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Show Ij UTAH BOY WILL v ' i BE A CONTESTANT Donald Beaureguard left for St. Louis Inst evening, where he goes to represent the University of Utah in the first na-. na-. tional oratorical contest which takes f) place on the 22nd of this month. Mr. ' Beaureguard was selected to represent Utah at a local contest which was held on June 2, and since that time he has "been studiously at work studying the seven subjects which have been as-I as-I i signed for extemporaneous speeches. , He feels confident and gives assurance I to his friends that he will do his best to represent Uta'h in the contest with 1 her sister State representatives. I Contrary, to all previous plans, it has been definitely decided that there will , he no preliminary contests. The West- ern contest was to have been at Law- ( i , rence, Kan., but the representatives J from Oregon, Colorado and North Da- h kota drew ont at the last moment, leav- ) ing only three remaining competitors. I The Eastern managers experienced , nearly the same predicament and it i , was found advisable to dispense with I the preliminaries entirely. Onlv thre "Western universities will be represented ', in tho final contest, South Dakota, Utah I j and Kansas. The winner of the con test will be presented with a handsome , gold trophy by the fair educational com mittee. |