The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-21
FARM BUREAU WINNERS
MOTOR TO BURLINGTON
Members Of Boys and Girls Clubs
Attend Achievement Day
at University.

The boys and girls from Bennington
county attended the State Achieve
ment day at University Of Vermont
In Burlington, last Friday and Satur-
day, June 16 and IT, This trip is part
of the prize awarded to the county
champions and state prize winners
in each OF the projects undertaken by
the Farm Bureau Boys and Girls
clubs. The prizes are based on quality
of the club members work, on the ac-
curacy Of the report handed In Nov.
/, and on the interest shown and part
taken in general club activities, as
meetings, demonstrations, etc. Fifteen
club members were eligible this year
as follows: "Aliene Tiff, Dorset, can
ning "Robert Morhouse Arlington,
ping; 'Forrest Hassom, Pownal, pig
breeding; Edward Bentley, Sunder-
land, potatoes; Raymond Rice, Ben
nington, garden; ESTHER Foster, Ben.
nington. sheep; 'Charles TInkham,
West Salisbury, calf; elizabeth Ty-
nan, Arlington. cooking; Ernest
Thayer, Readsboro Falls, handicrafts;
-. Wesley Warren, Bennington, maple
sugar; 'Thomas Foster Bennington,
ducks; "Charles Sanders, Bennington,
ducks; Lester Harwood, Bennington,
poultry and bees; Jane Monroe, South
Shaftsbury clothing; Harriet Har-
wood, Bennington. pigeons and bees.
The ten whose names are starred at
tended
The party went by automobile,
starting Thursday noon Charles A.
Ross OF Center SALISBURY and Miss
Marion Hardy. County Club agent,
drove. The first night was spent by
the road, the party camping on Frank
Nelson's farm In Salisbury. A tent
was pitched for the girls, while the
boys camped out in the hay in Mr..
Nelson's s barn. A camp fire on a rocky
ledge near the tent completed an ideal
setting. Mr.. Ross proved to be a boss
cook and the boys saw to it that every.
one was up betimes in the morning.
Registration at the University was
scheduled for IL A. NJ. Friday morning
and the party drew up at Morrill, Hall
just "on the dot. They were quarter,
ed in the college dormitories for the
rest of the time. After lunch over a
hundred boys and girls from twelve
Of the fourteen counties OF the State
gathered on the campus for roll call
After this. they had an opportunity 70
take a glimpse at the class day exer,
cises. At 2:S0 all started on an auto
tour Of the city. Thomas Bradlee. dir
ector OF extensin led the procession
some 35 cars following. A resident OF
Burlington rode in each car 10 point
| out the places Of interest. After 9
ride through the manufacturing sec
tion Of the town, the party drove
north through Ethan Allen park and
around Fort Ethan Allen. An air
plane maneuvering over head had the
courtesy to land near the road on tho
grounds of the fort, so that all coult
see it near by.
Friday evening a party was helt
on North Beach, with games and
stunts and bonfire at which marsh
! malloWS were toasted.
Saturday morning the boys anC
girls made n tour of the University
buildings and finished with a brie
achievement program at which some
of them told of their doings at home
and how they came to win their
prizes.
Sharply at 1890. dinner was owe
and the Bennington County part,
started for home Space Is lacking I,
tell of all the things that they saw
by the way and probably everyone o
tho party would tell a different tale
They will be reporting to their vaI
jous clubs when next they meet. Any
one who lives in the neighborhoo,
with one of these boys or girls will
be repaid to find out when this come
off and attend.