Show I I The Sumner school achieved a big success at Its entertainment given on Frida3 evening and Saturday afternoon after-noon and evening and the piano fund will be swelled to good proportions The building was brilliantly lighted up In the first and second stories and presented pre-sented in the evening an attractive appearance ap-pearance In the various rooms the genius of Owlngs Sheckels of the High school and a former pupil of the Sumner Sum-ner was manifest In the variety and beauty of drawings which attracted booth presided every eye The tea preided over by Miss Maude Potter assisted bUs b-Us Klnnersley was very handsome and elicited much favorable comment The candy booth in charge of Miss Jennie Smith and Miss Ulmer was also very pretty The fishing booth in charge of Mrs Barnett had its share of attractions and brought in the nickels nick-els quite easily The fortuneteller made many people happy and kept Mrs Shepard the manager about as busy as she cared to be The Ice cream rooms the first of which was In charge of Mrs Roys and the second under Mrs Daft and Mrs Frobes were very attractive the rooms being thronged In addition there were popcorn booths presided over by young misses who made good sales The decorations which were In flags and bunting were In excellent taste and lent great attractiveness Principal Princi-pal W W Barton and his corps of teachers are deserving of great credit and they are to be congratulated on the success of their enterprise Professor J A Smith of Ogden was In the city on Friday Miss Henrietta L Neff of Provo will teach In the Brigham Young academy of that place the coming ea I Miss Edith Hunter who has taught at Kaysville the past year was a visitor vis-itor at the Lincoln school on Wednesday Wednes-day Gunnison graduated six pupils from the eighth grade this earL ear-L E Eggertson of Provo and George C Young of Salt Lake are the two representatives from Utah thus far chosen to take part in the deliberations at the July meeting of the N E A at Los Angeles Sanpete stake academy at Ephralm had a fine time on field day a 20 The grade department of the Brigham Brig-ham Young academy Provo closed May 22 C S Richardson of Juarez Mexico will teach Spanish in the Brigham Young academy Provo the coming year A C Rees of Spanish Fork left yesterday yes-terday for Philadelphia where on June 3 he will sail for Liverpool Eng land and from thence he will go to Berne Switzerland on a mission A fine lag concert was given by pupils pu-pils of the public schools of Provo on Monday evening May 22 President J T Kingsbury of the university uni-versity lectured upon Thoughts About Life and Man before the students of the Brigham Young college last evenIng even-Ing The examination of candidates who purpose teaching in the schools of Carbon Car-bon county the coming ytfar took place at Castlegate May 26 and 27 The eighth annual reunion ot the Alumni association of the B Y academy acad-emy took place at Provo Friday May 26 They always have big times on such occasions down In our neighboring neighbor-ing city > Professor WIHard Done who has been called to the chair of theology in the Brigham Youngcollege Logan will remove re-move his family to that city about June 15 The commencement exercises of the Hungerford academy Springvllle will take place on Thursday evening June 1 The commencement exercises o the Utah county schools will take place at Payson on Friday June 2 The Brigham Young deny at Provo and the branch at Beaver City enrolled 109S students the past year Rev R G McNece will deliver the baccalaureate sermon before the students stu-dents V ot Hungerford academy this Misses Edna Hurry Edna Hampton Pearl Smith Lucile Patten and Alva dus Mavne of the Twelfth school gave the teachers of that school a very pleasant surprise In the form of a delightful de-lightful luncheon on Friday The public sehQols of Sprlngville will graduate eleven pupils from the eighth grade this year W H Lyon who has taught successfully success-fully at Union the past two years has been asked to remain for the third vear The closing exercises of the Murray schools took place last evening Professor Pro-fessor W M Stewart delivered an address ad-dress The commencement exercises of the Salt Lake county schools will be held in the Salt Lake theatre tomorrow at 10 oclock The pupils of Miss Lura Beesons I room at the Oquirrh school gave their teacher a pleasant surprise on Friday afternoon Delicate refreshments were served and all enjoyed a very pleasant time Commencement exercises of the fifth sixth and seventh grades Union took place on Friday evening Unusual interest In-terest was taken In the occasion the citizens of the district The Lincoln school will give an entertainment en-tertainment on Friday evening June 2 Ice cream and other delicacies will be placer before the people of the district for their patronage and fancy drills by pupils under the direction of Miss Duncan will be given as well as a drill by pupils of Mr Nelsons room Miss Hutchinson will entertain the patrons pat-rons of the school with a chorus by pupils from her room and by pupils of Miss Connelly The Riverside school will give an Riveride wi entertainment en-tertainment for the benefit of the piano fund on Monday afternoon and evening Superintendent Cooper has called the attention of the principals of the city schools to the fact that the pupils of the various schools will be expected to assemble on Brigham street tomorrow to witness the ovation to Admiral Schley Principals are to be guided by newspaper announcements In the absence ab-sence of any specific directions from the superintendents office Mr Cooper has also requested that flowers be collected col-lected by children for the purpose of decorating the soldiers graves The Utah Society of Natural History has offered the following prizes to Utah teachers and puplls Fifteen dollars dol-lars for the best collection of plants from arid regions 15 for the best col ection from valley regions S15 for the best collection from mountain regions and 13 for the best collection of insects In-sects from each of the regions named Collections are to be sent to Dr Orson Howard of the state university not later than May 10 1900 The Lincoln school has decorated one < of the corridors very tastefully for the memorial exercises tomorrow at 2 oclock Following Is the programme Singing America School Singing Old Glory FlagRooms Rooms 3 and 4 r Recitation Why We Keep Memorial Memo-rial DayMiss Hazel Rawlins Singing Marching Through Georgia Geor-gia Rooms 3 and 4 AddressMajor W H Sells Singing Starspangled Banner School Professor F A Swanger superintendent superintend-ent of the Park City public schools came down on last evenings train for a few days rest and recreation All the schools of the city are preparing prepar-ing for memorial exercises tomorrow at 2 oclock provided that the Schley reception re-ception does not overshadow all other events during the entire day The Fremont school Is preparing for a S l > o fine entertainment to be given on Friday Fri-day next Mrs E J McVicker ha returned from her trip to Cedar City She reports port the students of the > branch normal nor-mal as a enthusiastic body Miss Sampson of the training school will attend the summer school of the Chicago university during vacation and Miss Brinton wIll attend a summer sum-mer session of the Cook county normal school Miss Burch will visit her home In Lincoln Neb and Mr Jenson will resign his position In the training school and will attend Utah university the coming year Professor W M Stewart of the State Normal will spend a portion of his vacation at the summer school of Chicago Chi-cago University Monday will be a red letter day at the Salt Lake high school That the committee of arrangements having In charge the movements of Admiral Schley has consented to bring him to the school has filled every student so full of enthusiasm that it may be impossible Im-possible to keep It bottled up until 1030 oclock tomorrow I Lowell School On Friday afternoon May 2C Ir Tooker and pupils made an exhibit of school work at which a reception to about eighty parents was given Refreshments gven freshments were served and the following fol-lowing programme carried out Recitation Reci-tation Alice Sheriff duet Shirley Simmons and Hale Foster recitation Arline Tibbltts quartette Dean Daynes James Heathcote Shirley Simmons Sim-mons and Hallie Foster piano solo Mary Young of room sixteen Much credit Is due both teacher and pupils for the manner In which the affair af-fair was manager The young folks waited on their guests In a way worthy of persons of more mature years The patrons were agreeably surprised at the quality of the exhibit and much pleased them at the kindly reception given Branch Normal On Tuesday morning 11 Decker took his physical geography class out on the normal hill to study the rocks For some time the basket ball grounds seemed to be deserted but this week the girls have been playing again On Monday morning E B Snow of St George spoke In the chapel for this Fri School will close year day June 2 Dr Kingsbury will be dents here at that time to address the stu After the written review in botany last Wednesday the students were told that they will not have another this school year Such news is always welcome wel-come George Holt left school on Wednesday Wednes-day to prepare for his trip to the southern states I George makes friends a readily on his mission as he has done In school he will be successful success-ful In at least one direction The ladles club met Friday afternoon after-noon for the last time this school year Ir McVicker took up the time in tell Ing the girls of student life in the schools of California Agricultural College Mrs Kinney of San Francisco a friend and former pupil of Mrs C I Goodwin was at the college Thursday She spent one day In visiting classes I and expressed much satisfaction at what she found Mr Clemenson of the Presbyterian church conducted chapel exercises Friday Fri-day morning He spoke of the parable of the Good Samaritan emphasizing the Idea of who Is thy neighbor The literary societies will hold a joint meeting Monday evening of commencement commence-ment week The programme for class day June 12 Is In part as follows Music Orchestra Presidents addressWm Peterson Class historyEthel Bullen Song EngineeringGlee club Class orationI C Hogansen Class prophecyW W Simmonds Music Orchestra R J Gordon of the graduating class has arranged to go to Alberta Can to follow the business of civil engineering engineer-ing Arthur J Davis who completed the short commercial course last year has just been given an appointment to West Point from Blackfoot Ida University Notes Many of the recitation hours during the past week at the University were devoted to reviews and examinations and a large part of the coming week will be spent In the same way tJoth teachers and students are looking and feeling exhausted from the continued strain of the years work especially from the heavy drain of the last few weeks Chapel exercises were conducted on Monday and Tuesday of last week by George A Smith on Wednesday by Superintendent F A Cooper of the city schools and on Thursday and Friday by Apostle Anton H Lund of the Mormon Mor-mon church President J T Kingsbury spoke before be-fore a large interesfed audience of students stu-dents at the B Y college in Logan last Friday night His subject was Thoughts on Life Inquiries continue to point to u large attendance at summer school during the coming session Many of the various vari-ous county superintendents of schools I aro urging their teachers to attend and do work In subjects in which they are deficient Instead of being compelled to take the county examinations during the spring or autumn Apostle Anthon H Lund was a visitor vis-itor at the university last Friday He spent some time in visiting classes in the normal school and then went through the various grades and departments depart-ments of the training school Mrs McVicker of the board of regents and Mrs W W RIter were seen at the university during the past week Miss Leonore Samson of the beginners begin-ners grade In the training school will pay a visit to her relatives and friends In the east during vacation Miss Nellie Craft of the sixth grade leaves for the east as soon as work ends for the same purpose Miss Valana Brinton of the fourth grade will spend the summer at I Chicago visiting schools and doing summer work She will probably go as far east as New York Miss Lottie I Burch of tho second grade will visit friends in the east attend the teachers convention at Los Angeles and then spend the rest of the vacation with her brother in Idaho I Mr Horace Cummings director of I science work In the training school will attend the convention of the National Educational association He will have direct charge of the exhibit to be made by the university and normal school Last Thursday night the Zeta Gamma Gam-ma society after a most successful years work elected the following officers cers for the first term of next year James L Stark president H F Fry vice president Wllford Warnick sec felary and treasurer lad Burton corresponding secretary and Franklin Nlel and Edward Morgan members of the standing committee The vim and of the prowess geology I class on their last field excursion secured se-cured to the museum some valuable specimens of stratified rocks Even a 700pound specimen did not daunt them I Professor Howards students In botany bot-any have almost completed their years work Friday they each handed In their I collections of pressed and labeled flowers flow-ers The number of specimens required X of each student wa fifty but som of > f + < o > the collections number between sixty and seventy Next Friday night at the Hotel Knutsford the freshman class wIll give gve n banquet to the seniors Nelson Dick erman will do the honors of toastmaster toastmas-ter and toasts on various jjhases of schQol life will be drunk Among others oth-ers S F Rigby ofthe senior class will toast When I Was a Freshman Miss Claire EHerbeck will respond to When I Am a Senior George S Gibbs to The Profs and Miss Lucile Hewett toEccentrlcItles of Both Classes Addresses will also be made by the respective re-spective presidents C M Ridges of the freshmen and M R Porter of the seniors senor Commencement this a promises prom-ises to be a most Interestingand successful suc-cessful one The normal class of 90 jl hold their classday exercises on Tuesday June 6 at 1030 n m In the art gallery The snior wi entertain the otherjcollegei classes and friends In the evening of the same day in the laboratory building They will appear In caps and < gowns and will carry out a very unique ijrogramme dramatizing and burlesquing variousphases of college col-lege life Commencement exercises instead of being held on Wednesday as Is usual will be held on Thursday June S In the Salt Lake theatre During the past year the Athletic association sedation has done very vigorous work I has succeeded In practically removing remov-ing the debt that ha hung over it for so long A special meeting will be held next Thursday to elect officers fa the ensuing year The Field club which comprises the entire student body met last week and decided on the resort at which field day will b spent The students were unanimously unan-imously In favor of Saltalr and committees com-mittees were appointed to arrange with the Saltalr nianagement and also to arrange a programme for the day The following officers were elected for next year Nelson Dickerman president Miss Estella Watson vice president and Miss Ida P rot secretary The Dramatic association will present I A Scrap of Paper in the Salt Lake I theatre next Friday night Some weeks ago the play was presented in Christen sens hall and was thoroughly successful success-ful especially from an artistic standpoint stand-point Continued practice has made each member more secure In the rendition rendi-tion of his role so that the presentation presenta-tion promises to b more successful than ever tan The normal class of 02 have planned an excursion to the Lagoon next Satur day Some of the normal students find It Impossible to remain here until field day and this outing is planned to accommodate ac-commodate them The day will be spent In picnicking and dancing and a special programme of sports Is being arranged of which boat racing foot racing and baseball will probably constitute con-stitute parts The firstyear class has extended Invitations to the other normal nor-mal and college classes to join them The postponed baseball game between the university and high school will be played next Wednesday afternoon Chapel exercises during the coming week will be conducted by President I Angus M Cannon Entertainment at Fanners Ward An operetta was given n the church at Farmers ward on Friday evening by pupils of Farmers and Waterloo and was well attended and was rendered In a most successful manner The costumes were elegant and created I much favorable comment Superintendent F B Cooper and Mrs I Elliott took the train yesterday for the Elott et the former for Des Moines and I the hitter for Chicago and New York and later to Chautauqua |