Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-24

dsnevieve Mckenzie, Emma Marie Nell son. Bertha May Peekham. Ruth Emma Percy. Thomas Aitken Sanders, Marion Kienzei Sehwenk. Helen Elizabeth Sut- cliffe. Harold David Taylor. Alice Ati- gusta Thompson. Vincent Carlyle Whip Virginia witter. The class motto was. Qdid ssas age | bene, What thou doest, do well.) Honor student for fouf years-Hiram | W. Barber. A-~ Honor students for 1s1s-192e- Seniors | Hiram w Barber, Madeline Biahehi. | Geneva Champlin, Bertha Fuller. Eliz- | Schwenk.
 Sophomores-Ethel Daley. Doris Hart | ridge, Christine Riddell. | FreshmFn-Franeis Andrews. Emily Barber. Dorothy krebs. Constance Rath- bun, Belle Ribner. Mildred Saunders, l Gladys Stott. Donald 1answurthy. 1 Awards we're made from the Martha c. Babcock Memorial, which was fouhd- ed in 1875 and comprises a permanent fund in the Washington Trust company, l the yearly interest to be divided into | three parts, one-half, ene-third and one- | sixth and awarded in three prizes. The 1 awards are made to the three students who present the best three essays, or any one to two or more subjects, pre- 1 NtOuSl5 dAitiOuHNcu ps lnO SCiOOi pilhSi- pal. From these subjects each eon- testant shall chose. and the water of the best essay in point Of general merit gets the first prize The subjects are given out four weeks before the closing day of the school year. In order to reach an ifn- partial judgment, each essay is sign- ed with a fictitious name and Is accom- panied by a sealed envelope, Upon the outside of which is written the fictitious name appended to the essay. and with in the envelope a slip of paper with the ] real name of the author The winners were: First prize, s20. Alice A. Thofip- son. 20. subject. After the War Avia- i, tion second prize. s1ssS. Dorothy D. Beal, '21. Modern Method of Obtaining Pure Water; third prize. Ss7s, Mildred Barber. '21, Modern Methods of Com !, munication.
 The class reception and dance wal , held in High School hall in the evening | and the attendance was large.
 . All lines of westerly's business and all strata of social life were fully repre-. scented at the banquet of the Westerly Board of Trade, held at the Ocean house Watch Hill, Wednesday night. It was z regular get-together event and all wer, interested in the one purpose to advane, | the best interests of the town. An as semblage of business men, in the main it was to a marked degree informal
 President John Q. Mills presided. Tn l first speaker was Rev. ]. Rofieyn Dan forth, pastor of the First Church o | Christ, New London. whose address wa i characterized by patriotic business ut
 terances, with just enough tinEe of the ology to indicate that the speaker was
 Congregational minister. and clean liu
 nor sufficient to indicate that he was
 Christian man of the world Rev. Nil
 Denforth created a very favorable i'm
 pression and his address of more tha
 half an hour, was on the there, Ameri
 ca
 William Scott. of Bostonl the othei
 speaker, delivered his birthday addres:
 having been born in Cooksville, H., o
 June 2S, 1850. Like Rev Mir Danforti
 he, too, was Congregational niniste
 and held pastorate until 1910, and sine
 then, he said he had been heralded as a
 occasional preacher. lecturer, aftef-dir
 her speaker, and even hihnorist. Fl
 had just reached his three-score year
 and ten and by reason of his long III
 before the public, he was not the leas
 embarrassed in talking to Westeri
 audience. He then began a series l,
 stories and keen witticisfns that produl
 ed almost continuous laughter.
 The success of the banquet is due,
 marked degree, to the excellent al
 engagements made by the ehtertaihmei
 committee Arthur NJ cottreii, Arthur
 Nash, Clarence Vars and Faradus
 Smith.
 Rev. Robert Keatink smith, of Yves
 field, Mass, who purchased the Sfdn,
 Gavitt farm on the Post road for h isummer home, and who brought su against the state board of health roai in restraining them from changing u
 course of the highway, as it would inte ,d fere with his well, which was the sour
 of water supply. has been appointed ,
 emissary to the new republic of Czech n Slovakia. The appointmnet was made ! the presiding bishop and council of |
 Protestant Episcopal church of t
 United States and he is to study the T