The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-02

l .OO W TIC pICciuCbt, NcAuOA II AACt-
logg. Miss Jean Gilmore was the secre-
tary. I
A very interesting and appropriate ,
had been arranged by Mrs
Morse, which was performed through
out in the most creditable manner Il
The exercises were opened by singing
"Red, White and Blue"
Essay-"The Constitutions of Kansas"
by Nora Hassler.
Reading Whittier's ia Marais du
Cygne," by Jennie Delaney.
Solo-"The Whisper OF Love-" by
Miss Issie Faust.
Essay-"Boys of Kansas" by Mr..
Huesiis Warren.
Essay-"Kansas Grasshoppers," by
Kate Hurst
Solo-"Keep the Horseshoe over the
Door," by Miss Addie Tandy.
Reading-"Burial of Barber" by Miss
May Whitney.
Essay--"John Brown" by Jessie
Green.
Essay-"The Santa Fee Trail" by A.
Whittlesey.
Essay-"How Kansas Became a |
State" by Robert Osborn.
Essay-"Exodus," by Alex. A. Reeves.
Quartette-"We are Going From the
Cotton Fields"
Five minute recess
Chorus-"America"
Essay-HWhat Eastern People Think
of Us" by Miss Lille Dale.
Reading-"K. T. Did," by Lulu Bar
nett.
School paper, edited by members of the
school, read by Arthur Milliken.
Quintette-"The Call to Kansas"
Essay-"Literati of Kansas" by
frankie Stotler.
Reading-"The Emigrants' Song" by
Emma Jones.
Essay-"Temperance in Kansas" by
Marion Culver.
Essay-"Newspapers of Kansas" by
Livingston Buck.
Mrs. Morse made an interesting state
ment of her experience in the Quantrell
Raid at Lawrence, at the request of her
scholars, she having been on visit to
her sister in that city at the time the
inhuman butchery took place, she
gave the leading features of the occur
rences of the raid She was listened to
with breathiess attention by the students
and visitors.
Essay-"Glrls of Kansas" 10y Eta
Kirkendall.
Solo-"Up in a Mulberry Tree" by
frankie Stotler.
Essay-"Prophecies," by W. G. Jay.
, Chorus-Star Spangled Banner.
Mrs. Morse here stated that about a
dozen other essays and readings had
been prepared for the occasion which
would have TO be postponed on account
of want Of time.
DIR. Cordley. was called upon TO speak
on 1.-THE Great Contest" which he did
in his usual happy manner. He COM
plimented all the actors in the great
contest for Freedom in Kansas, for the
services they had rendered to the
. cause.
Rev. j. F. Hendy, comparative
new-co mer, was called upon to give his
impressions of Kansas, which he did
briefly and eloquently, complimenting
the people on the stand they had
taken in the matter of temper.
ance, and urging them to push on in the
good work till the victory was COM
, piete.
? Mr.. Stotler was announced for tho
closing talk. He spoke of the satIsfac
= ton it gave him to witness the exercises
and of the pride he felt in the growth oI
the Emporia schools. 1t was emblem
attic of the growth of the state; com
pared the scene before him with the frs
school in Emporia; told how "the boys
of the infant town in 1853 had taken VI
a subscription and fixed up a ten by
i twelve building on the northwest corner
of Commercial street and Sixth avenue
q by ceiling it inside and filling in be
tween the ceiling and weather boarding
+. with saw dust, so as to make the "shan
> ty" comfortable, and there a teaches
then before him-Miss Mary
in Emporia. What contrast between
that small beginning, and the presen
magnificent city schools.
The program was arranged by Mrs
u Morse to give brief and complete re
view of the history of the state and it
II Accomplishments. The essays were al
e short and were crowded with facts. TIL
D, writers seemed TO be interested in thei
le various topics, and their papers we're
a credit to them. None of them wer,
D. dull, and many of them abounded il
good hits which were enjoyed full
"A by the audience.
ar No doubt the teachers and scholar
st were pleased by the large attendance c
the patrons and friends of the schoo
=. and we are sure we express but tn
y unanimous verdict of all who wer
- present when we say tn
=, proceedings were of the most il
= teresting and instructive character, ant
that kansas Day" as observed by GU
High school Will result in a deeper r
III gard for our state and its institutions
both on the part of scholars and patron
The teachers are deserving of the higl
D. est praise and confidence for the goo
nc work they are doing, as evidenced by Ii
&c good order in the school, and the splel
did manner in which all the young pc,
ty pie acquitted themselves on the occ
Id sion.