Gilpin observer., 1908-10-15
SCHOOL NOTES.

The high school football team hac
good practice games with town team.
on Saturday and Monday.
The high school students have re-
organized the Alpha Zeta and Alpha
Omega literary societies and promise
some good programs next week.
The high school is indebted to Mr..
Dewhurst for valuable files of the
Electrical World and the Electrical Re-
view.
Mr.. Chas. E. Wiley contributed a
number of copies of the Literary Digest
and Scientific American to the reading
table and literary this week.
Central City High School will play
Idaho Springs High School in the open
ing football game of the season, at
Idaho Springs, November tn.
Mrs. w. C. Matthews who has been
supplying the school each week with
Golfers Weekly, has added to her gift,
the Saturday Evening Post. We are
certainly very fortunate to have these
splendid, up to date magazines each
week on the reading table.
The Board of Education meets reg
ularly on the second Tuesday evening
of each month.
The young men of the high school
have voted to organize senate to meet
IN the Reception room every Friday
evening at 7 o'clock This is a good
move and especially at this time when
political affairs have such large place
in the affairs of the day.
The Public School contests to be held
in Central City on Friday evening,
December 4th, in connection with the
session of the Arkansas Valley Teachers
Association, are already attracting a
great deal of attention. There will be
four contests, two for the boys and two
for the girls. High school students
will have contests in defamation, and
the grade students will compete in
sight reading. Some of the rules that
are of general interest are given below.
These rules are only tentatively adopt
ed and suggestions for their amend
ment will be gladly received.
The December contest includes work
in sight reading for the seventh and
eigth grades and contest in declama-
tion for high school students.
Boys contest against boys and girls
against girls.
Boys declamations must be oratorical
in character; girls declamations may
be chosen from any standard author.
The maximum time accorded to
recitation is twelve minutes. Each
sight readiug contestant will read for
five minutes.
The book chosen for the December
sight reading contest is David Copper
field. Each person is given place to
begin reading and reads for five minutes.
The judges consider the following
points in defamation, with relative
values as indicated:
Pronunciation and enunciation 16,
points.
Ability to make himself heard, 16
points,
Ease and naturalness in delivery, 16
points.
Propriety of the selection in accord
ance with the rules, 16 points.
Ability to hold the interest of the
audience, l6 points.
The judges consider the following
points in the sight reading contest,
with relative values as indicated:
Ready recognition of words, l6 points.
Pronunciation, l6 points.
Enunciation and ability to make HIM
self heard, l6 points.
Attitude and appearance before the
audience, l6 points.
Interpretation of meaning, 36 points.
The contestant in each class winning
the greatest number of points shall be
awarded first prize.
No contestant may receive training
for this contest except from teacher
in his own school.
The Association pays necessary
travelling and hotel expenses of each
contestant.
The contests are open to grade and
high school students in all the schools
of Clear Creek, Gilpin, and Jefferson
counties. A copy of the rules, complete,
will be mailed to any school on request.
Address Geo. R. Momyer, Central City.
Mr.. VIM. E.. Withrow, president of
the Board of Education, visited the
Central schools on Wednesday.