Show BIC BEST OWL COMMUNITY IN UTAH second place and silver cup awarded to R H S smith hughes department an assembly held in the richfield high school wednesday noon was of more than ordinary interest to the t he people of our city and while the auditorium of the high school was filled to capacity by an enthusiastic student body not many of the parents or patrons were nere seen in the audience the assembly was of great interest entire community because of the fact that it was held to announce that richfield in a national contest was adjudged tile the second bet best rural community in the state of utah and was awarded a huge silver loving cup in ac of this accomplishment ment tile the contest was conducted through the national farm paper american fai fanning ining of chicago by its editor E P taylor formerly a member of the faculty of tile the utah agricultural college prizes were nere offered by am air farming to every high school in the united states having an agricultural department to det eriline where re in each state bould be found rural communities scoring highest in es essentials senti als for contributing to the happiness comfort and of an agricultural community salt lake city 64 ogden logan and provo being considered cities did not come the classification of rural communities and could not participate in the contest the scoring was done on a 1000 point basis in the following essentials system highway connections light and power system clean and good streets street clean and attractive homes public improvements community parks modern modem school buildings educational facilities frugality and prosperity tv as reflected by savings deposits in the local banks modern conveniences such as radios telephones ru instruments and musical organizations ei literary societies churches and recreational halls development 1 nal 11 a 1 and in ind dusty ca 0 c ni marketing ar and so on in each community participating in the contest a local scoring committee was appointed consisting in richfield of county agent S R boswell mrs W S Greci greenwood mood representing the home and community section oi of the county farm bureau and farrell P smith our smith hughes instructor on account of the scoring hartan cache county was awarded first place richfield second place and vernal uintah county third place superintendent A J Ash ashman inai and the three scorers were nere the main speakers of the assembly all of fileni emphasizing that the reflects most creditably on the school the alie city and the county thi emphasis was brought out still more pi eminently when denzil cope of the smith hughes department of our high school who wat wab displaying the silver ilver loving cup turned it over to mayor F G martines martine to be kept as a trophy of the city mayor martines received i the cup with a few feu very appropriate remarks and in turn committed it to the care of the student body to be kept permanently in the trophy case of our high school an ali additional feature of the assembly was the calling to the stage of or miss gurena delange who will ill le present our district in the tribunes oratorical contest friday and who left wednesday afternoon for salt lake city miss delange was na N a greeted with ith enthusiastic applause I 1 and ex pie pressed pieced pi essed sed hope to come home hoine N with ith the prize |