Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-03-09
Howard Comfy Rural Sekeol Notes

Howard County Rural Seksol Nstss
| For the past four or five years
/ Howard county has had representa-
tives at the boys encampment at the
Iowa state fair and they have all
come back with eyes opened to the
present greatness and the greater
possibilities of their native state.
Read the following rules and regula-
j.. ton. If you are then interested write
to Aubrey Johnson of Cresco, the
former camp boy, who is trying to
win a second trip, by inducing the
greatest number of boys FROM this
! congressional district to enter the
essay contest. Every farmer boy in
the county between the ages of 1913
years should file an essay in this
office before April l.
The dates chosen for the Iowa
State Fair and Exposition this year
of 1917 are, August 22-31, inclusive.
! OF course there will be a Boys Camp
again this year for winners of the essay
contest to be conducted under the
same conditions that have governed
the contests of the past five years.
The great institution would not be
complete without it.
A contest will be held in each of the
80 counties of the state, the winners
to be rewarded with trip to the state
fair, all expenses, such as railroad
fare, board and lodging, to be paid
by the state fair management. In ad-
dition to the county winners there
will be one delegate from the state
at large, and one former camp boy
from each of the eleven congressional
districts who induces the greatest
number of boys to enter the 1917 con-
test in his respective district making it
possible for Ill boys to become mem
bers of the camp in 1917. The con-
test will be judged by a local COM
mittee in each county. The boy whose
essay wins the first prize will be made
the delegate from his county to re-
ceive the free trip to the state fair.
while the winner of the second prize
will be named as alternate, to receive
the trip in case the delegate is una
BILE to go.
| Read Following instructions.
! ~. The boys this year will be required
to write an essay on "Why Should
Agriculture Be Taught in the Schools
of Iowa." These essays must be writ
ten and placed on file with your
county chairman on or before April
list. Immediately after that date the
county chairman will select a local
committee to Judge the essays and
will forward the one awarded first
place to the Iowa Department of Az
riculture. The Executive Committee
of the Iowa State Fair will examine
|all the first prize essays and make
Selection of the one entitled to first
rank. The winner will be the dele
gate at large. The alternate from
his county will be entitled to first
prize honor and the third ranking
contestant will then become the al
ternate.
In forwarding the essays to the
county chairman. each contestant will
be expected to include slip giving
the name Of the person who induced
him to enter the contest This is to
determine the winners Of the free
trips given to the boys in the state
who have been members of any pre-
vious state fair camp, who induce the
greatest number of contestants to
compete for the free trip to the 1917
Iowa State Fair.
Conditions Governing the Contest.
The toys will be required to write
essays OF no. less than 500 nor more
than 1000 " or>;s. These essays must
be placed G. file with the county
chairman on or before April first.
1. Competition will be limited to
boys of good character of from Is to
10 years of age.
2. Candidates must live on farms.