The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-12
OUTSIDERS LOOK
To BRAT TLEBORO
Achievement Club Work Is
Watched by Various
Communities
KREAGER ATTENDS
COUNCIL MEETING
Plans Under Way for Exhibits and Dem
OnstratiOns at Valley Fair and Eastern
States Exposition Local Printing
Club Pioneer


States Exposition - Local Printing
Club Pioneer.
\ we'll attended and enthusiastic
Achievement club leaders and others in
terested was held in the Chamber of
Commerce rooms last evening to meet
Frank o. Kreager of Springfield, Mass,
assistant director of the Junior
Achievement Bureau. The meeting was
primarily for the purpose of consider
ing ways and means of providing for
the exhibits and demonstrations of the
Achievement clubs of Brattleboro at
the Valley fair Sept p and IS and at
the Eastern. States exposition in
Springfield Sept. Is to a.
President G. L. Stickney of the Val
ley Fair association, presented the case
of the fair, saying that the building
just inside the gate had been set aside
for the Achievement clubs and that the
fair management would provide tables
and wall space for the exhibits. also
tables and seating space for the dem
lonstratlons. Mr.. Stickney is very hope
Iful that a continuous demonstration
may be running from Tuesday morning
| to Wednesday night. The fair manage
ment Is Offering prizes for the best
demonstrating teams.
He stated also that great deal of
| interest III the work going on here in
| Brattleboro was being taken by the
people OF the outlying communities and
| that number had spoken to him about
the possibilities of getting the Brattle-
| boro Achievement club teams to come
out to these communities and put on
demonstrations. He presented to Mrs
+. ". Pier, president of the council of
Achievement club leaders, a written re-
quest from one of these communities
for such a demonstration.
Each club leader gave brief report
OF his or her own club and what they
are planning Tor the exposition and for
the fair.
Mr.. kreager said that the bureau
would provide space at the Eastern
States exposition for the exhibits of
! all Junior Achievement clubs and
would pay the transportation expenses
: both ways for the exhibits. In regard
, to the demonstrations it is hoped to
be able to make the necessary arrange
} ments whereby two teams of three
: each and the chaperones or leaders will
be brought from each community haV-
: ing an Achievement club. The bureau is
= willing to pay half of all the transpor-
tation expenses of the children and
4 their leaders and of their expenses at
1 the exposition, including board, and
hopes to be able to get some organiza-
tlon IN each community to pay the
other half.
The Eastern States is preparing a
= very liberal prize and premium list for
, both exhibits and demonstrations
County Agent r. Wilton Harvey,
g Miss Marjorie E. Luce of Burlington,
= the assistant state club leader, and
Miss Viola NJ. Cameron, the new club
agent for the county, were present last
n night and some time was given to the
I discussion of the adjustment of county
: and city club work and methods of CO.
r operation.
: Some interesting facts were brought
/. out at the meeting A girl in Miss Mar
:; ion Knights y Y Z lettering club. for
oil cal merchant and received s. for her
work The lettering was entirely salts
Is factory and the money was the first the
: girl ever earned.
/. The printing club of which Franklin
}. p Sears is leader Is the pioneer club of
r its kind, and wherever Mr. KreageI
v goes he tells about this club sas being
e the first printing club to be organized
anywhere
r. Mr. Kreager spent yesterday and to-
is day here meeting the clubs and lead.
N ers. The main purpose of this visit Is
l. to get the clubs started on the exhibits
r. for the Valley fair, and has been as
: sisting the leaders in making an outline
e of plans and deciding Just what they
:, will undertake. He expressed himself
n as well pleased with the excellent work
It the leaders and bows and girls are doing
n and said people elsewhere were beeom
@ ing greatly interested in the progress
It Brattleboro is making with tbs
Is Achievement club work. BrattleborC
II was the first place in Vermont to join
% the movement, and it has II clubs.