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Philadelphia reports that more than fifty schools held flower exhi¬ 
bitions on September 18th at which over 2500 pupils exhibited products. 
Hastings, Minn., reports that though they held no local exhibits the 
pupils drew $90.00 at state and county fairs. 
Miss Mary Shotwell, supervisor of rural schools at Oxford, N. C., 
writes that the Junior Civic League holds a fair each year, and many of 
her pupils win prizes. 
At New Madison, Ohio, a school fair was held at the school grounds 
. and more than 150 special prizes were awarded, with two Washington 
trips as sweepstakes. Six hundred visitors registered during the day, 
and plans are now on foot for a 1915 fair. 
The Board of Education at Geneva, Ohio, offered $50.00 for the best 
school display, the prize money to be used in equipment for the winning 
school. Last year a Victrola was purchased. 
J. S. Westhafer of Buffalo, Oklahoma, writes that they held a flower 
and vegetable fair that aroused a great deal of enthusiasm. Their prize 
list shows 22 special prizes offered by merchants and individuals. 
In McLean County, N. D., the teachers throughout the county are 
encouraged to hold exhibitions, the County Commissioners appropriating 
money for the purpose. A county exhibit was held at Washburn during 
the week of Teachers Institute, and later the exhibit was sent to the 
State Industrial Exhibition at Bismarck, to compete with exhibits from 
other counties. 
The Wellsley Hills, Mass., Village Improvement Society offered 
prizes for best results in gardening, and included in the list a silver cup 
for the best garden of all, this cup to be held for one year, and any 
person retaining it for three years in succession to retain it as their 
personal property. 
