Vermilion School of Agriculture - Yearbook (Vermilion, Alberta Canada)

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The Little Royal A. Andrew yj reat Oaks from little acorns grow to fine stalwart giants of the vegetable kingdom. Later they serve man in commerce and ornament his home. Thus continues an apparently endless chain of circumstances and events that influence the lives of generations of our species. So our “Little Royal’ small to begin with but inbued with a desire to inculcate in the lives of our students a desire to display to the world ability in showmanship, has started on a career. A career let us hope that will eventually cause it to be recognized over this part of the Province as the show window of this seat of learning, and the starting point of many successful showmen and show-women. This year our Fair was favoured with the presence of Professor Sack- ville of the University of Alberta and Mr. H. A. Craig the Deputy Minister of Agriculture for the Province. These gentlemen placed the awards and gave talks, instructive in nature, and much appreciated by the large crowd of onlookers, drawn not only from the student body but from the surrounding territory. All the live stock were exhibited outside. The weather on Fair day (February 14th) being spring like, no one wished the shelter of a wall or a roof but preferred to bask in the unusually warm rays of a February sun. Not only did the spectators enjoy this but the ten Barred Rock hens plumed themselves delightfully to the mesmerising gestures of their trainers. The five Oxford ewe lambs, emblems of innocence followed stalwart escorts, while a like number of young bovines fresh from morn¬ ing ablutions in laundry tubs, and mangers laden with nutritious food, stood at attention. Ten members of the Clydesdale fraternity, with manes and tails decked with the product of the braid and flower makers, walked, trotted, or stood glittering in the sunshine, making a scene pleasant to the eye and heart of any lover of livestock. Besides the above, the usual display of Baking, Sewing, Millinery Seed, Carpentering and Blacksmithing were on exhibit. During the evening Prof. Sackville gave an address to the members of the Versatile Club. Later the “Radio” Committee entertained all comers to a jolly dance in the Gymnasium. The awards in the various classes were as follows: Boys’ Classes Blacksmithing Carpentry Wheat Oats Barley Poultry . Horses ..1st, Howard Cowan 1st, Stanley Lindberg 1 st, Ross Zwierschke 1 st,’Alf. Russell 1st, Oliver Dumbreck 1st, Cecil Warner 2nd, Martin Fjeldstad 1st, Ernie Pitman 2nd Ian Hamilton 1st, Robert Waddell 2nd, James Thom 1st, Everett Johnson 2nd, Myron La tarn Live Stock Championship Robert Waddell Special prizes donated by FI. S. Patrick to the boys doing the most work on the animals in each class were given as follows: Poultry . Cecil Warner Sheep John Maire Cattle James Thom Horses Percy Howe Girls’ Classes 2nd Year Bread Ma king 2nd Year Cushions 2nd Year Millinery 1st Year Biscuits 1st Year Embroidery 1st Year Millinery 1st Year Darning Thrift Problem 1st, Annie Litwin 2nd, Olinda Drozdowich 1st, Marjorie McLaughlin 2nd, Bertha Arndt I 1st, Bertha Arndt 2nd, Helen Hecko I st, Mabel Berg 2nd, Muriel Nowry 1st Fern Clement 2nd, Mary Hennig 1st, Edith Hutchinson 2nd, Ruth Gibson I 1st, Mary Hennig 2nd, Mabel Berg 1st, Marjorie McLaughlin Checkmates One day when Waddell had devoured every hotcake on the table and Eva had become almost exhausted with fetching more she suddenly exclaimed. “They will have to raise the price of your board.” “Oh! I hope they don’t do that,” he said, ‘‘It is nearly killing me to eat all I pay for now and if they raise my board and make me eat more it will kill me for sure.” Infallible Test A student supposed to be deficient in judgment was asked by one of the Professors in the course of a class examination, “How would you discqver a fool?” “ By the questions he would ask, was the quick reply. Slicky—Trying to decide which he would choose, eventually decided it was impossible, and said: I’ll have to marry the both of you.” One of Them “But that would be bigamy.” Slicky—“ It would be big o’ me too.” They had been going together for a long time and one night were sitting in the library looking through the Vermilion Standard. “Look,” Buck exclaimed, “only fifteen dollars for a suit of clothes.” “Is it a wedding suit?” Dot asked, looking naively at him. “Oh, no, a business suit,” he answered. ‘Well, I meant business,” she replied. Page eight

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Our 1930-31 Group Above is shown the Staff and Students of the present year and it is interesting to note that the entire territory cover¬ ed by the institution is represented; students from away north of 59 are shown with those from as far west as Onoway, from the Saskatchewan border and from the C.P.R. line on the south. As the students go to their homes they will spread information regarding the “College” and we hope that next year our group will be “bigger and better than ever.” [ Page seven ]

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