The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-07-08

One hundred and six girls from the
grades and high schools of the state
are enjoying all the fine educational
ADVANTAGES offered at the Chautauqua
grounds. With a we'll filled and well
selected curriculum of topics which
appeal particularly to the girls, lee
lures on domestic science, home econ
omics and other subjects connected
with practical operation of the home
engage the attention of the students
during the morning hours. Afternoons
are given over to social times, games
and so forth. In the evening the girls
take in the lectures, musicales and
pictures offered on the program in the
auditorium.
The following counties are repre-
scented in the encampment: Cass,
Stutsman, Wells, Foster, Griggs, La
Moure, Eddy, Barnes, Steele, Dickey,
Grand Forks and Burley.
The camp is situated over near the
high bridge. Twenty-Five tents are
grouped together there while nearby is
the big mess tent where the best of
everything is served to eat The girls
are in charge of Miss Minnie j. Mel
son, assisted by Miss Nellie Farms
worth and Miss Mary Hudson and
nothing is left undone by these ladies
to make the girls outing highly pleas
ant and profitable.
A movement is on foot now to organ
lie the girls into various groups and
put on series Of games of all descrip-
tons including basketball, handball,
swimming and athletics of every type.
Taken altogether the camp is a big,
happy, joyous affair and so different
from our old-fashioned ideas of edu-
cation that we sometimes almost won.
der if we are alive. OF one thing We
are assured and that is, that late" on
there will be 1O6 homes heater, better
and happier by reason of this gath.
ering of the girls for these two weeks
of work, fun and frolic.
Following is list OF the girls in at
tendance:
Cora Peters, Mary Christ, Minnie
Christ, Viola Christ, Carrie Wander
geest, Miss Crusader, Esther Rveim-
Ter, Harriet Dalton, Eta Leslie, Esth-
er Leslie, Florence Schumacher, Au-
drey Wood, Zula Kaspar, Laura
Arndt, Lettie Williams, Matilda Guen-
Their, Nora Mccain, Elizabeth Grums-
rud, May Cote, Helmer Rubin, Elsie
Brastin, Olga Brastin, Vera Mars,
Emma Newman, Blanche McCavlin,
Emma Bell, Jennie Furans, Grace Egg
gers, Lizzie Hendricks, Zena Schwarz
Mary Helen Cassell, Viola Olson, Ada
Ehred, Olga Mortenson, Mildred
Monteith, Alma Carlson, Pearl Asse.
lin, Lovilla Neyton, Rose Faleida,
Clara Rood, Viola Thurston, Ruth
Thurston, Martha Gunderson, Mary
Johnson, Beatrice Miller, Ada William
son, Marie Williamson, Jennie Olson,
Julia Christensen, Louis Yrang, Olga
Feibeich, Mildred Oxton, Edna John.
son, Sarah Nertrost, Edith Nelson, Lu-
ellie Anderson, Helen Koch, Dora
Koch, Mildred Abrahamson, Edna
Strom, Florence Ramage, Ella Ram,
age, Lydia Stixrude, Rose Kelly
Florence Anderson, Mabel Olson, Ar
villa McCready, Helga Thorson, Olga
Thorson, Katherine Hindahl, Alma
Jocelyn, Edna Johnson, Alice Ander'
son, Ada Goldberg, Ruth Skare, Ath'
lene Lloyd, Cora Anderson, Eilene
Murphy, Maude link, Mildren Peter
son, Miss Possey, Minnie Johnson,
Rose Thomfelter, Agnes Hendrikson,
Nita McCally, Loretta Hutchinson,
Miss Beatty, Sarah Johnson, Cora Mil
Ter, Goodwin Sjelsti, Irene Strong,
Lizzie Nelson, Emma Plecity, Ger
trude Noaek, Ida Morgan, Helen Giles
ner, Cora Osborne, Isabelle Love,
Jane Rutherford, Christine Black,
Anna Johnson, Anna Anderson, Ma
belle Krongberg, Luvilla Craik, Laura,
bella Foran.
Miss Mary Hudson, who is an ex,
pert swimmer, gives regular class in.
struction to the girls in swimming
every afternoon.
Child Welfare
1t is a great thing to raise the best
Holstein or Jersey, the best Percheron
or Clydesdale, the best Tamworth or
Chester White, the best Plymouth
Rock or Leghorn, but after all the big,
gest thing in life is to raise Smith
or Jones who will be physically and
mentally perfect. Such is the belief
of the Child Welfare department and
we hear a lusty Amen coming from
the audience at large.
Sentimentally considered, of course,
all babies are perfect. The mothers