The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-08-02
EXPERTS TEACH
CANNING HERE
FOR FOUR DAYS
Demonstrations and Lectures to
be Given in Commercial
Club Rooms .
SHOW PEOPLE HOW TO SAVE
Thirty Such Schools are Being Held
- Under Direction of the -,
State College ~

State College, Pullman, Wash, July
31-Thirty canning and drying dem
onstration schools for the training OF
community leaders in this work will
be conducted by the State College ex-
tension service from July 80 to Aug
ust II inclusive, according to plans
lately matured by President Holland
and Director Thornber of the extern
sion service. The schools are, in part,
the outcome of Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carl Vrooman's repeated
ly made statement during his recent
tour of the Northwest that without
the service of an army of ten million
American women engaged in canning,
drying, conserving and economizing
foodstuffs, a world famine could
scarcely be prevented"
At meeting of county agricultural
agents, extension workers, members
of the state council of defense, news
paper men and business men held in
Spokane, Mr.. Vrooman stated that
already in the famine stricken zones
of Europe millions have starved to
death, and that their bones line the
roadside. In many places children
under IL years of age cannot be found.
The proposed schools for the train
ing of community demonstrators are
planned to get the quickest possible
action on the state population. The
schools will be operated in groups of
ten at a time, the first unit of ten be-
ginning at Bellingham, Everett, Che
halls, Seattle, Montesano, North Yak
ina, Wenatchee, Walla Walla, Spo-
kane, Garfield, on Monday, July 80,
and continuing until August 3rd.
The second group Of ten will begin
on August 9Th at Mt. Vernon, Olym-
pia, South Bend, Vancouver, Kelso,
Kennewick, Okanogan, Pomeroy, New
port and Oakesdale, continuing till
August 10th.
The third group Of ten will begin
on August 18th in Port Angeles, Ell
lensburg, Shelton, Goldendale, Steven
son, Ritzville, Waterville, Charleston,
Colville and Uniontown.
The aim of the extension service is
TO get at each Of the thirty schools,
at least ten women who in the time of
the school will become sufficiently
skilled in canning, drying and other
lines of conservation and economy as
applied to foods to return to their
nome communities and conduct similar
schools. Under the plans laid, in the
fourth week from the opening of the
hrst ten school units of ten on July
Goth, it will be possible to have nearly
5000 demonstrators at work in their
home communities.
BY letter and telegraph, the State
College extension service is now be-
ing asked for information concerning
late paintings of garden produce so as
TO prolong the season of canning and
drying. Director Thornber suggests
peas, beets. carrots, spinach, turnips,
cabbage and rutabagas. City garden
ers should remove the plants of their
now matured and gathered early
spring garden, wet the soil down deep,
cultivate thoroly and replant. Direc-
tor Thornber states that in this way
the season of canning and drying can
be prolonged till after the fall frosts.
Director Thornber has announced
the demonstrators who in the weeks
Deglnning July 80 and ending August
IIth will conduct in thirty cities of
washington canning and drying DEM
onstratlons for the training of leaders
IN canning, drying and curing food
stufs to follow up the work in their
nome communities thruout the state.
L ne demonstrators have been recruit
eo from the college faculty and home
economics graduates of experience in
this work, and are:
For Mt. Vernon, Miss Mary E. Suth-
for Olympia, Miss Elizabeth
for South Bend, Miss Maize
for Vancouver, Miss Elimina
"hlte; for Kelso, Miss Olga Grizzle;
Tor kennewick, Miss Edna Walker.
okanogan, Miss Lottie Jellum; Pom
eroy' Inez Arnquist; Newport, Miss