The Forrest City times., 1908-04-10

ELEVEN -YEAR-OLD GIRL WINS
Louise Hall sf ouaehita College Car. ries of the Honors in the College
 Girls Musical Competition.

ah AfkansaS Is Miss Louise Hall aged II years. for Saturday night at the close of the contests at the Auditor. ium rink to determine the most skill. ful piano player from the various schools of the state, the judges an. nouneed that she was the winner.
 Alter the work of Miss Hall the Judges decided that Miss Beryl Huff. man, representing Arkansas Confer ence College, was best, and she was given second prize, $10 in gold.
 Miss Opal Reed, representing Hen derson College, got third place and handsome gold bracelet as her prize.
 Fourth place was awarded to Miss Annie Sims, representing Galloway College.
 Alter the announcement of these prize winners, the chairman of the meeting announced that a years sub scrlption to the Sketch Book had been offered to the winners of the fourth and fifth places in oratory.
 The Little Rock contingent was again given an opportunity to do some cheering when the winner of the first prize in oratory was announced to be James W. Mehaffy, a son of Attor- new Thomas Mehaffy of Little ROCK. MT. Mehaffy is student at Tender son College, Philadelphia, and repre- sented that institution The prize he won for himself was $50 in gold, and for his school handsome silver cup. MT. Mehaffy had chosen for his sub- ject, Growth Toward Perfect Un- ion"
 F. c. Sims, representing Ouachita College, was awarded second place in oratory and prize of s20 in gold. His subject was, "The East vs. the West"
 Third place was awarded to Horac Sloan, representing Arkansas College, Batesville, and his subject was Dem ocracy, the Spirit of the Age"
 w. B. Hubbell of Hendrix College, Conway, won fourth place with a dis cussion of "The Power of Purpose"
 J. Hulen McCully of Arkansas Con- ference College was given the fifth place, his topic being "The Ethics of Evoluntion.''
 The meet Saturday afternoon was declamatory contest for boys repre- senting preparatory and private train ing schools of the state.
 The winners Saturday were:
 First prize, J. R. Dumas, represent ing Ouachita College Preparatory School, subject, "The New South" The prize consisted of a $20 silver cup which goes to the school and $25 in gold to MT. Dumas
 Second prize, Ed Sparks, represent ing the Clary Training School, For dyce, subject, "The Home in Govern ment" The prize consisted of $10 in gold, donated by Rand, McNally & Co
 Third prize, I. T. Winfrey, repre- senting Hendrix Preparatory School, Conway, subject, "The Prophet and the Priest" The prize consisted of 30 in gold.
 Fourth prize, Earl Moorehead, rep resenting Stuttgart Training School, subject, Liberty and Union" The prize consisted of $4 pair of Regal shoes, donated by the Benton Shoe Company.
 The Hotel Marion's map drawing contest was won by Ambrose Smith of Calico Rock, the $15 prize for the best map of the state going to him. The contest was held at the high school building forenoon from to 13 o'clock. The drawings were from memory, and only pupils under the ninth grade were eligible. Second place went to Nat Hunnicutt of Nal vern, and third to Ethel Riley of Car lisle. I
 A second map drawing contest, in which students of the country schools only were eligible. was won by Flu gene McKilbern of Dewitt.