The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-20
LOUISE COOK Won PRIZE
NORFOLK HIGH SCHOOL oEcLAM.
AToRY CONTEST.
HELEN FRIDAY is SECOND

| A Program Of Unusual Merit Was Held
at the Auditorium Last Night to
Select Contestant in the Coming
District Contest.
Miss Louise Cook, a member of the
freshman class, won the Norfolk high
school oratorical contest at the Audi
forum Friday night, winning the right
to represent the local high school in
the north Nebraska declamatory con.
test in Norfolk April l. Miss Helen
Friday, a sophomore. ranked second.
The class of 1910, the sophomores
class, won the class prize
Glass "yells," class songs, class
demonstrations ran riot at the Audi
forum before and after the program
proper. The body of the Auditorium
was crowded with students from the
high school and with Norfolk people.
Glass colors and class pennants
were much in evidence. The section
of the Auditorium occupied by mem
bers of the graduating class was elab-
orately decorated with the class col
ors, pink and green. Streamers we're
run up to the balcony so that the
members of the class were seated be-
meath an arch made up of their class
colors. Just to one side an electric
sign displayed with green and pink
lights the class numerals, "0S."
Whenever the seniors cheered the
sign blinked approvingly.
The program was one of rather I'M
usual merit and was thoroughly APP
precated by the audience. Misses
Dorothy Rudat, Josephine Mullen,
Dollie Pfunder, Helen Friday, Louise
Cook, Theo Sprecher and Bessie Wild
aman all won favor with the audience
The musical numbers on the program
were also pleasing.
At the close of the program Hon.
John r. Hays announced the decision
of the judges. Mr.. Hays compliment
ed the young ladies who had partici-
pated in the contest, stating that he
had never seen similar contest so
excellent on character or where the
contestants were so nearly equal in
merit. Mr.. Hays announced that the
judges had awarded first honors to
Miss Louise Cook and that the class
prize for the greatest number of
points scored by the representatives
of any single class went to the class
of 1910.
Mr.. Hays, Mrs. George D. Butter
| field and Mrs. M. A. McMillen had
been selected as judges, but Mrs. Nc
Millen being unable to attend her
place was taken by Misses Rogers and
Cowan.
The evenings program was:
Chorus, Spring Morning" by j.
Raft, high school girls.
Invocation, Rev. F. C. Davis Of La
mar, Missouri, filling the pulpit at the
First Congregational church Sunday.
Piano solo, "The Dying Poet" by
Gottschalk, Lowell Erskine.
Her Cuban Tea" Dorothy Rudat
"Sparticus to the Gladiators" by
Elijah kellogg, Josephine Mullen.
Chorus, with the Stream" by B
: Tours, high school girls.
What William Henry Did" by J
l.. Harbour, Dollie Pfunder.
"Mary's Night Ride" by George W
Gable, Helen Friday.
"As the Moon Rose" by Paulin
Phelps, Louise Cook.
Violin solo, Kurawiak, Second Ma
zurka by Henri Wieniawski, Ray Els
tabrook.
How the Church Was Built a
Kehoe's Bar" by Bennett, The
9 Sprecher
:, '"The Romance of the White Cowl
:, by James Lane Allen, Bessie Widi
; man
Quartet Mrs. Winslow's Soothin
. Syrup" by Harrington, Messrs. Ogdel
Hibben, Lynde and Anderson.