Connecticut western news., 1918-06-20
WEST CORNWALL

| liz III STAMPS, were gwen lux Three
items: l Best essay in town on
Thrift. This prize was divided be-
tween Anna MILFORD and Hannah
Payne, Cornwall Bridge School.
Honorable mention to Eleanor
Baldwin.
2 Best essay in the town on How
to Earn Money to Buy Thrift
Stamps. This prize was won by Hill
da Cox, Cornwall. Honorable mem
ton, Mollie Siminowsky, Cornwall
Bridge and Frank Weber, Johnson
Hollow.
3 Best original poster designed to
stimulate buying thrift stamps.
Prize won by Walter Preston, West
Cornwall. Honorable mention given
to pupils of the West Cornwall
school who designed posters, as fol-
lows: John Dawson, Gladys Seaman,
Esther Hart, Doris Shurtleff, and
Rith Dibble.
Program for. Cornwall Commence
ment, June 18th, Cornwall Bridge
$50 A, M.
Invocation, Rev. Frank Smith,
West Cornwall.
Song, Star Spangled Banner, All
pupils and audience.
Recitation, o Captain! my Cap
tain! by Walt Whitman, Evelyn
Blake.
Song, French National Anthem,
Marseillaise, Grades 4-8, Cornwall
Bridge.
Original Composition, Camping
Out, Esther Hart.
Recitation, Lucy Gray, Words
worth, Ida Hurlburt.
/ Song, Keep the Home Fires
Burning, West Cornwall School.
Two best Essays in Town, Essays
on Thrift, Anna MILFORD and Han
nah Payne.
Best Essay on How to Earn Mon
ey for Thrift Stamps, Hilda Cox,
West Cornwall.
Song, Columbia, the gem of the
Ocean,. Grades 1-3, Cornwall
Bridge School.
minute Thrift speech, Rose
Condor.
Recitation, Lincoln's Gettys-
burg Address, Susie Shapiro.
Address and Delivery of Certi-
ficates, Rev: E. G. Starr, Chairman
of Committee.
Delivery of. Prizes for Essays on
Thrift, How to Earn Money for
Stamps, and for best original poster
encouraging purchase of stamps.
| Supervisor c. H. Westbrook.
! Announcements concerning Sum-
mer Schools, Song, America the
Beautiful, West Cornwall School.
Exhibition in Physical Exercises,
Cornwall School.
Song, America, Pupils and Audi
ence.
Benediction, Rev. E. C. Starr,
Cornwall.
List of graduates, Evelyn Blake,
Mary Fem, Esther Hart, Ida Hurl-
burt, Jennie Osheroff, Walter Pres
ton, Susie Shapiro, Anna MILFORD,
Edith Nichols.
Two schools have a record of 100
per cent for the holding of thrift
stamps, each child owning one or
more: Room 2, Cornwall Bridge; and
the West Cornwall school. Total
amount of stamps held in schools
with latest reports: West Cornwall,
$123; Cornwall Bridge, Room 1,
SOL; Room 2, $194.
One halliday of school will be con-
Quoted thru the summer at most if
not at all the schools, to continue
the war program now in operation,
encouraging purchase of thrift
stamps, making of article for the
Red Gross, pursuing of food-produc-
ing projects, and the learning of
songs and the reading of material
on the war and other current events.
The schools and teachers will be
as follows:
Cornwall School, Miss Tho mas
and Miss Strattman; West Cornwall,
Miss Ruth Johnson; Cream Hill, Miss
Lucy Ives; Johnson Hollow, Miss
Margaret O'Donnell; Cornwall
Bridge, Mrs. Katherine Breen, Mis-
ses Anna MILFORD and Mary Lennon;
Cornwall Hollow, Misses Ida and
Esther Hurlburt.
Houses at North Cornwall are now
all occupied but one. Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Scoville are the latest arrivals.
Last Sunday the floral decorations
were wild flowers arranged by Miss
Lucy Ives.
There were only three single