The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-04-27

Dutchtown carried off the honors
of the meet, with 26 points; Donald
sonyille was second, with II; Thibo-
daux and Bourg tiedN for third. with
IL each; Hounla was next, with 3;
Oak Grove followed, with Z, and
Evergreen was last, with 1.
The basketball game between Oak
Grove and Evergreen was WIN by
Oak Grove by a score of 8 to z. The
scheduled game between LabadieVi1le
and DutchtoWn was not played.
The officials of the meet were as
follows: Judges, E.. M !. Long, 4. SUI.
and supt j. Fl. DuPuy, ST. John;
referee, G. B. Johnson, L.S.U.s starter,
Will Blumenthal; timekeeper, Clar-
ence Boote, scorer; Florian 3 Nj
chel.
The literary exercises were carried
out in the auditorium Of the high
school, beginning at 7:30 p M, and
attracted a large and representative
audience. Prof. H. B. Messick, princl-
pal Of the Donaldsonville high
school, called the assemblage to or
der and introduced Prof. A. E. Phil
lips, principal OF the Houma school
and president of the Sugar Belt AS
ISOLATION, who delivered an interest
ing address. The following attract
i've program was rendered: Song,
dance of the Leaves Thibodaux
Glee Club; defamation, Miss Fabian
Daigle, Oak Grove; song, ssFairyland
Waltz" Lockport Glee Club; reading
of prize composition, How to Make
a Kite" Julius Folse, Donaldsonville;
recitation, (not competitive), Miss
Rosa Lee Allen, Donaldsonville; ora
ton, '"The Civil War" Willard Har-
ris, Houma; song, Sweet and Low, ;"
Donaldsonville Glee Club; ueclama~
ton, Miss Bessie Dixon, Donaldson
Vile; song, waltz and song from
Faust Houma Glee Club; Grafton,
stThe Civil War; Lester Montegut,
John l.. Dry; song, "Hush-a-by, Ny
Honey" Labadieville Glee Club.
AT the conclusion of the exercises
the winners of the oratorical and
glee club contests were announced
as follows: Defamation, Miss Fabian
Daigle, Oak Grove, first; Miss Bes-
sic Dixon, Donaldsonvil1e, second.
Grafton, Willard Harris, Thibodaux,
first; Lester Montegut, John L. Dry,
second. Glee club, Donaldsonville
first, Houma second.
In the contests in spelling and
composition, which had been held
at the high school earlier in the
day, Donaldsonvi1le made a clean
Miller finishing first in spelling, and
julius Folse and Miss Nancy Proffitt
being awarded first and second
places, respectively, in composition
| Jonas SassoWsky, of Thibodaux, was
the winner of the drawing contest,
and Victor Gouaux, also of Thibo-
daux, was given second place.
Announcement was made that the
grading of the science notebooks,
which had been submitted to Prof.
| Leo NJ. Favrot, state high school in
| spector, several days prior to the
meet, showed the following winners:
Botany, Lasseigne, Houma; physiol-
ogy, Victor Gouaux, Thibodaux; ply
sizes, Miss Bessie Cushnan, Dutch
town; chemistry, Miss Lise Terrio,
| Bourg.
| The judges were as follows:
| Literary eVentS-PrOf. o.. &. Hen
son, principal 1sidore Newman Man
ual Training School, New Orleans;
Prof. c. A. stumberg, L.S.U., and
Miss Nita Denhanl, Baton Rouge high
school
/ Declamation-Prof Henson, Miss
Denham, and Miss Mildred Knott.
Sophie NeWco1nb College
| Singing Knott, Miss Denham,
and Miss Eddie Bass, Plaquemine
high school.