Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-01
LOVE FOR LONGFELLOw.

Patriotic Pupils show Their Love for
the American Poet-..PubIic School
Exercises.
The Longfellow anniversary was Mt
tingly observed in public school building
No. /. of which Mr.. Dougherty is thu
efficient principal. The exercises with
the exception Of those in Miss Johnson'i
room. which were held Thursday, oc'
CURED yesterday:
The eighth and ninth grades. Miss
Nora G. Olson teacher, had the follow
ing programme:
Song-America, school; Rotations
Village Blacksmith, Florence Bib; The
Builders. Anna Grotjan; song-school
recitations-Pau Revere's Ride, Charlie
Durham; Old Clock on the Stairs. Ada
Hemenway; song-Beautiful Moonlight,
Blanch Warren and Mabel LATER; recita
tions-Reaper and the Flowers. Ida Hill
liar; Ship of State, Harry Eastman; San
ia Filomens, Bessie Gilmore; song
Merry Sunshine, school; Rotations
The Blue and the Gray. Irene Rossnf1eld
Bingen on the Rhine. Katie Gottsmani
Guilty OF not Guilty, Blanche Warren
song-Summer Rain. school; recitatiOns
Excelsior, Lydia Range; Light Of the
Stars, Mary Petit; song-In the Star
light, Blanche Warren, Gertie Conqueror,
Nellie Wsrnock, Mebel LATER and Della
Soutter; recitations-Palm of Life, Bes
sic Head; Children, Nellie Warnock
Twilight. Josephine Halves; Children's
Hour, Sophia Hult; song--The Sleigh
Ride with sleigh bell accompaniment
school; instrumental solo, Della Soutter
forty quotations from Longfellow. pu'
pills; calisthenics, school; Gertie Con-
queror. organist.
To the seventh grade under Miss Sarah
Johnston's instructions. the appended
programme was presented:
America. school; Address of Welcome
George Steelman; Patriotism, Harry
Hengsler: Poem. Lena Raible; Little May
school; The Flower of Liberty, Carl
Rochow; History of Our Flag, Walter
Rosenield; Star Spsngled Banner. school
Selections, school; Let This Banner
Wave Forever, Jose Ganahl; Twinkle,
Twinkle Little Star. school; Recitation,
Lulu Webb; song. Josie Ganahl and Lulu
Webb; Perseverance,. Olga Rochow; song
school; Opportunity, Josie Goldsmith
song, Arthur Kahlke, jamie Knowlton
George Steelman, Carl Rochow; Celum,
bia. school, John Henry Jones, Arthur
Kahlke; song, school; Good Old Days
jamie Knowlton; Goodnight, school.
Longfellow's birthday was observed by
the pupils of the fourth grade. Miss NJ
l.. Carlton, teacher, in the following
manner:
Recitation-The Village Blacksmith
by Charles Olson. Fred Smith. Herman
Carlson. Chas. Lorensen; song, by The
school; Shutdown. by Gertie Yorker; rec
itation-The Singers, by Mary thinner
man, Cora Toeninges. Annie Vratman
Amanda Nelson. Mary Ehlers. Nelli,
Ostermsn, Minnie Gahagan; song. by the
school: recitation. by Mile Dodge
Longfellow's Name. by ten children; song
by school; recitation-A Rainy Day, by
Amanda Witt; song. by the school; Selec
ton from Longfellow, by the pupils; Coco
Night.
The pupils of the third grade, MISS E
Frichot. teacher, had the following ex
ercises:
Recitstion-Psul Revere's Ride, By
Jessie Van Ripper; song. by the school
recitation. by Minnie Carlson; quotations
by Ray Reddig, Arthur Whitney enC
Lynde Beardsly; quotations by Sadie Rob
SON and Emil Johnson; recitatIon-Th,
Wave, by Lena George; reading-Ml
Lost Youth, by Alma Hult; The Arrow
and the Song. by Mary Sommers; TIL,
Children's Hour, by Laurs Reddington
reading-The Village Blacksmith. by
Jennie Dale; quotation. by Lena John.
son; LOngfellow's Name