The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-13
:
WAS VERY KEEN
At Spaulding Prize Speak
ing Contest, with Eight
Speakers
H. w. GEAKE AND
HELEN ROSCOE FIRST
Laurence c. Campbell and
Marion w. Anker Were
Awarded Second

| Before an audience of ample proper.
tions in the opera house last evening
| the first event on the commencement
week program of Spaulding high school
was held. 1t was the annual prize speak.
ing competition and an audience that
cheered to the last echo every participant
as he or she finished speaking and withal
reserved generous measure of applause
for the musical numbers gave solid tes-
timony to the fact that the friendly con-
test in the art of expression is com
mencement feature of prime Importance
in the weeks schedule of doings. There
were eight speakers, to whom were as
signed pieces of many tones and tenors
and added variety was to be found in the
selections of the glee club, which inter-
spersed the speaking numbers.
The judges were: Supt. S. c. Hutchin
son of the Montpelier city schools, Snpt.
G. J. Seager of the Barre Town schools
and Prin. Frederic Edwards of Montpe-
lier high school. They retired Just be-
fore the glee club sang "The Recessional"
and after comparatively brief interval
they returned to announce the following
awards, Supt Hutchinson acting as
spokesman:
First prize for boys, Howard Wilbur
Geake, who delivered "The Strenuous
Life" Roosevelt second prize for boys,
Laurence Carroll Campbell, who delivered
President Wilson's message, "The World
Must Be Made Safe for Democracy;
first prize for girls, Helen Sanborn Ros
coe, Here Comes the Bride" fBosherl
second prize for girls, Marion Winifred
Anker. "The Drawkeeper" (anonymousl.
While the program in its entirety left
very little to be desired, there was nat
urally wide variety of opinions among
the auditors as TO who should receive
the awards, but the decisions of the
Judging board were well received by the
audience, Ii is to be observed that the
judges must have taken judicial notice of
all the finer points in arriving at any de-
cision and their careful regard for those
details was wholly creditable.
No small part of the evenings enjoy
ment was contributed by the high school
glee club, chorus of 35 voices, who
acquitted themselves in a manner which
eminently deserved the applause accord |
ed them. The singers were directed by
Miss Josephine Il. Hovey, superintendent |
Of music in the city schools, and the ac-
we're played by her assist
ant Miss l.. Blanche Russell. Their first |
ppearsnce was after the third speaking |
number, the selection being my Dream"
(Waldteufell. Again the chorus was
heard after the sixth number, when they
'ang "Under the Shade of the Greenwood
Tree Tracy. While they we're singing
The Recessionsp tHuse) at the close
he judges were making ready the an
Of the prize winners.
Floyd Allen Mitchell, the first speaker.
"The Cause of the Gracchi"
Cravernl, favorite defamation theme,
md his handling of selection that is ex-
citing in every detail promptly stamped
i'm as real contender. Next came Miss
fessie Isabel Beattie, whose humorous
of the semi-distracted /
ride-t be in Hunting for an Apart
nent," was one of the distinctly funny
ieces Miss Beattie's Interpretation
gas we'll calculated to tickle the risi-
iities of her hearers and she succeeded I
dmirably. For his effort, Frank How
aud Wells chose Lloyd Georges Lin 4
oln Day Address" defamation which \,
fered ample opportunity for forceful- !
ess of speech. Mr.. Wells native talent {
'as clearly indicated in some of the
rowing passages and from first to last he 9
aced an audience of ready listeners.
Iere the glee club interspersed a musical {