Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — INDIANA’S FEMALE ORATOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA’S FEMALE ORATOR.

Miss Nelson* Whose Eloquence Knock ed Out Nine Male Contestants. Greencastle, Ind., went wild over the victory of Mi6s E. Jean Nelson at Min-

neapolis. She was the Indiana representative in the interstate oratorical contest in which ten States were represented. When the news of her success . reached her home, though a heavy storm was raging,

students and citizens got out and paraded the streets, firing cannon, ringing bells and yelling themselves hoarse. This is the fourth victory- for De Pauw and the first by a lady representative. Miss Nelson is a member of the junior class and a prominent member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity, having lately represented the western division of the fraternity in the first national pan-Hellenic convention of the women’s Greek letter fraternities in Boston last year. She is the daughter of Frank P. Nelson, and is but 19 years of age..

MISS NELSON.