The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27
WEST LIBERTY STATE
NORMAL SCHOOL NOTES

/ y hos bcen n very busy week IN LILY
little Normal TheNlrst TsS nesIa "
the assembly meeting Sn sn,ciaI fea-
imSOcIu rcnort of the State Educa-
tinn Association by the te9cheIS snn
We're present. Miss Maude /: IeIgasW'
Introduced the teachers. MISS - 20.
naEue read n Letter "nnGn rsburr from
formnr student of the school. MIS-
Viola Wolfe, who is now, IN Jal.am, 81
II. J. McGinnis gave a 9 RE ssthrrinS by
the Who con'G GhbHriv people was told
LINN ah' NV Miss Mary l.. wager, MISS
Mnudc l. Withcrspoon discussed me my.
, steal selections given AT tnI a ohout
s"ssions. Mir. CT. BoGEess talked aoous
,bo ,nrinus school systems OF Europe as
compared with ours gleaned rom = @ n
l,ivrn by DR., Judd. Home as
tnught in the Iarkersburg schools vs.
discussed BY Miss Mary E; MGrsEs mgiishS
Ifor her subject. Mr.. c.. NJ. koon gave a
few ~gleanings which she had galhcfeo
from the association meetings.
The Community Fatr
! Friday, saturday ana SUNDAY 49,
given over TO the agriculture destrtrmeat
Of the school. Probably the most int
estinr feature was that OF the Comnunff
ity Agricultural Fair in charge OF
Messrs.> ID. b. Rogers and {. j. IAl'o
son. The following recei'eH pItha Har-
l1ulICI~-l pShAN --,-
ris, Rough and Ready School; p3unu
| print, first Alma Miliikcn, second tloL-
rnce Miner, both of Number Nine schooi:
School display of butter liIst NuntO
Modcls-tirst, farm gate, George VA,
lace, Rough and Rrahy school; trsI
Book Shelf, Daniel Davis Roagn anu
Ready Clock Shelf. first Eusse A, ms hss.
: niaySFirst, house, George Morrison ana
; Robert Scott of the Valley Grove Scno3t;
second, tractor. Clarence Shailer Oh inc
West Liberty school. .ooord
Center School, Carl ~Bruncr; Schooi
I;rUun Of Potatoes. first, Wcst ilpcrty
: School: second. McGraw's linn school.
| Corn-Leaming, first, Louis B0nar.
/ West Liberty; second, RicdS fei!o~
iSlbrlc Timmons, Rough and Ready
SchooI Group OF Corn-Iirst, West LIB
crty: second. Rice school. Pop CornI5
E, nrS, Howard Shook. Rice School: second
; Florence Miner, Number Nine School.
Apnlcs-Baldwin, first. Sadie Stal"y,
! Rough and Ready; second Ivan Borgess.
Nest Iihcrty; Grimes Golden, hr>t Mar.
garet Parsons. West LLoerty; SeSona
| York Imperial, first, Oscar Dlxon. In
| ter. second Ernest Cullcy, Rice school
Wineaap (only onc) first. Julia Smitn.
Center school. Northern Spy ftr End if Sa1iHI
~IOllRUlllSE INbilibNI
Garrison, West Liberty. Wagener' nrst
| George Wallace. Rough and Ready; sec
nnd Margaret Parsons. West Liberty:
Ben Davis. first, Ernest tulley' ltlGe'
second Daniel Davis iS1ugh anu krn"E'
Center: second, Isabel Timmons. Rough
and Ready. Starks. first, lSoDcrt GlD-
son, Number Nine; second, Ernest u
ley, Rice. Any other variety, hrSt itctEn
! Vest Liberty; Variety Group, FIST, Cen
ter School: second Rough and Ready
School. Apple Design first, Rough ana
i Ready School: second West Liberty
Most Artistic Booth-flrst. Center
! School: second, West Liberty School.
Mr.. Gibbs, the Brooke County AgrIcul-
turC Agent, was the judge OF the dis
Lecture Course Number
Efforts to sccur Luther Burbank. the
plant wizard. for n lecture tour nave
been ~unavailinE, but the Rc1path bu-
reau is directing a series Of engage
: known as The Burbank Man" MI:
! Adrian IS to hc heard IL tho Normal
Hall. Tuesday evening, November 80.
Some "f l~iurbank'S accomplishments,
described by Mr.. Adrian are: trees that
bear fruit the same year planted; pitless
plumS. thornlcfS blackberry vines, Iod-
der plants. yielding 2n0 tons OF green
/ stuff per acre. The color Of flowers has
been changed. The flavor of melons has
been controlled. The production Of var
ious new apples, peaches. grasses,
grains, berries, flowers and vegetables
| has been effected. Specimens from the
Burbank gardens in California are used
by Mr.. Adrian in illustrating his talk.
! While MIR. Adrian is an expert grower,
he Is also widely known off the Pacific
! coast as an educator. He has applied
many of the Burbank methods of plant
development to the proper bringing up
Of children. He. maintains that 'as
! surely az the wnyside weed was nodded
into the beauty OF the Shasta daisy, 20
surely may weak and hayward children
b.. madc INTO useful CitiZcnS."