Putnam patriot., 1923-03-30
TRADE SCHOOL HAS
 ITS FINEST EXHIBIT
Work In Ali Departments Re- ceives Highest Praise From
 State Vocational Director
Students Are Seen at work.-cirls
 Have Chance. Too

There may have been in the crowds that thronged the Putnam Trade school on Tuesday evening d large percentage of those familiar with the splendid work which the school is accomplishing, and there may have been not a few who visited the school in operation for the first time and who were justly astonished and admiring of the work going on and the results exhibited.
 The walk leading to the school was lighted with strings of electric bulbs. while high-powered searchiights shone on the flag flying above the en- trance. Inside crowds from all sec tions of the county visited the various departments in the school itself, and then crossed to the high school to see the exhibition in the home economies department
 Despite all the propaganda which the school has spread for itself by its excellent work. an exhibition such as that of Wednesday evening furnished the best opportunity for local people Co make an investigation of the schools actual accomplishment. For instance, there are probably not many in the county who realize that in the cotton weaving department there IS n miniature cotton mill where the stu dents are learning every portion of textile work from receiving and treat ing the raw cotton to the manufacture of the finished cloth. And to see the students in their teens handling tho machines with skill and real eompet- ency is to indicate how carefully the instructors have undertaken the labor of teaching the bases of wage-earning and skilled trades.
 Build Putnam House
 In the electrical department the boys were to be seen in all kinds of electrical construction and repair work. and 1t was demonstrated how the light was being manufactured for the searehlight on top of the building, as we'll as the other illuminations. In the drafting room, boys and men were at work on careful drawings and sketches. and photographs were proud | ly shown of the Putnam residence which was designed. built and erected 1 by trade school students last year. l In the machinery department, while l the boys worked at the clean. excel lently kept machines, demonstrations were made of the finished tools, handiwork of students or the past year
 Over in the high school the distaff side of the school had it's chance. In ] the kitchen. girls in dainty caps and aprons were cooking and baking all varieties of attractive eatables. Cakes and cookies and breads sold so quickly that late corners were unable to pat ronize the students.
 In the large auditorium of the school, all kinds of practical demon strations of housewifely abilities were made. There was a splendid exhibit of garments of all kinds made by the students in the course of their train ing In tiny bedroom there was a bed properly made up and the other features of the room indicated the students training in orderliness. clean liness and house care. 4 large doll. in beautiful baby's basket, and fully clad, demonstrated the work in nurs-- cry care.
 State Director is Delighted
 Tn connection with this exhibit cer- tain furnishings were due to the help ful kindness of Alexander Gilman, Bugbee < Wulf. and William A. St. Onge.
 No one present was more delighted with the exhibits than r. J. Trinder. state director of vocational schools. Mir. Trinder said that Putnam had beat Hartford ia the general quality and variety of it's exhibits, and that the school today realized the ideal of trade school in Putnam as he had visualized it before the ground was broken for the building,