Northwest History. State History. Contest, Honors, & Awards. Colleges & Schools. Popularity. Oratory.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1929
• Subjects: Y.M.C.A; Evelyn Bliesner; Leone Satterwhite; Forest Carter; Dorothy Johnson; Violet Kuester; Charlotte Mason; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; United States > Contests; Honors & Awards > 20th Century; Billie; Blair; Burton; Coulter; Deer Park; Dyer; Edith; Evelyn; Ferguson; Fuller; Glenora; Hawthorne; Hayes; Kay; Mabel; Marguerite; Marian; Maude; Mica Peak; Osborne; Pacific; Rasmussen; Rockford; The ''Y''; Beaver Creek
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/137747

County Orators In Duels Today. COUNTY ORATORS IN DUELS TODAY Thirty-six Districts Are Represented in Contests in Spokane. Representatives from 36 Spokane county grade school districts are in the city today to compete in the county declamatory contest, which began at 10 o'clock this morning at the Y. M. C. A. There are 35 active contestants and 28 substitutes. The competitions, one for grades three, four and five and one for grades six to eight, are in charge of Mrs. Craig Curran, deputy county superintendent of schools. Mrs. Curran is conducting the upper grade contest and Mrs. J. R. Wiedeman, from the county superintendent's office in the courthouse, is handling the lower grades. The Speakers. The school districts represented in the primary contest, with their contestants and selections, are: Mica Peak Consolidated - Eona Stratton; substitute, Elaine Roestal, Glenora. Elk-Dorothy Johnson; substitute, Violet Kuester, Milan. Burroughs- Charlotte Mason; substitute, Geraldine Osborne, Eloika. Midway-Charles Parker, Whitworth-Pauline Ednabeth Miller, Opportunity-Billie Grove, Mica-Irene Knipfel; substitute, Mary Flynn, Valleyford, Vera-Wesley Waybright. Coulee- Marian Carstens; Substitute, Doris Hoffman, Deep Creek, Warsaw-Mintoford Blair; Substitute, Della Bost, Nine Mile Falls. Hayford-Billie Alexander; Substitute, Thomas Fuller, Moran. Tucker prairie-Burton Lehn; Substitute, Liberty Hanson, Tucker Prairie, green Mound- Mabel Hattenbury substitute, Peggy Laughlin, Green Mound. Trent-Charles Coffman; Substitute, Katherine Serakanoff, Trent. Judges for this contest are Miss Dorothy Coulter, Libby junior high; Miss Jeannette Maltby, North Central high school, and James A. Burke, Garfield School, Spokane. Upper Grades. Entrants in upper grade contest are: Mica Peak consolidated- Marjory McAvoy; substitute, Kay Ferguson, Rockford. Fairfield consolidated- Marjorie Zenner; substitute, Marie Hayes, Fairfield. Waverly - Maxine Gump substitute, Harold Torgeson, Waverly, Spangle-Clara Yale Substitute, Richard Beaudry, Glenora. Elk - Phyllis Mae Ricker; Substitute, Marguerite Honsinger, Elk, Olson Spur - Alexander Best Substitute, Marjorie McCollough, Deer Park. Midway-Ethel Hildebrandt. Beaver Creek - Ruth Wier. opportunity- Geraldine Dyer. Cottonwood - Vivian Fleming; Substitutes, Bruce Pitner, Valleyford; KAtherine Schoedel, Richland, and Gordon Gilmore, Mica. Vera -Helen Rasmussen. Crescent -Avis Tarbut; substitute, Thomas Hyslop, Mason. Warsaw- Eva schumacher; Substitute, John Shepherd, Nine Mile Falls, Hayford -Jean McDonald; substitute, Edith Sharp, Moran. Tucker Prairie- Arthur DeCaro; substitute, Margaret Hanson, Tuckerprairie. chattaroy Consolidated- Ralph McMillen. Idlewild, Dorothy Hattenburg substitute, Joe Platter, Green Mound. Trent - Lucille Ramsey Substitute, Maude Browne. Judges for this contest are Miss Lillian Hoch, Logan school J. R. Greist, Browne school, and J. S. Warren, Hawthorne school, Spokane.