The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-16
Total Number of Exhibitors
in High School Build
ing Numbered 354
PRIZES AWARDED
TO 142 CHILDREN
More than 500 Adult Spectators, and
Many Expressions Of Admiration
Were Made-Complete List of Judges
and Their Awards.

A perfectly wonderful exhibit How
did the boys and girls do it? Better than
in previous years! Who would have
thought the children could have accom-
plished such results? Three years ago
it would have been considered impossi-
BILE.
All these expressions and many others
were heard from more than 500 adult
spectators who attended the third annual
exhibition of the Brattleboro Home and
School Industrial league Saturday after
noon and evening in the Main street
school building Many children, as well
as grown-ups. attended the exhibit, all
of the school children having free tickets.
The league slogan The hoe is mightier
than the sword and the aims, ITO in
crease food production and conservation"
Each member to do his bit" and TO
coordinate home and school work" were
brought home to the spectators as they
viewed the remarkable display of garden
products, canning, cookery and handi-
work
One of the most interesting and per-
haps the most difficult displays to secure
and prepare was the nature exhibit, which
included a great variety of ferns pressed
and mounted beautifully by Marjorie
Pier and the collection of birds and Yer
mont native woods, with their leaves. by
Howard c. Rice, ir. The nature exhibits
shown by each OF these exhibitors Gov
cred the work of two years The nature
| display also included flowers. butterflies,
| moths and birds and their nests and eggs.
Entries were made in six different de-
| partments with a total of 354 exhibitors,
| divided as follows: Canning, 81; cook
cry, CO. handiwork, As; nature, 81; vege-
tables, 145; specials, ~. Miss Marjorie
| Luce of Montpelier. assistant leader OF
| Boys and Girls club work in the state,
who came here to give demonstrations at
| the exhibition, said she had just come
| from the Rutland county fair and that
| the entire exhibition of vegetables and
| cooked foods there was not as large or
| as good as the display of boys and girls
work which she inspected here Saturday.
The articles were put in place Satur-
day forenoon and the judges had busy
| time awarding prizes until nearly time
| for the rooms to be opened to the public
| at $50 o'clock. Prizes were awarded to
|
list of the judges Vegetables. d..
| Whittier of Montpelier, leader of Boys
and Girls club work in the state, W. A.
Shumway. Supt. Harold f. Moffitt;
poultry-F. d. f. Stowe; cooking Mrs.
| Ella r. Stearns Mrs. John L. Roess, Mrs.
Walter A Gilbert; canning-Miss Lucy
| G. Swift, Miss Helen Lyman, Mrs. II. L.
Moffitt; birds-William c. Horton, Mrs.
Harold L. Smith; wild flowers and trees
Mrs. Frank w Pier; handiwork-Mr
| ". A. Shumway, Mrs. j. c. Dewitt.
As many of the girls who made large
| exhibits of canned goods and cookery last
year were working away from home this
year, the displays in those departments
| showed many new exhibitors. Grace
Thomas, u years old, was awarded the
Gamer, which was offered for the best
all-round canning exhibit. She showed
80 varieties.
A complete list of those receiving
prizes on their exhibits III the various
departments follows:
Vegetables.
Three Hubbard squashes-George Du
gan, Howard Underwood I'd, Hermor
Hertzberg Sd, Howard Underwood special