The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-03-26
Event Will Be Held at the
University Farm
MANY FROM COUNTY
They viii Attend, Having Won
Trip; Club Leader To Be
With Them


The annual boys and girls short
course will be held at University
Farm the week beginning March 20
This short course has become very
popular and OF great value to boys
and girls who attend. Young people
who attend this short course come
home with a broader vision and a
deeper understanding and interest in
their homes. They return with q
vision OF better things and an in
|spiration to attempt some of these
and with definite knowledge to how
to do the work.
Any boy or girl VINO was a prize
winner last year in club work or any
who are enrolled in club work dur
ing the coming year are eligible tC
attend this short course. The cost
Of the week will include railroad fare
round trip. board 81 room 81 and
street car fare. 81. This is all the
necessary expense Ialthough it would
be well TO have little extra.
fhe Daiy program. -..
The mornings are given over to a
study of calves, pigs. sheep. poultry
corn, potatoes, gardening, canning
breadmaking, sewing, and business
methods. The afternoons are spent
on sightseeing trips made in COM
pany with competent leaders. The
evenings are spent partly at the
gymnasium and partly at an evening
program All boys and girls are
boarded and lodged in buildings on
the campus at University Farm.
Blue Earth county will have a larg
or delegation attending the short
course than ever before. All boys and
girls attending from this county will
meet at the office of the Blue Earth
County Farm Bureau at a. M. Mon
day, March 80, and from there will
go to the Milwaukee depot to take
the train at 1915. They will be ac-
companied by NJ. Fl. Coe, county club
leader who will see that all are well
cared for during the week.
List Of Trip Winners.
All young people who are planning
to go should communicate with M. IL
Coe. county club leader. at once
Parents would do well to let their
tboys and girls attend this shor,
course as it is of untold value to
them.
Twelve boys and girls of this coun-
ity have won trips to the boys and
girls short course next week. These
trips come as reward for club work
well done last year. They are as fol
lows:
Roy Case, Good Thunder. state
and county champion of dairy
calf contest. Trip given by state
and by Mankato fair. ST..
Haysen Buffer, Garden City,
state and county champion of pig
contest. Trip given by state
Dannie Buffer, district cham
pion, corn contest. Trip given by
Garden City fair. .
Eleanor Mack, Vernon Center,
state, district, and county cham
pion. y
Alice Warren, Vernon Center,
bread team. Trips coming from
various sources.
Lillian Nelson, Vernon Center,
bread team. Trips coming from
various sources. ->
Alvin Storrs, Amboy, one of
| state winners in pig contest. Trip
given by state.
Donald Nelson, Rapidan, one of
the county champion canning
teams.
Fred Just, Rapidan, trips given
by. Mankato fair.
Donald ScheldeI. Rapidan.
Peter Sanger, Mankato, county
champion poultry contest. Trip
given by Mankato fair
Genus Nichols, Mankato, win
ner in pig contest Trip given
by Mankato fair.
Others Will Go Also.
Up to the present time the follow
| ing boys and girls in addition to the
above have signified their intention
of attending this short course Dan
Barney, Lake Crystal; Eldon Deta
more, Mankato; Mildred Carse, Good
Thunder; Madeline Mccarthy, Good
Thunder; Erna Schneider, Good Thun
der; Florence Sperra, Good Thunder
James Thompson, Good Thunder;
Clayton Young, Mankato; Graeme
Lang. Mapleton; Archie McGregor
Mapleton; Floyd Watts, Mankato;
George Hannay, Amboy.
There are others whose names are
not available at present. 1t is ex-
pected that several others will avail
| themselves of this opportunity be-
| fore the week is over All boys and
girls of the county who attend this
short course are to meet at the Farm
a. m, as it is planned that all will
go together with the county club
leader on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul train that leaves Mankato al
rs a. m.