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Newspaper

Franklin

Location

Franklin, Indiana, United States of America

Date

May 26, 1916

Page

3

Big High School Track Meet Attracts Wide Entrant List

A large list of entrants shows Franklin College and local residents hosted one of the state’s biggest athletic events last Saturday. The roster includes numerous athletes from many towns and numerous events from sprints to field events, with several entrants bound for Franklin College next term.

Franklin College Franklin Anderson—McDaniel Ramsey Reeves Canady Bronnenberg Hartman Neff Millspaugh Kessler Hasty Alexander Biddle Platner Cox Atlanta Lowell Pote Leland Bedford Patton Snow Rowe Walker Stephenson Wile Meglenore Crowe Martin Harrison Pearson Hinshaw Bloomfield Bullock Fields Heaton Buchan Boswell Rockhold Nunnally Moyer Hawking Eberly Brazil Clark Ringo Payne Murphy Shannon Bolt Adams Bryant Sisk Macklin Carmel—Purser Wine Carey Quelihurst Clay City Dougherty Nance Ellia Clayton—Edmonston Lutaman Rather Columbia City Swigart Morgan Crawfordsville Klendworth Henry Hamilton Mohan Kush Patterson Snyder Davidson Ennstlack Rogers Delphi—Jjulen

Athlete Events Include Hurdles and Sprints at Meet

The program lists events such as hurdles, 100 yard dash, 220 yard dash, 440 yard dash, relay, 220 yard hurdles, and named competitors like Smith. The lineup includes multiple sprint and hurdle races across the track meet.

Gochenour Trawin Byron Chicago Lewis Murphy Kinney Thomas Mosney Speedy Spencer Bechenbach Halstead McQuown Evansville Lindsey Schultz Denton Fairmount Academy Follis Powell Phillips Robertson Dickey Haisley Jones Fowler—Chesterson Scott Frankfort—Fox Pryor Brown Ontler Engle Frankiie Craig Farmer Gary—Szold Elser Perrin Cecil Pritchard Williams Maloney Frank Baker Garten Overstreet Littlee Nottingham Sage Pierson Fitzgerald Fichman Shortridge Indianapolis Butler Hancock Leach George Boyd Moore Wiles Stover Wilson Land Smissen Pearcy Shiner Parker Cole Army Lafayette Dye Schilling Buchman Israel Irion Checun Halley van Muncie Sturgeon Nableaville Bradley Clover Flanders Hanna Hull Otterbein Dougherty Taylor Ward Lawson Timmons Oxford—Dame Messner McCloud Princeton Geiger Wyatt Fale-Ebe Sternant Acus Rochester Miller Ivey Smiley Bhelbyville Weimer Hack Keeling Smith Englich Yarling Harding Inlow Rapp Sheridan Noel Haskett Henderson Handley Richardson Singleton Willams Garfield—Eisner Leatherman Burns Archey Tipton—Moore Purvis Vincennes Vandermark Lahr Roof Wabesh—Schreck Naber Worth King Gaunt Groshon Limare Washington Smakey Fornwald Kubny Webster Downey Hastings Allen Mattingly Flick Lundergan Swords Murray Johnson Juilberat Keppler Stoner Yoder Ramberlin Croy Swank Hooker Trimble Longfellow Wingate—Clark Crowder Thorn Maddux Hibbs Tweddy Brownsburg Evane Lingeman Gaston—Alexander Hurdie South Whitley Striggie Eneley Sutherly Glassley Lebanon Adams DeVol White Gardner Bell Little Cash Bowne Simmons Black Logansport Chaffey Ferguson Girton Hedde Hess Kinsey Marion Weeka Reynolds Perkins McKevitt Hamilton

Honest Day proposed to curb borrowing among colleges

The Daily Palo Alto reports a plan for an honest day where students return borrowed items except pencils. The idea arose from a student conference. Hamblin college women organize an athletic association led by the athletic board and class reps. The first event will be girls interclass basketball. Wisconsin to host all university girls archery at Camp Randall in the next two weeks.

Palo Alto Stanford University Laurentian Hamblin College University of Wisconsin Camp Randell

Sprinter Chases Misplaced Laundry Beset by Porch Plea

A young college sprinter, famed for speed, is chased home by a furious caller at his door. A delayed laundress had failed to return his uniform wash, prompting an urgent plea from a voice on the porch asking Marie Bob to delay her plans until his clothes could be found.

South Marie Bob

Professor Marie Ditmars Hosts Bernice Good Visit

Marie Ditmars and her guest Bernice Good, former Indiana University student and Pi Phi settlement school teacher, visited chapel Monday morning.

Marie Ditmars Bernice Good Indiana University Pi Phi Chapel

Coleridge Reflections on Love and Utility

A line from Coleridge ponders love as hollow without kindness and service. It contrasts power and opportunity with the value of practical benevolence.

Coleridge

Florence Sayer and Kathleen O Brian Spend Sunday with Ethel Grousman

Florence Sayer and Kathleen O Brian visited Ethel Grousman on a Sunday outing, sharing time together at a social gathering.

Florence Sayer Kathleen O'Brian Ethel Grousman
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