The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-06-17
HAPPY CHILDREN,
Clssing Exercfses at the Public Behssls Close sf
 the SehOlastic Year.

Sehssls s-Auspscious Close sr
 the seholastic Year.
 Yesterday afternoon the closing exer.
 cises of the scholastic season took place c
 the school building on Fourth street. Tn,
 occasion caused the assembling of mum.
 Der of visitors, including the school direc
 tors, interested spectators and fond par.
 ents. Perhaps . brighter and more inter.
 esting lot of children could not be found
 in the United States. Those who are pos
 sesssd of the idea that Tombstone is deu
 of savages, composed of rough men, with.
 out the refining influence of women Ol children, should be present to see the in.
 teresting brood that Tombstone can turn
 out when occasion demands. With 8
 slight interval, school has been in session
 for ten months. The progress that has
 been made in popular education in this city within the past year IS astonishing.
 A good deal of this is due to the energy and perseverance of Professor Sherman, aided by progressive and pub lie spirited school board. A year ago there was not an average attendance sf moresthan eighty pupils. Now there is an attendance of two hundred. A year ago there was not as much furniture in the school room, as Tn the average prospectors tent. There WAS no text books of any ac- count, not map, atlas, globe, or any tool sf the trade"- Now the public schools of Tombstone would be .. credit to any cons munity on the continent; they are we'll furnished, adequately supplied with books maps, globes, and the other paraphnalia of the school room. The children attending, range all the way from six to eighteen years and are as well behaved, bright, in- telligent and happy crowd as could be found in this broad land. The teachers are, Prof Sherman, principal, and Mrs Stanton, Mrs. Gaston and Miss Santee. as sistants. The exercises yesterday were not only .creditsble to the children but fiatter- ing in the extreme to the teachers. We never witnessed school exercises where the pupils were more self possessed. The more advanced, who read essays, were cool and calm, with we'll digested composi- tions that would be no disgrace to preten- tious grown people. The little ones who recited or sang were remarkable for their self possession, delightful impotence and practical self reliance In thls in stance, as in most others, the girls were ahead of the boys. We believe that the spectstors present will bear us out in the ss. girls were far more self pos ssssed and spoke their little piece" with more. effect than the boys. The following was tho bill of fare for the occasion:
 Greeting Song.
 Little but I'm spunfy-Joha. ssc,.ation.Tskinr Care of Baby. Allie Hunt.
 kerson, Lizzie Murphy, Thaddfe Carr. w.lter
 Price sad Donnie Sullivan.
 to School.. Sarah Lewellan.
 Jsnes HsrricS. While Brown. " ~ "'
 Pearls. Stella Wade. Sonf Raise Your Hands Story. Annie narmont. Great Republic. .. George ManK. Birds-Hulda Jones. Minnie
 kins. Ka.ie Johnion, Mary Leweiian. Maggie
 Hill, 6crtie Mccormick, Eddie Hanlon, James
 Herrick, Lander Rood, Earnest Evcreardx Tom IVY Early Home. Belle ow.l.y. ssoIt.sonia SS Ss R.os iSs %syss' verse.asude iiyora, Frank s Nc
 Cuiiough.
 ,,omposiiiOn-Ny Travels. Maggie Sullivan. 5isiogae.welcome-Eddie HSnlon' George Rsf |. ferty. Richard Whinnen. o.po:ition-Artzons Summers. May Beilya Sscro pssiosU sd;s H.nic, scrsn mn1 R.r, .1nsx '.ng-Meniyl aerrilyi.Hnlds JoSss. Katie
 Johnson, Everlyn Hawkins, Lizzie Murphy Mimic hiil, Maggie Hill. -Nosh's Ark. ....... Selma Fonck. Racitation-My Speech. ...... .Rlin,re Ingersoll ask why I am so bad-.Frant
 Nutter. ,Ong-Coms, Birdie, Come. ..... Misses Crosby. ompo.ition.-Jewelry.: ::...... Edith Anderson. Fellow Who is Game - Arthur Competition Walter Scott. Mary Welsh. is Coming. Maggie Hill. emIosition-Animals... Maggie Costello S,c' SSTe. Engisn. school-Katis Johnson, ida
 Ciiaord, Lizzie Murphy, Hulda Jones, Ester |
 AexandeI, Minnie Jones, James Herrick, Ear News Boy. ......... .Alne Howe. | lem p0sition-Europe. Mary Murphy aischisi. COrs Goodrich.
 son Is.. Ssybg Sts a.isy Iiy Hks 'Shn
 Bertha Baron, Minnie Jones. , SSnposition-The Dog in the Msnger--Bells | aickson. | Vacation Song.
 From this array 1t is difficult to call out l Inc best. The generality was very good, but # we should single any out, we con. !ider the following most worthy: Katie Johnson was the star of the occasion, and 1 vas closelyifoll0wed by the following, who Ire worthy of special mention. Mary Sul. ivan and Maggie Sullivan acquitted themselves very creditably and so did Jors Goodrich, Frank Anderson, Allie Howe, Edith Anderson, Anne English, !ohnnY Woods, Mary Welch, the two Misses Owsley's and Fillmore Ingersoll. At the conclusion. of the exercises, the Revs. Mcintyre, Robinson and OLeary, were called on to make s few remarks. | Messrs. Mcintyre and Peabody declined, Or. Robinson made few happy remarks | md Father OLeary made neat little Peech, experimenting the children On the | 'uccess of their exercises, wishing them a | 'ieasant vacation and hoping that the next | ,chool year, would find them all at their 1 desks, bright and happy. Mir. Goodrich, school trustee, was then called upon, but | be naively declined, saying that Judge | Drum did all the talking for the board. hr. Drum was then forced to the front | Asd retaliated on Goodrich in gsod style, besides delivering witty and appropriate 'peech to the pupils. This was the close af the exercises. The parents of the child. l ren in particular, and Tombstone in gen. sral. should bepioud of the pupils of the public schools.