Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-01-20
CnIzzLE WHILE.
20th Annual High School
Fair Opens in City Hall.
Mrs. Briggs Of The Poultry
Yard" Finely Presented.
Matinee Today--PIay Tonight.'CIos.
Ing with Annual Ball.

Tile 10Th annual Chizzle Wizzle fair.
presented by the students of the Cony
High school, opened Thursday evening.
with the same snap and vigor that has
been the custom during the past 20
years. City hall was packed with stu
dents. graduates and citizens of Au-
gusta and vicinity. whose desires are
that Cony High school shall be one OF
the foremost in its social functions as
we'll as one to be proud CT in every
other way. Always have the citizens of
this city responded TO the calls of the
students and they are rewarded every
time by seeing something that is
worth seeing and something that not
many schools in this State can produce.
4 play entitled Mrs. Briggs of the
Poultry Yard was billed for Thurs
day evening and it was certainly fun
ny. And those vino took part can be
called actors and actresses. for many
stock companies lack what was pro-
duced by them Thursday evening Too
much cannot be said of Miss Edith
Marden. who took the part of Mrs
Briggs The part was a difficult one.
but she mastered 1t in every way. Miss
Bertha Richmond and Miss Ethel Lib
by took the part of kids. and kids they
were. Linwood Hatch. as Mr.. Lee had
a difficult part also. but he did finely
Esther Laiton as Mrs O'Connor, had
the audience in an uproar all the time,
for she was typical Irish woman and
she had no love for goats. Everything
went off smoothly and all are anxious
ly waiting for this evenings perform
ance, musical comedy entitled The
Rival Choirs.''
The hall was decorated very prettily
and it would be impossible to say
which booth was the prettiest. AS
one enters the hall, lie sees the Fresh
man booth at which candy is sold.
On this booth is d very large cake,
a gift of Webber and Hewitt. The
colors of the booth are blue and white
while in the center is the letters
1914. The Sophomore booth comes
next where one may buy supply of
pretty flowers. The decorations of
this booth are green and white. The
Junior booth Is another pretty one,
with decorations of lavender Color.'
cool drinks are sold here. The next
booth Is the Senior where ice cream
and cake are sold. This booth is
very pretty. decorated with red and
white, the Cony colors.
The committees in charge of the
different booths are as follows: Senior,
chairman, Fred Morton. aids. Flor
ence Abbott. Glennis Young. Everett
Dow, and Mildred Hunt; Junior. chair
man, Leo Dunn, aids, Linwood Hatch,
Francis Purington. Mary johnson.
Myra Cram: Sophomore. chairman,
Carl Hutchinson. aids, Donald Bur-
leigh, Dorothy Sawyer. Rachael Pay
son and Mildred harrington; Fresh
man, chairman, Lancelot Cooper, aids,
Carroll Coughlin. Bernice Leighton.
Bessie Locke and Ruth Capen.
The inter class basketball games
will take place Friday afternoon and
as these teams are evenly matched
some good games are looked for. The
girls will also play basketball this
afternoon and there is great betting
on both the Reds and Blacks. After
the play tonight the annual ball VIII
take place, which conclude the 2otn
annual ChizZle Wizzle fair.