Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-07
PRELIMINARY CONTEST.
Five High School Students Selected
to Contest for q Gold Medal at the
Opera House on May 18th.

In each battle there must needs be
a victor, in each conflict a conqueror.
Every Marathon has its Miltiades;
every Actium its Augustus; every
Waterloo its Wellington, and every
Yorktown its Washington.
This is true in a battle of brain as
well as in a battle of Drawn; in a
struggle of defamation as well as in
a struggle of arms.
And SO Ave of the nine speakers
must come out victorious in the pre-
liminary deciamatory contest of the
Mexico High School held in the A. o.
U. W. Hall Tuesday afternoon. In
| deed, more difficult was the task of
the three competent judges selected
for the occasion, DIR. Usher and Messrs.
Wallace Crossley and John d. Orear.
Shortly after 2 O'Clock the first
speaker of the afternoon, Mr.. Ned
Turner, took the floor and delivered a
German dialect selection, "How We
Was Diskivered." The piece was well
suited to the speaker and he spoke it
excellently.
Mr.. Rex Wood followed with ssThe
| Wandering jew" Mr.. Wood has a
| good voice and his was IN impressive
defamation though his facial express
ion might have been q trifie better.
Choosing with discretion, "The I'm
known Speaker" Mr.. George Edmon-
ston threw much life into his rendi-
ton and, though his gestures were the
least bit stiff, did well in every respect.
Then Mr.. Henry Llewellyn spoke
with properly varying countenance
and in an entirely suitable fashion one
of those humorous and pathetic selec-
tions from Eugene Field, 'sThe Ency-
clopeedy."
In "Uncle Peter and Absalom" Mr..
Lewis Moore was exceedingly fine.
His gesticulation was perfect and his
rendition of the negro dialect espec-
tally satisfactory. In a humorous piece
Mr.. Moore is hard to surpass.
Mr.. Will Treloar next told in q
laughable hammer how he had been
Haunted by a Song" Mr.. Treloar's
good voice aided him greatly.
MIR. Otto DiesseI's selection, Chow
| Came to be in a Lunatic Asylum
was rather a burlesque on the cross
examination of the average lawyer
and in this the young gentleman
showed a good voice and the effects Of
excellent training.
Perhaps the most difficult declama-
ton of the afternoon was "The Roman
Sentinel" to which MI. Elberne Rice
did full justice.
4. The last speaker was Mr.. Johr
Westfall and he delivered in truly or.
a~torical style a selection from Henry
W. Grady, "The South: A Figure o.
Her Past; An Appeal to Her Future
The five fortunate ones chosen BY
the judges were Messrs. Moore, Ire
loar, Rice, Llewellyn and Edmonston
t and these gentlemen will compete a
the Opera House for a gold medal OF
, May 14th.
All the contestants did splendidly
u the -FOUR defeate ones Snould Zee
proud of themselves and their efforts
although they were omitted from TIT
lucky number.
= LATER-On account of the shor
length of the programme Prof. Nc
. MILAN has decided to allow all thos
who strove SO bravely in the prelimi
nary to again test their strength in tn
regular declamatory contest on Ma
b 18th. So, virtually, the preliminar
is declared off.
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found the advertisement of Chicag
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