Correctionville Students Present Close Declamatory Contest
In Correctionville the annual high school declamatory contest produced a tight finish with Marguerite Cole winning after judges averaged scores. Verna Halbert placed second and Marion Wormhoudt third. Cole will represent the school at the sub district contest likely in Knoxvill e in March. The program featured new glee clubs and music under Miss Jones including selections from Aida and Verdi with student performers and dramatic pieces.
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Marguerite Cole
Verna Halbert
Marion ‘Wormhoudt
Marion Wormhoudt
Miss Cole
Knoxville
Ruth Grandin
Lion and the Mouse
Anna VanderLinden
Verdi Boy’s Glee Club
Marion Kuiken
Genoa
Rome
Aiule
Will Zinberg
Ergman
German Christmas Event at College Notes Meeting
Y M meeting featured Dr Coulston and Leonard Alen leading services. Miss Hussey read The Angel and the Shepherds in chapel. Miss Martha Greiner hosted German class and friends with songs, a German play, gift distribution, and a luncheon beside a decorated Philo hall tree. Maria Greiner aided. both praised. January 4 opening at 7 50 am. Mr McIntire vacation in Kansas. Miss Hazel Whites visiting Canyon City CO. Mr McWilliams due back Thursday.
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Martha Greiner
Miss Greiner
Philo
Martha
Maria Greiner
Old Bill's Christmas Kindness in a Barn Shelter
A town tramp known as Old Bill finds a new Christmas purpose when he helps a homeless family shelter in a barn, then saves their home from fire. Moved by a Christ like memory, he discovers warmth in giving, sleeping in a farmer’s house as gratitude for his deed.
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Bill
Ibis
Farmer Dale
Thanksgiving Memory and a Pin That Brought a Reckoning
A narrator recalls a large Thanksgiving gathering where cousins young and old share mischief. A third cousin Becky Aldrich secretly gifts a pajama pin, sparking a playful auction to return it. The auction ends with Jim Atwood buying the pin. Becky pretends offense, later courts the narrator, leading to a tense but romantic turn as anniversaries are remembered.
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AWAB
Lis
Becky Aldrich
Jack Somers
Jim Atwood
Jim
Becky
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Canyon City
Colorado
Mr. McWilliams
Poultry-Post
Woman's World
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J. Wilbur Chapman
United States
Cyril G. Hopkins
University of Illinois
Prairie Farmer
Frank Mann
Illinois
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Piaey
Woman’s World
Poultry Post
Kitty
Emerson Hough
Universal
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Kansas City Journal
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