The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-09

about 220 of it's students.
So interested did school teachers
become in the garden project that high
school instructors organized class
to run for eight weeks, in which time
. they hoped to gain insight into the
mysteries of backyard gardening"
This class met twice each week, and
was conducted by E. F. Murphy. He
also gave stereopticon lectures in the
high school auditorium, showing gar
dens and garden work from points all
over the United States.
A logical outcome of the large
amounts of produce raised by school
children of Richmond, was the form
ing of a junior market. 1t became
absolutely necessary to market the
huge crops harvested, and this city
was the first in this state to torsee
the need of selling quantities of this
garden truck in public, and prepare
for it. Lincoln, Neb, was the only
other city in the United States with
school market.
Wins National Recognition.
Experts from Purdue university
were so pleased with the success of
the plan that after inspection they
decided to inaugurate Junior markets
in cities all over the state.
Richmond won the national reputa-
ton of having more war gardens in
proportion to its population, and the
best method of marketing the results
of its spring garden drive, then any
other city in the country. Girls OF
the city schools attended each market
with heaps of bakery goods for sale.
Prizes given pupils of city schools
for their displays at the market house
on June IA, 1913, went to the follow
ing persons:
Vegetable exhibit-Miss Alice Lem
on, first price, $3.50; Norris Green,
second prize, s1.00: Tracy Evans,
third prize. IS cents; Elizabeth Nc
Cormick, fourth prize, so cents.
Root crop-Morris Cottingham, first
prize, IS cents; Earl Carr, second
price, so cents, and John Jones, third
price, % cents.
Miscellaneous - Martha Palmer,
first prize, $1.oO; Robert Hough, sec
ond prize IS cents, and Bernlce
Spaulding, third prize, 50 cents.
Fruit-Merie Thistlethwaite, first
prize, so cents. and Marion HodSln'
! second prize, 5 cents.
Yeast bread-Alice Lemon, first
! prize. $50. and Elizabeth Mccormick,
second prize, $1.o0
! Quick bread-Elizabeth McCormick'
| first prize, 10 cents, and Martha Plum
+ mer. second prize, 80 cents.
| Mufrins-Edith Fleming, first price
- cents, and Alice klausmeycr, sec
| ond prize, so cents.
| CookieS-Gladys Simpson. first
prize. IS cents, and Iris Cook, second
prize, SO cents.
Cake or gIngerbread-Ma Martha Plum
mer, first prize, $50, and Alice Lem
on. second prize, $l00.
| While many of these prizes went TO
contpstants showing baked goods. the
whole display was the outcome OF the
! drives and urgingS in behalf oil war
| gardens.
Other Prize Offers.
| Prizes of $25 each from several To-
cal banks, offered to gardeners who
produced the maximum from gwen
amount Of space, and the announce
ment OF Albert u. Gayle, president OF
the First National bank, and chairman
/ of the Commercial clubs committee
/ TO direct gardening, that he would
give $50 in prizes for the best city
gardens, served as added stimulus to
| productive gardening.
| or this award offered by Mr.. Gayle,
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles. r. Stoddard, 73l
South Seventh street, won the first
prize, a beautiful silver loving cup.
! Silver and gold medals were purchaa-
ed from the $50 fund, and awarded
! to many local citizens.
f. T. Firth. u South Sixteenth
street, attracted much local attention
when he exhibited a lettuce plant
measuring four feet six inches in cir
conference, at a local store. 1t was
product of his war garden.
For ground that could not be plow-
ed by a team, a tractor was donated
for use by the International Harvester
company, and for small lots, pillow
donated by the McConaha company
was used.
Donates Five Acres.
Walter Fulghum donated five acres
of ground on his farm west OF the
city to be used by persons not able
to secure a lot. This ground was
plowed for use by Mr.. Fulghum, free
of charge.
The united spirit of Richmond was
behind the war garden movement.
AS a factor in education the war
garden and its successor, the victory
garden, established themselves in a
way that will prove a permanent in
schools millions of children awakened
to the value of gardening as patrlo-
! tic effort of wartime and an undertake
| ing worth while at all times.
They were taught that nature is
| generous giver that requires only 10
| be encouraged. They were impressed
with the Importance of food produc-
| ton and trained into an army of prac-
teal producers.
The national benefit from such
teaching and training were so far
reaching in their effects that no doubt
exists of the lasting force in engender-
ed in the lives Of the future men and
women of America.
Two Aims Sought.
In the development of school gar
| deuers, two ideas were given con-
sheraton An immediate increase in
food production went hand in hand
with the educational value of the work.
1t was not expected, of course, that
all school children would become i'm
mediate producers, but it was certain
that the great volume of work under
taken in the schools would be of ap-