Bloomfield High School - Bee Yearbook (Bloomfield, IA)

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Manual 'Traininq Bloomfield High School now possesses one of the largest and best equipped Manual Training rooms in this part of the State. It consists of one large working room, surrounded by tool and material cabinets and Containing new up-to-date benches, each supplied with a complete set of tools. This room opens into a large staining and varnishing room. Due to lack of funds, no power machinery has as yet been installed, but when it is, Bloomfield can offer one of the best courses possible in the way of Manual Training. 1 This year's course was a great improvement over previous years. It consisted of a twelve weeks' study of drawing and planning before the woodwork course was taken up. This course and the better equipment made it possible for the students to turn out a much higher class of furniture than was possible in previous years. The annual furniture exhibition was held in the gymnasium, where all the different pieces of furniture made during the year were exhibited before the school and the public. lloity Six

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