Music and Oratory

Music and Oratory The Salt Lake Stake Mutual Improvement Musical and Oratorical Contest was held at Barratt Hall on the evenings of April 29 and 30. Prize winners were awarded silver and gold pins with appropriate inscriptions. A special suspended medal was awarded James H. Neilson, winner of the chorister's contest, and each member of the chorus was given an engraved badge. The champions of the stake, and the events in which they won first place, are as follows: Miss Eva Bailey, Nineteenth ward, soprano solo, "May Morning;" Arnold Poulton, Twenty-second ward, baritone solo, "The Gypsy King Am I;" mixed quartet, Twenty-second ward, "Come, Rise With the Lark;" Miss Alice Elder, Fourteenth wand, story telling; ladies' duet, Miss Edith Emery and Miss Bertha Emery, Sixteenth ward; male quartet, Seventeenth ward. Professor Oscar A. Kirkham presided. The judges were A. H. Peabody and C. F. Stayner, music, and Heber C. Richards, A. C. Rees and Sylvester Bradford, literary judges.-