Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1916 — Debating Contest Held At High School Monday Evening. [ARTICLE]

Debating Contest Held At High School Monday Evening.

The contests to select those to represent Rensselaer in the triangular oratorical and reading contest to be held between Monticello, Rensselaer and Delphi at Delphi May 6th, were held before quite a large crowd at the high school building Monday evening. The papers of all the contestants were very good. In the boys’ contest Dwight Curnick won and in the girls’ contest Miss Maude Elder received first honors. The papers of the winners were exceptionally good. Despite the fact that both are totally blind, Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Hubbard successfully ‘operate the farming part of a half section of land they own just west of Jet, in Alfalfa county, Oklahoma. /,/(