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Show TOWN HONORS ITS GRADUATES HYDE PAItK, May l-l. Commencement Commence-ment exorcises of tho eighth grado of the district school, wns held In the meeting houso Sunday ovonlng, May 12th. Tho houso wns decorated with national colors, beautiful flowors, pictures of presidents, statesmen, po ets, etc. As these oxcrclses nro usual, b educational feasts, tho houso v-c filled to Its capacity. Thero, wero only four graduates thl.i fear. They aro Vllato Hancoy, Avon Lee, Edwin Hansen, and Everett Hancoy. Tho program was as follows: fol-lows: Mandolin nnd plnno selection by Willnrd and Leonard Hancoy and Misses Leah ChrlBtonscn; ladles' 'liiartotto, Misses Vilate Hancoy, Lib-boy Lib-boy Lamb, Myrtlo Seamons, Viola Hansen; prayer by Henry E. Hancoy; Han-coy; mandolin nnd piano music; humorous hu-morous reading, Miss Avon Loo; song, Miss Vllato Hancoy; comic recitation, Edwin Hansen; class prophecy in verso, Everett Hnncey; address to graduatoa, Professor Porter of the II. A. C. Mr. Porter Is an nblo nnd fluent spenker, and hnd tho best o1 attention during his Interesting Bpeec'i lie first addressed tho graduatorf. vltlug them to tho fact that they vero under great obligations to their pp'rnts, and to thoso who had made It pocslblo for them to attain to their present position, which Is only nn entrance in to tho wido field of kno.vl-edgo kno.vl-edgo before them. Ho then traced tho history of education, from early uges down to tho presont tlmo, and showed what branches of education wero considered tho most vnluablo. It wns not until recent times that it was considered necessary to odu-cnto odu-cnto nil clnsscs of peoplo, Spoko of tho gront advancement during tho prosont century In nrt, invention, man- Continued on pago five) Town Honors Its Graduates Continued from Page 1. ufacturing and m general education and knowledge. Mr. Porter has the happv faculty of driving the nails and c.'inrlilng them tight in logic and argument. ar-gument. After Mr. Porter's speech, Miss Ivl-tn Senmons nnd Mary Lamo, Bang i duett and President Sylvester Low, In a very appropriate speech, presented the diplomas to tho graduates. gradu-ates. Another beautiful selection by the mandolins and piano, closed an evenings ot entertainment ot great Interest. Sunday, May 12th being Mothers dny, the speakers' topics wero mother nnd tho lovo and honor duo here The speakers wero Bishop William Hydo of Logan, Charles R. Ashcroft Mrs. Johannah Petersen and Francis C. Lee. Mrs. Vlnney Hawks san 'Daughters ot ZIon." The farmers are very busy getting In their grain and beets. Tho Sunday school was visited last Sunday by Chorister J. B. Hyde, or-ganlBt or-ganlBt Laura Cowloy, L. A. Stevens, nnd Miss Phoebe Nobeker. |