Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-04
LESSONS IN PATRIOTISM.
INTERESTING EXERCISES IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS YESTERDAY.
How the Pupils Are Early Taught to
Love Their Country, and to Sing
Its Praises.

How the Pupils Are Early Taught to
Love Their Country, and to Sing
Its Praises.
In pursuance of the custom of having
patriotic readings and songs on the day
preceding the national anniversary, inter-
esting exercises of that character were held
in most of the public schools yesterday.
The various schools were neatly decorated
with the national colors and flowers, the
pupils were in holiday attire, and the ex-
ercises all passed off in creditable man.
ner. Many parents visited the schools,
and they had the pleasure of listening to
songs and Rotations by their sons and
daughters that were calculated to awaken
in them sentiments of patriotism that they
will not forget as they advance toward the
thresholds of manhood and womanhood.
SACRAMENTO GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
At the Sacramento Grammar School the
exercises were in keeping with the occasion
and OF very pleasing character. The
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THE Thirteen Colonies" was given by the
following named boys and girls of Miss
Carrington's class, each representing one of
the colonies: Arthur Coppin, New Hamp-
shire: Thomas Springer, Massachusetts;
Lewis Littlefield, Connecticut Edna Green
law. Rhode Island Daisy Logan, New
York; Mamie Clark, New Jersey; Hattie
Norseworthy, Pennsylvania; May Joesink,
Delaware; Sadie Robertson, Maryland; Eta
Waterman, Virginia; Juanita Vounner,
North Carolina; Rachel Chappell, South
Carolina; Georgia Zimmerman, Georgia.
The dialogue was delightfully."- given and
received with enthusiastic applause.
The Daughters of the Regiment March"
in which sixteen misses of Miss Barclays
class took part, was an artistic drill, given
within small space on the stage. The
exactness with which all the movements
were executed showed that considerable
time and pains had been given to its prep
aration. Each young miss was dressed in
white and carried small American flag.
Those who took part were Gertie Arnold,
Mae Bedee, Lulu Chambers, Mamie Easter
brooks, Ella Farrell, Emma Gehring, Annie
Heisen, Olga Iring, Lolita Krebs, Tillie
Lang, Sophia Litzberg, Ida McMullen,
Minnie Newman, May Richmond, Lena
Wolf, Laura Wahl, Bessie Shaw.
In addition TO these numbers, the follow
ing programme was rendered: Festival
March" school; 1.-The Festal Day Has
Come" Gertrude Hutchinson; 1.-The Land
of Washington" Mary Butler; "The Song
of Marion's Men," Blanche Rippon; piano
solo. Annie Schaw; Our Banner" Katie
Sutlitf; The American Flag" Eddie Hack,
Frank Michel, Bernard Garrison, John
Carolan, Walter Gaige, Archie Gray, Guy
Plat, James Tracy; "Fourth of July
Sadie Bedee; Columbia, the Gem of the
Ocean," school; The American Flag"
Frank Short; piano solo, Alice Dockstader;
America" school; Arnold, the Traitor"
Daisy Peck.
UNION PRIMARY SCHOOL,
At the Seventh and G streets Primary
lumbia," by the school; THE Day of
independence, Villa Thompson: Tom
Elliot's Fourth" Clarence Marks; Our
Country" Linda Smith, Deeds of Kind
ness Flora Meister; "a Short Sermon, !"
Edna Grant; Fourth of July" George Car
roll; Somebody's Darling" Joe Simmons;
"a Georgia Volunteer" Winfred Lewis;
Won't and WILL" Norwood Hubbard;
Union and Liberty" Leah Smith; .'Inde.
pendence," Mable June; "Our Flag Frank
Williams; Which Loves Best" Helen
Wall; Landing of the Pilgrims" Eugene
Mouser; July Fourth Arthur Jones;
dialogue, The Flag" May Gilbert, Effie
Croucher, Minnie Small; song. Where the
Pretty Blue Birds Sing" George Fisher;
America. Mary Shearer; Asleep at the
Switch" Mabel Carmichael; Our Own
Country" Emma Sachs; Beautiful
of Sight" Frank Strover; THE Old
Woman TO the Veteran" Gertie Hall;
song, "The Vacant Chair" school;
The Pretty Red Squirrel" Helen
Marshall: Blue and Gray" Dan Hardy;
Aunt Tabitha," Pearl Niles; THE Reso-
luton" Ethel Tilton; Fourth of July"
Ellery Turner; Little Bopeep." Frank
Jones' song. Star, Spangled Banner"
school; Love of Country Miss Crowell's
class; The Boy that Promised Mother"
Carlos Perkins; God Bless Our Stars"
Alice Jones; "Curfew Must Not Ring To-
Night" Myra Smith; The Centennial"
Edith Grant; My Box Of Soldiers" Frank
Pedlar; Independence Day" Leila Mar
win; Celebrating the Fourth of JULY
Lulu Wasserman; dialogue. THE Seasons, !"
Bessie Small, Edith Martin, Title Shaw,
Lottie Putney; "Rodney's Ride" Jacob
Steinman; Tit Tat Toe Clayton Powers;
Winter Song, Mary Short The Story of
the Fourth" Harmon Bonte; Spring
time" Della Cameron; "Sky Lark" Ethel
Parsons; The Gray and the Blue" Claude
Ream; After the Fourth of July" Russell
Williams; song, America" the school
SIXTEENTH AND STREET SCHOOL.
The exercises here were in the following
order: ''S:ar-Spapgled Banner" class
song Chants the Robin" Miss Androits
class; recitation, "Por Robinson Crusoe,"
Katie Elliott; recitation, Naughty Nellie, "
Nellie Kady; recitation, "A Bear Story"
Bernice McLellin; recitation, AN Errand,"
Eddie Gerber; The American Flag u
Pauline johnson; song, Lullaby" Alice
Keller The Boy Who Helps His Mother
Roy Forbes Those Willow Whistles, u
Horace Bothnell; The Chick Mistake, -
Rena Hoskinson song, The Ash Grove,
Maude Coppin Heinrich and the Wolf"
Ruby Brown; What Little Boy Blue
Did, Maud Blue; Seeking Gold" Alfred
Bruno and Charles Morris; march
ing song, Miss Androits class reci-
tation, "our Flag" Rae Henderson
Boys Fun on the Fourth of July
Mamie De Puy; song, Columbia the
Maude Carter: The Better Land Ray
Doane; exercise, Miss Crofton's class reel.
tation, "a Summer Story Blanche Nc.
Lellan recitation, Harry" Harry Herr;
song, Roll Your Hands" Miss Androit's
Glass recitation, Little Grace" Mebel
White; recitation, Arithmetic" Herman
Futterer recitation, -Four and Twenty
Froggies," Edith Fly; recitation, Straw,
berries" Mabel Marsh song, Climbing
Up the Golden Stairs" Elsie Graw; song
Mount Vernon Bells THE Old Cradle,
Alice Aiken; Mammals Help" Mani,
Bronson "Dreading Winter" Carrie Ma
gam "a Boys Thought" Archie Kim
ball; "Tommy's Ride" Edna Thompson
song, America"
SUFFER- GRAMMAR SCHOOL,.
The following exercises were held at tn,
Suffer Grammar School, Twenty-first ant
L streets, Julian w. Johnson, Principal
Song, Hail Columbia" school; recitation
Glorious Fourth of July" A. Soune
recitation, Another Blue and Gray" Evt
cambridge; song, Revolutionary Tea,
Alfonza Mott; recitation, America,
Frank Denton; instrumental solo, Lau
rinda Borchers; recitation, George Light
ardt; recitation, United States,n Willie
Mott, Willie Adams. Fred Jurgens, Charlie:
Ross, Hayward Reed. Roy Mott, George
Nehrbass Adolph Noethig; recitation
Union" Louisa Hart; song, "Star-Spau
gled Banner" Fourth Grade; recitation
Name of Washington Ethel Latson
Della jackson, Effie Flanagan, Eller
Askwith, Estelle Mott; recitation, "Patri