The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-04-11
BIRD HOUSE EXHIBIT
AND SALE TODAY
BIRD HOUSES REQUIRING MUCH
PATIENCE AND HARD WORK
EXHIBITED AT LIBRARY.
Prizes We're Awarded This Afternoon
by the Out Door Art Association.
Many of the Houses Sold.

About twenty bird houses that were
built by boys from the grades and
High school were received at the
Library before 1000 o'clock this morn
ing to be placed on the exhibition and
sale, which will last for several days
The design of the houses, the mater
lal used, and the substantial way in
which they were constructed shows
that this work was not done without
a lot of head work and thought on the
part of the contestant. Some of the
main points which were taken into
consideration in awarding the prizes
was the arrangement OF the houses,
the neatness Of appearance, the work
required, and the fact that most of
the boys had made arrangements for
the cleaning out of the houses.
Some of them were built so that they
could be taken apart by removing a
few screws, in a way that the whole
interior of the house could be removed
by just removing a wooden peg, which
held it into place.
A great many of the houses were
built of stucco work, while others
were made of bark, painted wood, and
some Of them were built on the log
cabin style Most of the houses were
constructed to accommodate Wrenf
and Martins, and there was also al
artistic feeding station exhibited by
Carl Hertel.
One of the interesting features of the
exhibit was the fact that the houses
consisted of many styles ranging from
an ordinary wood house to the repre-
sentation of castle on the Rhine.
Among the Martin houses which are
exceptionally we'll built is the castle
which was designed by Erwin Gown
1t is built on an elaborate plan con-
sisting of eight rooms and is made up
of stucco work The whole interior
of this castle can be removed from
the outer structure by the removal Of
single wooden peg which holds it
up into place
Other houses that were well worthy
of notice was a sixteen room, three
story house built by Harold Achten-
hagen, and a six room Chinese bun
galow made by Edwin King.
In awarding the prizes for the Wren
houses the judges had no easy task
as there was a large variety of these
houses that were well built.
The prizes were awarded by mem
bers of the Out Door Art association
as this organization took quite an in
terest in the work, and were willing to
do their part in rewarding the boys
for the success they had made of the
contest.
The prizes were awarded as follows:
Erwin Cowan, first prize for Martin
house, built in grades, 81.
Paul Collins second prize for
Martin house, built in grades, Use.
Ray Setback, first prize, for Wren
house, built in grades, 75c.
Ray Richart second prize, for Wren
house, built in grades, F0c.
Erwin Sell first prize, for Martin
house, built in High school, 81.
for Martin house built in High school,
Use.
William Calhoun first and second
prizes, for Wren houses built in High
school, Toe and SOC, respectively.
Carl Hertel first prize, for feeding
station, 81.
Many of the houses have already
been sold, but the boys are taking
orders for more, and will duplicate
any of the houses already sold.
The following boys had houses en-
tered in the contest:
Wren-Clarence Wiese, Douglas, fifth
grade.
Herbert Bredow, Webster, eighth
grade.
Ray Richart, Webster, eighth
grade.
Ray Setback, Lincoln, seventh
grade.
Herbert Schoeneke, High school,
ninth grade.
William Calhoun, High school,
ninth grade
Arthur Malbow, High school,
ninth grade, 60
Teddy Roach, Lincoln, sixth grade
Harold Achtenhagen, High school,
tenth grade.
Martin-Erwin Sell, High school,
ninth grade.
Paul Collins, Webster, seventh
grade.
Harold Achtenhagen, High school,
tenth grade.
Erwin Gown, Lincoln, seventh
grade.
Feeding Station-Carl Hertel, High
school, ninth grade
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