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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1917
Page
3
A quirky campus event features a blackened performer dubbed the African Dodger, billed as the real thing with a water soaked appearance. Admission costs one cent at the gym door, while audience members exchange small silver pieces for entry. Five throws cost three cents, drawing in professors, students, and visitors who wager on the spectacle.
Theodore Sharp won the preliminary prohibition oratorical contest held in the chapel last Thursday night in Bryan. Johnson and Thurston took second and third places. Sharp will represent Franklin in the state contest at Bloomington.
Mary Bradley will attend the Delta Province convention as the Delta Zeta Chapter delegate. The event is set for April 6 and 7 at James Millikin University in Decatur NJ. An oratorical contest occurs Friday night and attendees include Miss Low Florence and others who spent the weekend with various companions.
The Mather family plans to depart for Africa via Vancouver aboard the Empress of Russia. They will visit Hen ninghoff and Thomasine Bartlett in India and Madagascar before reaching Mt. Selina to oversee a large scale high school and normal school project. The event featured sideshows, a popular motion picture show with Mary Pickford and Fatty Arbuckle, and fast swimming races won by Prof Merrill and Geraldine Branigin.
Audience praise chorus and jokes at the show while carnival management weighs future separate attraction. They thank the public for support and hint at another fundraising opportunity. Miss Pauline White and Miss Clara Margaret Jennings depart Saturday for a ten day southern tour.
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