Evening star., 1914-04-26
UNIQUE PROGRAM GIVEN
BY VIRGINIA SCHOOLS
Spelling Matches. Track Events and
Other Features at
! Manassas.
ecial Correspondence of The Star.

MANASSAS. Va. April % 1914.
All Prince William thronged to Manas-
sas Thursday and Friday for the graded
school fair. spelling matches and track
meet.
In the primary spelling contest Miss
Ruby Holtzclaw won the honors for
Cherry Hill. The spelling book held no
terrors in the advanced contest for the
five representatives of Occoquan two),
Greenwich. Catharpin and Cherry Hill,
who spelled its entire contents and
threatened to continue the contest in
definitely. 1t was at length decided to
award five gold medals and let geograph-
ical names determine the winner of the
silver cup.
Greenwich Wins Cup.
Greenwich school finally triumphed
through the ability of Miss Mamie Nails.
The medalists were Misses Margaret
| Hammill and Irene Ledman of Occoquan,
Bessie Sloper of Catharpin and Eva
Davis of Cherry Hill. AS the match
| neared the close additional pronouncers
were pressed into service and the five
weary participants were seated.
With a lead of forty-two and one half
points over her nearest competitor,
Manassas carried off the county athletic
championship. Greenwich Occouuan
Cherry Hill. Catharp;n. Gainesville and
Cannon Branch followed in the order
named. Other schools entered. but failed
| to score
Championships by Districts.
| The district championships were award
| ed as follows: Greenwich. Brentsvtlle dis
| trict: Haymarket. Gainesville district:
|
! branch. Manassas district Coles ath-
! letes failed to enter and that district
I banner was not awarded. Features were
Roy ReXrode. Manassas. and Philip Sand
ers. Haymarket. in the high and broad
| jumps: Aubrey Carter. Manassas. who
won the 100-yard dash. and Hansborough,
Greenwich. in the half-mile. Manassas
won the three relays
| The school fair embraced exhibits sur
passing in excellence all similar attempts
in the history of the county, Needle
| work. cooking. manual training, well
! as examples of scholarship. etc. crowd
ed the exhibition hall in the VI. ]. c.
| building.
Unique Features.
| Among the unique features were a
fauItlessly Whitfield model of set OF
garden tools. the work of Owen May
| field an eight-year-old student of Bacor
! Race: small replica of modern steam
| engine about eighteen inches in length
by nine-year-old Vernie Gordon of Min
| melville: a mounted collection of various
! wild and cultivated woods OF the county
by David Kerlin. twelve years old. OF
! Kings cross roads, and a doll house
papered and rooted with handmade fur
| niture braided rugs, piano. chifronier
| buffet and cook stove. each in its proper
place, and even hanomaoe prooHi III tht
| kitchen corner.
| Haymarket exhibited two rabbit traps
which had seen service on Prince Will
liam ground. Haymarket girl of clever
| wears entered a pair Of stockings she hae
| darned to the entire satisfaction of every
| grandmother in the building. Inc exam
| pies of patchwork also were excellent
| :.as you would know" remarked a Wis
itor. '.if you had tried to find the patch"
] Perfectly finished garden rakes, ironing
| boards rolling pins. butter paddles, pic
ture frames flower stands. leather halt
ers and fancy articles. including carved
handled canes of native wood. were mum
bered in the manual training exhibit
| The walls were covered with crop map:
| of Virginia Grains of corn, wheat. bar
ley rye wisps of cotton, small pieces O.
| tobacco, peanuts, gold ard various prod
ucts and metals were glued to the sec
ton whence they come.
Exhibit in Cooking.
The cooking exhibit covered a wlu'
! range of eatables to the temptation o
the visitor and the general cultivation o.
| the appetite. A boy who won laurels il
the track events submitted beaten bis
cult but for some reason the judge:
failed to give him a prize.
Two sixth grade boys from Manassas
entered a flying machine about thEee fee
in length. with small figure at TIL,
<1,
grades made steel dog chain with per
feet adjustment of links. Bird houses
elaborate embroidery. hand and maehin,
made clothing and an extensive manua
training display adorned the huge Manas
sas booth, which covered nearly half tn,
hall