Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-18

JUNIORS TENDER A BANQUET

The second annual junior banquet
to the high school football team was
given by the class of 1917 last evening
in the Y. II. {. A Nearly all Of the
letter men were present and Robert
Anderson, who was deprived by sick
ness Of winning his "R T. and who
had been unanimously invited by the
class as one OF the football guests,
was also there A comparatively small
percentage of the faculty was present,
as many Of them have already left for
their Christmas vacations. Thus. in
GLIDING the faculty ana members Of
the football team, the attendance was
SO.
The evening opened with 4 sunptu-
Gus dinner, which was served al Z
o'clock in the upstairs banquet hall.
After the banquet Coach Carl Ander-
son toois charge of the meeting and
called upon Principal a. J. Burton,
who responded with few well chosen
words of eongratulatton. Following
him the POSTMASTER called upon Miss
First. instructor in Latin and English,
Robert f. Pearce, president Of the
class: Leland Dempsey. captain-elect
of the football team; Miss Marie VIII
liams. Claude Mercer. Edgar James.
the one all-state player on this years
team; Dwight La Grange. the faithful
yell leader; Miss Mildred Hudson, No
BE Kuehl, Russell Taylor, Prof. f. NJ.
Starr, instructor In physics and chem
istry. and Clifford whistler the star
ful1back.
Sees Rock Island Tri-City Champions.
Edgar James, who played the posi-
ton of tackle on the local team, made
the sensation of the evening when he
declared that next year Rock Island
would be the champions Of the tri-
cities Davenport. he said, will lose
all four Of her backfield men next
year, three Of whom are all-state men.
According to his statement. then, Dav-
export cannot hope to hold the cham
pionship next year This means. he
asserted, that the tri-city champion
will be the winner Of the Moline-Roek
! Island game and this. in his opinion,
,, will be Rock Island His opinion in
this matter was strengthened by the
fact that Moline won the twin-city
game this year on the start, while
Rock Island beat them during the lat
Ter half Thus, with the Rock Island
team in it's best state of organization
as it will be next year, the local city
will be on the long end Of the score.
The party broke up Immediately aft
err the last speaker had spoken, at S,20
and the Junior class felt that they
had made their first party Of the year
! a success. It is very probable that a
second party will be given sometime
during the next semester.
! Volunteers for Contest.
/ The call for volunteers in the girls
/ declamatory contest at the Rock Is
/ land high school has met this year
with more success than ever before
Is coming out for the preliminaries
Miss Marie Williams, the star declaim-
er, who last year won the gold medal
while representing the crimson ant
gold at the big eight contest has this
year declined to enter the contest
/ feeling that she has her share of the
/ laureIs Her decision is very much re
GREETED By friends of the school. but
/ it is pointed out that among the q
who have volunteered are some whit
/, have had several years experience il
such preliminaries and it is expected
that Rock Island may yet have a staI
who will make d strong bid for frs
place To her own eminent satisfac
ton, Rock Island has the big eigh
meet this year on its own floor and i
anticipating this opportunity to hea
the contest at home with great pleas
ure.
The girls will also have their tri
city contest this year after the man
ner of the boys contest which wa
held recently and Rock Island is ex
pecting out Of the wealth of materia
this year to pick TWO teams which vii
be strong contenders with Moline an
Davenport for the tri-city champion
ship. The Is girls who have signife
their intention Of entering the con
. test and who are for the most part al
ready busy on their selections, are
Aline Martin, Ada Young, Clara Arnel
= Laura Holeombe. La Verne WOOD
Blanche Dolly. Ruth Sellers. Elm
Smith. Bessie Baker, Ruth Gillespie
Florence Livingston. Dora Lefsteir
lsara Levenstein. Juanita Funkensteir