Milford chronicle., 1922-06-02
FINE MONEY PRIZES
FOR HOME WORK
INTERESTING STATE SCHOOLS CONTEST
in HOME ECONOMICS HELD MAY
25TH AT DOVER.
MILFORD HIGH WINS $500
BEING THIRD PRIZE in SECOND EVENT.
MARGARET THOMAS WON S5.OOIN
The SIXTH EVENT.

The annual field day contest in
home making efficiency, in charge of
Miss Jennie Bear, State director of
Home Economics, was held last week,
in Dover Century Club rooms. Repre-
sentatives from all the % high school
centers in Home EmonOmics partici-
pated in the cooking contests.
The upstairs of the club house was
used for the displays of garments,
which numbered fully a thousand
dresses, undergarents, mems shirts,
table linen, millinery, etc. The down
stairs was used for the cooking con-
test, two meals being served, at the
noon hour and at o'clock in the eve
ming. Following were the awards in
the events scheduled:
First event: High School Home
Economies department putting on a
play showing the best ideals of home
making training. First prize, $1O0, Of
fered by Mrs. T. G. DUPONT, won by
Frankford high school, Sussex county;
second prize, $50, offered by Mrs. A. I.
dupont, Lord Baltimore school, Ocean
View, Sussex county; third prize, SIS,
by Mrs. A. I. DUPONT, MiddletOWn high
school.
Second event, high school Home
Economics department putting up best
clothing exhibit: First prize, $50, Of
fered by Women's Club, Georgetown
high school; second prize, $25, offer
ed by Mrs. A. I. DUPONT, Greenwood
high school; third prize, SIS offered
by Mrs. A. I. dupont, Milford high
school. Frankford high school receiv-
ed honorable mention in this event.
Third event, group of first year
girls who in the shortest length of
time, from the materials provided,
prepared the best meal from the
standpoint of palatability and attrac-
tiveness: First prize, $50, offered by
Mrs. A. I. dupont, Smyrna high
school; second prize, SIS, Middletown
high school; third prize, $40, Milton
high school.
Fourth event, individual second.
year girl who in the shortest length
of time from materials provided pre-
pared the most attractive and appetiz-
ing meal, five prizes, all given by Mrs.
A. 1. DUPONT: First prize, $1O0, Marie
Gray of Newark high school; second, |
$50, Iva James of Laurel high school;
third, a tie between Greenwood and |
Georgetown, a prize of an oil stove |
begin given Miss Reta Tatnam of
Greenwood and $25 to Miss Martha |
Pepper of Georgetown, the latter be-
ing considered the fourth prize. The
fifth award was made to Helen AL
bers of Caesar Rodney.
Fifth event, individual second-year
girls who in the shoftest length of
time made the best dress from stand
points of execution and design, three
prizes offered by Mrs. A. I. DUPONT:
First prize, $100, Katherine Bernard,
Newark high school; second, .$15, Bea-
trice O'Neal, Seaford; third, $40, a
of Georgetown high school.
Sixth event individual first year
girls whose clothing work for the
whole year showed most improvement,
three prizes offered by Mrs. A. I. du-
Pont: First, $5 in gold, Margaret
Milford high school; second,
$3.50 in gold, Mary Campbell, New
ark; third, one dollar, Katherine Pass
waters of Bridgeville.
In the efficiency awards, with no !
prizes, Dover high school won first
place; Newark, second; Delaware City
.hird.
The menus served included cream
If tomato soup with crackers; scallop-
I'd chicken with egg sauce; new po- !
atoes with butter sauce; asparagus
salad; mullins with butter; strawberry
ce cream and coffee.
The average price of the meal per
)late was AZ cents.