The log cabin Democrat., 1907-09-05
COUNTY CONTEST AT HOLLAND
Large Crowd Attends Education
 al Rally.

Miss Mary Reeves, Camden Webb and
 Thomas Morgan the Prize-Win-
 ners-Program of Exercises.
 The sixth annual educational contest of Faulkner was held Sat urday at Holland and the event at tracted a crowd of GOO or 700 peo- pie. The contest was regarded as one of the most successful in the history of the county. The recitation and Reclamation contests took place in the morning and in the afternoon addresses were delivered by Deputy State Super intendent H. s. Traylor, Rev. J. J. Hurt and Prof. o. L. Dunaway. The exercises were held under the large tabernacle of the Holiness church.
 At II o'clock Chairman w. H. Langford of the contest association called the meeting to order. After two songs led by Prof. C. D. Goode and his singing class of Holland, the audience was led in prayer by Rev. J. J. Hurt. The Exercises were begun with the reef tation contest, the program of which follows:
 Northeast section-Miss Lizzie Gist, Pleasant Valley school; sub feet, Temperance.
 Northwest section-Mlss Myrtle Helm, Rowlett school; subject, HMona's Waters.
 outhern section-MiSs Hattie Mel m, Oakland school; subject, "MaAe Room for Life. y
 Central section-Miss M ary Reeves, Reeves school; subject, Archie Dean. "
 The Reclamation contest for young men was then announced. The young man representing the Southern section was not present, and the contest was engaged in by the three young men from the other sections. The program was given as fOllOWS:
 Northwest section-Calvin Gray, Rowlett school; subject, "Inde- pendence."
 Central section-Ira Jeffries, Jef- fries school; subject, ''The Man Eloquent.
 x Northeast section C m d e Il Webb, Enders school; s' )ject, 3"Our Origin and Our Dest. y. v
 At the conclusion of the decla- nations adjournment was taken for dinner, during which time the judges, Messrs. Traylor, Hurt and Dunaway, examined the maps drawn bvwthe contestants~who Cir tere.nls contest Maps were sub mitted by the following:
 Northwest section-Miss Alice Snow, Antioch school.
 Southern section-Miss Norah Harvill, Chadwick school.
 Central section-Thomas Mor- gan, Mt. Olive school. Northeast section-Miss Carrie Utley, Wooley school.
 The exercises were resumed at PRO, when short addresses were delivered by Prof. Traylor and Rev. Hurt, both of which were well received. Prof. Traylor em- phasned the need of county high schools and county superintendent cy. Rev. Hurt congratulated the county upon its interest Ill educa- tional affairs and urged the lmpor- tance of Faulkner taking the lead in these matters since the normal was located at the seat of the coun- tv. He referred to the fact that ln only one other county in the state are such contests maintained as was given on that day.
 Prof. Dunaway was then asked to deliver the prizes. He compll- mented all of the contestants upon the excellence of their work, and stated that it was very difficult for the judges to select the winners. The prizes were awarded as tol- lows:
 Map-drawing-Thomas Morgan gold medal and scholarship ln Vl- 7 lonia Training School.
 Defamation - Camden Webb; gold medal and scholarship in Hendrix College.
 Recitation-Miss Mary Reeves gold medal and scholarship in Cen tral College.
 A Remarkable Occurrence.
 One of the most remarkable