The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-09-26
SCHOOL FAIR
WAS THE BEST
DISPLAY WINSPLAUDlTS OF JUDGES
Grain Exhibits Evidence Progress Made
By 0rchardlStS in Diversified
Farming Many Rabbits

Inc annual lnduStrldI school fdlr
held Saturday under the supervision Of
Supt Gibson, both from interest mani
Tested and number of exhibits. was the
best the county has ever had. The
displays of wheat, corn and other
grains, numbering more than 100, We're
a revelation even to local citizens of
the progress that has been made by
orchardiSts in diversified farming in
the past year. A dozen varieties of
field corn, all well matured, were
shown by the potential farmers.
Evidencing the increase in rabbit
raising among Hood River folk. nearly
50 pens of the animals were shown by
youngsters.
Miss Helen Cowgirl and T. d.
O'Relley, faculty members of O. A.
c., here to act as judges. pronounced
the fair the best they have seen in the
state this year. MIR. O'Reiley, who
stated that he had been in attendance
at four similar fairs during the past
four weeks, declared that the exhibits
of the local one outnumbered the total
of the other four.
The following boys and girls won
free trips to the Oregon State Fair at
Salem Eva Veach, Margaret Plerson
Wilmuth Gibson and Frank Fenwick,
industrial club work; Cretia Taylor,
Virginia Dutro and Eva Tomkpins,
members of the Odell canning team.
One Of the features of the fair was
the large display Of fine hogs. kelton
Noll, aged II years, carried off the
blue ribbon with six months old Du.
roe Jersey pig that weighed $40
pounds
Throughout the day girls, members
of district canning teams, competing
fer trips to the state fair, gave demon.
stratlons in canning fruit and vegeta.
bles. Miss Cowgirl was in charge of
the canning teams.
Premiums were awarded respectively
to first, SECOND and third prize winners
as follows
Club Work Corn growing, Gordon
Graft, Fred Walters and Mary Evans
potatoes, Arne Annala. Merle Vinson.
Robert Vinson; vegetable growing,
Wilmuth Gibson, Morton Van Ausdale
and kelton Noll poultry project Ne.
|, Cretia Taylor and Dan Pierson. !.
poultry project, No. 2, Cretia Taylor,
Louis Arneson and Fern Reed poultry
project No. 3, Fred Fenwick pork
raising, Kelton Noll; hare raising pro-
ject, Dan Pierson, Morton Honeywell
and Erta Reed baking, Eva Veach,
Minerva Lester and Jessie Painter .
canning and drying project /, Sylvia
Moford, Gladys Roberts project 2,
Clara Barton and Cretia Taylor; sew
ing, project |, lrma Annala, Linda An
derson and Marian Crapper project 2,
Margaret Pierson, Clara Barton and
Mabel Hanahan; food preparation,
Margaret Pierson.
Open Juvenile Work Class A con
testants were between ages of II and
49, Glass b, younger than II years
| Field corn, Glass A, Floyd Dixon, Class
8, Kingdom Tucker, Miles Carter and
Howard Taylor; popcorn, Glass A, Fred
! Petzold Gertrude BueloW and Alma
Howard Glass b, Charlotte Clapp,
Wendell King and Joseph Peasy hub
bard squash, Glass A, Floyd Dixon,
Harold Roberts, Catherine Bloche,
Class B, Louis Arneson, Frank Pierson
and Lyle Mclsaac pie pumpkin, Glass
A, Fred PetZold Robert Vinson, Glass
b, Lyle Mclsaac, Wendell King and
Merle Vinson, stock squash, Glass A,
Wendell King, Glass B, Murita Moore
Dora Dreske and Leland Purdy. toma
toes, Class A, Floyd Dixon, Glass B..
Cecil Murphy, Joe Haslinger and Mary
Edith Winter potatoes, Glass b, Ar
mold Rodwell, Arrin Thurner and Lyle
McIsaac; cabbage, Class b, Doris
Dreske and Josie Winter onions, Glass
b, Jack Crapper; beets, Class b, Ar
leta Beauregard and Jack Crapper
large chickens, Glass A, Curtis Ander.
son, Class b, Elma Purdy, Elwin Han
ahan and Jack Honeywell. small chick
ems, Class b, Earl Curtis, Paul Keir.
Alice Carson; bantams, Class b, Lu-
ciIe Ferguson best coop containing
fowls. Viola Colvin, Lucille Ferguson
best hutchAcontainng rabbits, Morton
! Honeywell, Leonard Thomson and Lo-
gan Colvin bread, Glass A, CIarissa
Tomlinson. Class b, Margaret Dayen-
port, Virginia Davenport and lnga
Sundsten; canned fruit and vegetables,
Glass A, Zelda Hall, Laura Tomlinson,
Glass B, lnga Sundsten, Daisy Craven
and Helen Curtis, sewing, Glass A,
Alice Kvavle; best apron, Class b, Ir-
ma Bowerman, Viole. Hukari and vi.
emma Annala best darn, Alice Blow.
ers, Leonora Miller and Martha Hama
han; manual training, grade students,
Edward VolstorF, James Shahan, Viii
muth Gibson. basketry, Class b. Mer.
ril Burtchett, Lois Murphy and Mary
Lawrence sweet peas, James Shahan
asters, Wilmuth Gibson, Pearl Hershey
and Mabel Hillstrom dahlias, Charles
Taft, Esta Reed.
Blue ribbon special prizes for differ
ent classes of rabbits were awarded tC
Richard Ford. Pearl Hershey and Cor.
don Woodrum. Barrett and Oak Grove
schools won respective first and seconc