Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — A Jasper Cotndy Girl’s Success. [ARTICLE]

A Jasper Cotndy Girl’s Success.

Another Jasper County girl has just achieved a notable success. Several months ago the Western Wheeled Scraper Company, of Aurora, 111., through their Indiana State agent, B. L. Btaiij of Indianapolis, offered a series of prizes to the pupils of the country schools of Indiana for thebest “essay on the subject, “Our Country roads.” Circular announcements were sent to the various school oglcials, stating the amount of money to be-given in prizes and the rules governing the contest. In response fifty competitive essays were submitted from thc.different counties of the fait £1 1 fl, li. I; 1 4.. iti r- x fa 1 a. fa 1 1 r>. ■. i Iz A Svfltv • aiX t • JJlb* La SvaCv LC.*l 1 fOlt IV< JtL» Ogg, of Greencastle; Prof. J. W. Carr, of Anderson, and Superintendent Flick, of the schoois of Marion county, to pms upon the —merits of i the c- snys and —award the prizes. I This committee, finished its work last 5 Lucy E. Yeoman, daughter of the late John Yeoman, of Newton tp., a girl of sixteen. The second prize wen t to G eorgc Huddles on, of O wehviHej.the third to Robert Greenwood, of Raleigh; the fourth to O. Il.Stcw- * art, of fa\dams; ,th® fiT th to Minnie ;... :—fa Stinett, of Slilehhller .tiie sixth to Andrew C. Park-, of Nabb; and the seventh to Alice Kinnard, of Pendleton. The first prize, $50,. was forwarded to the winning young ’lady received it last Friday . It was the unanimous opinion* of the judges that the essays, as a rule, were ek- - ceedingly well prepared, exhibitings a depth of thought, facility of expression and mechanical execution which reflects honor upon the school children of the publb’h it in luUdh'T>Sr