The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-04-30
HUNDREDS Will
ATTEND CONTESTS
LITTLE ROCK THIS WEEK
INSTITUTIONS TO PAR
TICIPATE IN ANNUAL
SCHOOL CONTESTS.

The population of Conway is eX-
pected to be diminished by several
hundred next Friday and Saturday,
when representatives and rooters
from all of the local institutions will
go to Little Rock to participate in the
annual state school contests in ora
tory, music and athietics. These con-
tests will begin Friday morning and
continue until Saturday evening, the
field and track meet being held at
West End park Saturday afternoon
Besides sending large teams to par
ticipate in the athletic events, Hen
driv College, the State Normal and
Conway high school, will each have
representatives in the school contests.
Hendrix will be represented in the
college oratorical contest by j. Abner
Sage and in the academy defamation
contest by Frank McAnear. Miss
Willie Threlkeld will represent the
State Normal in the college reading
contest and Gus Boss in the academy
defamation contest. The Conway
high school will enter Palmore Noe
in the defamation contest, Miss Beu-
lah johnson in the high school spell
ing contest and Miles Grow in the
gramar school spelling contest.
The local high school will be repre-
sented in the field and track meet as
follows: 100-yard dash, Charles and
Legg; low hurdles, Legg; pole vault,
Legg and Allison; high jump, Charles
and Legg; broad jump, Legg and AL
lison; nile run, Stapleton; half mile
run, Clark; discus throw, Bailey and
Joslin; shot put, Bailey and Goad.
The names of the state Normal
and Hendrix entries could not be Sc
cured in time for publication today.
Final arrangements for the fourth
annual meeting of the Arkansas In
terschool Contest Association of
Schools and Colleges were completed
yesterday by President John R. An
ders of Portland and Treasurer A. B.
Hill of Little Rock. The program
will begin at 10 o'clock Friday morn
ing, when the first section of the high
school declamatory contest will be
held in the auditorium of the Cham
Der of Commerce, Fourth and Main
streets, and the map-drawing contest
will be held in the Little Rock high
school study hall, Second and Scott
streets.
J
entries in the high school declama-
tion contest, it has become necessary
to divide the contestants into three
sections and one section will begin at
o'clock Friday afternoon at the
Chamber of Commerce, while the
third section will begin at 8 O'Clock in
the evening.
/ The preparatory school declama-
ton contest will be held at 8 O'Clock
Friday afternoon in the Board of
Trade auditorium, Second and Scott
streets.
/ The preparatory school reading
contest will be held at 8 o'clock Sat
urday morning at the Board of Trade
auditorium, Second and Scott streets.
The high school reading contest at
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion auditorium, East Capitol avenue
and Scott street, at 2 and 8 o'clock p.
m. Friday, and the third section will
be held at 8 o'clock Saturday morn
ing.
The college reading contest will be
held at o'clock Friday evening at
the Hotel Marion auditorium.
Contestants in the high school pi-
ano contest will meet at 8 o'clock Sat-
urday morning at the Auditorium
rink, while the college oratorical and
piano contest will be held at s o'clock
Saturday evening at the Auditorium,
Markham and Arch streets
The spelling contest will be held at
9 o'clock Saturday morning in the
Little Rock high school study hall,
Fourteenth and Scott Streets
President Anders stated last night
that reduced rates had been secured
on all the roads running into Little
Rock for the meeting of the Inter-
school Contest Association, and the
seventh annual field and track meet.
The round trip fare from May 2 to A
will be one fare plus one-third.
A bureau of information for the
Interschool Contest Association will
be maintained in the lobby of the
New Capital hotel, while the bureau
for the track and field meet will be at
the Hotel Marion.
The colleges entered in the track
and field meet are as follows: Ar
kansas College of Batesville, Hendrix
College of Conway, State Normal of
Conway, Ouachita College of Arka-
delphia, Henderson Brown College of
Arkadelphia, Arkansas Conference
College of Sloan Springs and Cum
berland College of Clarksville.
The high schools entered are as fol-
lows; Prescott, Conway, Portland,
Warren, Harrison, Hamburg, Cleve-
land, Pine Bluff, Hot Springs, Van
Buren, Charleston, Morrilton, Arka-
delphia, Sloan Springs, Fort Smith,
Hope, Warren Training School, Hele-
ma, Atkins, Foreman, Texarkana,