Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-06-14
FAIRMoNT COMMENCEMENT
Closes With an entertainment by the
Alumni.
Special 10 The SUNDAY Register.

Alumni.
Special 10 the Sunday Register.
FAIRNoNT, W. Va, June l3.-Iesterday
evening the exercises Of commencement
week were closed with an entertainment
given by the Alumni of the Normal School.
The past years work has been very fruitful
Of good results. Progress has been made
srd the school has grown in merit, in use
iulness and in popularity. A new class OF
even Young ladies and gentlemen have
gone forth to work, to elevate our youth, to
DO honor to our young commonwealth.
- As previously announced in the REGIS.
TER the exercises began on Saturday night
last with an address before the normal ly.
rtum by Hon. B. f. Martin, Of Grafton.
The ~baccalaureate, as also previously men,
toned, was preached on Sunday morning
following BY Rev. G. NJ. Shot, Of Wheel.
ing, and the exercises of this week began
with an address before the Mozart Society,
on Monday night last By Hon. John Il.
Holt, of Grafton. Mr.. Hollis subject was
Personal Influence" and it was handled in
a manner that did credit to the gentleman
and gave satisfaction to his auditors. The
orator wss accorded good attention and he
well repaid his audience for their attend
ance.
Lyceum Anniversarr.
The anniversary performance of the Nor.
NAL Lyceum occurred on Tuesday night
and a good programme was rendered. The
essays, one by Miss Marian Martin, on 1.-THE
Dignity of Labor" and the other by Miss
Lizzie BURNER, on "Womanhood," were
good productions, tolerably we'll rendered
and generally appreciated. The declama-
ZION entitled Shifting the Rock" by Miss
Mary Knight, was q deserving performance
and earned for the lady the plsudits of the
audience. Mr.. R. N. Henderson's grafton
on Work or Play" was also quite a good
thing, as was the defamation Of Mr.. Elios
Lemasters, which followed it. The only
performance on the programme that failed
TO please the audience was the debate.
l.. j. Corby and W. C. Mann, both of
Wood county, discussed compulsory school
law. Mr.. Corby aired his views in favor of
such a law in a thirty.fve inmates speech.
There was little or no point to his argu-
ment, and he so wearied his listeners that
it was sptly remarked, HE sought to make
bis speech immortal by making it eternal"
He came dangerously near doing the latter.
Mr.. Mann did very much better. he spoke
briefly and to the point, but the already
weary audience refused to listen we'll. It
was an injury to the last gentleman that his
opponent used up nearly all the time and
quite all of the peoples patience.
Class Day.
On Wednesday morning the graduating
class held its class day exercises. The
programme on this occasion was q good
one aud all the performances were FIRST
class. The essay OF ]. s. Furbee, on
Wordsworth" was q very excellent per
Torrance and was well listened to BY the
audience. The Class History, by S. j. Sat.
terfeld, was q particularly we'll gotten no
affair and interested everybody. Mr.. F. P.
Harris Grafton on Changes" was q 6ne
production and was delivered in the gentle
mans usual happy style. Mr.. A. F. Bal
lot followed with the class poem, aud held
the close attention Of the audience while he
read his well written and pleasing produc
ton. The only lady graduate this year vas
Miss l.. May Mckinney, and she gracefully
and neatly read her well written essay on
School Days and Future Work" The
Glass Prophet Mr.. c. B. Riggle, drew for all