The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-03-24
To Be Held This Year on April
20-Eiaborate Program For
the Occasion-Expected This
Years Event Will Oufstfp All
Previous gatherings.

ESerCiSeS VIII De nelQ mere rlQay,
April 20, and plans have been made
for day full of interesting and profit
able Incidents. The day has been set
apart by County Superintendent of
Education James H. Hope as a legal
holiday. Schools throughout the coun-
ty will be fully represented and
great day is expected
The following is the official pro-
gram:
10 to IL :30-Mental contests (a)
High school contests at high school.
(b) Primary and intermediate contests
at Central school.
rade at Central school.
HAS to 12:30-Grand parade.
1890 to 1-Reassembling on Cen
trail school grounds for delivery of
prizes. singing of songs, etc.
1 to 2-Recess for dinner.
T. M.-Athletic contests at City
park.
8 P. M.-Recitation and Defamation
contests for high school grade at high
school auditorium.
General Rules and Regulations.
The following were adopted by the
Union County Teachers association as
County Field Day exercises.
(1) All contestants shall be regu-
iarly enrolled pupils of Union County
Public Schools.
(2) No contestant shall be over
twenty-one years Of age.
(3) No student who fails to make
the required average on the last ex-
animation preceding Field Day on at
least three subjects shall be eligible
to compete in any of the contests.
(4) A list of the names of the con-
testants must be forwarded to the
chairman of the committee on the de-
partment in which the contestant
wishes to enter not later than one
b TsekSbefore, Field Day.! The age of
the pupil and the contests which are
to be entered must be sent in with the
, name.
(5) The various committees shall
select the judges for their respective
contests.
(6) These regulations may be
amended from year to year as the AS
sociation may see fit to act.
Department for Literary Contests for
High Schools.
There will be the following con-
tests: Recitation contest for girls;
defamation contests for boys. These
will be held in the high school audi
torium at night. Historical contest
for boys and girls; reading contests
for boys and girls; spelling contest
for boys, and girls. These contests
will be held in high school bilding.
At 10 o'clock all these contests will be
open to all pupils from the eighth
grade up, whether the school be high
school of grammar school. Only one
pupil from each school can enter each
contest.
The historical contest will be in the
form of an examination and will be
taken from the Revolutionary War
period of Waddy Thompson's "a His
tory of the United States" which is
the State adopted text for the 7th
grade. That period incldes the time
between 1761-1783 and is found in
Thompson's History, pages 144-2O5.
This period has been chosen in ap-
probation of the patriotism of the
new chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, in Union coun-
ty. The winning contestant will be
awarded prize in the form of a gold
medal or gold piece by the Fair
forest chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
The reading contest will be based
on Southern Prose-" The spelling
contest will be taken from "Payne's
Common Words Commonly Mis-
spelled" A gold medal will be given
the winners in the recitation and de-
clamation contests; also in the his
torical contest as stated above. A
blue ribbon will be presented the win
ner and red ribbon the one coming
second in each of the other contests.
An elimination test is sggested to
those schools whose pupils expect to
enter these contests.
Mental Contests.
No school can enter more than one
pupil to each contest as all of the
contests will be held at the same hour.
And each contestant must be in the
room ready for work by 10 o'clock.
(A) READING:
Each contestant will be allowed to
read from the text book used in his
or her school. Each contestant will
also have the privilege of suggesting
three of his favorite stories or poems
one of which the judges will select to
be read. All pupils will be numbered.
There must be no display of badges,
colors or emblems of any kind by
which the name of the school repre-