Show PUPILS EXHIBIT GARDEN FRUITS 1 Results e of Work Done by Pub Public Public lic i C School Sch ol Students V Will l ill lI Be Shown own Today BRING IN FLOWERS ALSO W HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS ELECT ELECTo 4 o THEIR TH EI OFFICERS The Tn public schools competitive exhibit In vegetables and flowers will be exam examined fined ined In d today In the tho house of or representatives hall hail in the city and county building by b City Superintendent D H Christensen and prizes will be awarded a Two exhibits exhibits exhibits its are arc being made one from the school gardens and the other Is Individual ex exhibit hibit by b the school children During Duffing the afternoon yesterday chil children children dren ren carried the best specimens from their gardens carefully wrapped up and tagged tugged ready read to bo be placed on exhibition Some had bunches of oC carrots beets turnips and tomatoes Most of oC them were fine spec specimens and the children both boys bo s and girls looked upon their schoolmates with jealousy j when another bunch of or carrots or turnips or tomatoes was entered which was as big as the ones they had brought In George GeorEe West Vest 9 years old tugged a abig aI I I big squash Into the building which was wasas wasas as AB big as he was George rolled It into the elevator and it was taken up to tho the floor on which the exhibit is being made madee He e refused to allow anybody to help him carry car it His checks cheeks flushed and panting from exertion he managed to get it Inside the room the biggest one yet he ex exclaimed exclaimed exclaimed claimed his eyes gleaming with delight as he looked over the pile DUe of oC vegetables for another squash that would measure up with Ith his Georges squash had boon been raised in his parents backyard backard He had cultivated it all summer and carried wa water water Water ter to the vine Part Parl of oC his vine climbed up a tree and another squash started on the end of It but it was plucked or blew off 0 George does docs not know which or he would have exhibited two of oC them Girls Look on With Envy Two little tots looked with envy upon George These little girls had spent all their thell time cultivating a summer squash vine They entered two pearly white summer squash In the contest The skin was wag smooth and free tree from knots First they the looked at their specimens and then at Georges Georgos That not the same kind of ot a squash a aft as ours one of them said as they the looked at the big yellow squash They saw no nomore nomore nomore more specimens like theirs and are sat satisfied satIsfied satisfied that tho the prize will be awarded to them The specimens of or flowers which were brought in yesterday afternoon were num numerous crone erous They Thc were arranged in glass bottles bot bottles bottles and pots so that they will look fresh this morning when whon the exhibit will open The rho flowers and vegetables from the school gardens will be brought In n this morning and will be placed in a sepa separate separate separate rate exhibit Result of Seed Distribution When the school year ear closed lust last sea season seaSOn season son the pupils were ere given the seeds with which to plant their gardens for the competitive com competitive competitive exhibit to be held this fall About six bushels of seeds of oC various kinds were distributed to the th grades The seeds were e obtained from the tho department of oC agri agriculture agrIculture agriculture culture at Washington for Cor this purpose Such seeds as radish lettuce carrot turnip beet and tomato were weft planted In boxes in the thc school rooms for work of or o f Instruction The plants were afterward given to the children and they the trans transplanted planted ranted hutted thorn them In their gardens at home Tho The exhibits made by the children are ar e from rom the seeds of oC the tho th plants which were e given them thorn by their teachers The school gardens wore were w re planted by th the e children under the tho Instruction of the th e teachers All An summer Bummer the tho boys bOs Interested d In tho the work have cultivated tho the gardens garden s and have received excellent results They Tho have taken Interest In the th exhibit which h is to be bo made and the finest specimens specimen hs s from the gardens will be gathered and an d fixed up for the vegetable show today toda Superintendent Su Christensen will be a as assisted asT silted by Miss lIss Rosalie T Pollock who was wa s instrumental in arranging for tor the its This Is the fourth one that has been bee n given by the public schools |