The Mena weekly star., 1918-02-28

of the Cove schools on her selection
 Flying Jims Last Leap, and sec
 ond honors were won by Miss Cleo
 Taylor of the Vandervoort schools
 with her selection of "A Question oi l Loyalty" The only other contest
 ant in this class was Miss Edna
 Barron of the Acorn schools, who
 read The Song of a Banjo. J. c. Tucker of the Acorn schools using Lincoln's Gettysburg address and Robert Sale of the Mena High
 school, using Secretary Lanes ad- dress, Why We Are at War With Germany, were the only contest ants in Reclamation in Glass C. First place went to Robert Sale with Mir l Tucker as q close second.
 The entrants in the vocal and in- strumental music were not as nu- merous as were those in the con- tests in reading and Reclamation, but they added greatly to the var iety and interest of the program.
 Tn class A in vocal music first place went to Miss Ruth Robinson of the Grannis schools. She sang T Am Much Obliged to You. Second place went to Miss Grace Anderson of the Oak Ridge school, who sang "Ill Be Sunbeam, without ac- compartment Tn class B, there was no one to contest for honors with Miss May Mcdonald of the Mena school. She. however, made hit with the audience with the song, Cant You Take It Back and Change It for Boy?n and had there been other contestants they would have been put to a severe test to meet the standard set by Miss May.
 Tn instrumental music, class A, Miss Ouida Riding of the Mena Central school was the only entrant, and with her selection, "Tranmerei', {, she added much to the quality of the program. In class B, there were two entrants, Miss Ellen Lauck of the Mena Central schools and Miss Agnes Barnes of the Vandervoort school. First place was awarded to Miss Lauck, and second to Miss Barnes.
 In the spelling contest there were entries as follows: Miss Bessie Worsham of the Cedar school, Miss Flora Pipes of the Vandervoort schools, Miss Cora Graf of the Ram som school, Miss Veatrice Cargill of the McCauley school, Mitchell Arnold of the Ozark school, Has kell Gordon of the Potter school. Miss Ova Lloyd of the Mena schools, and Miss Rosa Anderson of the Lib- erty school. The contest was III writing, and consisted in spelling 100 words taken from the Century spelling book. First honors were won by Miss Lloyd on grade of 9S per cent, having spelled correctly all the words but two. For second place. Miss Flora Pipes and Haskell Gordon tied, each making a grade of 94 per cent. Tn deciding the tie, these two were required to write % words, and in this test Haskell Gordon made grade of 100, thus easily winning second place.
 The contest in map-drawing con- sisted in drawing from memory map of Polk county, locating the railroad. principal streams, towns and post offices. The entrants were Miss Lottie Golden of the Acorn school, Ralph Roberts of the Ozark school, Miss Mary " Borden of the Potter schools, Miss Cleo Taylor of the Vandervort schools and Miss Loretta Scoggin of the Mena schools. The first honors in this went to Miss Mary V. Borden, and second to Ralph Roberts.
 At the close of the contest a read ing was given by Miss Eileen Me- William, and by Little Miss lola Allen. four-year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. T. A. Allen. who gra- ciously responded to hearty en- core. While awaiting the decision of She judges. Prof. l.. E. Quinn of the LoclSesburg school was called to the platform, and in earnest words he congratulated the teachers, pa~ irons and pupils of Polk county on the splendid school spirit shown by the contest and the interest mani fested by the patrons, concluding with an appeal to the teachers to remember that in this world crisis when there is call to close the schools, it is their patriotic duty to- counteract this spirit, and to always keep in mind that there never was a time in the history or our country when it was more essential to teach the fundamentals of good citizen ship.
 Taken all in all, the contest was stronger than the one held last year and while there were not as many schools entered. this is accounted