Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-19
CIVIC CLUB AWARDS
HOME GARDEN PRIZES
Fall Meeting Held in Boyd Hall
of the New Y. W. c. A.
Building

At the first Fall meeting of the Civic
Club of Harrisburg. held in the John
Y. Boyd Memorial Hall of the new
Young Women's Christian Associa ton
building this afternoon, fifteen prizes
were awarded in the annual home gar
den contest. This was the first public
meeting held in the new Y. w. G. A.
building since its completion.
Plans were taken up for work dur
ing the winter and reports were read
by Mrs Mabel Cronise Jones on the
biennial meeting of the National Fed
Grafton of Womens Club in Chicago
and on the meeting of the State Fed
Grafton at Pittsburgh last week. Miss
Eleanor F. Skunk presided.
The announcement of the prize win
ners in the home garden contest was
made by Mrs. Edwin S. Herman. chair
man of the home garden committee.
The winners were:
The Bertha Shellenberger prize of
So, awarded to Lester E. BriGhtbill,
623 Emerald street; second prize to
William Fenstemacher. ! 900 North
Third street, $3.50; third, Clara Fin
ney. sos South Front strete, $3.50;
fourth, Frank Lescure, Ala South Thir-
teenth street. $3.50. and fifth, Louisa
Boyd, 1914 Chestnut street, $3.50.
Prizes of 81 each were awarded to
Margaret Mallas, 917 South Twenty
second-and-a-Half street; May Heagy
634 Boa4s street; Raymond Pickel
422 Muench street; Violet Coble, 74A
North Eighteenth street. Daniel Burk-
holder. 1872 North Sixteenth street;
Meredith Garner, 1103 Capital street;
Marie Zarker, 2347 Jefferson street;
Christian Wagner, $50 South Twenty
first street; Leroy Slentz, 1924 Berry
hill street. and Charles Sunday, 20
North Fourteenth street.
Mrs. Herman had on exhibition a
huge bunch of flowers taken from the
gardens of the children, which still
look, in manya cases, remarkably well
despite the lateness of the season. In
her report Mrs. Herman said, in part:
Seeds were given to 542 children
early in May. We had packages pur-
chased from the Holmes Seed Com
pany, containing seed of zenias. mas
turtiums. calliopsis, marigold ano
sweet elyssium. The same assert.
ments of seeds were given to each
child and the result was encouraging
All the seeds provide especially good
At least 500 of the gardens were &
great success.
"All of the members of the Civic
Club who visited these home gardens
were greatly surprised and delighted
at the deep interest taken by the chill.
dren. Many of the children had mucf
with which to contend; small yards
| poor soil and lack of sunlight. They
worked hard amid discouragements
| The army worm was another foe, a!
well as the hailstorms that tore the
| flowers to pieces.
Harrisburg has certainly been won
derfully improved from a civic view
point by these home gardens, for the!
| proved a great incentive in makinl
and keeping the back yards neat.
"The outdoor department desires tt
thang the following, who were untir
| ing in their visits of Inspections: Mrs
| James |. Chamberlain, Mrs. Bigler
Mrs. Horace Whitman, Mrs Mabe
Cronise Jones, Miss Julia Stamm. Mis-
Margaret Stackpole. The officers o
the department were also visitors"
The report of the biennial and alsC
of the State Federation that met las
week in Pittsburgh was given by Mrs
Mabel Cronise Jones, who gave an in
formal talk, blending the two reports
in one. The keynote of both meetings
she said. was "service"-service fol
the women and children of the rura
community, service in behalf of the
| foreigners who come to this grea
melting pot of humanity, America
service in behalf of the child worker
| the white slave. teh women of thu
| streets, the drunkard. Mrs. Jones re
ported that in both meetings the ide;
of woman suffrage was prominent ant
| the thought was emphasized that th'
ballot was needed as an instrument 70
orwling for the "other woman"