The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-12-28


sons College, Fairfield, Hon. w. ID.
Evans, Hampton. j. H. Campbell,
G. w. @. T. of Iowa, Des Moines.
Poetry: M. A. Davies, Spring
Valley, Ill.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
T. J. Price, Jenkin D. Rees, d. w.
Roberts, j. w. Jones, James w.
Williams.
PIANISTS.
Sarah Williams, Beacon, John
Owens, Pekay, Lillian Hughes, oska-
loosa.
GENERAL OFFICERS.
T. j. Price, President.
Dan Davis, Secretary.
James Williams, Treasurer.
Vice Presidents
John Phillips, Pekay.
Owen Thomas, Wales.
w. S. Thomas. Abba.
VIM. Abraham, Des Moines.
VIM. Baxter, Beacon.
Daniel Rees, Givin. aG
Richard Rosser, Lucas.
Geo. Grill, Des Moines.
Mrs. Joseph Bevan, Oskaloosa.
Jno. D. Owen, Saylorville.
MORNING SESSION.
The session of the morning was not
largely attended as some of the trains
bringing the contestants were delay
ed in arrival. But the program was
taken up promptly on time at 10 o.
clock and everything moved off as
smoothly as could be desired.
The session of the morning was
called to order by Rev. D. E. Jenkins,
president of Parsons College, of Fair
field.
There was song by Prof. 7. L.
Rees. The blessing ofthe Divine Be-
ing was Invoked by Rev. A. E. Cory
of the Christian church. Rev. R. w.
Hughes who was to act in the capacity
of conductor during the day made an
address brief but to the point, that
was we'll received.
The bards were not present and the
address was omitted until later in the
day.
The first number on the program
was quartette Gan Through the
Night +" Prize 81, and was won by
the Givin party.
The competition on the Welsh recita-
ton was so we'll done by David Brazel,
of Beacon and Will Rees, of Givin,
that the prize of 81 was divided be-
tween them and both were called
equally deserving of first place. The
recitation was in the Welsh tongue.
The Englynion to the late Morgan
Thomas (Cammarck) prize So, was
awarded 10 John r. Thomas, of
Spring Valley.
"Evalyn Hope, "a recitation for girls
under II years of age was won by
Maggie Williams, of Hiteman and
Blodwen Brazel, of Beacon, was in
second place.
The recitation "The Two Offerings
the prize for which was given and
the competition conducted under the
auspices of the state organization of
the Good Templars drew quite little
competition. To be- competition it
was necessary for the speaker to
have been prize winner in some
previous contest aud this insured the
merit of the competitor. The gold
media, was won by Miss Ida Cox, a
daughter of Thos, Cox, of Evans.
The closing competition of the
morning was between two brothers
on the song "Wiil Find Ny Mamma
There" prze So and 81 The first
place was won by the younger of the
brothers Caradog and the second
place by David R. Brazel, of Beacon
The young men are the sons of David
r. Brazel, of Beacon, and they have
voices of rare promise.
The afternoon program was pre-
sided over by w. D Evans. of
Hampton.
The addresses of the bards was the
first thing on the program in the
afternoon and the following gentle
men spoke j D. Reese, M. A. Davis.
J R. Thomas, j. W. Jones and Rev
Rees.
Theprize of s25 offered by Governor
L. NJ Shaw for the best male party
was divided between the oskaloosa
and the Givin choirs under D. W
Roberts and I. L. Reese.
John R. Thomas, of Spring VALLEY
was awarded the prize of So on poetry
20 the late George @. Morgan. and
the gentleman also won the prize for
the offering TO the late Joshua r
Price, of Beacon.
The Congregational church of this
city won the prize of $40 on the con-
petition for ohildrens' choir. ..Tba
Trumpet Shall Sound.u
The Giea Awake Aeolian T.vro,,
was won by D. W Roberts and narsv
The prize was $50.