Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-01

||aClPAL AWARDS PRIZES
II0IN|AAERs Of CONTEST
Studehts Showing Best i'm Studies
Afe Given Cold Pins by
81 Timcs-Dlspatch.
&IWEsT POINT. vAs April so-The
Hfltnsr Literary Society held its first
81 fhs the SlssGaf Ses ssga hs
which also met ut the. same time.
ssrs. n. Y. Chandler In the chair.
sfS san' by debate. . The prop9si5i
shSnld abe be }a'hor,zeE for the
f4he public school plant FOR West
Point" The first sneaker on the af-
|$Arnative was Miss Edith Asher; first
eHs sSEst,s, lanes Booth; second at.
3 tacond negative. John Asher. The
E3ndEes were .Mesdames NJ p, Chand-
y ler, a. f. Harsraye and Leland Treat.
Eesss brlef ceremony took place Mon
EH9y.morning, when Miss Katharine =.
< tInwerton, principal, conferred the
sflocal prize contests, These prizes.
ssShsred by the eisichmond Times Dis
6Sp6 tch, were in the form of small gold
ss8Ins. The students thus nonorcd
&Fere, Miss Violet Cieasby. girls read
Ems contest: Butler Chiffon. boys
y fkadins contest; Koeert Garden.
i'm the. State high school literary
ssEontests. West Point was paired with
Isf;sToano High School for the prelim!n-
4 NY NY contest in reading and debating
Il Ihtss contest recently held resulted in
West Point winning in both the read
and Toano In tho debate.
4 TON represented West Point in the
Young. Geieer, anu r,oop,
ssAltJof William and Mary College.
u The West Point Lodge of |. O. o. F.,
fcelsbrated the one hundred and sec
Pond anniversary Of the organization
psthis order w snsa, 'S nan plhsS
\ the American Legion. After the pre-
s nmiparH exercises by the members.
Church: made very Pheasant opcn-
Ing address, then Rev. Il. w. billings,
of the First Baptist Church and chap
slain of the lodge, introduced the ora
5tor4 OF the evening. Grand Past Mag
S8ter,George Il. Davis, of Spo,sylvania
who enlightened his hearers with
\ to the present time. Music added
much TO the pleasure of the evening
annd. before The close, Refreshments
SNsre served ly the memners anc
FBoGial half hour was spent
Miss Emily uault, who with Miss
Mary Woodward. had charge of the
x CAMP Fire Girls. recently organized
has accepted position with the
Swarthmore Chau;auuua OF rennsyi-
5yanin. who will travel through Can
adn this summer. stopping ten days
dault LETT Thursday morning for n
short visit to her brother. DR.. Paul
j Gauit. OF Washington:, Then she goes
W s saRe up ,na d H or neT " "n"
position, May 25. Miss Gault is quite
Mrs; Harry wyatt entertained Cir
Mrs, nodiericis Emerson and Mrs;
Misses Edna Clements and Hculah
guests. Mrs. A. S. Aligood won the
frst prise in n flower contest.
X The recitations by Mrs. Harry Gind-
hart added much to the. occasion.
DR.. Mary Evelyn Brydon, of Rich
\ mond. who hns charge of the child
4 welfare work in the state will adj
= dress the Woman's Club Monday in
: the home of the hostess. MIR. J. l..
\ Mrs. Floyd Walker ana Mrs. Rod
4 eE!ck EMERSON. of Baltimore, arc
y ElsltluS tnelT SlslcT. MTS. Jonn mayo.
Mrs. Saunders and Miss Barciln. o!
Richmond, were weekend guests of
Mrs. William H. Boil,
|, Mrs. r. c. Garden. last week. at
g tended shower given for Miss Nan
sbrids3 to be. by Miss Julia Christian.
SSin barton Heights;
s$R. c. Garden. Mrs. Kebler will be
8better remembered as Miss Polly AL
bright, of Washington. before her
Misses Ethel Sparks, Washingt ton,
and Dorothy Bailey. 4pf ,Seottsburg.
Va. have been recent visitors in the
/ Garden home. y
! ters and SON. OF "Elsing Green" were
2 IN town Sunday
e Miss Mary somerville. Jones, OF
,SI,ichmond. Is Visiting her brother and
ssffssit Rev. Nelson j. Dame. missioner OF
Sthe Richmond district, will sncnd sew
sseTM days in town In connection with
Ss3pg and evening in st. Johns Epis-
spopal Church.
s5S.'N Miss Gertrude Pitcher Is teacn.nE
ssjn the Euclid Heights School. filling
1.-The unexpired term OF one of the
2gteachers.
PSI Mrs. Lester NJ. Kirbytantertaincd ut
"a social Tuesday afternoon when all
of the guests sewcd on childrcn's gar
,hents for the. Red Cross.
b--GharleS Culiom Gault. son of Mr..
lind Mrs. S. II. Gault. OF West Point.
sawho graduated in the high school
Class OF 1910. at Randolph Macon Col
! iege, 1914, teaching one year in Ran
| aolphl Macon Academy, Bedford one
year. attending Yale year. distiu-
| guished there for the high grades
I Inndc in his classes, from 1915 70
| 1e2oEa student in the University OF
Minnesota, but two years OF this time
| were given to the services OF his
J country as medical instructor at For,
< Snellings. The quality OF his work
\ at the University of Minnesota gave
4 him his choice OF any hospital in
1 Minneapolis or 81. Paul, In which 10
take his work ms inferno, selected 81
Mary's, Hospital. A few weeks ago
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