Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1921, Page 6

5 ) THE . EVENING STAR, Wm,.n T. mmn JUNE 2. I991_PXRT 1 CLEAN-UP WORK AND GARDENS ! S ——— ' R , CONTINUED BY SCHOOL PUPILS| - L™ Childven Keeping Up Vegetable Patches - 1 : ‘ et N | | Woodhward & Wnthrop Despite End of Year, Statements of Reporters Disclose. Working on the theory that habits of youth become fixed in age. as one report expresses it, the school children are continuing their garden | and clean-up work, despite the fact that “school’s out.” according to the reports filed with the nature study department of the schools just as the term ended. A clean and beauti- ful Washingtor f#inds the greatest workers for such an end in the| schools as the reports that follow ty-four children have t garde y-three living in apart- ment heiped others whi d gardens; eighty-seven cultivated gar- dens and protected lawns and an-up.—Lilla Lyman, ixth B wrote to The Evening . warning about picking dogwood: directed clean-up after a picnic in Montrose Park; campaigned against arking on houses, yvouth become na- ichard Montgomery. ra old, but kept clean; ; mave play a_ wrote v McKin- helped in ¢ clean-up week Song. ley. . Lawn Club Organized. Blair—Organized Blair Lawn Clu four looks after clea up; awns, 56 plante gardens, 122 have flower gardens, 101 cleaned areaways, cellars and ¥ hth grade, cleaned up Grant Circle, 22 cleaned own yards, 20 planted flowers and whitewashed fences; x B, 33 cleaned home grounds, 22 have gardens, 8 painted up; six A, 34 cleaned 'up home grounds: fie A, 30 cleaned up streets. Whitewashed fences, planted seeds and clipped hedges; five B, 5 plc_kedl up trash and 6 helped paint—Eliza- bets Feindt. Brookland—Committee made up of Velma Leveall, Louise Gillis, Ruth Miles, Mardell Ledrick, visited each grade and urged clean-up; 488 points Scored for cleaned up yards: $521 i ored_for keeping off lawns; | gardens; 203 vegetable gzr-’ i rdell Ledrick. Brown—Speeches sixth des on cléan-up and boxes for trash pmt in - every room; 259 vegetable & dens; 333 flower gardens: 333 cated-for trees, hedges and planted bare spots; | one who gets the most trash into the e Dl | 122 worked on ! trash'on street or playground.—Cath- committee on yard inspection keeps grounds clean.—Fannie Lowe. Takoma—Building new school makes cleah-up verv hard. as there is no lawn, but we have cleaned up | around the fence. and across the street as well.—Margaret Tolson. Thomson—Planted - bulbs last fall and now have beautiful tulips. We have a clean-up game, in which the right place can choose the game to layed; nine!{-!(x siarted gardens, awns, 246 picked up sh, 221 remembered not to throw erine Werneke. Toner—When nature study teachers told us ebout clean-up, we organized merald Blade Protecting Club.” 9 children, 55 per cent have rdens; beautifying lawns, nt; 53.2 per cent helped in clean-up.—Florence Permut. ° Fought Agninst Insects. Twining—Nature teachers, directed by Mrs. Alburtis, taught us how to i get rid of insects and how to handle soil for gardens; sixth graders visit- ed other grades with the clean-up and planting message; 60 per cent have planted gardens; 50 per cent have worked on lawns and in -the| clean-up campaign.—Mollie Messin- ger. Seaton—Pulled up weeds in our flower garden; 22 per cent planted lawns; 46 per cent planted gardens; per cent helped in clean up.—Rob- ert S. Himes. Van Buren—Community school gar- den by Van Buren and Ketcham School a big success; 1 per cent of the Van Buren sixth and 44 per cent of the Van Buren seventh worked in gardens; 32 per cent in whole school has home gardens.—Clarence Tim- mons. § ‘Webster—At directions of nature teachers 35 per cent have started gar- dens; the kindergarten has highest score,’ with 90 per cent; €0 per cent have cleaned yards; second grade had highest score, with 100 per cent in ¢clean-up; Charles Famosa and Alex- ander Clohan drew cartoons for the clean-up campaign.—Naomi Williams. ‘Woodburn — Gave a ‘“cornstalk party” and piled up old cornstalks at end of school lot; picked up all the stones to give the grass a chance; school plot is one and omne-fourth acre, but we work hard on this and on playground plot across the street. —Eleanora Miller. A report by Florence Hayes does not identify the school. but shows 35 the Student council marks points for | per-cent of the children planted gar- good work. Clean-up score for five|dens and about 50 per cent planted R%an from 83 to 100 per cent week |lawns. The- nature study teachers 5. six B commit- | have received much praise from peo- thlie Rosenthal,iple living in the nelghborhood of ichard Essex. Julian | schools. for. the good work the chil- ald Schreiner, How- [dren have done. Os? thren Ludlun, Catherine Mans vexetapte Garaens. |FLOOD LOSS, $16,784,638. Buchanan—One-third of puplls have| pUEBLO, Col., June 25.—The financial le” gardens: one-half worked |jogq resulting from the Pueblo flood one-third helped clean UP|amounts to $16.784,638, according to a 8. report made public by the ‘committee th grade cam- | named to supply data on damages to the . 04 worked inl{nited States reclammation service. Geaning up o | The damage reported on includes that € : ] B of Teal estate,. personal property, mer- | worked in school garden: “the school{chandise, irrigation ditches and crops | £ o Home e ihe daytime in the entire devastated district, the re- bl Tt Says. Cranch—Sixth grade gave talks on | PoMLSWS (oo 1o real property in Pue- (‘lvan-u_nl Ilfl':ll ard 1 S1 blo. including the damage to railroad T oicicd trach v within the city limits, is esti- walks: 115 committee at § flower garden Rowell. own yar Congress Height 1 home gardens; flower, the nastur- irew clean-up cartoon John Eaton ty-five have fl Ferguson means more than just painted. It means a first- class A No. 1 job, of which you'll ‘be well pleased. Interior sud Exterier Work. 1 = = FERGUSON, INC. i%:. 238 Painting Fh. N..831. Committee Helps Children, Ludlow—Our most ipteresting work X js_garden work. Committee of four helps other children after nature i study teachers show how to handle 4 ! soil and what to plant; one-third i Planted own flower gardens; one- fourth helped somebody else with flowers; one-seventh planted lawns of their o hird planted vege- table garde third helped oth- Madison- grade committee carried on campaign and helped other grades; calls made on people living near school; lawn started and doing fine in school yard.—Doris Hancock. Monroe—Lessons in planting lawns, vegetable gardens, flower gardens. Sixth grade then went into other grades with campaign on.this work man O. Chase. Edmonds—Fifty-six per cent took care of lawns and planted flowers; 45 per cent planted vegetable gardens; 67 per cent helped in picking up trash and rubbish.—Madge Murray. Langdon—Best of all there is’ 100 |f per cent gardens. This does not mean that every child has a garden, for many have two or three; 57 per cent is thé score for lawns planted and a fair score, for many children have no piace to plant a lawn.—Six Grade. 4 on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It ‘ Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity Assets Mare Than and clean-up.—Sophie Snyder. Morgan—Seventy-five per cent pick- | $7,000,000 ed up trash: 60 per cent improved lawns: 20 per cent have vegetable Bl gardens; 50 per cent planted flowers: Surplus Nearing each grade had a day a week to keep school yard clean.—Philip C. Evans. $800,000 Park View—Storekeepers near the sohool put wup clean-up Slogans; thed —.ath _grade put lime on school lawn “ud dug weeds: planted grass; in one | week 498 picked up trash; 603 put| trash where it belonged; In our flower | beds we have nasturtiums,.cosmos, marigold and as ice G. Erwi Plerce—Commi three to supe: vise work: 122 have vegetable gar- dens; about one-half of 365 pupils have flower gardens: many boys sell- ing product of vegetable gardens. ~—Kathleen Dorr. Taught to Make Gardens. Powell—Campaign begun February 13; nature study teachers then began || teaching us how to make gardens, both flower and vegetable: on May 23, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grad- |y ers went to forest protection week exercises in Rock Creek Park, when Senator Willis spoke to us of the|% k.On:Sale at Drug Stores. work of the American Forestry As- : sociation. We left the park after Roche. - Randle Highlands —Eighth grade|:: MANES ACLEANMONE has “Keep Clean Club”; we have flow. |.i % rden opposite main entrance; Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY, Prestdent JOSHUA W. CARR, Secretary Spray-“PREVENTOL” and .rout invading :flies, . mosquitoes and all-othér.insects from ¥ your Home. SLEEVELESS BLACK SATIN RIDING HABITS With white herringbone crash breeches. 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