French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
PROGRAM IS
ANNOUNCED
SCHOOL OFFICIALS HAVE PREPAR.
ED VER- INTERESTING EXER-
CISE FOR MAY s, 6.
MANY PRIZES OFFERED
List of Giyers of Prizes; Over 25OG
SchOOl Cchildren Expected to
Parade Streets.

/ uANUC 0O1OCOSO
The second annual County School
Commencement of Henderson County
will be held on Friday and Saturday
the 5th and 9Th of May 1916. The
following program has been arranged:
Friday May 18th at $3.50 p. m. the
seventh grade defamation and recitat-
! ticn contest will take place in the
court house in Hendersonville. Two
$500 gold medals are offered in this
: contest. The night program will be
! tnterspersed with muisc furnished BIZ
three male Quartetts: Hendersonville,
Tuxedo, and Pleasant Hill. At the
close of the night session four medals
! will be awarded.
i Saturday May 9th at 10:30 a. m. the
schools will assemble near the monu-
ment, entering the parade according
to enrolment. The school having the
largest per cent OF district census in
tho parade will receive a $1,000 prize.
The parade will march down Main
street and Seventh avenue to the de-
pot, returning to the court house
where an address will be heard. The
field and track meets of the county
commencement will be held at Laurel
Park, beginning at. 1 o'clock After
these events the people will reassem-
blegat the court house at 3:30~ D. m, at
which time a number of schools will
compete in a musical contest for a
$500 prize Immediately following
this there vii lbe a spelling bee, par
ticipated in by one student from each
school. A $1,000 and $500 gold med
III will be awarded to the contestants
holding first and second places.
The school exhibits will be Geen in
the auditorium of the graded school
bUilding. Three prizes are offered to
the school or schools wining the high
esS number Of points.
"A boy or girl will receive a $500
medal for writing the best essay on
the following subject: The Risen
South, it's Resources and Opportun-
tiles. This medal is given ~ the
Daughters of the Confederacy The
best essay will be read at the county
commencement.
Valuable prizes are given by the
following: J. o. Bell. $1,000; Mayor
C. E. Brooks, $500; S. Y. Bryson,
$500: M. M. Shepherd, $780, J. G.
Sales $500; c. P. Rogers, $3.50; P. H.
! Walker, $3.50; Solicitor Schenck,
$500; Daughters of the Southern Con-
federacy, $500; First Bank and<Trust
Company, $500; Citizens National
Bank $500; Hawkins, Jewelry Store,
clock; Bakers Art Gallery, picture.
The field and track meets of the
county commencement will be held at.
Laurel Park. beginning at one o'clock.
The events will be given as follows:
Relay race GA mile.)
Pole vault
Accuracy contest (most accurate
throwing at distance of 1913 feet with
basebaI)
One half mile race.
Running high jump.
44O yards dash.
220 yards dash.
100 yards dash.
The rules governing these contests.
are:
I. The number of contestants in the
meet shall be limited to four from each
school in the relay race; one, in the
high jump, pole vault, and THROWING
contest; and two contestants in each
of the other events.
II. Points won in the relay race
shall not be counted toward winning
the Home Book and Supply Co., Cup.
I'LL No person shall be allowed tG
engage in any contest who has not
been in regular attendance in the
school which he represents for at least
so per cent of the school year.
". No pupil shall enter any con-
: test who is not in good standing and
who is twenty-one years Of age or
over
The rules and regulations governing
. standard field day and track meets are
J adopted by the athletic committee Of
the Henderson County Teachers As
sociation. These rules can be obtain
ed from A. G. Spaulding Co., Atlanta,
Ca
It is requested that all schools L
| tending to enter the commencement
contest will send the names of the
contestants together with the, events
which each will enter, to R. F. Pace,
Fletcher This shouli be done as
: soon as possible, so as 90 enable the
, athletic committee to arrange the de
tails of the contests.
: / The school winning the largest nu1n-
: Der of points in these contests viii
be awarded silver cup, to be
5 kept permanently Snen won three
times in succession. Under the same
: conditions a silver cup will be gwen
to the school winning the relay race.
: Also, the committee hopes to provide
a two dollar prize for the winner