The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-04-22

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prizes, the practicability of which is in
dicated in the following samples:
Best and most attractive parcel post
package containing at least three kinds
OF farm produce.
Best basket of two dozen eggs consid-
ering shape, weight, uniformity and
color.
Best two or three ears of corn on a
single stalk.
Then they auctioned the prize exhibits
to the highest bidder.
They had a programme of sports, one
OF the events being a test of how rapidly
and accurately men could measure
clothesline. The girls and women had
a tug-of-war that was a classic. Among
the parade prizes was one for the most
beautifully decorated automobile and
right with it another for the best saddle
horse. AS an item of interest from the
wheat country it is likely that more au-
tomobiles than saddle horses were as
sembled at the fair.
The education features were as promi-
nent as before, with speakers on the pro-
gramme from the states advanced insti-
buttons.
By this time they had the new school
house, a white brick veneer building,
plastered inside, with a SO by 40-foot
basement. The two main rooms have
the rich appearance given by light tan
and cream tints. In addition to a class
room, the school has a library and a
manual training department. It ON
mands the advantages of a branch station
for the state travelling library.
Grange Hall Open to All.
In the basement of the new building
the Kenova Grange has its home, and
the same apartment furnishes a hand
some place for all public meetings of the
community. A new piano occupies a
place on the platform, there are 10 bur-
lap curtains on the windows, and COM
Portable seats await everybody, due to
the care and foresight of the grange in
furnishing the hall.
In the manual training department the
girls are as energetically engaged as the
boys. Mrs. Rowe gives them practical
instruction in needlework and operation
of the sewing machine. They make
dresses, aprons, handkerchiefs, shopping
bags, embroidered lingerie and numerous
other articles 1t pays womenfolk, big and
little, to know about. Mrs. Rowe was
busy with them all last year, and the
character of her achievement has at
tracted general attention.
Although, the boys got a later start in
their branches of special training, they
are showing amazing results. In order
to avoid interference with regular les
sons they began the manual course at
$40, the time when city youngsters are
getting ready to start to school. They
work until Oils, when lessons begin, and
on Saturday they have the teachers time
and use of the tools until 1890. They
also receive training in drawing and
drafting.
Old House Utilized.
With all that the old schoolhouse is
not abandoned. The teacher and family
are living in it and the building is to be
remodeled into a cottage.
And that is the record of a school for
a single year with but one teacher, aided
by his wife. Beyond what has been &C.
complished other new ideas will be tried
out as they develop values. Officers and
patrons Of the district modestly believe
they have done something worth while
and that the extra effort has been en-
tirely justified.
To the readiness of a majority of pa
irons in helping the work along and the
untiring persistence of members OF the
board Mr.. Rowe credits results exempli-
fed in the new building and its excellent
equipment. They say the rest of it de-
ponds upon the teacher with grit enough
to tackle big, new departures and will
ingness to stay on the job continuously in
order to keep things moving. Altogether
they lave put a new and a~lluring aspect
upon the daily affairs of the community.
Daisy T. Busbey, School Superintend-
ent of Whitman County, said no district
in the state can show a better record of
actual achievement than this made by
what used to be the little frame school
house by the roadside at Kenova.