The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-25
H. S. Boys QUARTETTE
Field Contest Will Be Held In
Afternoon of May 4, and Ora
torical Contest in the
Evening.

The program for the Plymouth
High School Oratorieal Contest and
Musical. at the Webster school
auditorium, Friday evening, April 20
opened with music by the High
School Orchestra, and their work
was fine and much appreciated by
the large audience present.
Printed programs were In the
hands of the audience, but before
opening the exercises Prof. Nc
Dowell announced that the con-
testants had drawn for position, and
that the order would be Roland
Metsker first, Merle Bosworth Sec
ond, and Henry Humrichouser
third. He said further that the
contestant who was selected by the
judges would receive a cash prize,
and would be the one to defend
Plymouth High school at the County
Contest to be given in the Orpheum
Theatre the evening of May 4.
On the programs were the names
of four boys of the school, who COM
pose the Boys Quartet, and as
there is a prize for music in the
County contest, this quartet will
represent our school at that event.
The boys are Flint Helms, Knight
Houghton, Gerald Overmyer and
Donald Baer. They were down for
two numbers on the program, and
were cheered until they had to re-
spond to the encore. All Plymouth
backs them to win.
To save the audience from
fatigue in grasping the weightier
arguments of the orators of the
evening, two recitations had been
provided, one by Miss Agnes Jones,
giving a representation of how
girls in the High School study their
lessons. Perchance. in the audience
there may have been those who
thought the sketch was a little
overdrawn, but any parent or
guardian who has 'gone through"
the mill, will testify that the repre-
sentation by Miss Jones was "true
to life" Anyway Miss Jones act
ed the part splendidly, and all were
delighted.
Elmer Wait was on for the other
recitation, and he certainly be-
lieves in letting his "mother-in-
law" have a chance. He is willing
she should do the work, and offers
no interference. "When there is
water to get, and wood to be split,
/ Just let her do it. for there is
nothing too good for my mother-in-
law" Elmer can get the Dutch
pronunciation as well as any native
from across the sea, and was
vigorously applauded.
Roland Metsker's grafton was the
same as he gave last year, entitled,
"The Improvement of the Lincoln
Way" Miss Merle Bosworth
argued the "Rights of Women
in her Grafton, and the deductions
were satisfactory to the ladies
present, and a few of the men.
Henry Humrichouser had the SUD-
ject "Strikes," and their effect on
business throughout the commercial
world. and among the laboring class
es. To specialize on the merits OF
these orations would be unfair
They were so near together, that
it would seem a hard task to decide
who was first. The judges who
marked the points as the speeches
were made, certainly have the best
knowledge of who should be first
They are not left to their owl
opinion, which might be swayed BY
prejudice or sympathy, but the,
mark according to the points tha
are given them to grade, and bein:
strangers, their markings must b,
fair and right.
They gave the task of defendin:
plymouth High school in the Count,
Contest to Roland Metsker. Prof
Outer then presented Mr.. Metske
to the audience, in a few word
stated the nature of the work he ha,
so fer gone through with-that o
contesting with his companions
Now he had for the next two week
to prepare for a different fight
that of defending Plymouth. TIL
combat would be not with his ow
schoolmates who are friends all, bu
a contest was coming that woul
require him to enter the aren
where other Hfirst" men were gati
cred, and there he mus. single hand
ed, fight for not himself alone, bu
the honor of his city, his schoo