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Show Garden Clubs Win Awards At Convention Millard County gardeners were winners of two awards at the Gar- den Club convention held in Richfield Rich-field June 27 and 28. The South Tract Garden Club won third place in Class A. Their project was the beautificatiin of the Esealante monument on the South Tract, under the leadership of Effie Nielson, president, Betty Baker, vice president, Erma Mc-Cullough, Mc-Cullough, secretary and Lucretia Teeples, reporter. The Holden Garden Club won first prize trophy in Class B. Their project was beautification of the church grounds, school and the main street, and included planting plant-ing lawn, shrubs, trees and installing install-ing a sprinkling system. The contest is divided into two classifications. Class A is a project pro-ject finished and financed by Garden Gar-den Clubs. Class B is for a project pro-ject planned by Garden Clubs with outside aid. The Holden project was carried out under direction of Elbert Stevens, Stev-ens, school board member, Myrtle Y. Nixon, mayor of Holden, Mrs. Neva Johnson, garden club president, pres-ident, and Bruce Stevens, Melvin Stevens and Hugh Wood. Both projects were under supervision sup-ervision of Mrs. Beth Anderson, district dis-trict supervisor of Millard County Garden Clubs. Local garden club members who attended the Richfield meet were Maurine Jeffery, Jean Johnson, of Delta; Beth Anderson, Hinckley; Effie Nielson, Lucretia Teeples, Betty Baker, South Tract. Fern Crafts, Dora Black, Jerry Black, Fay Davis, Deseret; Ruby Skeem, LaReine Gillen, Ela Christ-enson, Christ-enson, Erma Skeem , Vanessa Skeem, Lillie Roundy, Oasis. |