Show EXERCISES salina sustains reputation for hospitality hospital ity decorations end and entertainment Entert amment graduates aul their friends are most complete the graduating and commencement exercises of the sevier county schools were acre held at silina salina lt Prid ii the reaper delmed the event of sufficient importance to liae hae a on oil the ground and gi gie e its r aders an account of the proceedings the people of silina silina sustained their reputation I 1 for hospitality as the arrangements for the exercises R were ere corn com in every detail the trustees W H brown dr al A freece and 11 J gottfredson Gottfred bon were in the thick of the details for the comfort and entertainment of the visitors there were it a lot of strangers as the parents and friends of the graduates from I 1 evera ever tow town n in the county v were ere present and the people of salina were the recipients of many words of praise for the excellence ecel lence of the treatment accorded the guests the train from the south had two extra coaches attached and they w were ere needed as the graduates and friends filled every aNai available lable seat scat it was near 11 when the train pulled into salina on the depot platform the salina graduates were found in the capacity of a reception committee all the graduates formed in line and headed by the salina pupils marched to the opel oceia opeia a house R where here the exercises were held seats on the stage R were ere arranged fort the graduates and those taking part on the program the stage setting were acre admirable A wood scene formed the background while hile a color scheme of lavender and white the county colors was as carrica out in all the across the front of the stage lavender I 1 nag flag blossoms in ate tissue paper acles were ar arranged ringed and these were di dr played in a setting of green ereen be boughs fughs the entire stage was ras arrayed I 1 in streamers of lavender and white tissue paper festoon ed and entwined in artistic effe effects acts the salina graduates occupied the center of the stage and all the other districts were grouped around the stage each class had its own colors in addition to the grad graduation graduato uati on colors and the whole made a color color I 1 effect which v as N ery cry beau beautiful it was nearly 12 when county superintendent jensen called the assemblage to order it was a mag ent audience too loo and the salina people again showed ane visitors the courtesy of rc reserving erving the front seats for them this was much appreciate ed by the visitors A song I 1 by I 1 four four of the monroe pupils opened the program fol followed loRed by the invocation by trustee gottfredson of salina then Sol followed loRed another song by four members of the Glen glenwood Rood class H F jorgenson salinas popular and efficient ton toan president pies ident delivered the address addres of welcome and it N as a gem of cordiality corda lity not aone were the words of the address but the spirit in which it was gien made the xi visitors feel at home he called attention to the fact that wall anile s sevier county towns were not always of one accord in all matter that in education all towns were vere forging to the front livery every town and hamlet were made and the kejs of the town torn were placed in the 1 keeping 9 of the motors i it was a cent though short and pithy ap cah of welcome in the ab absence ance of the patron of the venice schools school ato wro should have responded to the welcoming speech superintendent bensin performed that office v ith groce graceful ful expression of thanks fron from all towns to salina for the good i ill displaced in the sp speech e ech of the president laura crone crane of the salmi salina school school tendered i a piano solo nit an intermezzo in a elcer manner and rEcci received ved a hearty applause applan c at the conel conal lison aison A paper on the subject of do un to others is aou ou would be done bi was vas gien by arnold johnson of mon alon roe contained a story of the war of the ic belLon but the point 0 of the story was someR somewhat bat marred by not bong being read in voice oice loud enough to be heard b the audience one oal of tile the gims of 0 the program vas ras a rC recitation b enilla jackson of annabella in a N er tilling taking way abbe told of a boas glory tit in eating a at t the second table after the departure ture of the company com piny elva johnson ot richfield Rich neld pla placed cd a piano solo th the mocking bird a transcription with a nations it wai wag neatly done nettie hawley of Inver ury read a piper p iper on an educational topic but in such a low voice that roost most of it was lost to tie the audience the vocal nocal selection of miss aliss harriet elliot rial of the salina school was waa very nery well rendered she S sine good right night little girl good night next came the presentation of certificates by superintendent jensen ile he prefaced the av awarding arding with rith an ad crebs which contained cont nned some s chent facts ile he mide made m ide a plea for the adoo eions of the colors now carried by the graduates gradja gradi ates tes lavender and while zi a the permanent county graduating grad colos ile he also made a strong plea for the high schools of the home towns while sending eighth graduates off to school for spec specializing in had its advantages the greatest good was obtained by keeping the boys and girls at home and Ec sending riding them to the high school in their own town he give gine a few statistics 1 which vilich were interesting referring to the business life of the country he I 1 said anat without education in the public there was one in every who he succeeded in life those with an eighth grade education one in eveir who succeeded with a high school course of four years the proportion of successes in life was ras one in every 1700 with this showing there ought to be a more liberal support of the high r schools of the county he also called attention to one of the graduates tit in the salina dass who rho had the distinction of beings being the youngest eighth grade graduate the county had ever produced this was ruth elliot who was ras but 10 bears ears old and RI alo 0 had passel the examination nith an a verdge average of 73 per cent in all the studies ahe redmond school had three graduates gra duites ard one of these tesie draper was ras stricken with appendicitis and had died from the ul 01 do an op oil ration her work had bad blen been so be that the examiners hid had awarded her a certificate ot of graduator which was ras given to the barent ot the boang aang lady ane graduates lite aie apportioned as follows annabella 7 aurora 3 elsinore 3 4 Inver ury 6 joseph 31 koosharem Koo sharem 3 monroe 16 15 redmond 3 Rich neld 32 salina 16 venice 4 this totals about graduate throughout the county following the awarding of certificates c smith ivie ivic of richfield Richtie ld played a cornet solo swiss boy theme and variations which was rendered with a splendid technique and a sweet tone the usual harshness of the cornet tone wa was s absent and the number was ras well rell receive received 11 N haves hades in his address to the graduates was ras in excellent form and his talk was as in his bib clear ard incisive stale he had a prepared speech all type lype written and correct as to period and rounded sentences s but the program the audience and the surroundings wooed him fron from the talk he had prepared and he be delivered an im address to the patrons and then to the graduates thit that th it was ras bostl ing with good points he congratulated the P ople of the counte on the ex excellent cellen t educational facilities chien permitted such exercises the er aj 20 years ago he had held the first exercises in salina of a commencement nature anere R was as not such elaborate arran cm jtb anti and th demonstrate demon demonstrations strat ions were humble coin pared to the present exercises I 1 he I 1 e had witched at ched the careers ot those thoe boys of his oan school and had experienced pride when some of those had developed into some of the splendid lidid manhood of the county the educational life of 20 years ago was ras not what hat the e rational uati tiati onal life of mcday is the normal graduates ot it that time were not red to do the work vork of the eighth grede of today ile ho urged ur ld that it vv s the duty of the parents pil ants of the county who had a bo bov or girl among the graduates to be present and encourage them in the exercises of graduation if any parents neglected this great opportunity without a most urgent reason then they were censurable for neglect of a sacred duty the speaker rc recalled called the drs of I 1 the early struggles tit ill salina in an educations education il wv va and a tribute to N C ra ram nim m isben R who lie h hid fd taken liken so acene acan e a apart 1 in those daa da s in promoting education the ille eau education caon of today is not whit it was bu but t the evolution has been i a good one never NL ler in the history ot the world hive bae in men e n ol 01 character been in such dem demand an d the time is coming R vim I 1 ln man is bigger than the dollar dol lr time was when great men were reckoned bv the money they made tod today ay iy men of wealth ire under a ban because chev counted their mone as than fod foddy ay iy the ann rn n who follow the pith path of duty are the arct men among men of ch character none ire licater than our president theodore roosevelt Roo evelt men alen of hive have fallen before him because the people are rising to the high pline plane of the legacy left bytho immortal lincoln was ras character ch irister the motto of the successful used to be to hive have and to hold but the modern demand now is 13 to be and to do turning to the graduates he be said if you aie true to ours cles honest v ith nour associates and industrious in n our studies each vear will bring it its rich reward in a harvest of golden golde n sheaves of knowledge slid and la liv them at dour feet and with them build a pedestal uron upon which aou ou may stand and thus bl be successively raised to higher plains and the higher you ou get t the more conscious will you become of your littleness supposing no doors of the higher institutions of learning ever sw swing ing open and invite you vou in but are all bolted and barred against aou vou forever and aou are never nener to 10 inhale the intellectual air of a college town nor taste the joys a great university can 3 v bield will that be an excuse for you to lie supinely elv upon dour bour back and let bour more fortunate or more plucky classmates lead the line 01 of f match maich while vou nou come straggling along in the rear 9 nex never er I 1 there there is ample opportunity for the most anfort unfortunate una t e one of vou all to keen keel abreast of the times pio h is made out of the right kind of stuff and has the deter 1 and stick to iti veness to make something out of himself it is not bonev anone nor brains nor is it fate but burgit git up and G git it that mal miles es men ilien great genius we are told is but another name for hard work we are too apt to admire and sometimes to even envy the brilliancy of a man who he his has not ab aa much native ability as we possess but who has worked bild improved his time while hile we ne have taken our leisure work work nork work mork is the s secret cret of along the road you are traNe linz and if aou vou are not in the field of education with the expectation that you will have to foteen foi fo ever teer you have haie mistaken your calling cil ling if you do not intend to work rork even enen harder in the future than you babe have done in the past bid your e c ass mates a final fare vell veil for you ou will never see them again but the boys and girls among aou ou who will rill work rork unceasingly will be a ere credit dit to their teachers an all honor boner to their parents a gloie to the state and an ornament to the nation A learned man has said 1 I know what pica ure is for I 1 han have 0 done good work rork I 1 believe belice thit that vou hae all experienced such pleasure and I 1 congratulate you my oung friends dpn your dour present not so bo much for the v aptness of the Ir row ledge aou vou have hae acquired as upun upon you hiving having taken a step itell in the right direction and yet I 1 would rot the rork nork aou h have ne done for I 1 know that 3 vou ou ba hac c de devoted doted day after jay day and night after night in faithful study surmounting one difficulty only to find ju yourselves confronted ly by a greater one depriving yourselves of pleasures and in some instances enduring hadd hirs v abich aich caused your less persistent classmates to fall by the ma side in all this you did well but as dilli genee gence is its own renard you have bae already almady received bour pa before coming here tod today ay iy the co con n pensa sensation tion tor for yoi r labora labor is tile the oos nos session of a certain amount of I 1 now no ledge which entitles you vou to graduate from tl ti e lightn gride of the public schools of our county and rutho azis those in aut authorial hoial to abaid vou a certificate of graduation there is little intrinsic N value alue to the certificate but much mich importance is 13 to be ittie hed to the scholarship that makes mikeli boj worth of it but remember bcd will not look vou ou over for medals oe fe grees and diplomas but for carb car HOW however LVer dour certificate as ib something vv wi rth of oui appreciation for forio so in miny iny plea sint int memo memories will cluster about it torchi r that re 1 ga idless of how many degrees decrees and titles titled it may be lour rood good fortune to take out I whether A al A B L L D ill B oi 01 nhit not nit I 1 tro trow w there v vill i I 1 I 1 rot be one of thrill them thil that 3 ou R will ill esteem more highly alien bear earo roll ba 1 than tye the certificate 3 i 1 hive have received tiby xe e sue sic all 1 rood of aou ou ard sin cerIN trist tri tin st ti flat at iii e c of our aita ait oit ceconi i g vain for of all the stumble iv if blocks tit tn th pathway of educational education il jvance arent none is to certion to retard i 5 our progress and alienate dour our fiends ns as N anity alty it iq 1 rigi riel t for i ou t to take an all ho lunet hoiet iet pride in what aou ou it hicken ic ben licen crabbed to ae ac b the help of god and the of re ecith til teachers but it R would be it a sin for coriou ell to br bp vain about it ahe knowledge thit that you ell now hive have oi 01 which you may here after is of value to the extent that it makes iou more mere li useful eaul if the little learning in which aou ou hae acquired has not made of tu u better buys and betti bett i girls and ou to do the right tit in the same proportion that it has en ell 1 blad you to see the right more clearly I 1 y the labbous of dour our and bour our own self efforts have been in vo but if you hai haie learned a useful lesson lebson of 01 life from cabi caei branch brachi that iou have pursued pur aed and hive yourself to apple the sure you have laid the foundation found for a roble and A roble womanhood if you could know real jov in life and merit in the life to come be benefict bene fact rs of the lite human family let bour 3 our motto lie be I 1 will dedi dedicate I 1 cateri mi lite lile to the lion don a of rood to rn mikii llull d re ee I 1 umble but cour counge be firm but i ot ivr r eannie be proud but not vain and be jealous but not envious en lr alt b ut of lite confiant ou meet them bi iv ly and it if 5 iou ou cannot alanis succeed as bell ell a ai nou ou w would ill cilc c to do t te e bet 3 iou ou can call the right honorable Hono niblo william R E glodstone said no booie oi c ever failed who ubo carre 03 tried to do anything the ty tr it can be slid said of him is that his success was the battle |