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lives for all, greater opportunity to work and greater opportunity 

 to enjoy. These are things for which we would give any amount 

 of money if we did not have them, and for those of us who have 

 them no amount of money can buy them from us. 



This year we have among the twenty-one students enrolled five 

 scholarship students: Miss Edda Mae Bixlee of Benjamin, Mo., 

 who has won her scholarship in a grange contest; Misses Maggie 

 Todd, Bess Crouch and Bess Needham of Neosho, Mo., who won the 

 scholarships offered by McGinty Brothers in a voting contest ; and 

 last, our own scholarship girl. Miss Martha Blume of New Frank- 

 lin, Mo., who won first prize in the tomato contest work and re- 



Short (course class in Home Economics, 1913. 



ceived as reward a fifty-dollar scholarship, half of which was given 

 by the Missouri Home Makers' Conference and half by the State 

 Board of Agriculture. Next year we hope that other contests may 

 be held in other parts of the State and that as a result this oppor- 

 tunity will be offered to a larger number of young women. 



Both last year and this we have had the young women with us 

 for the seven weeks immediately after the Christmas holidays. 

 This we have done in order to have them here at the time of our 



