The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-24
BOYS and GIRLS ENCANP.
MENT A71HE CHAUlAUQUA

| MEhT 1hEChAUlAUQUA
The purpose of these encampments
is to conduct great annual outing for
the farm boys and girls of North Da-
kota, where for a sixteen-day period,
they may engage in systematic study
of agricultural and domestic problems
In combining the encampments with
the ChautauQua the purpose is to at
ford the boys and girls an opportun.
ity of enjoying the many educational
and entertainment features provided
by the Chautauqua program. The en-.
campments are for serious study and
observation and they will be organized
and controlled with these purposes
in view. Each member will be
expected to give full and prompt
obedience to the regulations; hours
for study, lectures and meals, and for
retiring will be fixed by the manage
ment and enforced by those in charge.
No effort will be spared to safeguard
the boys and girls physically and NOR
ally. Competent officers will be In
charge both day and night. Fore
moons and one hour of the afternoon
will be devoted to stuIy, lectures and
| demonstrations; the afternoons and
evenings to sports. drills and attend
ance at the C!.au.-uuua programs.
The programs for the encampmente
will be even NO.: N..:led and Interest
ing than in either vi lie pre- .ious
years. The Boys Fncampment WORK
will be supervised and directed by the
Agricultural Exters!ol Department of
the North Dakota Experiment Station,
(Thomas P. Coore-, Directory Edwin
Maryland, il charge.
The Girls Encampment will be con-
Quoted ca lines similar to that of the
boys, number of the studies being
identical, thus making it possible for
lessons to be taken together.
Hitherto the girls have been select
ed almost entirely from Barnes county.
This year, however, adjoining coun-
ties have been included, the county
superintendent in each case furnishing
lists Of delegates and cooperating in
their selection Miss Nelson, Barnes;
Miss McGinnis, Stutsman; Miss Saun-
derson, LaMoure; Miss Nertrost,
Wells; Miss Beatty, Foster; Miss Holt,
Steele; Mr.. Maxwell, Eddy, and Mr..
Kampen, Griggs, have all rendered
most kindly and efficient aid. In every
case the superintendent have been
invited either to come in charge OF
their own delegations or to appoint
one Of their teachers to do so.
The girls program for this year
promises to be full Of interest. Prof.
o. H. Benson, of the National Depart
ment of Agriculture and Miss Newton
and Miss Sullivan, of the Agricultural
Extension Department Of the A. c.,
will be especially helpful.
Miss Cora Mel Patten, of Chicago,
president of the Junior Drama League,
of that city, will spend one whole
week in the girls camp in preparation
for the Peace Pageant to be staged
July 9Th.
The Domestic Science work, the
cooking and serving Of meals and in
struction in these matters, which for
the past two seasons has been so ef-
fectively cared for by young lady
graduates of the Domestic Science De-
partment of the Valley City Normal
school, under the able supervision and
direction of Miss Nellie Farnsworth
will again be under her charge. It is
a fact, most worthy Of note, that the
young ladies and Miss Farnsworth,
herself, freely donate their services
for this department, thus enabling the
Chautauqua to provide for the girls at
a price so low as to seem incredible.
The supervision and direction of the
whole encampment will be in charge
of Miss Mary Hudson, of the Lincoln
school faculty, who is, both by nature
and training, specially qualified to dis
charge this duty. Altogether it looks
as though the coming encampments
of both boys and girls, would prove
even more interesting and profitable
to the members than either of those
which have preceded it. Your children
should be enrolled this year.
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