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Show GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. (Special Correspondence.) The Ladies'. Aid met last Thursday afternoon in the old church building on White street, and the time was spent repairing the vestments. On last Thursday, May 23. was the closing day for the city schools, and in the evening a large audience gathered at the Park opera house to listen to the well-prepared program. Rev. Fossyth began the exercises by a short prayer. William Ernest Marsh, second honor man of the class, delivered the salutatory saluta-tory address. Harold Van Dyke, one of the brightest young men that ever graduated from Grand Junction High school, delivered the veladlctory, and after this was a beautiful solo by Mrs. Julia Pinnell, which everyone enjoyed immensely. Superintendent Allen then introduced the speaker of the evening, President B. O. Aylesworth of the State Agricultural Agricul-tural college, following Dr. Aylesworth, Dr. George Warner, president of the school board, made a short but interesting inter-esting speech on. the work of the pupils, teachers and parents. He closed by giving the students some valuable val-uable advice and presented each one with the richly enameled diploma. The graduates then sang the class song, and with the class yell closed the exercises. |