The Redwood gazette., 1922-08-02
Vacation SChOOl
Closed Friday
DIR. A. w. ROSS CONDUCTS Sue
CESSFUL VACATION BIBLE
SCHOOL FOR SIX WEEKS.

The Vacation Bible School which has
been so successfully carried on at the
Presbyterian Church for the past six
weeks, closed with an appropriate pro-
gram and an exhibit of the work done
last Friday evening. The attendance
of the school has averaged fifty-nine
and a fraction for each day and the
work done among this number of chill
dren has justified the time and effort
put into the work by DR.. Ross and his
assistants.
The program Friday evening was
along the line of the program of the
daily sessions beginning with the open
ing exercises consisting of hymn sing
ing, Scripture reading and prayer.
Royal Theiring, Joe Corbett, Charlotte
Japs and Dorothy MacDougall then
gave memory verses from the Scrip
lures, each class in the school having
learned a number of these.
Bible stories which had been learn
ed in the daily work were then tolu,
Wyman Corbett giving the story of
the Crossing of the Red Sea, Joe Cor
bett telling the story of Elijah and the
Prophets of Baal, Helen Smith the
story of the Crossing of the Jordan
and the fall of Jericho and Margaret
Tiffany the story of Ruth the Moabite.
The children of the Kindergarten class
closed the program by giving a num-
Der of memory verses, songs and musl-
cal plays.
Following the program an exhibit
tion was made of the work done by the
four classes, Kindergarten, craft work,
manual training and basket weaving.
This exhibit was viewed by nearly a
hundred people, parents and friends of
the young people who had done the
work. The articles shown were all OF
great interest and many of those made
by the older pupils were of very excel
lent workmanship. These last includ-
ed bird houses rustic chairs and foot
stools, camp candlesticks and other
articles of rustic furniture made by
the boys of the manual training class,
and baskets, sandwich and tea trays,
lamp shades, flower holders and other
articles made of reed by the older
girls of the school. Paper box furnl-
ture for doll houses was shown by the
children of the intermediate class and
the children of the kindergarten show
ed some smaller articles demonstrat-
ing paper folding.
A visit to this school one morning
last week convinced the editor of the
Gazette that it's benefits are many and
it's influences not to be Immediately
estimated. Each days work was a
happy combination of Bible training
and handicraft. DIR. A. w. Ross had
charge of the school as whole and
also gave the Bible instruction by the
use of Scripture memory verses,
Psalm reading and Bible stories.
Miss Florence Thune had charge OF
the music in all classes and also help
ed Miss Anna Fobes, the kindergarten
with the musical games in
her department. Mrs. Atkinson had
charge of the intermediate class
handicraft work. Mr.. Atkinson was
the instructor of the boys manual
training work and Misses Jensen and
Mclean, assisted by some of the
younger girls of the city, gave instruc-
tion in basket weaving to large class.
That the children enjoyed the work
done is vouched for by the large aver
age attendance, the majority of the
children who first enrolled attending
with exemplary regularity. That
others did not attend more regularly
was due in many cases to the fact that
their families left town for vacation
visits. The term just closed was the
second school conducted by DR.. Ross
since his coming to Redwood Falls and
the attendance was much larger this
year than last, showing the increasing
in schools of this nature.
A similar school was conducted earlier
in the season by Rev. B. L. Main, pas
tor of the Redwood Falls Methodist
Church.