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Beadle County Essay Contest Honors General Beadle Memorial
Mabel Catherine Pamp wins a Beadle County Historical Society prize essay on General Beadle to aid a memorial fund. The contest, judged by five locals, drew from rural Beadle County schools. recipients include Cavour Independent pupils and others honored for mention. The winning piece extols Beadle as South Dakota’s Grand Old Man, detailing his life, work in education, and saving state school lands, with Beadle memorial statue and historical works cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beadle County Historical Society
Mabel Catherine Pamp
Mabel
General Beadle
Sherman Davis
C. S. Laughlin
J. K. Pease
Grace Jordan
J. P. Walsh
Valley Consolidated School
Anne Issenbuth
Beadle County
Cavour Independent
Historical Society
Kathleen Coughlin
Eileen Maguire
Olive Johnson
Loretta Honrath
Regina Martin
Donna Belle Daugherty
Rand
Clyde Township
Morris Howe
Elya Scheel
Dearborn Township
Vernon Clouser
Kellogg Township
Gladys Vearrie
Ruby Wehr
Belle Center
Belle Prairie Township
Nellie North
Clifton No
Cavour Independent School
Miss Lovett
Josephine Minor
Clifton Township
Kel Bennett
South Dakota
Martin van Buren
United States
Whittier
Lowell
Longfellow
Beadle
James Ward Beadle
Elizabeth Bright
James Beadle
Parke County
Indiana
William Peadle
William
Williams
Lincoln
New Orleans
Dakota Territory
Grant
J. D. Cox
Dakota
Utah
Pierre
State Normal School
Madison