Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1920 — WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN STATE WAR-ESSAY CONTEST [ARTICLE]

WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN STATE WAR-ESSAY CONTEST

The results of the War Essay contest conducted >under the direction of the Indiana Historical commission, with the co-opeAtion of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, were announced .today. The first prize, amounting to fifty I dollars, was awarded to Daisy Byiram, of the Technical High School, I Indianapolis, for hex 1 essay on ' “What Our Community Needs Al ! Shown By the War.” The second ’ prize of forty dollars was awarded to Mildred Grace Hill, of the Union City High School, for her essay on “The Soldiers’ Entertainment In Union City.” Third place, a thirty dollar prize, was awarded to Philip Lehman, of Warsaw High School for his paper on “How the War Has Affected Our Community.” Fourth place, a prize of twenty dollan, was awarded to Walter J. B. Bosse, of the Central High School, Evansville, for his paper on “What We Did for Our Returned Service Men. The fifth prize of ten dollars was awarded to Kemp Moore of the Wiley High School, Terre Haute, on “Indiana’s Memorial to the Soldiers of the Great War.” Over two hundred essays were submitted to the judges, consisting of Charles W. Moores, of Indianapolis; Prof. J. A. Woodburn, of Indiana University; L. N. Hines, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Charity Dye, of the Pioneer Mother’s Memorial Association; Harlow Lindley of Earlham College; O. H. Williams, State Normal School Examiner; and Demarchus C. Brown, • State Librarian. JOHN W. OLIVER, Director.