The Newtown bee., 1905-05-26
Ten Pages.
COUNTY
WASHINGTON,

aUNNERY STUDENT WON SECOND
 PRIZE IN ORATORIAL CONTEST.
 Edmund Potter Glover, student at the Gunnery school, was the winner of the second prize in the fifth annual the direction of the Litchtield County
 University club, in the City hall, Tor rington, Friday afternoon. The first award went to Harold Virgil Beach, and the third to John Mayhew Bald win, both of Torrington. Palen Pull yer R ssman of COpake, N. Y., a stu. dent at Gilbert school, Winsted, re- ceived honorable mention. The exer- cises opened at ? clock before large gathering of relatives and friends of the competitors. Hon George M.
 Woodruff of Litchfeld, president of the club, presided, and the following otficiated as judges: Rev H: G Buehler. headmaster of the HOtchkiss school, Lakeville; Principal Alexander M. Blackburn Of the Robbins school, Nor folk; Rev Storrs O. Seymour, D. D., rector of St Michael church, Litch- field. The first number on the pro- gram was selection, Forth to the Meadows" Schubert, by the Torring- ton school chorus, which was followed by the invocation by Rev A. w. Acker- man, D. D., pastor of the Center Con- gregational church. Chairman God dard of Salisbury, representing the committee in charge, spoke of the test was to be held, at the same time regretting the fact that the quaran- tine had not been raised from the Ridge school in Washington in time to permit the four students from that institution, Stewart J. Agen, Kenyon 0. Bolton, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen and Robert R. Greene, competing. He thanked the examining committee for the pains 1t had taken in selecting the speakers for the occasion out of the 29 papers that had been handed in, and also expressed his appreciation of the interest taken by parents, teachers and do their best. The following program was then carried out: Political Cor ruption in Connecticut, by Oliver S. Jewell: "The Square Deal," by George P. Putnam; "Perry and the North Pole," by Edward Bouray; s'Let Love | Undying," Meyerbeer, Torrington school chorus; "A Boys Code of Honor," by J. M. Baldwin; "The Square Deal," by D. P. Glover; Claw lessness in America" by P. P. Ross man; "Simple Confessions, Thome,
 violin solo, Miss Helen Hill; "A Stu dents Influence" by John Wells; "The Square Deal," by H. V. Beach; | "Voices of the Woods," Rubinstein.
 Torrington Girls Glee club: an,
 nouncement iof the judges decision; presentation of the prizes by the presi- dent. The list of contestants follows: Oliver Seymour Jewell of New Hart ford, Conn.,, age IT, born in New Hart- ford, Conn.,, the Gilbert school, Win sted; George Palmer Putnam of Rye, N. Y., age IT, born in Rye, N. Y., the Gunnery school, Washington; Edward James Bouray of Waterbury, age l4
 born in Scranton, Penn., the Gilbert High school, Winsted; John Mayhew Baldwin of Torrington, Ct., age Is, born in New London, Conn, Torring. ton High school, Torrington; Edmund
 Potter Glover of New York City, born in Washington, D. O., age 16, the Gum cry school, Washington; Palen Pulyer | Rossman of Copake. N. Y., age IS, born | in Ancram, N. Y., the Gilbert school. Winsted; John Wells of New Britain Conn.,. age IA, born in Sheffield, Eng | land, the Gilbert home school, Win sted; Harold Virgil Beach of TorrinQ- ton, Conn.,, age 18 born in Litchfield. Conn.,, Torrington High school, Tor. rington. In presenting the prizes of S25, Sl5 and $lO each handsomely en- cased in morocco box suitably in- scribed, President Woodruff spoke of the generosity of MT and Mrs Carl Stoeckel of Norfolk, through whose efforts such contests are made possible.