Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1909 — M. L. STERRETT GETS FIRST PRIZE [ARTICLE]

M. L. STERRETT GETS FIRST PRIZE

• In Scholarship At State University , Commencement Last Week. L. Sterrett of Delphi, a former teacher in the Rensselaer schools, who graduated from the law ✓ department of the State University last week, was awarded the first cash prize, $l3B, in scholarship. Mr. Sterrett had been married but a few days before to Miss Nellie May of near Wolcott, and the college president, in awarding the scholarship prize to him, in a pleasing manner mentioned that the winner had captured two prizes in one week, a wife and the scholarship Mr. Sterrett’s many Rensselaer friends congratulate him on ais high honors with which he has graduated.