Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-28
Talent Children
Have Fair Day

or the magnitude or the event can
be gained from the fact that there
were 21S exhibit entries, some of
which comprised dozen or more
separate articles. The articles were
displayed in the basement Of the
school building and compared favor
ably with those shown at the county |
fair at Medford. In addition to the |
articles made or produced by the
children there were two fine exhibits
of fruits and vegetables by r. e.
Packard and Charles Holdridge. The
Eden Valley Nurseries had splen-
did display of roses and dahlias and
the Bagley Canning Company showed
several cases of fine canned goods,
including a lot of lucious fruit put
up in glass jars. Joe Wilson exhibit
ed some skillfully executed samples
of needlework, showing that mere
man can successfully compete with
woman in the latter's special domain.
This is the second industrial fair
which the children of Talent and vi
cinity have held and they certainly
did themselves proud, demonstrating
their ability to soon take the place
occupied by their parents as leaders
in agriculture, education and me-
chanic arts. The enterprising school
board paid liberal premiums for the
best exhibits and all classes Joined
together to make the affair a great
success.
Before viewing the exhibits, the
out-of-town visitor is shown over the
school building by Professor Ager or
one of his able assistants. During
the past summer the second story
rooms were finished and most OF
them are now occupied by classes.
This gives ample room for all the
pupils and teachers and will be suffi-
cient to meet the needs of the city
for many years to come. Peter Spen'
Ger presides in the spacious assembly
room and the other Ashland teachers
Mrs. o. H. Barnhill and Mrs. George
. Stannard, also have very pleasant
rooms. There is a library with
fine assortment of books and in the
domestic science room there are two
sewing machines, two cutting tables
and four large sewing tables. Th'
manual training room is equipped TO
all kinds of woodworking and is
very interesting place to visit
But let us keep on going until w
q reach the bottom of things and ge
,r in on the ground floor. The larg
gymnasium and an adjoining room
1t look like a section of county fair
-. being filled with a bewildering dis
play of fruits, flowers, grains, vege
tables, poultry, fancy work and othe
things too numerous to mention. Blu
we must not overlook the plain nee
. dlework and the tempting display G
~ cooked foods by the domestic scienc
class, the baskets and cabinet wor
from the manual training departmer
and hundreds of compositions, exel
cises and drawings from the variou
rn grades and schools. The subject ma
n ter of many of the papers show thf
a agriculture and other practical an
10. useful subjects are being taught in
% way the children can understand an
ON make use of the knowle lge thus a
quired.
Appetizing odors emanate from
adjoining room, where lunch is b
'ry ing served by the ladies' OF the in
M provement club, eight dollars beiI
ice raised in this manner for the libra
fund. Coffee was served free. II
pupils of the Talent school mat
b $3.50 selling ice cream, this mon
ed to be used to purchase equipment f
ice athletics. Many of the visitors a
of their lunch out on the wide al
nts beautiful lawn in front of the scho
air building, which adds much to the
ON tractiveness of the latter. Aft
lunch number of amusing athlet
contests were held in front OF t
school house.
use Two programs were given, one
ese 10 o'clock and another at 2 o'clot
Ca Speeches were made by P. l.. HI
t rington, state field and industr
147 worker, and county superintende
lse. ]. P. Wells The latter told of t
Jackson county boys who will
given free trips to the state fair
cause of the excellent work tn
'iVe have done in raising corn and no
,tiy One of the boys is only ten YET
on old, yet raised pig which gain
'ru' from A pounds in May to z
MS pounds in September, an average
Oh two pounds per day Profess
rice Spencer also gave an excellent Il
on school athletics. There w
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