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THE JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. OUR INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITS. BY MISS ORISSEY, Teacher of commercial geography in momence high school. As the United States uses about forty dollars worth of home products for 1 -very dollar’s worth of foreign products she buys, the commercial geography of our own country should be familiar to us. In order that it may be so when the child becomes a man and has need to make use pf it in business or in thought, commercial geography is rightly given a place in our curiculum. For the purpose of making this work one of real and lasting worth, illus¬ trative material is needed. Many business firms have realized this and have made use of the opportunity to advertise by preparing exhibits which show the various steps in the manufacture of their products. These exhibits are fur¬ bished at little or no cost to schools to be used to illustrate to pics of study. In onnection, illustrative and explanatory pictures and pamphlets are sent. From petroleum, some forty articles of commercial value are made, the fine¬ ness of the article depending upon the number of refining processes through vrhich it has been taken. The exhibit furnished us by the branch of the Stand¬ ard Oil Company at Whiting, consists of twenty products obtained from petro- ' riim. It includes samples of crude oil obtained from Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, and California, samples of engine, fuel and cylinder oils, be- ;i les samples of products that have been more highly refined. One of our most interesting exhibits comes from the Carborundum Com- viy of Niagara Falls, New York. In it are found crude carborundum crys- 5 —the hardest manufactured material in the world—carborundum grains and wder, and varieties of carborundum cloth. The printed matter accompanying jives an account of the accidental discovery of carborundum and of the growth : : the demand for it, now that people are realizing its value. The H. W. Johns-Manvilie Company, of Chicago, to illustrate their line, : samples of crude asbestos, asbestos cloths, asbestos building and fire felts, asbestos roofing. The exhibit of Milward’s Helix Needles is mounted. It shows each of the : my-two processes that take place before a needle, originally a piece of coil- can appear in a paper of needles. Of equal interest is the mounted exhibit • shed by J. Wise Sons, of Newark, New Jersey. This shows a pair of : s in its seven stages of manufacture. In connection with the study of textiles, there are three exhibits. The one {• i- George A. Clark Brother, of New York, shows specimens of raw cotton the appearance of the raw cotton after it has passed through the processe s i ssary to convert it into common 6-cord thread, crochet and darning cottons. Stt i are shown by the contents of fourteen large bottles sent by the Amer- i Cotton Seed Oil Company. The American Printing Company, of Fall River, Massachusetts, has fur-
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THE JUNIOR YEAR BOOK TRACK MEET. WATSEKA HIGH SCHOOL VS. MOMENCE HIGH SCHOOL. The Momence High School Track Team, accompanied by the South Side principal, E. B. Porter, went to Watseka, Saturday, May 2, 1908, on the 9:52 train to meet the Watseka High School Track Team in a dual track and field meet. The day was not an ideal one for the meet, as the track was soft anti the wind was strong and cold, but nevertheless, the Momence team was full of go from the start to the end of the meet. They downed the Watseka boys to the tune of 87 to 21, only allowing them two firsts, one second and a few stray thirds let fall by the wayside for the lack of Momence men enough to enter three in every event. It was a walk away for our boys, they having the much stronger team. Some very good records were made in the field events. Stratton did 18 feet and 8 inches in the running broad jump, taking first place, with Hayden a close second at 18 feet. Stratton took first in the standing broad jump at 9 feet and 9 inches, and Hayden second at 9 feet and 4 inches, with Giroux third at 9 feet 8 inches. In the discus throw Giroux was an easy winner at 87 feet 11 inches. Tuttle tied for first in the shot put at 87 feet 1 inch. Hayden won the pole vault at 9 feet 5 inches, and showed that he was good for several inches more if crowded. Allen took second in the high jump at 5 feet. On the track it was a joke. It looked as if two races were being run each time. Our boys would come in in a bunch, striving among themselves to see who would get highest honors, while the Watseka men came trailing along in the rear in a class by themselves. In the 50 yard dash Momence’s last man was a good 12 feet ahead of Watse- ka’s first. The track event winners were: 50 yard dash—Hess, first; Stratton, second; Giroux, third. 100 yard dash—Giroux, first; Hess, second, Nichols, third. 220 yard run—Giroux, first; Stratton, second, Hess, third. 440 yard run—Wilson, first; Allen, second. Only two entries for Momence. 880 yard run—Smith, first; Wilson, second. Only two entries for Momence. One mile run—Hayden, first; Smith second. The hammer and hurdles were out of service or the boys might have added a few more points to the already one-sided score of 87 to 21.
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