The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-02
SORT Of PARADISE
PLANNED FOR WIVES
OF STATE FARMERS
Three Outing Points Selected
for This Summer: Park River,
Valley City and Amidon
No COOKING, DISHWASHING
Extension Service Sponsors
Rest Of Games, Picnics, Mu-
sic and Recreation

Fargo, N. D., June 2.-P-Mother
is going to get a real vacation at
three farm women's vacation camps
sponsored by the extension division
of the North Dakota Agricultural
college with the cooperation OF county
agents.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made to
set up three camps to resemble a
housewives paradise. where cooking,
dish washing. laundering and the
other usual duties of the farm mother
are taboo.
The camps, all of four days dura-
ton, are to be held in Valley City,
June 10 to Is; Park River, June II to
90; and at the HIT ranch, near Ami
don, June Is to 20.
Anything but work" is the pro.
gram which the farm mothers will
follow throughout their stay at the
Camp. Father and children must stay
at home, so mother can have an un-
interrupted vacation, away from those
for whom she always Is finding some
thing to do all year round.
Vacations Free Of Work
Miss Grace belong, state home
demonstration leader at the agricul-
tural college, has made arrangements
for the camp, the purpose OF which Is
to give farm women q short vacation
at small expense.
Attendance at any camp is not re-
Stricted to woEs1n living in the county
in which it is held, and Is not con-
fined to members of homemakers
clubs Miss DeLong said.
AT the Valley City camp, women
from Barnes, Stutsman and CaSs
counties may attend. The Park River
rest camp will serve women from
Walsh, Pembina, Cavalier and Grand
Forks counties, while at Amidon,
women from Slope. Adams, Bowman,
Hettinger and Stark counties will va
cation. In all cases the total expenses
of each woman for the four days Will
not exceed IS.
"All of the vacation camps are va
cations in the true ems OF the word"
Miss DeLong said. Even the dishes
will be washed by others. for all the
cooking and other chores have been
considered and arrangements made
for having them done by outside help
The vacationers will spend their time
resting and in recreational activities
provided by extension workers ano
local people in charge OF each camp"
Families Can Come Last Day
Recreation, games and picnics Will
be held each of the four days. AND
musical programs and community
singing will be daily events.
Husbands and children will be en-
tertained the last day Of each camp
but at other times are mot allowed,
At each camp, special speakers VII
be obtained for the last day OF camp
according to Miss DeLong.
Extension specialists who Will at.
tend each camp are Miss DeLong q
valley City; Miss Jessie Marion, fooo'
specialist, at Amidon; and Miss Julis
Brekke, clothing specialist, at Parl
River. Miss Inez LaBoSSier, clothing
specialist, will be in charge OF tht
achievement day during the trs'
week Of the Park River camp.
Preparations for the Valley Cit,
camp are in charge OF kathryn
Boehm, Mary Laycock and Magdalen'
Heiberg, extension agents respectivel!
in Cass, Barnes and StutsmaI
counties. The camp site is the Chau'
tauqua park, at Valley City, wner'
the women will be housed IN tents.
Third Year Of Camps
At Park River, the dormitories o
the Walsh County Agricultural schoo
will be utilized by the vacationers
while an ideal site is available Tor IN
southwestern rest camp at the oil
HIT ranch near Amidon.
E. ]. Taintor, superintendent. Of tn
Walsh Agricultural school, is Il
charge of the Park River camp. H
will be assisted by q committee o
women representing each Of tn
counties eligible to the camp. MIR!
James Bellamy, of Drayton, one Q
North Dakota's master farm home
makers named last winter, heads tn
committee.
Miss Marguerite Joneeward, assist
ant extension agent in Adams count!
is in charge Of the local arrangement
for the camp to be held at the H
ranch near Amidon. The ranc
house has been the site OF a nun,bt
OF All club camps and possess<
ample facilities to care for II
campers.
This is the third year the caInI
are being held in the state. The fir
was held at Park River In 1928. La
year two camps were held, n at Pal
River and one at Valley City. TT
Amidon camp is the first to be hel
in the southwestern part Of the stat
At each Of the two camps held la
year, approximately 80 rural hom'