, 1925-09-30
NEWS OF The CLUB CAMP
AT THE STATE FAIR
(Marjory Eells)


We are all glad to know that
Park county brought back some of
the bacon from the State fair at
Douglas. Our Girls Club work was
well represented there, we having
sent our best demonstration team,
Faye Bradford and Frances Roney,
two Powell girls, who gave a dem
onstration on "helps in laundering
and removal of stains" There were
IS competing teams from other
counties in the state and our girls
won third place. Frances Roney
also entered a clothing judging con-
test, in which she came in second.
We entered tw%enty-three exhibits
of clothing, consisting of five ar
ticles each, which the girls of each
club had selected Is their best ex7
hibits. Elma Scott of Powell won
first prize and Mildred Nickel
vey second in the fourth year work.
Juanita Werts of Garland tool a
seventh ribbon in second year..
while in the first year work Lar
cena Tvedtnes of Penrose won first
place and Edith May of Powell
sixth. There were Eel fifty en-
tries each in the first and second
year work.
We also took % jars of AIMED
goods and brought home a blue
ribbon for Maxine Brown of Powell
on her display of canned meats
and a white one one her fruits. Ar
dele Moore entered all her Jars
in the special class and took third
place.
AS for the exhibits in general,
Miss Jacobson, our state clothing
specialist, who judged all the girls
clothing work, said hat the club
work was fully seventy-five per cent
better than that of last year. There
was scarcely room enough around
the walls of the big club room for
the exhibits from all the counties
and we overheard many of the wom-
en- who examined it exclaiming over
the quality of the work. saying that
it was better than they could do.
There was a platform fixed up in
the center of one side of this room
with chairs around it, where the
teams put on their demonstrations,
one every hour, Tuesday. Wednes-
day and Thursday. The subjects
I of the demonstrations varied from
appropriate dress. line and color.
tyeing and dyeing. furnishing a bed
room, to book keeping, poultry cul-
ling, and other interesting topics.
The expense of sending such a
team is borne by the county from
which they come, and while they
a-A 80 30 H. fos- H., H. t.
camp which is maintained by the
fair association.
The old poultry building has
been remodeled this year to serve
as quarters for the girls, while the
boys live in tents. All their meals
were paid for by the association.
and served by the ladies of the
Methodist church. Each county
sends a chaperone and the boys and
girls are carefully looked after
while there.
1t is hard to estimate the noun
of good these young people derive
from associating with other club
girls and boys from all over the
state. There is a keen rivalry over
the demonstration teams. but we
nave never seen a finer spirit than
that which existed at the annual
club banquet on the last night of
the fair. This is an event to which
everyone looks forward and for
which invitations are at premium.
This year there were about a hur-
dred and seventy people present.
about seventy-ive of these were
club boys and girls; the others
were club leaders, extension workers
and others interested in the work.
Addresses were given by Governor
Ross, Ex-Governor Carey, Mr.. Nor
t%enson, state club leader, and Di-
rector Bowman. Mr.. Feville, com
missioner of agriculture. had the
most difficult, and to the boys and
girls, one of the most interesting
parts of the program. that of an
nouncing the prizes and awarding
the cups and banners to the win
ming teams. There was cheering
then, inc a practical demonstra-
ton of the Wyoming club motto,
which is to win without Dragging
and to lose without squealing."