St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-05-24

displayed by the SilSby garage, and
the Caledonia garage had a large ex-
hibit of automobile supplies and Access
series. Healey & Allen showed the Sax
on, and George F. Chamberlain the
Regal. Two Oldsmobiles were demon
strated by Howard Blossom, formerly
of ST. Johnsbury, and the Stude baker
was shown by George Gammell. The
Vermont Cadillac company had car
and F. M. Abbott showed the Briscoe,
above which was an attractive sign.
Two Chevrolet cars were demonstrated
by c. E. Morrill, of Danville and Per-
| ley Hartwell had the National car.
Included in this exhibit should also
be mentioned the display of oils and
greases by the Crew-Levick company
and Jason M. Cady's booth with Ajax
tires and automobile accessories.
A. f. Counsel & Son.
This firm displayed three of their
gasoline engines and they also handle
seeds and motorcycles.
Harvey's Piano Exhibit.
L. K. Harvey of Passumpsic had
half a dozen pianos including the
Merrill, Briggs, Norris & Hyde piano
player and piano supplies. These in
struments were demonstrated by J. J.
Toben, an accomplished pianist, who
greatly pleased the crowd by his
playing.
The Metropolitan Exhibit
f. B. Jacques was in charge of the
booth where the welfare work of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance company
was demonstrated. In the back
ground were II large panels describing
this hygienic work and a large pic
ture of the Metropolitan building
with it's lofty tower occupied a prom
inent space in the booth. On the
tables and shelves we're samples of the
so or more publications which this
insurance company prints in their well
fare work.
G. A. CalderwOod.
G. A. Calderwood exhibited the
famous Hoosier kitchen cabinets, an
| indispensable adjunct to every modern
kitchen.
Company ID, National Guard.
Through the courtesy of Leach &
Waterman, Company d had a booth
in the northeast corner of the second
floor which attracted much attention
An army tent occupied a conspicuous
place in the booth and inside was the
cot and the soldiers eating utensils
Rifles. accouterments and maps were
displayed in the booth, which was Law
ishly decorated with the national
colors.
Campbell Varnish Stains.
| Welcome B. Eastman has the agen-
cy for this line and in a booth adjoin-
ing Lurchin & Lurchin's a lady dem
onstrator was busy showing the uses
and merits of the stains.
The Public School Exhibit.
The two exhibits that attracted the
most visitors and that kept them
there the longest were those of the
manual training department of our
public schools and the work in the
manual training department of the
st. Johnsbury Academy
Manual Training Exhibit.
| Manual training has been a part
of our public school system for the
past two years and is under the su-
pervision of Leon H. Baxter. The
exhibits from our schools took more
prizes at the Vermont Industrial ex-
position at Rutland than any other
school, and in three contests held by
the simmons Saw company the boys
in the st. Johnsbury schools took
more prizes than any other schools
in the United States Each evening a
, group of boys was busy at work and
attracted much attention. Four
boys were constructing a model of a
garage, one-fourth natural size; two
boys were upholstering stools: two
boys were Gaming chairs, and two bows
were making forms and casting the
concrete for a garden seat In practi-
cal concrete construction it will inter
est our readers to know that the bows
concreted the big basement of the
Summerville school house at a saw
ing to the town of 1857 They also
built the concrete entrance to the
Arlington school house and the
steps on the Winter street side of the
south building on Summer street. In
the line of carpenter work they con-
structed all the playground apparatus
on the school commons and the $50
feet Of fence around the Summer
street school buildings. A splendid bit
or concrete model work showed abut-
ments OF concrete reinforced with
steel with regular bridge construc-
ton.
Among the interesting objects made
by the boys were a wheelbarrow. a dog
kennel, a ladder for fruit pickers.
trelis work. trap nests for poultry,
poultry and chicken feeders egg test
er and a great variety of wooden |
kitchen articles. In the center of the
exhibit were stands, tables, foot rests. |
CHESTS and other articles of constant
use in the home. A ticket showing
the shop card system was exhibited so |
the boys know the cost Of their work. |
their time and all expenses entering
into the construction of the articles
made. The corner room contained |
nothing which was not made by the
boys and girls in the eighth and ninth |
grades. The boys made all the fur |
niture and the girls in the sewing |