Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-03-20
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
Florence McCook, Editor-in-Ch.et

Florence McCook, Editor-in-Ch:et
The program given by the Hawk
eye society last Friday afternoon was
very good.
Next Friday afternocH the Rob
erts society will give a musical pro-
gram which is expected to be very
good.
The Junior Domestic Science class
is going to serve a six o'clock din
ner Tuesday in honor of St. Pat
rick's day.
A group of pictures from the
Travelling Library at Des Moines
1.-The Imperial Gravures' is now on
exhibition in the Domestic Science
room. Monday, Friday and Satur-
day afternoon of this week, after
day afterno on of this week, after 3
o'clock, and every afternoon next
week except Friday, at the same
hours an opportunity will be given
to the public to see these pictures.
There will also be shown small
exhibit of the sewing done in the
sewing laboratory this year.
Declamatory Contest program held
at PostviMe, Iowa, March 10, 1914:
Oratorical class-
First place, Internationally
Plea for Cuba,' (Senator J. NJ.
Thursto), Harry Christensen. .
Second -Elkader
Second place, Citizen
ship" Honorable VIM. P. Frye).
Harold Schmidt. .,
"Eulogy Of lafayette"
edward Everett), Frank Ultsh.
Dramatic class
First place, Postville-"The Lance
Of Kanana," (French), Edwin v.
'Mellott.
Second place, Decorah-"The Co.
ing Of the White Swan Colbert
Parker), Alice Daniels. -.
Guttenburg-".A Few Bars in the
Key Of Co. Olga Eckart.
: Fayette- The Lost Word" (Hen-
ry VanDyke), Leah Roberts.
Humorous class
First place, Lansing-"What Will
liam Henry Did," g. J. Harbour),
Dorothea Thomas
Second place, Greene Leap
Year Mishaps,'' MARY MarshalD !,
Melvin Bellows.
Cresco-"An Abandoned Elope-
ment," (Joseph G. Lncoln), Paul
Brown.
Judges: Prof. Glenn Merry,
Head of Dept. of Public Speaking
at State university Of Iowa; Miss
NJ. Oliver, Head OF. Dept. Of Public
Speaking at Iowa State Teachers
college, Cedar Falls; Supt. M. R.
Nayram, Traer, Iowa.
The contest held at Postville, To-
wa, Friday, the 18th, was one
whdch was very much enjoyed by
everyone who attended. 1t was in
tteresttng from beginning to end,
not only interesting but also very
exciting.
There We're ten schools represent
ed, namely DEBORAH, Fayette, Lans-
ing, Greene, Postville, Gutenberg,
Monona, Elkader, Independence
and Cresco. Three of these were
represented in the Oratorical class,
four In the Dramatic class and
three in the Humorous class.
We who were there are sorry to
report that our representative, Paul
Brown lost out. We were sincere
ly amazed when the chairman an
nounced the first and second honors
to the other two contestants, for we
had decided that Cresco would car
~ off first honor and we think that
our judgment was confirmed when
we learned that the judge from the
Public Speaking Department at Ce-
dar Falls, had given him first place
ranking him with IS per cent. The
other judges, however, gave him
trifle below. So it is clearly seen
that the other contestants exper-
fenced very hard rub.
If you had been there with US, l
think you would have agreed that
c. H. S. could not have been rep
resented any better. The main
criticism given Paul Brown by one
of the judges was that of speaking
a trifle low, but this is not fault
to be blamed to Paul alone but to
the whole school. For in practicing
he rehearsed in the small class
rooms where he didn't need to speak
more than ordinarily loud; on
coming to Postville, to speak in a
room which seats about seven hun
dred people or more, t was hard
for him to know lust how loud and
strong a voice was needed.