The Mena weekly star., 1921-03-17
kENA WAS STRONG N SCHOOL CONTEST
&ve of City's Entrants Took First honors in Musical and Literary Di- visions-Big Church Auditorium
 FiIled-The Awards.

.8nual contest III muSlcdl ana lteI- attainments of the Polk county '&bools held in Mena Friday night. & some of the classes the contests !. ne very close and the selection of st honors made only by narrow .arein of points by the judges. Despite the decidedly unpleasant Rather the big auditorium of the M. X church, South, was filled almost to |<pacity when the evenings program srted. Bad roads prevented some of Sp contestants from reaching Mena, I sd as a result, there was no compe- ion in some of the different classes. When the awards were made there IS general approval of the judges \ lections by the big audience. The @dges for the occasion were all achers from the high school at eayener, the Misses White. Bianchi |Ed Sanderson.
 Interest of the Mena folks centered & the efforts of the five representa- # tes from the local schools. All were rcessful in winning first honors. Of Ee five prize winners from Mena, it remarked that three were related. Z|ttle Margaret and Joe Emerson, <sldren of MT. and Mrs. Joe Emerson, 7Ep neice and nephew of Miss Milree Snith, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Ell. Smith.
 little Margaret Emerson was prob IEv the favorite contestant of the '1Rning, and her victory in Class A z4ding was well earned, for Little 5kne Brandesburg of Grannis showed class in her performance, and Ere was little difference in the SCOT
 given the pair of talented young 4rs. Hatfeld schools had the second <gest number of contestants in the <ger school section and of the five fries, three won without competi- h. An interesting contest was &t in Class A voice, between Flora rton of Cove and Leland Henderson Il Hatfield. The judges gave first lee to the little lady. Another con- H that produced real talent was in hss B piano, wherein Fomby Dick
 of Mena competed against Ruth kxander of Cove In this contest - judges favored the Mena boy. There were two divisions in the pro- Inn. Section two embraced those tools of the county which have
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 was for schools with tw 15ms or less. In this section H favorite performer was little Inez yne of Eagleton who gave read '!@$$ '!@$$ that showed remarkable ability .or one of her years.
 In the school song contest two little &6cky girls were victors over quar- |H from Cherry Hill. l In Section l, the winners were as Flows.
 Elass "A" ding-Georgia Faulk- 1r Hatton, first; Francis Runyan, E4llas, second.
 Glass "A" Voice-Nettie Barber, X1eky, first.
 Llass "A" Declamation-Milburn L@n Horn, Cherry Hill, first; Leon EIEtle, Old Cove, second.
 School Song-Rocky, first; Cherry HHl, second.
 lass "B" q" Reading--fnez Payne, Rleton, first; Edith Palmer, Cherry Ill, second; Hazel Keeton, Mount 0|aire, third.
 Elass "B" Declamation--Jesse Par lss, Hatton, first.
 rlass "B" Voice-Helen Van Horn, Berry Hill, first; Sallie Connally, zky, second.
 D section the winners were as I4I|ows:
 lass "A" Reading-M Margaret erson, Mena, first; Olene Brandes- <g, Grannis, second.
 Flass "A" Piano-Betty Dodd, na, first.
 bass "A" Declamation-K. D. hols, Hatfield, first.
 Elass "A" Voice-Flora Barton, .1Fe, first; Leland Henderson, Hat second.
 lass "B" Reading Pauline Gates, ffeld, first; Martha Jones, Grannis, pnd.
 bass "B" Piano-Fomby Dickson, aa, first; Ruth Alexander, Cove, pnd.
 lass "B" Declamation-Joe Elmer
 Mena, first; Clyde Fitch, Gran second.
 lass 'B' voice-Milree Smith, na, first.
 ass "C' Reading-Winnie Birch, field, first.
 lass "C" Declamation-Lea Pinette, Hatfield, first.
 Rturday morning at the high pol work took place. There were ses in spelling, mental and written
 hmetic, map drawing and compo- pn.
 Results of the County Contest.
 aln interfered to great extent
 the county contests, but it was
 ID better than the day would in-
 te. In all Is schools had part pc contests. As a rule the declam-
 ms, readings and music have the
 ter interest, but this time there
 some keen rivalry in the written
 Spelling deserves special men,
 Out of the first 100 words Miss Hys Hughes of Old Potter missed
 one Two others missed two
 Miss Ova Aiken of Grannis and
 oll Fraker of Hatfield missed two
 and 1t took another list to break
 ie. On the second 100 words the
 leld boy did not miss a word.
 aud Parker of Mena and Julian
 of Grannis were very close in
 map drawing. The judges select
 ne map of Arkansas. Both maps
 excellent, the judges granting
 pflze to the Mena boy by a small
 composition the judges selected
 alue and construction of roads as
 subject. The winners were Ray
 R9t of Cherry Hill in section one,