River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-21
RURAL SCHOOL
CORN SHOW
AUrifalIian Society Scores Splendid
Success in First Corn Show and
Entertainment
PROFESSOR BEWIcK LECTURES
Girls As Well As Boys Are Good
Judges---A Larger and Better
Show Next Year

After about a month of prepare
ton the Rural School Corn Show in
the territory about the River Falls
Normal was held in the Upgren
building, formerly occupied by the
Lusk Furniture store, December
10th. There were all together about
60 samples of corn exhibited in eth
er yellow or white varieties. The
list of cash prizes for each color of
corn consisted of six dollars, four
dollars, two dollars and several one
dollar prizes. The money for the
prizes was furnished by the Agrifal-
liam society of the school of Agricul-
ture and was secured by giving an
entertainment the week preceding
the corn show. The young men COM
posing this society voted to finance
the corn show when it was first
thought of month or more ago.
Since that time plans have been
making both for the show and the
entertainment.
The work of getting these exhibits
together has necessitated the expen-
diture of large amount of time on
the part of Professor May, who
started this show, and the boys and
girls who took part in the play, and
the boys who went out to the schools
and helped to work up the exhibits.
About Is schools were visited with a
helper in each case and the matter of
selecting an exhibit was gone over
thoroughly with the pupils. With
this instruction in mind they went
on and made the best selection of a
ten ear sample of corn that they
could make. These samples were
gotten together at the schoolhouse
and at another time another visit
was made to the schools for the pur-
pose of choosing the best out of the
samples. Then these best samples,
from two to six from each school.
were sent in for the River Falls
show. In good many cases the
boys and girls were not able to get
to town that day and so were not
there to get the benefit of the talk
that followed the judging and to re-
celve the prize money if they were
winners. The judge of the exhibit
was Professor T. ]. Bewick of Madi-
son and representative Of the Fed
eral Government in Wisconsin whose
work is leader of the Boys and Girls
Clubs. He gave very interesting
talk on why he placed the samples in
the order which he did, and he had
an interested audience, not only Of
young people but also the parents of
these children who had sent in sam
Piles, people about town and a good
representation from the Normal
school. After this talk the meeting
adjourned to the Normal AUDITOR
UNI where program of entertain
ment and discussion was held. The
Methodist quartette furnished some
music. The farce, "A Picked-up
Dinner" was repeated from the
Agrifallian program Of the week be-
fore, and Professor Bewick talked
about boys and girls club work.
His talk was one Of the best of its
kind that any of the people there
had ever listened to, and we are in
hopes that we may get this man back
at some later time for larger hear
ing on the same subject Of home
work for boys and girls. After Pro-
fessor Bewick had finished, the roll of
prize winners was called and the
money was delivered. The winners
were we'll distributed about through
out the country, showing that not
all of the good corn nor all the good
judges of corn came from one neigh
borhood. The prizes were given for
samples, that according to the judge
would push many of the grown up
corn judges to find better. Evil
dence is plentiful that we are grow
ing up set of corn judges in this
part of Wisconsin, and girls as we'll
as boys show promise in this line.
Many of the prizes went to girls.
There was one prize given for the
largest and best line of exhibits.
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