Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-04-17 | Page 7 | Russell Petty Wins in Contest

RUSSELL PETTY WIS III CONTEST At the oratorical contest given at the Weber normal college last night, Russell Petty and Miss' Avon Rich won the first and second places. The . contest was held in the auditorium at the academy under the auspices of the Weber stake Mutual Improvement as sociation There were five contestants select) d by ward tryouts who were entered for the honors. The meeting was presided presid-ed over by W. R Skeen and the judges ' were Prof Kimball Young of the Weber We-ber college, Mrs. L. A. Farnsworth of the Ogden high school faculty and I louglas Ln sh m.i n Russell Petty, in winning the first prise, took for hiss ubject, "The Dutli B f a Patriotic American." Miss Avon Rich took the second! honors with the subject, "Women in 1 the World War." The subject, "Democracy "De-mocracy and the War," received honorable honor-able mention for Miss Tanner. There is to be an oratorical contest held in Salt Lake in June and Russell Rus-sell Pettj is expected to represent the 1 college on that occasion 1 1 r