The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-01-07
EXCELLENT SHORT
C0URSEPROMlSED
Over $4,000 in Premiums Already
Promised the committee-Farm-
ers Planning on Attending.
BABY SHOW is ARRANGED FOR
Domestic Science Department, Educa-
tional Exhibit and Boys Corn
Contest Among Attractions.

course, to be! held in DenisOn Febru-
airy 9th to 14th, promises to be one
of the most successful courses OF it's
kind held in western Iowa this year,
and the farmers and business men
who are back of the institution are de-
voting considerable time and effort in
perfecting the details and arranging
the program for the week.
w. G. Rollins, the secretary of the
association, informs the Review that
piled and from present indications
the total value of the premiums to be
awarded will amount to considerable
over $4,000. The list, as made up to
the present time, is composed of a
liberal amount of cash prieums and
these, together with other premiums
will bring the total up to over $4,000
Farmers throughout the county are
planning on coming to Denison short
course week and attending the differ
ent classes and lectures. Many of
the farmers have already selected
grains and grasses which they will
enter, and there is considerable rival
~ among them as to whose entries
shall be chosen first place.
Saturday the officials of the Short
Course association held meeting at
the Commercial club rooms to perfect
the rules governing entries and the
manner in which the prizes were to be
awarded. These rules will be incor-
porated in the premium list, which
will be printed some time this month
and which will be circulated through.
out the county.
Committees Named.
At the meeting Saturday several
important committees were named. G..
P. Harvey and Mott McHenry were
selected for the corn committee; stock
DR.. Hal C. Simpson and John Houli-
han; domestic science, B. Brodersen
and Miss Hilda Brodersen; entertain
ment, George Naeve and Roy E. Mote.
Members of these committees will be
glad to furnish any information de-
sired in regard to their departments.
Divided Into Districts.
The county has been divided into
five districts, as it was last year, and
district prizes will be awarded to en-
tries made from these districts. Com
mittees are at work this week solicit
ing premiums in the several districts
to be awarded to those who win the
district prizes. The first district will
be composed of Willow, Paradise, Boy
er and Union Townships; the second
district, Soldier, Morgan. Charter Oak
and Hanover townships; the third
district, Otter Creek, Goodrich, Deni
f0u oh, tho
fourth distrist, Stockholm, Milford
Jackson and West Side townships, and
the fifth district, East Boyer, Hayes
Nishnabotny and Iowa townships.
Domestic Science Department.
The domestic science department
will take a prominent place in the
coming short course and the ladies
are planning on attending the ses
sions which will be held in the club
rooms at the library. A domestic sci
ence teacher from the State Agricul
tural college at Ames will be in
charge of this work and will be assist
ed by Miss Hilda Brodersen. Barney
Brodersen will assist in this depart
ment as he did last year.
Educational Exhibit.
The educational exhibit promises tc
be one of the very best ever seen in
the county and Supt. F.. N. Olry in
forms us that school children have
been busy for several months prepar
ing entries for this department. The
educational exhibit has been divided
into five different classes, the first be
ing open to students up to and lnclud
Ing the fourth grade; the second class
is open to students in the fifth and
sixth grades; the third to seventh and
eighth grade pupils; the four to high
school or college students, and the
fifth is special class open to rural
and town pupils below the ninth
grade.
There will be numerous cash prizes
awarded for penmanship, drawing, in.
dustrial work. language and reed
raffia and cord weaving work.
Boys Corn Contest.
Bows and girls under eighteen years
of age will have the opportunity OF
entering corn in the boys corn con-
test. 1t is expected that every boy
and girl shall pick out the contest
corn without the aid of anyone. This
contest will be divided into four class
es, and there are number OF cash
nrizes to be awarded. Three fine
prizes will be awarded to boys and
girls under sixteen years of age who
enter winning corn
Program Not Completed.
The program for the weeks enter
tainmant has not been fully complet-
ed, nor the meeting places selected
for the different classes. Accommoda-
lions are much better this year than
they were year ago, and there will
be ample room for all of the different
classes.
The evening entertainments VIII be
of an educational nature and Will con
sist of lectures on good roads and all
of the problems of the farm. One OF
the important features OF the week
will be the spelling contest and this
doubtless will draw large crowd.
The ladies of the Friday club are
arranging for a baby show and we I'M
derstand that they are making plans
to have a lecturer of some note here
to give talk on better babies.
It is up to every farmer to give their