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the “Silver Medal Contest”. Winners in the Silver Medal Contest entered the "Gold Medal Contest”. „
The judges, always from another section of the county, occupied die “Amen Corner” and gave die youthful contestants their undivided attention, "il wish I could have given a medal to every one of those ’children,” was a remark always heard after eveiy contest. i
The medals, silver *and gold, were engraved with the same motto,_“Saloons Must Go”—and they did.
The meetings were held in the • Methodist JChurch, which was always crowded, and the gallery was reserved for the colored people. Uncle Ben Grason never missed and always saw that the fires were attended to properly. '
In addition to the recitations of the children, there was always music and an address by an able speaker “from a distance”, supplied by the State organization.
There was no admission—no collection taken_but a welcome for all and entertainment by some very talented Children.
Placed near .die door was a silver plate, covered with little bows of white ribbon with a convenient pin. You could take one if you wished_pin it on and thus become a member of a great Temperance organization that,was striving to help everyone, especially children. ; A humber did, and went home proudly wearing the “white ribbon.”
Among the many in the county who were successful in the Medal Contests, silver and gold, was “Little Brueie Fox”, now Mrs. C. T. Bruce. Among her treasured possessions are the two medals. When asked about them she said, “Miss Sallie Lillard always taught me my pieces.
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