The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-05-19
Co. o.SchooI Night Proves toBe
Great Big Success
.STUDENTSATT THEIR WORK
Profitable Hours Were Spent BY
Parents and Others At
The High
from Saturdays Daily.

dents IN extra session WIN tHeir III
structors last evening were visited
by twelve hundred people. Super
|intendent F. j. Sperry and Principal
Nv. G. Bate were highly pleased at
the great interest taken in the work
tof the students on the part OF the
public.
School was held for three half-hour
periods, from 1880 to nine o'clock,
the classes being those of the regular
third, fourth and fifth hours. This
lsession counted as did any other in
the regular school credits. The pupils
are to be compensated for going to
school last night by being given next
Monday afternoon off.
| 1t speaks well for the general
discipline and habits of work on the
part of the student body that the
teachers were able to keep them at
work last evening, amid the general
excitement that was inevitable on
/, such an occasion.
| No less interesting than the class
work itself was the elaborate array
of exhibits The manual training and
domestic science departments had a
most impressive exhibition. What the
students had accomplished in the
forge shop was indeed remarkable.
Here under the instruction of G. H..
Nicholas the students work the iron
and steel Hay hooks, chisels, chains,
pincers and many other articles that
the students make with the use of
fire and tools were on display. In the
middle of this exhibit was a partly
built gasoline engine. This is new
venture on the part of the students.
The castings had to be ordered but
the students put them together. 1t is
Ia one cylinder, wo-horse- power
engine Vernon A. Cooper, who has
the general direction OF the manual
training department, said last even
ling that it was his hope next year to
produce half dozen such engines
by the work of the boys
Boys Seen at Work.
The boys were seen at work not
only in the forge shop but also in the
carpentry rooms. Here are produced
tables, stands, towel racks, coat
hangers and many other articles of
ordinary household use. There was
quite an array Of such products, and
many of them were labeled with the
names OF the boys who made them.
This made the exhibits doubly in
teresting, the boys are personally
known to so any of those who came
/ to- see what the school could do.
| The same could be said of the vast
iarray of beautiful dresses, gowns,
trimmed hats and other articles OF
feminine attire and household decora-
j ton, which were placed on display by
1.-THE. sewing department. The names of
, the girls who made this and that
[ dress Or trimmed this and that hat
could be seen on the various articles.
This work is under the direction of
Miss Carrie A. Brewster, who is as
sisted by Miss Mabel Johnson.
! Here and there one could see under
glass show cases cakes, doughnuts,
pies, prepared grapefruits and other
| tempting delicacies, while the ap-
petite was still further whetted by
occasional savory odors that floated
out from the baking room, and were
carried here and there by the ir-
regular air currents. Perhaps it was
well that the baking room was not
easy to find, for it might otherwise
soon have been Overcrowded with
hungry guests. That part of the build
ing, down in the basement, is con-
structed with about as many in
ttricacies as the tabled Daedalian
labyrinth, and it is easy indeed to
get lost. However, in time, the bulk
of the visitors found their way to the
/ kitchens, and here the girls were
seen baking dainties under the super
vision of Miss Jean Collins Miss
Johnson, also assists. with this
branch of the domestic science de-
partment. Delicious cookies, hot from
the gas ovens, were handed round
and the news that treat was to be
had there spread rapidly.
Science of Agriculture.
Another department that excited
great interest was that of the
science Of agriculture, of which c.. R
Shumway is the instructor Probably
the most interesting feature here
was the practical demonstration OF
testing seed corn. Five or six grains
are picked from each ear, and the
readiness with which these can be
made to sprout shows what the
whole ear is worth for seeding. One
tdisplay that attracted a great deal OF
attention here was a collection OF
boxes, wherein one of the students
Curtis Snow, was starting his toma
toes and other plants, which he in
!. tends to raise on a three-acre striI
of ground during his summer vaca-
ition. Other exhibits here showed how
the boys are taught tile draining, the
selection of food rations for different
kinds of stock, the test of milk fol
butter fat, the removal of dirt from
milk by sediment and other arts thai
every devotee of diversified farming
ought to know.
t Up on the third floor is the business
department, where stenography, type
writing and other commercial
branches are taught by ]. E. F. Chase
with the assistance of Miss Eleanor
Mott. 1t was unfortunate that the
flights were out here during a con
siderable part of the evening and the
lpeople did not get the demonstration
of this work, as was intended.
In the biology depai5 ilient Miss