Dallas City High School - Reflector Yearbook (Dallas City, IL)

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la Yef31'0 C,,. 0 FCDG 1911 BLANDINSVILLE, DALLAS CITY AND LAI-IARPE DECLAMATION CONTEST Held at Blandinsville, Ill., Saturday, April 29, 1911 GIRLS' coN'rEs1' Miss Marie Scott, Blandinsville, First, 10 Points, Prize 55.00 Subject: An Abandoned Elopement Miss Orpha Winders, Dallas City, Second, 6 Points, Prize 52.50 ' Subject: Her First Recital Miss Ruth Thompson, LaHarpe, Third 2 Points Subject: A Crippled Mercury BOYS, CONTEST Mr. George Widney, LaHarpe, First, 10 Points, Prize 55.00 Subject: Micheal Strogoff' Mr. Elza Faris, Blandinsville, Second, 6 Points, Prize 52.50 Subject: The Supreme Test Mr. Roger Vaughn, Dallas City, Third, 2 Points Subject: Americanism SUMMARY Blandinsville, First, 16 Points: LaHarpe, Second, 12 Points: Dallas City, Third, 8 Points Judges: Supt. Hiett and Miss Vorhees of Bushnell and Mr. Grant Miller of Terre Haute, Ill. PRELIMINARY CONTEST Held in the Opera House, Thursday, April 27th, to select the representatives for the Blandinsville Contest GIRLS' CONTEST nl . , ,, Miss Ruth Belle-Isle ................ .......... R oslland s Surrender Miss Mary Horner. .,......,. Mrs. Snodgrass Reads the Locals Miss Byrd Johnson ,.... ,,......... ........... ' ' Taking an Elevator Miss Orpha Winders ........ ......., ......,..... ' ' Her First Recital Miss Ersel Byler ........ ..,,............,.... . Trying the Rose Act Winner: Miss Orpha Winders Boys' coNTEs1' Mr. Virgil Logan ...... ........ ' 'Uses of Education for Business Mr. Joe McNeil ...... ......... ....... ' ' Eulogy on Charles Sumner Mr. Roger Vaughn .................. ...,.........,,...... ' 'Americanismn Winner: Mr. Joe McNeil tMr. McNeil, being a graduate, was ineligible for the inter- school contest. Mr. Vaughn, ranking second, was chosen., ,I L' Q- . A 5 AIS. - .Mail 6341.555 , , f

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HFAVGRITEH 5fQZ2faUwZ wA,'5fQWaPVLQzwAQfQwg HE first day of June dawned bright and beautiful, and Jean Sistolier, a college student, decided. while wending his way toward his boarding place, that a day of quiet fishing would better suit his nature than to be in the classroom. So after breakfast he hurried to collect some fishing tackle and as he passed a restaurant ordered a picnic lunch for one. As he walked along the outskirts of the town, his thoughts wandered back to two years ago when he had been madly in love with Favorite, a little southern girl. He remembered, how they had quarreled and how he had gone away to college without so much as bidding her good-bye. He knew he still cared for her. Oh! how he wished fate would throw them 4 g L. ,ff V, ' wif A 3,395 ' 1 f 1 f ' , Y , W ff X. in fl 'i 12.5 N- ffif, ,111 X f'f'f, P of . 'f' e 'l 5 + sw 1 alal gf l . rf-' 1 1 ti? gi' ,.,. 5 1 5 rbi? - -f , :hr-1...:fQA I together again. He came at last to the fishing pondg baiting his hook, he threw it into the water. and sat down on the mossy bank. Lazily puffing away at his pipe, he stared idly into the blue water as if he saw there choicest pictures from memory's book. But what caused him to start and look up ? He heard voices in the woods and knew that a picnic party was not far away. He grew angry for he wanted a quiet day all to himself. But after a while the voices died away and he made up his mind that they had gone in the opposite direction. After several times re-baiting his hook. he grew ravenous for something to eat. I-Ie opened the lunch box and ate until he had satisfied his hungry appetite. Now it was midday. As the heat and long tramp caused him to grow sleepy, he lay down upon the cool, fresh grass and soon lost consciousness. As he lay there under the clear summer sky, he dreamed of a laughing face surrounded by masses of beautiful black hair, i G 5 1 is ft -5 f-u f s .' 4 9 1, 'rg-Z?'u v .,,q - tl o . , - . N F 3 1911 , tG , 1