The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1917-04-20
COUNTY CONTEST
FRIDAY EVENING

At the Medina Congregational church
on Friday evening of this week, will
be held the annual county declamatory
contest for Medina county. Through
a process of elimination by means Of
local and district contests, eight Of the
X best speakers in the various high
schools of the county have been Sc
lected to get together for final clash
to decide the county championship.
Besides the honor of winning, there
is considerable monetary value in
volved. Two prizes of $500 each
have been donated by the Old Phoenix
Bank; these will go to the first place
winners in each contest. Two second
prizes Of $1,000 each will be donated
by the declamatory league.
In addition to all this the two splen-
did cups donated by the Lodi State
Bank and The Peoples National Bank
of Lodi, to the schools winning first
place in each event, will be fought for.
AT present the State Bank cup for Or
atory is held at Lodi, and the Peoples
National Bank cup for dramatic read
ing is held by Medina, Karl Under
wood Of Lodi and Pearl Weber having
won in their respective classes last
year.
Owing to the defeat Of Lodi in the
district contest this year, the cup for
oratory is sure to be transferred to
some other school. But Medina is
confident. that it's representative in
dramatic reading, Anna Bigelow, has
a fighting chance to defeat her three
formidable adversariessand retain this
cup. However, these three young la
dies from various quarters of the
county are just as determined that the
cup shall decorate their respective
school rooms for the coming year. 1t
would be hard to make Leroy believe
that better speaker can be found
than Georgialee Simmons, Or Valley
City that Gladys Martin can be de-
feated., Then Spencer and Homer are
still to be reckoned with.
"A district contest was held at Spen-
Ger Tuesday evening where Litchfeld,
Spencer and Homer fought against
each other.
In oratory the struggle will be just
as keen, Brunswick is banking strong
ly on Karl Raw's ability to bring home
the cup, and all who have heard his
rendition of Gerdy's "New South are
confident that he is a hard man to
beat. James Thompsett Of Medina Is
also casting longing eyes at this cup,
and all Medina high school believes
that James has the necessary nerve
and ability to win out. Down at Les
roy, Theodore England has been putt
ting in long hours working tip
erss QrRat speeet on the 1Iio as6e6k
"a Slle Afist I'll M Il iid ali N n y
have heard him think that the boy
who defeats England will win first
place. All, yes, it will be one merry
little set-to Friday night.
Competent judges from Wooster Un-
iversity, Oberlin and Western Reserve
have been obtained, and it is certain
that the best speaker will win in both
contests
A pleasing feature of the contest
will be the music by Miss Helen Gan
yard, the talented Young pianist Of
Granger, who will play solo, and the
Liverpool high school quartet Will sing
while other special features are being
arranged.
The complete program will not be
announced until the night of the per-
formance.
An added interest to this years con-
test is the fact that the two winners
will meet the two best speakers from
Wayne county on April 27.
The program will begin at 1880 p.
m. in order to allow plenty of time
for the audience from out of town to
catch cars for home after the contest.