Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1916 — ALICE BELLE ENGLISH WINS [ARTICLE]

ALICE BELLE ENGLISH WINS

First Place in Ito 2-Year Class in Baby Show at Lafayette. Lafayette, Ind., March 20.—Girl babies proved superior to the boy babies in Lafayette’s first baby show, which closed Saturday night. The girls won all the first prizes in the various classes, scoring several points higher than the boys. The contest closed with an automobile parade in which the prize winners and their mothers rode through the business district in decorated touring cars. Two hundred and seventy-five babies were in the competition. Irene Palmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Palmer, won first place. She scored 98 1-3 points out of a possible 100. The baby’s father is a fireman on the Monon railroad. Elmira Ann Grove, daughter of Professor and Mrs. F. W. Greve of Purdue university, took second prize with a score of 98. In the year to a year and a half old, Mary «J. Glascock was the winner. Alice Belle English won first place in the group more than a year and a half and less than two years old. Boy babies took two second and two third prizes.

Alice Belle English is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter English, formerly of Rensselaer, the father being a son of Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English, and the mother a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Babcock of Parr.