The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-06-25
BRISTOL BOY
AWARDED PRIZE
Horace Fowler of Bristol
Wins Merit Certificate
Offered by Bankers.
FATHERS PARTNER

Milwaukee, Wis.-Merit certificates
for the completion of four years of
club work were presented to Doris
Lee, Is, Holman, Lacrosse county, and
to Horace Fowler, II Bristol Kenosha
county Tuesday afternoon at the con-
vention of the Wisconsin Bankers as
ISOLATION. The presentation was made
| by President W. H. Doyle.
These two were chosen as represen-
tatives of more than one hundred
/ boys and girls who completed their
four years agricultural club work
last season and won the certificates
| offered by the association. Certif-
Gates will be forwarded the others by
nail, but Miss Doris and Horace were
chosen to attend the convention and
receive their awards in person.
Girl Owns Dairy Herd.
Miss Doris, is canning club mem
Der and has also been prominent in
! livestock club work, raising purebred
calves. She now owns a herd Of five
animals, some of which are producing
milk. Besides her investment in cat
tie Miss Doris has $50 in time GER
tifcate and maintains a checking ac-
count in a bank, proceeds of her can
ming work. She has been member
of demonstration team in better
home farm practices at community
fairs and the state fair here. She
has been in club work five years and
is now leading the younger children
of the family in the work. She helps
her father, L. T. Lee, in the work on
his two hundred acre farm.
Boy Fathers Partner
Horace has been in club work rails
ing corn, pigs and poultry five years
and is in partnership with his father,
L. S. Fowler, in running their 100
acre farm. For two successive years
Horace has made exhibits and taken
part in demonstrations at the state
fair. Two years ago he was chosen
all-state champion corn grower, hav-
ing raised 103 bushels of Silver King
corn per acre. For this he was given
a special trip to the boys and girls
club congress in Chicago and a $50
set of harness by the Walsh Harness
company, Milwaukee. He has taken
an active part in many state and in
terstate contests and is now a leader
in junior club work
The contestants were accompanied
here by Professor T. L. Bewick, state
club leader for the University of
Wisconsin college of agriculture.
Five Requirements Necessary.
The Bankers association offers as
an achievement award bronze but
ton for one years club work, silver
button for two years, a gold button
for three years and a merit certif-
cate for four years. Five things are
required to win the award: A business
proposition must be carried on in
volving the home or farm, such as
raising an acre of corn, or canning
the product of a garden; a record
of the cost of the project must be
kept; public exhibit of the product
must be made; the complete record
must be submitted, a savings ac-
count or business relations with a
bank must be maintained.
$4,000 Enrolled In State.
The work is known as the Fourth
club movement, the four HIS being
head, heart, hand and health, and the
club motto, II pledge my head to
clearer thinking my heart to loyalty,
my hand to service and my health to
efficiency for the good of my country,
my home and my community" More
than $4,000 boys and girls were en-
rolled in these clubs in Wisconsin last
year and 100000 in the United States.