The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-10
.FLAGESSAYMEDALS
ARE AWARDED
Judges Finish Their Work and Name
Medal Winners and Honor
able Mention
Students.
ARTISTS GET IN, TOO
Two Garry OF Prizes for Best Draw.
inss of American FIae-Nation-
al Bank Sponsors
Contest.
ARTISTS GET IN, TOO

Prize winners have been announced
in the flag essay contest in the REQ
| kuk schools which was conducted un-
| der the direction of the Associated
Patriotic Societies Of America, ana
locally through the auspices or the
Keokuk National bank. Twelve med
| ais are given for the winners Oh the
essay contest, and two medals are
given the winners of the flag picture
contest. for the best original drawing
of the flag.
| The winners in the essay contest
are the following:
Grade One-Medal winner, Elmer
virnell, George Washington. Honor
able mention, j. B. Hambleton, Wells;
Fern Gilbert, Jefferson; Beatrice
Cameron, st. Mary's.
Grade Two-Meda1 winner, Eliza
beth Herbner, st. Mary's. Honorable
mention, Allison Saunders, Wells; Mar
tin Neiswanger, Lincoln; Beulah VIII
hanson, Terrence.
Grade Three-Medal winner Louise
Hammet, Garfield. Honorable men
Ition, Gertrude Ingle, Garfield; Eliza
beth Heer, ST. Mary's; Dorothy Rud-
dick, Garfield.
Grade Four-Medal winner, Gather
ire Metternick, ST. Mary's. Honor
able mention, Catherine Brueckman,
i ST. Mary's; Juliana Tucker, Garfield;
Eleanor Larson, Terrence.
Grade Five-Medal winner, Mabel
Keiser, Washington. Honorable men,
Con, Agnes Voss, ST. Mary's; Georgia
Altman, Garfield; Mary Agnes Lam
bert, ST. Mary's.
/ Grade Seven-Me dal winner, Philip
iIaFevre, ST. Peters. Honorable mem
ton. Bernice Ewers, st. Peters; Bron-
son Walker, Terrence; Helen Swan,
Carey.
Grade Eight-Medal winner, Hazel
Alderton, Washington. Honorable
mention, Carolyn x4eFevre, Elizabeth
IReimbold and Emma Metternick, of st.
Mary's.
Grade nine-Medal winner, Mary
Florence Mcnamara, st. Peters. Hon
orable mention, Cyril L.aFeyer, st. Pet
ler's; Elizabeth Brueckman, Thomas
lMcManus, Vera School Of Keokuk
Ihieh
Grade Ten-Medal winner, VIM. D.
kellogg, Keokuk high. Honorable
mention, Eugene D. Barr, Thelma
Smith, Floyd Kritchell, of Keokuk
high.
Grade Eleven-Medal winner, 10
lseph Kinnaman, Keokuk high. Hon
orable mention, Helen Reeves, Myra
Covington, Daisy Haggerty and Beat
rice Weissenberger. of Keokuk high.
Grade Twelve-Medal winner, Esth-
err Weyer, Keokuk high. Honorable
mention, Horace Lagerpusch, Lud-
wig A. Lantz, Catherine Tucker of
Keokuk high.
The Best Drawings.
The awards for the best original
drawing of the flag go to John R..
Tigue Of St Peters and Charles Pay
ton Of Wells school. Honorable men
ton is given to Florence Belt of ST.
Peters and Francis Winters of ST.
Mary's.
The judges of the essays were mem
bers of the Keokuk chapter D. A. R.
The essays are all interesting, and
many of them show real literary
touch. There were LOTT submitted
so that it can he seen that the judges
task was not easy. The judges of the
drawings had equally as hard a task.
Some Of the essays were very artist
cally arranged. For instance the
first room Of the Washington school
sent theirs as bound books, with a
paper flag on the cover. Others tied
theirs with flag ribbons, or drew a
flag design for initial letters of the es.
says.
The medals will be sent to the
schools, and the presentation of the
awards will be a matter of individual
taste. The medals are handsome
gold trophies and well worth irving