The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-17
State Education BODY ORGANIZES.

otate EDUCATION Body Organizes.
Madison.-Approval of the plains ior
the 100000 dormitory at the Stevens
Point Normal school was perhaps the
most important actor tax by the
state board of education at its or.
ganization meeting in Madison.
/ The meeting took up the greater
part of the forenoon and most of the
afternoon. Every member was pres
ent at the morning session. but Gov
ernor Philip.
Francis S. Lamb, an accountant OF
the normal school regents, was elected
temporary secretary with salary of
$500 month.
The salary items in the normal
school and university budgets were al
lowed by the board.
The budgets as whole, however,
were not approved. and will probably
De acted on at a later meeting. In
the meantime, John S. Donald, secre-
tary of state, and G. P. Cary, state
superintendent of public instruction,
Will act as a committee to allow the
money necessary for current expenses.
Three contracts for work at the Eau
Claire Normal school were approved
by the board and the governor The
plans for the physics building at the
university were approced and the re-
gents were authorized to get plans
ready for the proposed soils building.
Women to Enjoy Fair.
With, one hand nervously grasping
her purse and the other clinging des-
perately to a tugging, squirming brown
faced youngster, she showed, pushed,
pulled her way through the crowd, ap-
parently unmindful of the jostling and
pumping. Her hat was awry, her hair
blowing about her perspiring face.
Yet there was a vaguely-becoming
flush on her cheeks and her eyes fair
ly beamed with good-natured enjoy
ment. She was one of several thou
sand women who attended the state
fair on the first day, and it is safe to
say, all just as keenly enjoyed it as
she did
The whole fair is mighty attractive
to woman-few men realize how
much. She may scorn and find fault
with the red hots," half-done pork
chops and salty ham, fried out of doors
at a refreshment stand, yet she really
enjoys every mouthful. Nobody who
has never spent IL months in hot
kitchen cooking for a family of five
or six hired men, can appreciate how
good those outdoor meals taste, at
the fair"
But the eats at the fair, aren't the
only attractions for the women. They
gather in crowds on the grand stand,
to listen to the band and watch the
races and to gasp at the marvellous
flights, the promised bottle in the
sky" files of soldiers in uniform, and
those alluring side shows.
The exhibit in the educational build
ing is proving great drawing card
for the women. Especially popular is
the corner in which are displayed the
handiwork of the children in the do.
nestle science schools. West Allis
and Wauwatosa both have splendid
collections in this exhibit
Another corner which attracts the
women is that devoted to the state
school for the blind. Here is a blind
girl running typewriter, and throngs
of women stand entrsnced at her dex-
terity.
A model kitchen. all done in white,
is constantly packed with housewives,
who taxed the knowledge of the daint-
ily-attired woman stationed there to
answer questions.
The building devoted to the fruit
show and display of women's work, is
thronged with visitors. Many inter-
esting discussions are staged before
the displays of beautiful embroidery
and lace, hem-stitched linen, not to
mention edible masterpieces, such as
artistically frosted cakes, great, brown
loaves of bread, huge doughnuts and
other creations of the culinary art.
New Law to Cost Dane County $500.
Surveys and plans for county road
improvements, formerly made free of
cost by the state for the county, must
be made at the expense of the county
this year. Although counties have the
option of hiring local engineer or
asking the state to make the surveys,
the cost will be assessed against the
county.
The Dane county board has decided
to have the state engineers do the
work The approximate cost will be
$23 mile in townships and $2S
mile in villages. 1t is estimated that
about Is miles will be included in the
program this year, entailing an ex-