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PHIZES ARE AWARDED
ORATORICAL CONTEST
TOMMY CHRISTIANSON, ELIZA
BETH OSTERHOUSE, CHARLES
CLINTON ARE WINNERS
(Contributed)
Speaking on the subjects of “The
Rose of the Constitution,” “Who Made
the Constitution” and “The Constitu
tion, Our Heritage,” respectively,
Tommy Christianson, 10; Elizabeth
Osterhouse, 14. and Charles Clinton,
15, in the order named, won first,
second and third prizes, in an oratori
cal contest on the Constitution of the
United States, held under the auspices
of the Kanakanak Industrial School in
its industrial arts auditorium, Kanaka
nak, Alaska, in conjunction with an
exposition of the pupil’s work for the
year, on May 6, 1027.
The contest was participated in by
pupils from two schools: those from
the Kanakanak Industrial School, an
institution maintained and operated
by the . S. Bureau of Education,
through its Alaska division, and those
from the Alaska Territorial school,
situated at Snag Point. Alaska. The
first and third prizes went to repre
sentatives of the former school, of
which Homer C. Bliekenstaff is di
rector, while the second prize was
awarded to one of the six entries
from the latter school, of which Mrs.
Katherine Meader is the principal
teacher.
The program of the day was start
ed at 8 p. m. after the guests who
came to the exposition from the
neighboring villages had inspected the
buildings and displays of the needle
crafts, woodcrafts, pencrafts, etc. The
teaching staff of the Kanakanak In
dustrial School had promised several
theatrical numbers for the evening.
These numbers preceded, and "were in
terspersed among the oration num
bers, with a view to render the even
ing’s affair a varied one. T*16 May
pole dance was the first number on
the program; this was followed by a
duet entitled “The Little Black Mus
tache.” Then followed a recitation
by 14-year-old, blind Tatiana Love, of
the Kanakanak Orphanage, and seven
of the oratorical numbers. A quartet
selection preceded the next seven ora-*
tions, and another quartet selection
followed them. Eight Orphanage boys
dressed in Ethopian garb sang and
danced to “Yet, Sir; That’s My
Baby.” Awarding of prizes concluded
the program.
The subjects of the orations were as
m: ^ ' varied as the number and
ag! the little Eskimo school chil
dren that spoke them, ranging from
“Woman Suffrage Under the Consti
tution; ;given by nine-year-old Janie
I
Palochy, to “Religious Freedom Under
the Constitution,” rendered by 14-year
old Massa Blunka. In general, the
document was discussed from many
phases.
The brightly illumined auditorium
presented quite a spectacle up in
these windy parts, where a Maypole
dance on May 6 is done to the rythm
of lazily falling snowflakes; where the
cloud-eclipsed sun persists above the
horizon ’way into the night, its crim
son rays piercing the interstices of
the snowflakes and lending a sort of
semi-dusk, blurring to a home-made
square spotlight, projected from a
portable moving picture machine, and
where every bit of staging, decorating,
lettering, costuming and other work
incidental to the scenic proscenic
world, has to be done by a handful of
teachers, whose major training rightly
inclines them in other directions.
The stage, a dais constructed for the
evening’s events, across one end of
the auditorium, was draped in bunt
ing, the top of which converged to
sort of a semi-gothic arch. A bunt
ing-framed facsimile of the Declara
tion of independence was propped on
a tripod in front, and to one side of
the stage. A bunting-framed portrait
of Lincoln looked down upon the stage
from its hanging placfc' on the wall
making the end of the stage. The
May-pole, with its colorful bands,
stood in front and to the center of the
stage.
The bread and cake baking contest,
which was decided before the program
of the evening, was judged by Mrs.
Dell Wandser, Mrs. H. P. Nicholson
and Mrs. Adolph Osterhous, who
awarded prizes to the following: For
bread, Anne Penfeloff, first prize;
Messa Gust, second prize. Both are
pupils of the Kanakanak Industrial
School. Many Timmerman of the
Snag Point School received honorary
mention. The cake prize went to Ox
enia Walkoff and Mollia Bidluska,
both of the Kanakanak Industrial
School.
The oratorical contest which was in
situated this year, and which is to be
an annual event in the future, is re
stricted to native children of Alaska,
attending either Territorial or Federal
schools, and carries with it three
prizes of S10. $5.00 and $2.50, respec
tively. The donor of the prize is Dr.
Charles Firestone, physician in charge
of the United States hospital at Ka
nakanak. The bread and cake baking
contest was also an event held for
i the first time in the history of the
Kanakanak Industrial School and Or
| phanage, the inception of which dates
back to 1918. T^e bread baking
prizes are $5.00 and $2.00, respective
| lv. Mr. H. C. Blickenstaff is the don
or of them. Mrs. W. N. Read donated
| the cake prizes in the form of useful
household articles.
The children who participated in the
oratorical contest, and the topics they
spoke on, are : Sassa Bishert, “The
Constitution”; Massa Blunka, “Reli
IICIOLOCIST Jim
WILL MIKE LONG STUDY;
—
Dr. T. A. Jaggars, vulcanologist. olJ
Hawaii, boarded the S. S. Starr at
Kodiak and was carried the round
trip back to King Cove. Dr. Jaggars
I
| has considerable scientific instru
ments and apparatus at Kodiak for
the study of land formations and
vulcanos. The recent trip was made
for the purpose of looking over the!
country with a view of placing an
observation 'Station for about three!
years of study.
ROAD ENGINEER RETURNS
Antone Eide, superintendent of the
I Alaska Road Commission in this dis
j trict, returned yesterday on the
steamer Starr from Kodiak to which
j point he recently accompanied his
I chief, Colonel Steese.
gious Freedom and the Constitution”; ;
Bessie Eglund, ‘‘Six Aims of the Con
stitution”; Tommy Christianson, ‘‘The
Rise of the Constitution”; Charles
Clinton, “Our Heritage, the Constitu-:
tion”; Mike Golia, “The Rise of the!
Constitution”; Adolph Osterhaus,
“What Is the Constitution”; Elizabeth
Osterhaus, “Who Made the Constitu-1
tion”; Simeon Larsen, “We, the Peo-I
pie”; Katherine Knutsen, “Taxation;
and the Constitution”; Janie Palochy,
“Woman Suffrage and the Constitu- j
tion”; Fefa Setuk, “Freedom of:
Speech and the Constitution”; Charles
Timmerman, “What the Constitution .
Means to Me”, and Marie Timmer- :
man, “The Growth of the Constitu
tion.” The judges were IT. S. Commis
sioner H. P. Nicholson, Mrs. Berry
Wandser of the Bureau of Education i
and Thomas F. Gardiner of the U. S.
Department of Justice.
Refreshments for the evening were
supplied in form of a sale of candies
and popcorn, that members of the
Home Makers Club of the government
Orphanage at Kanakanak made in
their kitchens. Mrs. T. P. McConnell,
matron of the Orphanage, supervised
the sale.
Eastman Kodaks and films. Schal-’
lerer’s Alaska Shop.
DANCE TONIGHT
Admission Charge: Men
75c; Ladies 25c
MUS1CBY
THE JOLLY THREE
ODD FELLOWS
HALL
THE DRAMATIC, HUMOROUS PLAY
“The Dice Woman"
The story of thrilling adventures of a girl who al
ways shook dice to decide questions
A last action tale that will keep your eyes glued to
the screen every minute
After an exciting and risky time in China, she lands
in a harem—and then—?
It’s Sure Good From Start to Finish
PRISCILLA DEAN AND JOHN BOWERS
are the leads
And With It We Give
WILL ROGERS
In a Great Two-reel Comdey
THE COWBOY SHEIK"
SUNDAY ONLY
M with Corinne Griffiths, Percy
Marmont, Malcolm MacGreg
or as the stars.
An extra tine play with scenes laid in Egypt. A
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