The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-05
WINNERS OF CONTESTS.
GOOD THUNDER SUCCESSFUL
AGAIN THIS YEAR
PRIZES FOR BEST BREAD
Vernon Center Awarded First;
Calf Raisers; Fine
Showings

M. H. Coe, county club leader of
boys and girls work. has supplied The
Free Press with the following detailed
information regarding the contests at
the Garden City fair on Wednesday,
August q, large part of which ap-
peared in brief in The Free Press
yesterday.
Seven teams took part in the big
county canning contest. The Good
Thunder team won first place with a
score of eighty-seven. 1t viii be re-
membered that the Good Thunder
team won in the contest last year, but
at that time the team was composed
Of different young people This years
team is every bit as energetic and
progressive and maintained the first
honor for another year.
Rapidan Won Second Place.
Rapidan canning team won second
place with score of eighty-fi This
team is composed of young boys who
made splendid appearance and show
ed that boys can can as well as their
sisters. Their work excited much adj
miring comment.
Vernon Center canning team won
third place with score of eighty
four.
Among the three Mankato teams
competing for first place the Man
kato team No. / was declared the
winner.
County Canning Teams.
The county canning teams that VIII
: go to the state fair to compete with
forty other canning teams from all
parts of the state are the Good Thun-
der team, composed of Martha kellogg
Florence Sperra, and Madaline McCar-
thy; and the Mankato No. team,
composed of Violet Kaufman Alice
Guttmann and Myrtle Beckwall.
One of the noticeable things about
the contest this year was the fact
that although there were fewer teams
competing the work done by each
team was far superior to that done
last year. The judge was T. A Erick
SON, state club leader, considered the
best expert on canning in Mime
sofa He stated that the competition
was very close, especially for Sec
ond place, Rapidan and Vernon Cen
ter practically tying for the honor
The Rapidan exhibit of canned goods
was the deciding point which finally
swung the team into second place.
Vernon Center Bread Team.
The Vernon Center bread team
which won thes championship for tie
Southern Minnesota district gave an
excellent exhibition Wednesday, and
will also take part in the bread MAX
ing contest at the state fair.
Blue Earth county will have three
teams at the state fair, two canning
teams and one bread team, all coIc-
posed of boys and girls from ten 10
eighteen years of age. These teams
receive free trips to the fair. The
county will also be represented in the
bread contest by Frieda Reinke OF
Good Thunder champion bread max
er of the county.
The Calf Contest.
In the calf contest TO- 80 c~~2n.
year class Walter Sc OF Good
Thunder won first Lidce, and free
trip to the state fair. Forrest Grass
Of Amboy won second, cash prize
Of $500 In the first year class Roy
Case of Good Thunder won first, a
trip to the state fair; Harold Case
of Vernon Center won second, $500;
and Haysen Buffer, Garden City, third
$500 The dairy calf contest will
close at the Mankato fair, at which
all calves enrolled will be exhibited
There was close competition in the
pig contest. M. H. Coe, county club
leader states that the record made
this year is big improvement over
that of last year. Haysen Buffer won
first place with his Poland China
which made gain Of practically two
pounds day for period of about
125 days, at a cost of nine cents pei
pound gain. The pig was sent to the
state fair yesterday The boy was
awarded a free trip to the boys and
girls short course this winter. He Is
one of the best club workers in the
county, and attends the state fair as
prize awarded in the 1918 corn con
test, having raised los bushels of corr
to his acre.
In the corn contest this year Clyde
Mccormack of Garden City won frs
on white corn, prize of $500; Oar
Buffer, Garden City, second, So. 90;
Erwin Yahnke, Garden City, first OF
yellow corn, 81 90; no second.
Club displays this year far exceed.
ed any of last year in beauty, size ant
variety of products, competing 81
closely that three judges were asked
for decisions. The result stood three
to one in favor of Rapidan, and GOOD
Thunder was given second place
These exhibits showed what a clul
can do in one years work in projects
In the garden displays Good Thun
der won first, 81; Rapidan second, S.
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