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Show -I M l ARRANGING CONTEST FOR SPEEDY TYPING Salt Lake. May 26 The regular annual Utah typewriting contest will be held in this citv on the evening of June 15, the hour and place to be definitely announced later it will be under the direction of a commit tee appointed by the National Edu cation association The number of events will be in rreased over those of last year. Seven contests have already been arranged An lntermountain states contest, writing writ-ing for thirty minutes, will be open to all entrants having rpsided continuously continu-ously since June 15, 1913, in either Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho. .Nevada rizona. New Mexico or Utah An lntermountain school contest will be for those not having used a typewriter type-writer prior to September 1, 1912. Another hew feature will be thp Utah state high school contests for ihe first and second-year typewriting stu dents The cups of the Utah statp business colleges and the Utah state open contests will be hard-fought for this year, and considerable Interest is manifest throughout the state in these events The entrants for the Utah state school and open contests are eligl ble to the lntermountain events. One of the most Interesting attractions attrac-tions will be the appearance of several sev-eral national writers from the east, which will be an eye opener to any one who has not seen rapid typewriting, typewrit-ing, and an inspiration to all. Two prizes will be given in each event, the first prise a gold medaJ, the second prize a silver medal, and there will also be several silver cups In addition to those given last year. One of the chief purposes of this and similar contests us to raise the standard of efficiency among typists It is an opportunity for the western operators to demonstrate the possl blllties of fast typing in the Rockies Rock-ies The high schools throughout the Btate will be well represented. Further Fur-ther information may be had from the secretary' Pf the contest commit tee at 410 Boston building no . |
