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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
The Orchards School.

Joseph Wills, who takes charge of
the Orchards one-room school this
year, will have large number OF
bright and well equipped children be-
fore him, and it is to be hoped that
under his care the talents and minds
Of the new pupils can be developed to
as fine degree as those of the little
folks who have had a part in the
creation of the booth representative
of that school at the fair. In the
Orchards booth is the same collection
OF fine vegetables and fruit that make
large part of the other school dis
plays, and in its class the exhibit has
taken its share of the ribbons that
have been offered for the exercise of
juvenile abilities. Elmer Lyons has
directed his energies toward produc-
ing prize winning field crops. His
corn is of a very high grade and to it
as well as to the squash that he has
grown, ribbons were attached last
night. The girls of the school have
shown their skill at gardening also,
and some fine cabbage heads, appar-
emily without flaw, are from the
garden planted, cared for and har-
vested by Violet Hatfield. This little
girl produced field corn that would
surely fatten the most obstinate pig
and she is proud of the addition it
makes to the display from her school.
Dietrich Bartell and Jolmin Voth are
others who have the agricultural pro-
ducts on exhibition. They have inter
ested themselves chiefly in field corn
and potatoes, and if their efforts are
appreciated by their parents as much
as by the many county fair visitors
the boys will, before many years, be
the farms on which they
live. Martha Voth, little Orchards
school pupil, has received much praise
for pink dress and lacy baby-cap
that have resulted from her tireless
efforts with needle, thread and scis-
sors.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
The Mistletoe School.

LIN the ,one-room school class the
Mistletoe district has prepared and
placed an exhibit that may not be all
that it could be as to beauty, but one
that is certainly keeping pace with
the others in the number of prize rib
bons attached to the entries. There
is the usual variety ,of fruits, vege-
tables and handicraft in the Mistletoe
booth, and in addition there lis "a pro-
fusion of that peculiar growth after
which the district takes its name. Ho-
mer Bnrsell is one of the most prom
inent of the youthful exhibitors in the
Mistletoe booth. To his products are
attached FOUR blue ribbons and many
of the minor awards with "a possibili-
ty of more when the Judging is COM
pleted. Hazel Bursell also has re-
ceived awards for the products of her
skill in canning and into the same
family circle Kenneth Bnrsell has tax
en- a number of ribbons. The Alsip
family's juvenile representatives have
taken a good share of awards, garden
products, livestock and such things.
Clarence Nelson is showing a fine Gel
cry plant and its qnality has won first
prize. A cleverly arranged series of |
prize ribbons, taken at previous exhi-
billions, has been made into a sofa
pillow by Hazel Bursell and a prize
awarded her therefor. Two good water
melons are feature of the Misfletoe
display. They are from the gardens
Of Russell Alsip and Homer Bursell.
Collections of grains and fruits are
shown by Vern Alsip and Clarence
Nelson. j. R. Bidgood has been the
instructor at this school, but has been
'elieved by Miss Padden, who takes
.harge this term.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
An Exhibit of Her Own.

More than one Polk county house
wife has examined with critical and
very envlous eyes the almost aston
lshlng EXHIBIT that stands at the head
OF the row OF school club displays just
INSIDE the door OF the main pavilion
at the talr. 1t is the booth set aside
Tor and occupied alone by May Nc
donald, thlrteen-year-old Dallas
glfl,, whose talents have brought her
much praise and many prizes, includ-
ing the state prize for sewing that
was awarded to her last year. The
young lady does all that would be-
come the best equipped housewife in
the county, and she does much more
than most OF them even dare hope to
accomplish. Every single thing that
is displayed in Mae McDonald's booth
Is the result OF her own labors, or
perhaps her pleasures, for to one who
does SO many things and so well the
execution must indeed be a delight.
Inc needlecraft is perhaps the prin-
clpal feature OF the exhibit because
there Is more OF that than any other
work. Miss Mcdonald has prettily
trimmed dresses that defy comparison
IRON one OF her age and from most
VINO are years her senior. There is a
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
The Hart Sisters.

Another feature exhibit prepared
by school children is that of the Hart
sisters, two little girls, one nine and
the other seven years old. Gertrude
and Anna live at the Grant place 21a
miles from Falls City, and that com
munity has just reason to be proud of
at least two members of its youthful
population. The little girls have CEN
tered their energies upon the produe-
ton of vegetables, and in their booth
there is displayed such a diversity of
garden and field crops as to make the
diversified farming advocates pay
strict attention. Large squash and
pumpkins, melons, cueumbers, beets
and the other well-known inhabitants
of the best large garden tracts are
in the booth controlled by these little
ladies. And the sisters absolutely
dominate the little space that has
been allotted them for the wonderful
exhibit. They are bright, courteous
and willing to answer any question as
to their methods, results or hopes. The
Hart sisters deserves much eommen-
dation and every one of the many
prizes that have been attached to
their displays.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
The Elkins School.

| The Elkins one-room school, which
has about 80 pupils, and where Miss
Edith Witzel is the successful ano
charming teacher, has already beer
awarded two prizes on part of its ex-
hibit, j. e., the dairy herd record
Keeping contest. In this Carl Dodson
has taken second prize and Frank
Loughary third. The exhibit booth is
crowded with varied examples of the
handicraft of the youngsters, with gar
den produce standing out prominent
ly. Miss Marjorie Tedrow is an en-
trant in the canning contest and has a
pig she raised entered in that depart
ment. Some of the entries in the man
ual training display from Elkins are
astonishing when the age of entrants
is considered. Frank McCaldowney
has entered IA clothes drying rack that
is certainly credit to him, and a
flower shelf built by Glenn Harmon
is very good Taboretts are entered
by Carl Dodson and Carl Tetherow.
Entrants in vegetable displays are
Carl Tetherow, Frank Loughary, Carl
and Chester Dodson, Ivan and Otis
Marks, and Vera Dodson. The latter
has also an excellent collection Of
sewing that would do justice to much
more mature talent. A number of
bird houses for tree and window-sill
show artistry and talent. One of the
most interesting entries from the Ell
kins school is the canning display by
Frank Loughary. The 11-year-old boy
has preserved fruit and vegetables in
many varieties, and has done the job
so well more than one lady inspected
it closely and enviously. His jellies
are temptation and the presert es
would be a treat on any table. Elkins
had district fair on Monday evening
when the displays for the county fair
were collected, and when the parents
Of the children joined them in jolly |
good time, with basket luncheons and
a program to make the affair especial
y interesting. The school is some
hing of model, being supervised by
5he state normal, and next year will
De remodeled and enlarged so that
nigh school classes may be added.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
THROW OUT THE LINE.
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They're often overworked-they
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Doan's Kidney Pills have brought
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Dallas testimony proves their worth.
Mrs. J. N. Dull, SIS Levens street,
Dallas, says: "For a long time one
of my family complained Of a lame
and sore back and pains darted
through the kidneys. Nothing remov-
ed the trouble until Doan's Kidney
Pills were used. They brought help
from the first and soon the patients
back was strong and free from pain
and lameness.
Price soc at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney .remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Dull recommends. Foster-Mil-
burn Co., Props, Buffalo. n. Y.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
Dean Collins Tour.

Dean Collins, who edits The Craw-
fish, has the following about his va
cation trip in Polk county:
j We arrived here from Falls City
yesterday, over the wild and untamed
railroad which was laid from Nose
Mansions prune orchard to Black
Rock, few years ago, by Louis Ger
linger.
In Falls City we recuperated from
the hardships of our fishing trip to
the North Fork of the Rickreall,
about which John Ford has written
so feelingly, and put over financial
coup on Col. Matthews which enabled
us to procure our tickets to Dallas.
! When Rex Lampman and myself
were going in to the North Fork we
met Bert Teats coming out and he
said we wouldn't get many fish, and
he was right, but we got lots Of fish
ing, which was what we went there
for. And Rex got several feas, about
which he still speaks with feeling.
In Falls City we were entertained
by Col. Wood, the editorial manage
ment of the Falls City News (which
was founded some years back by C.
Leonard Starr, the abysmal tax au-
thority of Portland) and by Charles
Mix, who appropriately collaborates
with Col. Matthews in. the task of
keeping Falls City an oasis in the
desert until January l, 1916. Pat
Murphy, the efficient constabulary Of
Falls City, tells us that the efforts Of
Col. Matthews and Mr.. Mix are large
ly responsible for the fact that Falls
City has census on Saturday after
moons that rivals that Of the metropo-
lis of the county, which is Dallas, and
many of whose leading citizens take
up temporary residence in Falls City
to provide against Sundays eventual
tiles.
In addition to seeing the gentlemen
already mentioned, we visited Cliff
Pugh, who invented loganberry juice
before Bryan discovered it, and he
let us sample it and we don't blame
Bryan for saying it is rare stuff for
thirsty man.
hSh w cdluC VII uOWi W ldlldb W
loaf awhile under the paternal roof
and to explain to Jim Hayter, who is
our literary godfather, how it was
that we caught nothing but a crop Of
whiskers while on the North Fork. J.
And then we went out and shook
hands with Ole Fuller, and Joe Sib-
ley and Hort Eakin, who told us some
good stories that we would like to
print but can't for fear Clarence
Reames, the U. S. district attorney,
would estop The Crawfsh from the
mail.
And we ran onto Frank Kerslake,
The demon jitney driver, vacationing
in Dallas.
And Doe McCallon and Pete Fin
seth, the premier buyer, and many
,thers who had been boon companions
If old, welcomed us.
Until we were constrained to thank
'ur stars that Dallas is not like Falls
Jity, or we would never have been
lble to walk to the train we opined.
And we took the train and transfer
ed at Whiteson and rode into Port
and, and when a traffic cop beloved
t us for jay walker, we realized that
Te were home again and that our va
alton was done.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24

county, for it has many advantages
that are denied the other schools be-
cause of their size. 1t is because Of
this advantage that the Dallas high
school has not entered into competi-
tion with the others. The manual
training display is prominent in the
high school booth, and consists of a
variety of furniture built by the boys
Arnel Wilson and Edgar Winters
have entered library tables, and chairs
made by Charlie Hayter and Newman
Dennis are on exhibition. A well
built little box made by Elof Nelson,
piano stool by Harris Ellsworth, a
hall rack by Merrill Barber and a
magazine rack by Webster Beebe are
other entries in this exhibit. Benja-
min Rickli is the designer and build
er of very good book case and the
domestic science classes have taken
advantage of it to display their bak-
ing and salads. This display contains
bread, cakes, cookies, cinnamon rolls
and several kinds of salad. The col
lection of fancy work, laces, embroid-
cry and dresses, both fancy gowns
and ordinary house garments, is very
complete. The laces are especially in
teresting to the ladies who inspect the
display. A skeleton frame for
house, demonstrating their ability
with the T square, has been erected
by Ernest Hoisington, Elof Wilson
and Russell Shepherd, and is one of
the features Of the manual training
display. 1t is model of thoroughly
modern dwelling and the frame work
is complete, ready for the walls to be
put on.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24

| to which prize ribbons are being at
tached. But the girls of the training
school have fairly outdone themselves
IN needlework and art creations. Bes-
sic Clark, Bessie Sullivan, Meta Har-
vey, Beth Rodgers and Beth Olstrom
have entered sewing work of several
kinds, of which little Miss Harvey s
dress with drawn-work trimming is a
feature. In the canned vegetable and
fruit display the work of Fannie
Stienberg, Dorothy and Francis Brew
ster and Thyra Stats is prominent
and several prize ribbons have been
attached to it. Dorothy Stats can
ned her part of the display in a
steam-pressure Gamer at the Normal
school, and on the result of her first
efforts secured prizes. Ira Powell has
display of filbert nuts gathered from
tree that he has tended, pruned and
picked for number of years. Bread,
cakes, pies, laces embroidery, draw
ing, painting, basketry, in fact the
entire display, is tribute to the eff
ficiency of the work done in the teach
er's training school. The landscapes,
flora studies, designing and cut-out
pictures in the art display are excel
lent. One very good entry is corn
grown by Everett Evans. The same
young man took first prize with dis
play of his popcorn.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
Normal Training School.

An exhibit that embodies much that
is interesting from the viewpoint of
the work and the general idea is that
placed by the Teachers Training
school, a connection of the Normal
school at Monmouth. One of the Nor
NAL schools fairest senior students
is in charge Of the booth. Miss Flo
Dougherty, whose delightful southern
accent is an added attraction TO the
display and bellies her Illinois nativi-
ty. A very fine display has been as
sembled by the student-teachers. in
as Miss Dougherty says. "ev
erything from bird houses to egg
plant" Dorcey and Neil Edwards
and Manly Arant have produced some
excellent vegetables. and that trio is
principally responsible for the chief
representation of boyhood handicraft.
They have grown several varieties of
each of the common garden vegetables
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
Orchard View.

The children of a few families seem
to have taken the main interest in
making a successful exhibit for the
Orchard View, one-room school, where
P. H. Berg presides as teacher. A.
G. Rempel is in charge of the booth
and his children have taken an ac-
tive part in the contests. Katherine
Rempel has canned fruits and jellies,
and Bernhard and Gearhart Rempel
have produced potatoes and other veg
etables. Margaret, Mary and Susie
Gearhart, Marie, Katie and Eliza
beth Ediger are members of one fam
lily whose entries are prominent in
the Orchard View exhibit. They have
entered dresses, fancy work, doll
clothes, aprons, waists, tatting and
vegetables, and in every case their
displays are fine. Aaron, Jake and John
Warkentine have produced in their
school gardens variety of vegetables
among which there are some extra
good specimens, including beets. car
rots and cabbages. Cakes and bread
baked by Tina Peters form tempting
part of the Orchard View display.
Mary Platt has entered onions and
squash from her school gardens and
Martha Stanne1l has well-made
apron in the contest. 1t seems that
a lack of interest in the school gar
den movement, baking, canning and
sewing projects, has been displayed
by parents in the Orchard View dis
trict and to that is given the blame
for the fact that the district has not
a larger representation. Under the
that exists, however, the
exhibit is certainly credit to the
school.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
Dallas Grade School.

The booth allotted to the Dallas
grade school is filed to overflowing
with examples of the work of the
children of this city. The display is
different than most of the others in
that department of the fair because
class room work has taken the place
of the school garden or home credit
work of the other schools of the coun-
ty. Drawing, painting, penmanship
specimens, cut-out display. There is
a collection of towels, aprons, doll
clothes and such needle work in the
Dallas booth that is certainly a great
credit to the little folks who spent
many patient hours at the task of
making them. The grade school booth
lacks an attendant and names of en-
trants cannot be found. One child in
Dallas has produced very cleverly
furnished doll house of four rooms.
from two orange boxes. The details
of the house are complete even to
woven paper carpets, and window cur
tains. The furniture is made of fold
ed paper and consists of beds. chairs.
tables and the other necessary equip
ment. A patch work quilt displayed
by Dallas girl should receive the
praise it merits if names were attach
I'd or if some one had charge of the |
booth to disclose the identity of the
maker.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL EXHIBIT

The industrial school department of
the county fair is certainly tribute
to the present day school system,
where little children conceive and pro-
duce practically everything within the
power of small hands and brains. The
teachers of Polk county have done no.
bly, in creating those lines of train
ing in which youthful interest can be
maintained to so great an extent that
the little folks will bring from The
soil garden products, grain and fruia
in such abundance and quality as to
excel in many cases the best that IS
produced by their elders. Little girls
hardly as high as a stove have mould
ed with their own hands pretty and
very palatable looking cakes and pies,
and if some of them were put into
competition with the bakery of their
parents they would come out with rib
bons all over them. Youngsters with
saws and hammers and little in
struction added to the natural inter
est and enthusiasm that has been Gre
apou III tHcHi, nave UullJ tdDlco, CHdl1S
and desks that make judges of fur
niture look twice to discover that they
are not the product of some great
factory. Girls in little one-room
schools have brough into the fair their
needle-work, and in some cases this
means dress more carefully cut, put
together with greater skill than the
Sunday dress that thier mothers took
SO much time and care to make. The
industrial school exhibit is the larg-
est single department of the county
fair, and from the standpoint of won
derful and novel work is without an
equal. Visitors at the fair will do
well to go through the various booths
with wide-open eyes, and they will,
in most cases return appreciative Of
their own shortcomings.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
The Buena Vista School.

Buena Vista, the Broom school OF
home credits. with 3 high school
grades. presided over last year by R.
G. Dykstra, who has charge of the
participation of the school in the
county fair. has an exhibit that prob
ably will be first in its class and
would run Dallas high school a close
race if they were in competition to-
gether. Manual training is a feature
in the Buena Vista booth. and the
work is excellent. Mr.. Dykstra has
his whole heart in the contest that is
being waged. so much so that he has
practically paid from his own pocket
all expenses incident to the exhibition.
The school board furnished only
transportation for the displays and
the cloth to decorate the booth. Ia
bles that for workmanship and finish
would be hard to excel are entered by
Martin Prather. Raymond Frost,
Johnnie Nash and Harley Nelson: pi-
ano stools by Art Black and Clifford
Wells: taboretts- by Harley Nelson,
Clyde Williamson and Art Black; a
fine sewing table by Alfred 10y and
very good book case by Audley Frost
mounted deer and steer horns by Mar
tin Prather and a pedestal by Ralph |
Lucas. One of the features of the
manual training display is a toy pi-
ano. with every note on the keyboard
in order and harmony. This toy is
ished just in time for the fair. In
the dairy contest entrants from the
Buena Vista school is Gilbert Low. the
youngster who took the first prize in
the state contest at o. A. c. last year.
Alfred Low and Harley Nelson are
others in the dairy contest. A pig
is entered by Harold Reynolds: corn
by Raymond Hall; sewing BY Louise
Leonard and Elsie Sehrank; cooking
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
North Dallas School,

The North Dallas, one-room school
is represented by very prettily dee
GRATED booth and the exhibit is al
most as much of the community as of
the school. The booth is decorated
with sun bursts done in white plaster
on background of pink, with ivy
interlocked, and prunes are so arrang-
ed as to be the center Of attraction.
Mrs. Gladys Elliott is the very cap
able teacher at North Dallas, and the
well arranged exhibit is the work of
F. V. Brown. Directly in the center
of the back of the booth is ladder,
its steps apparently leading to the
sun, where heap of dried prunes are
surmounted bya doll. 1t is the lad
der of successful prune culture and
the doll on top is representative of
r. L. Chapman, familiar to North
Dallasites as the "prune king" At
the bottom, aspiring to Mr.. Chap
mans success, is another doll, the
H'I4. D. Brown, amateur" On the
steps are the words, "Polk county
prunes to wealth and fame, prunes,
prunes, prunes." One must not neg
lect the school for the community in
this booth. There is very fine col
lection of grains and grasses, includ-
ing "a varieties, collected by Edward
Brown, on John Brown s farm. John
Brown may well be proud of the abil-
ity of his son. Rawley Middleton, son
of Jamas Middleton has q combina-
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-24
Independence

The booth prepared from the things
made or grown by pupils of the Inde-
pendence grade and high schools is
very neatly arranged and contains
some excellent work. The feature is
manual training, but garden products
are very scarce. Fancy sofa pillows
and a shelf of canned fruit and vege-
tables has attracted much attention.
Perhaps because school is in session at
Independence the booth has no atten-
dant, and the only other school so
neglected is the Dallas grade school.
This is an unfortunate circumstance
both for the school and for visitors,
who are anxious to ask questions re-
garding good work that is on display.
Names of Independence children in
terested in the exhibit could not be
learned.