Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-05-21
PINE COUNTY RURAL
SCHOOL NEWS
A. E. GUSTAFSON
County Superintendent
Sectional Play DAYS.


Four of our rural sections com
pleted their spelling contests. kitten
ball tournaments, volleyball tourna
ments and other play day contests
last week. This week these contests
are being held at Cloverdale, Mark
vile, Kerrick and Sturgeon Lake.
All but three of the 81 schools II
the first four sections came to the
sectional spelling contests and play
days held last week. So far, there
have been 81 kittenball teams at the
four sectional play days just com
pleted.
Final Play Day.
The tournaments for the sectional
champions will be held at Pine City
on Saturday, May %. At 9:15 a. m
the county spelling contest will be
held. At 10 a. m. the eight sectional
kittenball champion teams will start
the first round of their final cham
pionship tournament. The volleyball
champion teams will start their final
tournament at the same hour. In the
afternoon, the sectional champions
will meet in individual contests. Two
winners from each section will enter
each individual contest
BerOun DeclamatOry Contest
After being postponed twice be-
cause of bad weather, the Beroun Sec
tional declamatory contest was held
Tuesday, May IL. The following win
ners are listed in order of rank given
by the judge. District number fol-
lows name:
Grades 3-4-5, serious, Phyllis
Schrade, s, and Goldie Ausmus, 25.
Grades 6-7-S, serious, Lesta Oden-
dahl, rs; Hazel Meyers, 113; Helen
Kub, AS; Vernon Jensen, 80; Lois Gys-
bers, 43; Dorothy Cabak, As; and Ros-
lyn Spinler, 81.
Grades 3-4-5, humorous, Eugene
Albert, s.; Kenneth Hawkinson, 49,;
June Merritt, "a; James Novy, %;
Roland SEVERN. IS; and George Work
man, 80.
Grades 6-7-S, humorous, June
Wright, 80; Lewis Jacquis, 43, and
Vernon Schofield, so.
Eugene Albert and Phyllis Schrade
were chosen to represent this section
at the county contest.
County DeclamatOry Contest.
The following sectional champions
took part in the county declamatory
contests at Hinckley Friday, May Is,
and are ranked in order of place
given by the judges. District number
and school follows name:
Grades 3-4-5, serious, Paul Pahos,
1O6, Markville; Darlene Gerdes, 3S,
Weser school; Phyllis Schrade, s,
Mission Creek; and Vivian Olson, Is,
Lincoln school, now moved to No. 60.
Grades 6-7-S, serious, Robert
Roberts, 46, Henriette; William
Pranghofer, 7, Royalton school; Eve
Ign Kuhn, IS, Duquette; Annette Mel
son, "a; and Alice Linehan, 116,
Bangs Brook.
Grades 3-4-5, humorous, Eugene
Albert, s, Mission Creek; Lois Bunker,
Al, East; Virginia Stelmach, SO, Cher
ry Grove; and Geraldine Athey, 35,
Friesland.
Grades 6-7-S, humorous, Donald
Kramer, 1913, Crooked Creek; Sven
Christensen, 1875, Kerrick; Ethel
Lundberg, %, Mckay; and Edith Mel
son, LOG, Markville.
Miss L. Olson, Willow River, Miss
A. Cole, Hinckley, Miss F. Lyford, Pine
City, and Mrs. Emma Gum Perkins,
Pine City, acted as judges and found
it to be a difficult task as all con-
testants did so we'll.
The four first place winners above
will speak at the county rural gradu-
alton exercises in July. At this time
one contestant will be selected to rep
resent Pine county at the state fair.
The county contest was enriched
by the following musical selections:
Piano duet, Miss Shaska and Miss
Smith; Riddle Band from District No.
80, Mrs. Mullins school; Quartette
from District No. 80, Miss Meyers
school; and accordion solos, a pupil
from District No. "a, Beroun.
Miss Swenson's team, District No
IA, had very difficult time at the
Rock Creek sectional kittenball tourn-
ament Tuesday. Her 1885 champions
finally won over the West Rock team
by score of to in the final game.
Henriette, Beroun and Friesland are
the other sectional kittenball winners
so far decided this year.
In volleyball, Henriette, Beroun and
Friesland lost first place to one-room
schools, District Nos. 33, 80, and 49
respectively. The final tournaments
at Pine City on Saturday, May %, will
be very closely contested.
so that when the final vote was taker
~ a ,rO11