The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-11-23
FIRST ANNUAL
Defamation
CONTEST HELD
LAST NIGHT
FRANKLIN LITTLE, RUTH ROSS,
AND JOHN EDWARDS AWARD
Ed FIRST HoNoRS.
(By MAX HARDY

ne CON
test of Canon City High School was
cid at the Methodist church Friday
night.
The winners were: Franklin Lit
tie. oratorical contest; Ruth Ross.
dramatic readings; John Edwards,
humorous selections.
There were three divisions. the
first made up of students who COM
mitted famous orations and delivered
them; the second group gave dra-
matte readings, and the third gave
humorous readings.
There was prize for the best in
each division. These were given by
some of the prominent men of this
city and will be given annually At
ter this year the contest will be a
little different than the one last
night.
The difference will be as follows:
Juniors and Seniors who write. COM
nit and deliver their own orations
This prize will be given by Mr. G. F.
Rockafellow. The second division
in which students write and read
their own essays. the prize to be given
by Mr.. Hunter Palmer, Sr The third
division. in which students commit
and give declamations. Mr.. Fred
Whipple will give the prize for this
group.
This year the contest was a great
success. In spite of the fact that
there were great many other at
fractions in town, there was a full
house at the contest The ushers for
the occasion were the members of the
new girls debating club, and these
girls, dressed in white, made fine
ushers.
The first thing on the program was
the orations. Franklin Little. Jack
Boucher and Hunter Palmer We're the
participants The first speaker was
Franklin Little. He gave an Grafton
on The Mexican War" Jack Bou-
cher next gave a part of Victor HUI
go's speech, The Guillotine." which
was given in defense of the authors
son. The last speaker in this diyi-
sion was Hunter Palmer. Jr.. who de-
livered a speech given by an Irish
patriot Gratin, in parliament, de-
nouncing Mr.. Cory. Every one of
exhibited excellent oratorical talent
After the orations. Ruth Combs and
Helen Sprinkle. graduates of the
high school, played q piano duet
Next the dramatic readings were
given There were three in this
group also. The first was Ruth Ross.
who gave piece called -Ole Misstus-
This was a good selection to
show Miss Ross ability. The
second selection was given by
Marion McFarlane and was the story
of Patsy" This was an unusually
good piece and was well given. The
third was Ruth Goodrich. who gave
part OF the second act of the play.
Mercedes" This was also very well
done.
Before the humorous readings were
given Mrs Arthur Wilson sang a solo.
In the humorous division there
were four entrants. three boys and
one girl. The first selection was
given by Earl Fulkerson- This was
an Italian selection and from the way
II was given anyone would have
thought that Earl was the real thing.
The second piece was given by
John Edwards 1t was a colored
preachers sermon on the "Prodigal
Son." John taking the part of the
preacher. who cannot read and gets
the ''textes" from stories he hears
others tell. As a result the sermon
is a conglomeration of all the Bible
stories.
Alden Eaton was third in this
group. He gave an excellent selec-
ton entitled The Capitolene Venus"
in which a poor American artist de-
sires TO marry girl. but cannot un-
i'll he has $4,000. and does not know
low TO make this amount. His re-
sourceful friend. however. buys a
piece os ground and plants one OF
the artists statues. A few months
later he digs it up and sells ii to the
government for the $4,000.
The last speaker was Calista
Burns. who took the part of a young
widow OF very nervous temperament.
who is left alone in hotel room and
because she sees pair of mems
shoes behind the curtain thinks
there Is burglar there. After a
long parley with the unseen man the
valet calls for the boots. This story
was also spiendidly portrayed.
This concluded the regular pro-
gram and while the judges. Prof.
Hook of Florence. Rev Harner and
Rev. Konkel were deciding upon the
winners the students gave some yells
ard sang some songs. The lucky CON
testants were then called 70 the plat
form and given the prizes.
In all of the contests the deci-
sions were very close and in the hu-
morous division there was tie. but
his was settled by the judges. All
of the pupils did excellent work and
Miss Osborn. who trained the con-
,estants, deserves great deal of the
credit for the success of the contest,