White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-19
BENTON COUNTY All CLUB GIRL
WRITES OF INTERESTING TRIP TO CHICAGO

/ girls at luncheon and each of us
were presented with a pencil and pen
set engraved in gold with
the words-"4H Club. Then we
were taken through the building
and shown how orders were filled. !.
Half day was spent at the Inter
national Harvester Co., where we
saw them turning out a tractor
every twenty minutes. We saw the
tractors being made from the time
the iron was being melted until the
finished tractors were tested for any
defects. At the time of our visit they
were working on an order for fifty
tive hundred to be delivered to the
Russian Government. At noon the
Company entertained us at lunch
which was served in their dining
room which had been specially pre-
pared and decorated for the occasion
That afternoon was spent going
through the Mccormick Irvine Mill
which is run by the same company.
| We learned about the manufacturing
of Irvine from the raw hemp as It
was received from India until balls
OF it were packed in gunnysacks for
shipping. Many foreign women were
employed in this work.
Thursday morning the girls were
guests of Montgomery Ward Co. for
breakfast and each were given an
Eversharp pencil, later we were
taken through the mail order house.
1t was very interesting to see the
hundreds of men clerks go about
filling orders on roller skates. They
can go up and down stairs faster on
roller skates than other people can
without them. That. afternoon we Wis
tied the Model Farm. Everything was
spick and span but the chicken house.
We wondered what they had against
chickens as they were not nearly as
well cared for as the pigs. Speaking
seriously however, the farm really
was a marvel, both inside and out
SIDE. We were permitted to go
through the house which was perfect
both as to arrangement and decor
alton.
1t wouldn't do to end the story
without mentioning our visit to
Marshall Fields. But of course we
all wanted to make longer visit
but neither time or pocket books per-
mitted. The most interesting part
OF the store was the storage room
for furs where seventy-five thousand
tur coats, valued approximately
twelve million dollars were in stor.
age at the time of our visit. Besides
coats were all kinds of fur pelts and
animal heads.
On another occasion we had
thirty-five story ride on an elevator
as We Travelled to the top of the
Wriggly Building from where we
could see over the whole city. On
Wednesday evening the Washington
delegation Broadcast our state song,
Build up the Farm, from the forty
second story of another building. The
view of the city at night thrilled
us quite as much as beng on the air.
We were happy and very tired
group of boys and girls on our home
ward journey. We had even better
time on the train than we had going.
as we were all better acquainted. I
had never expected to have such a
wonderful trip as this and will prob
ably never again have the chance to
meet so many people from all over
the United States at one time.
Any All club boy and girl has
the opportunity to win a similar trip
if they put forth their effort and /
feel that no effort or work we do in
the club will ever pay for such
trip. The benefit we derived from
the trip by meeting people from,
every state in the union, the educa-
tional excursion and entertainments
we get would cost hundreds of dol.
lars and I doubt very much if money
could buy the experience for one
individual alone. sincerely hope
every boy and girl in the club will
try their best to win this trip which
is given every year to one girl and
one boy from this county.
WRITTEN BY
LULU HUGHS, Hover.
Sent in by Mary A.. Davis, Asst. Co.
Agent.