The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-19
PAWLET, TT, WOMAN
HONORABLE MENTION
For Contributing Essay on why We
Should Have an American Ian
ge"-Bowling Green,
KY, Woman Won
First

NOlNmDuS, W, jan ib.-A HeN ldii
guage more concise aud forceful thar
any spoken, composed Of all spoken Ian.
guages and denominated American,
should result in this country says a
statement issued yesterday by State
Librarian John Henry Newman. The
statement announced the names OF
prize winners of an essay contest OF
more than a years standing on the
subject, "Why We Should Have an
American Language"
Having wondered for many years
why any red bIooded American should
ape anyone, in anything, ! determined
to investigate the medium through
which we express our thought-lan.
guage | could sec no reason for the
name plate, English language" New
man continued.
Il discovered, after investigation, that
there was not such a per cent of real
English in the whole as the prohibition
law permits of alcohol in the beverages
OF to-day.
q took my stand one day on Ger
tain street corner in Chicago, where
more people pass in given time than
any similar point in the world. l
asked as many people as possible their
nationality, To my surprise | discov
cred there was not one Englishman to
a thousand of other tongues. This in a
great part satisfied me that we should
have a language dignified with the
American"
Contestants in the essay contest were
scattered all over the country, and
prize winners hom.s range from Brit
ish Columbia to New Mexico. Eleven
prizes were given, and 80 honor
able mentions made.
Names of prize winners and those
honorable mention follows:
I. e. Cherry, Bowling Green, Ky.
first prize, 5000.
Miss Jane Durrell. 7 Lincoln apart
ments, 4lst street, Cincinnati, O., sec
ond prize. S7j
+. p. Leonard, 40l East Green street
ILL.,. third prize, $50
Miss Willie May King, 90l Ivy street
Chattanooga, Tenn, fourth prize, S25
Allen G.. Scott. jr., box l47, Card
well, Mo-, fifth prize, $40.
D. r. Hildreth, Winchester, n. H,
sixth prize, $40.
Miss Wilma Fletemeyer, 1901 Brown
street, Lafayette, Ind, seventh prize,
$40.
W. II. Jones, box Al, South Hill, Va,
Eighth prize, IS.
Gordon Edwards, 1883 Newton street,
d. c., ninth prize, So.
R. w. Shumaker, Union City, Ind,
.enth prize, s..
Mrs. T. E. Warren. 2l49 East Main
street, Columbus. o., 18th prize, So.
Those receiving honorable mention
we're:
Benjamin B. Fontaine, SIS LIST ave- /
rue, Birmingham, Ala.
Mrs. j. l.. Burns, 1895 Main street, |
Ark
Florence Pegus, l24l East 18th street,
1ong Beach, Cal.
w. f. Wilcox, Montrose Col.
G. H. Forte, Sharon, Conn.
Harry Hayes, 39l Auburn avenue, At
anita, Ca.
Miss Ruth Black, st. Teresa's acad-
my Boise, Idaho.
Alice r. Blackett, l7O6 Brady street.
davenport, la.
Miss Gertrude Landon, Norton. Kan.
Miss NJ. Trecarton, Winterport, Me.
Margaret Foard, high school, Havre
De Grace, Maryland
Ruth Amelia Smith, ll3 Berwick
Dad, LOngmeadow, Mass
Oscar Rem, box 43S. Milaca, MINI.
William Freridge, box 10, Hansboro,
Iiss.
Miss Effie Gerr, go North Oak street,
rand Island Neb.
Ralph O. lawson. AS Union place,
.idgefield Park, v T.
Miss Josie L. Harris. SO North End
lreet. Albuquerque, y Mex
Howard f. Lewis, box l66, Y. NJ C. Ii
:, Colgate university. y. Y. Ii
Mrs :. n Brewer, T. 0. box 1888.
Iarshall. n. d.
Don Riggs, r. F. D. No. !, stroud,
kla.
a. 5. Bsirnholt, box 42O7, Portland. ,
re.
Dorothy oRoke. Hyndman, Pa.
4. l. Mauhdefs. virgil, y. ~ 4
Saidee NJ. Slower, Poolville, Tex. IN
Mrs. A 4 Matthews. 1917 East /
outh Temple street, Salt Lake City. n
tab. II
y Pauline Waite. Pawlet. Vt Ii
: y. Haight, 702 Haight building. !
cattle. Wash.
Ola L. Calhoun, box 1924, keystone. I
Va .
Howard W. Roper, 2j3 Juneau ave- /
Is. Milwaukee Wis. II
Mrs. Fila O. Marshall. Garlic, wyo. 4
Hiss y. L. Mcknight. 10 Pender 4
rect, y. W. c. A., Vancouver, Brit. ;
} Columbia. I
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