs. Carl Morse, both of Cornwall.
Three premiu ms approXimating in value
dollar and half, dollar and half a
dollar respectively, were awarded to
each of the six following classes: (A)
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an acre by school boy; (B) single ear
of corn grown on an eighth of an acre
by school boy; CO. Johnnycake made
by school girl; CD display of cooking
by school girl; (E) bingham apron
made by school girl; (F) display of
, sewing by a school girl. The following
are the prize winners:
CLASS A.
Hockey skates, Frank Webster. East
b Shoreham; boy scout knife, H. Grandy
Hoffman, Shoreham; jack knife, Harold
+ FAR ham.
! CLASS b.
! League base ball, H. Grandy Heit-
. man; catcher's mitt, Frank Webster
i tielder's mitt, Harold Farnham.
= CLASS c.
Kitchen aluminium set, Pearle Farm
9 ham, Shoreham; casserole, Audrey
Godette, Shoreham: aluminium basin
> Marguerite Munger, Orwell.
CLASS D.
a Casserole, Rena Dundon, Orwell
aluminium COOhtl, CdDl nut SllS. DIlQ
port; griddle cake set, Marjorie Rob
: bins, Shoreham Center
CLASS E.
:. Individual caster, Gwendolyn Smith
6 Shoreham; shears, Rosa B. Nickerson
j Orwell hand bag, Anna Godette
IS Shoreham.
2 CLASS F.
L Scissors set, Margaret Montbriand
Bridport; waffle irons, Isabelle Hebert
a Shoreham; silver thimbie, Mary Der
- nett, Bridport
Id Special - baker, Hartwel Ware
e. Shoreham Center.
IN We frequently hear it charged again.
n the public school that it does not inteI
H. est the pupils in things practcal thu
in rural communities it educates ava
from the farm, away from the home
away from the home community TT
Lake Shore School Union is compose
en- of Bridport, Orwell and Shorehan
y three agricultural towns bordering {
OF Lake Champlain. At Shoreham, Il
AK middle point of the union, is located {
ID approved high school; and scattert
NJ over the one hundred twenty-five squa
er miles of clay country are twenty-eigl
by rural schools. The union superinten
~ ent believes that the function of Il
ed school is to supplement the educate
he afforded by the home, to awaken
OF variety of interests in the children al
tn help them to find and develop ther
selves. He brought the matter of
m school union show before the Joint boa
to- of school directors at their annual NEE
NY ing in April; and money was appropria
ity ed by the boards of the several towns
he detray expenses. These schools. whi
ne today exhibited displays of curnculu
'ct work, have on their rolls the pupils vi
OF took premiums on farm and home pr
Ire duets. To see the excellent grade
IN corn grown by the boys, the staples al