The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-15
FINE EXHIBITION
BY SCHOOL CLUBS
Results of Children'S Efforts
Shown in Main Street
Building
PRIZES AWARDED
THIS FORENOON
Exhibition Will Be Open from 7.30 to 9
Tonight Seven Hundred Tickets
Children Participate.


Patrons of the exhibition by the various
clubs of the Home and School Industrial
league, which opened in the Main street
school building at go O'Clock this after
noon, found spread before their eyes an
array of products remarkable for their
general excellence and large enough nu- |
merically also to elicit expressions of sur
prise and commentator. 1t Is indeed |
the high school, and it is alike creditable |
to the exhibitors as revealing both inter- |
est and aptitude and to the schools as
/ showing the results of competent instruc-
Hast wear. All the work was done by the
pupils out of school and represents the
efforts of 800 children
The exhibit will be open until j
O'Clock this afternoon, and this evening
lit will be open from 80 to O'Clock A
small admission fee is charged, and after
a preliminary survey of the different
rooms The Reformer can state without
hesitancy that all who attend will feel
well repaid Tickets were sold to 700
persons in advance and children are adj
mitted free The Judges at work
all the forenoon, and the results of their
work viii be collected SO that it can be
published in The Reformer Monday
Stress has been laid this year on vege
table growing and canning, and those
! In,
the vegetable or garden section there is
the work of 65 exhibitors, covering all the
desks in the room 1t represents about
everything in the vegetable line, but some
products which it had been planned to
show were destroyed by the frosts
Forty children show canned products,
and one never would know but that they
/ had had years of experience Two five
l dollar Gamers were offered by individ-
/ uals for the best all-round exhibits, and
I these were awarded to Evelyn Hamilton
l and Irma Thomas who were in the ninth
l grade when the work was done Miss
Hamilton shows A kinds Of canned fruit
i and eight kinds of Jelly and Miss Thoma:
shows 30 kinds of canned fruit.
For the exhibitors in the two club:
above mentioned the Bratteboro boart
/ of trade offered ribbon awards, six firsts
SIX seconds and SIX thirds. There wer'
offered in each class cash prizes Of 8
cents, 20 cents and 10 cents, to be takel
/ from the admission receipts .
One Of the interesting places is tn
1 special" room, every child being give
| the privilege Of bringing anything he 0
/ she chose, and here is indeed a varied co
l lection, representing the contribution G
1 l25 children. 1t includes food vegets
bles, sewing, photographs, fish and eve
/ worms, besides many other things.
The cooking exhibit includes the wor
Of GO contestants The varieties ar
l abundant and the judges found the qua
ity excellent In fact they found it n
l easy task to make the awards
The domestic science class exhibit
l number Of varieties 0. picked product
l together with notice that they woul
l do canning for persons furnishing the M
/ terial at small price or would furns
/ the material themselves at practica
i cost
In the department of wild flowers al
- trees, three collections of woods make
- notable feature Howard Rice show
81 varieties OF woods mounted with lei
characteristic of each variety, and Phil
Wheeler and Allen Rice also show a vic
variety of wood specimens Each WI
given a first prize Pressed and cut flo,
ers also are shown, the prize for the be
collection of pressed flowers going to Ma
ljore Pier, who has 40 varieties
There is a good showing of bird list
giving the different kinds of birds see
the manner in which the lists are ma
up counting in the awarding of prizC
and a varied collection of birds nests ad
interest to this section.
Real expert work with the needle al
hook is seen in the sewing club eXhib
where there is pleasing display of fan
and plain sewing and crochetng. Dress
MILDLY blouses and wide variety Of I
J ished articles that would do credit
seamstresses of long experience are to
found here
The manual arts section also conta
some interesting handiwork prncipa
/ in stained wood. showing the exercise
! both care and skill with tools
Much of interest is to be found in
/ room where the poultry exhibits are ma
| The birds are the property of the you
III sters showing them and include some
ii celent specimens.
The eafning club exhibit consists Of
{ display of books of account kept by
i children during the year
D Following is list Of the judges; Bird
Mrs. Harold L. Smith and W. c. Hort
| Wild flowers and trees-Mrs. F. w
and Mrs F. X Barrows Vegetable
Dana H. Stafford, W. NJ Robbins
HI w A. Shumway. Poultry, d. F. Tas
III Cooking-NIrs H. w. Sargent, Mrs A
III Atwood and Mrs. Nv NJ Robbins {
III ming, Mrs. f. NJ. Feeney, Mrs Ha
III Moffitt and Miss Rosamond Ashley S
III ing, Mrs. j. l.. Martin and Mrs. A.
Ill Montgomery. Manual arts-E NJ. Fee
III Earning Miss Florence Phelps
/ Nuff Ced