The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-10
West Rutland.

| A pleasant entertainment was given by
the pupils attending the school of Mr.. j.
j.. Leonard, In the town hall on Monday
evening the 2Sth ult The hall was well
filed at an early hour, principally by the
| friends and relatives of the children. The
programme was rather lengthy one, re-
| quiring about two hours and half in its
rendition yet the youthful performers kept
their patrons in excellent humor through
| out The concert reading and speaking of
classes B and A evinced nice culture in the
art of elocution. The declarations and
dialogues were given with an case and
naturalness seldom acquired by children of
tender age. OF the many selections that
were creditably rendered we will make
particular mention of few. In the beau
tiful ballad "Still love thee" Miss Ella
Cops proved herself capable of singing
with taste and sweetness. In the funny
"court scene" "ChaIlie Ross and "Matildy
Jane Peters" brought down the house. Dan
Carmody in "The Ghost" aided by COM
ical "make up, kept the audience in q
roar. John Cops, in "Paddy's mistake"
and indeed in the several parts which he
assumed was perfect. The pretty ballad
"Gathering shells" was very sweetly sung
by Miss Mary Ward. The Misses b. Da-
vine, l.. Monaghan, j. Tigue and H. Owens
acted "Aunt Pollys Lesson" very accept
ably. The negro sketch "AIxaton soci-
ETY. with the popular ballad "Old Black
joe by John Cops and Thomas Moloney
was pleasing performance. The "Rival
politicians" personated by Edward McCor-
mack and Dan Carmody was a funny piece
of burlesque acting. The fine song "Leap
for life" by John Cops and closing ad-
dress by F. Moloney concluded the enter
tainment /! was success in every par
ticular and rec eived the bountiful applause
it deserved.
An examination and distribution of
prizes took place in the schools in district
No. Z during the past week, the closing
week of the term. The examination &C.
CURED on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
10Y hbN was bOhuuOtSt W thC lhCNs ". ".
REILLY, one of the committee of the dis
trict. The examination in the principal
departments, taught by Miss Rourke and
j. L. Leonard, occupied two days, and was
thorough and practical. The advanced
pupils in either department evinced gen.
eral knowledge of the various branches
taught. Besides a perfect mastery of all
branches required to be taught in common
schools, several pupils in the male depart
ment have made commendable progress in
bookkeeping, algebra, history, etc. The
government and progress of the primary
departments taught by Miss Colligan and
Miss Moloney were inspected on Friday
and were found to be very satisfactory On
Friday afternoon the distribution of prizes
took place. About seventy-five useful vol
umrs were given to the pupils who had
distinguished themselves most for pro-
gress in study and department
Among those who received pizes
in Miss Rcurke's department were
the following Bridget Davine, Ella
Copps, Jennie Tigue, Jennie Carmody,
Bridget Hogan, Eliza Monaghan, Maggie
Carmody, Annie Owens, Mary McCue, and
several others. In the male department
the following pupils received prizes
Daniel Mccarthy, Thomas Maloney, James
Gallagher, Michael Burke, James Hogan,
Willie Flemming, John Ryan, James
Burke, Thomas Deacy, Thomas Casey,
etc. The distribution was in.erspersed
with singing declarations and dialogues
and occupied several hours. Thus closed
the school year in district No. 2. As it is
very seldom we have had to chronicle so
pleasant an ending to the years labors in
this large school, we do SO at length and
with pleasure now. All pupils need fire.
quent and liberal encouragement in their
educational progress, and when parents
and school officers generally become care
less and indifferent to their advancement
and merits it is not surprising that they
should become, in time, careless and indif-
ferent to the great advantage of acquiring
good education. MARBLE.