Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
JUNIORS CONTEST
FOR PRIZE TODAY
Central High Girls Speak For
Oratorical HonorS Before
Large Gathering

high school contested this afternoon
in the annual junior girls contest in
expression for oratorilcal honors. The
program started promptly at 2.15
o'clock and included the following
numbers:
March. high school orchestra; pray
er, the Rev. DR.. s. Edwin Rupp;
The Star-Spangled Banner, Hymn 100.
school; prize contest with eight num-
,, bers; music, GLORY to Isis" (from
"Aida'O Verdi. choir; music, Junior
boys glee club: All Through the
Night" (Welsh air): Nothing Else to
(GeibeD: orchestra; presentation of
prizes, Howard c. Fry; America,
hymn 119, school, berediction.
Judges of the contest We're, Howard
c. Fry. G. NJ. Steinmetz and w. IL.
Rennethum, Jr. The contest was
close, each selection being well pre-
sented. and the judges had a hal d.
time selecting winners. The prizes
$40, So and $3.50 in gold were given
by \. Carson Stamm.
Through the untiring effort of Miss
Annabelle SwartZ. the junior girls
are drilled each year to perfection.
The eight contestants and their selec-
tions follow.
Miss Lillian Speakman presented
The Soeiable Seamstress" with ejec-
ton and precision; Miss Sylvia Claster
effectively told the story of Jean
Vatican and the Bishop; Miss Fran
ces Hause gave the amusing incl
dent of How the Elephant Got His
Trunk; Miss Helen Appleby gave the
scene from Miles Standish," between
pFi nj iG
Appleby. as a Puritan maid, took
the part very well. especially where
Priscilla says "If l am not worth the
wooing surely l am not worth the
winning; THE Sweet Girl Graduate"
presented by Miss Hazel Snow was
a vivid picture of commencement day,
as well as the sweet girl graduate;
Miss Bertha Maurer in Judith OF &c"
told the story of the heroic ride
of Judith to save her lover; Miss
Anna Hammelbaugh gave the anus
ing incidents and talk of Monday
Wash Day" and Miss Ida Yoder gave
"Sombre" a Spanish love story be-
tween Orlando and Anita and the back
ground is a bull fight in which SOM
bre the handsome bull, a playmate
of Anita's must contest.
Mrs. Samuel b. Fortenbaugh of
Schnectady. n. Y, formerly Miss
Florence Cowden of this city, is vis-
iting Mr.. and Mrs. Abram Forten-
baugh, 1713 North Second street.
Mrs. Albert Gable OF PA Hamil-
ton street and Miss Harriet MacDon-
aid of 2045 Penn street went to
Washington to-day to attend the fu-
neral of Mrs. John c. Delaney from
her home, Chevy Chase, Md.
Mrs. Ward d. Carroll of 705 North
Second street left to-day for Phila-
delphia TO remain a week with her
daughter Miss Florence Carroll. at
the Collins Y. W. c. A.
Mrs. c. W. Shreckengust of 1924
Chestnut street is able to be out aft
er a recent illness.
Mrs. Henry Mccormick was host
ess yesterday for the May meeting
of the Ladies' Club of the McCor-
mick and Cameron farms.
Mrs. William Pinkney Hamilton,
who has been visiting in Baltimore
and vicinity for the past month, re-
turned to-day to FLAG Green street
for a stay with her daughter, Mrs.
Charles j. Wood Jr.
Miss Clara Anna Adams, 2056
Swatara street, has returned home
after spending the winter with her
sister, Mrs. d. C. Saunders, of Phil
adelphia.
Mrs. I. W. Geesey, of 16 North
Fifteenth street, is nome after visit
with her sister in Lykens.
Miss Mildred Schradley, of High
spire, will spend the weekend at
her home, 147 South Nineteenth
street.
Mrs. George KunkeI. col North
is visiting Mr.. ana. Mrs. George
Schutt, OF IL North Fifteenth street.
Mrs. George Kunkel, COOL North
Front street, is spending several
days in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Rebecca Frick. of Superior,
Wisconsin, is visiting her daughter.
Mrs. E. d. Hilleary, of Hillcrest. New
Cumberland.