The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-02-20
BOYS iowa
FAIR CAMP
Free Trip to the Iowa State Fair, All
Expenses Paid-August 21st to
3Oth Inclusive
WRITE THE BEST ESSAY YOU CAN
Subject: "How the Farmer Boy Can
Help Win the War'-Send Your
Story to Superintendent Oiry

The winner in the boys contest for
Crawford will have all OF his expenses
paid to the Iowa state fair in August
of this year
The subject of the essay is How
the Farmer Boy Can Help Win the
War" The boy who can write the best
essay on this subject will be the win
ner The essay is to be send to F. N.
Olry, county superintendent, Denison,
Iowa, or to J. s. Quist, county agent,
Denison, Iowa, to be judged.
Following are the conditions OF the
contest:
The boys this year will be required
to write an essay on How the Farm
er Boy Can Help Win the War These
essays must be written and placed
on file with your county chairman on
or before March 18th. Immediately at
ter that date the county chairman will
select local committee to judge the
essays and will forward the one award
ed first place to A. r. Corey, secretary
OF Iowa state fair. The executive com
mittee OF the state board OF agriculture
will examine all the first prize essays
and make a selection OF the one ell
titled to first rank The winner will be
the delegate at large. The alternate
from his county will be entitled to first
prize honor and the third ranking con-
testant will then become the alternate.
In forwarding the essays to the coun-
ty 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 de-
termine the winners of the free trips
given to the boys in the state who have
been members of any previous state
fair camp, who induce the greatest
number of contestants to compete for
the free trip to the 1913 Iowa state
fair. No boy who has won in his con.
gressional district by inducing the
greatest number to enter may com
pete this year.
Conditions Governing Contest.
The boys will be required to write
essays OF not less than 500 nor more
than 1000 words. These essays must
be placed on file with the county chair
man on or before March 18TH.
Competition will be limited to
boys Of good character of from 15 to
19 years of age.
2. Candidates must live on farms.
Attendance at city high school will not
be considered a bar to competition.
8. Candidates must be willing to
cooperate with other boys and repre-
sentatives of the state fair manage
ment to make this visit to the fair of
greatest value to all concerned and to
that end they must put themselves
under the supervision and
direction Of the camp management.
4. Boys who won in 1912, 1913, 1914.
1915. 1916 and 1917 are not eligible to
this year.
May Enter Boys Judging }Contest
Members of the boys camp may EN-
ter the boys Judging contest, which
takes place on Friday. August 23d, and
offers eight scholarships to the Iowa
State College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts, valued at $500; divided
as follows: 5000, $3.50. S125, 500, SIS.
$50, $50. $50. In addition to the schol-
arships the boy winning first place
will be presented with beautiful sill
yer loving cup by w. J. Kennedy.
Sioux City. There is no entrance fee
to this contest. Rules governing the
contest will be mailed upon request to
A. Il. Corey, Secretary, Des Moines,
Iowa. ...