The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-06-11
VANCE SEMINARY.
Commencement Exercises.

Commencement Exercises.
Tuesday night the annual commence
ment exercises of Vance Seminary
were held in Burwell Hall. It is quite
needless to say that a large audience
was present-there always is on
an occasion of this kind. The pro-
gram was a very interesting one and
the young ladies acquitted themselves
in most creditable manner. The
principals, Mrs. M. Parham and Mrs.
w. D. Horner, have cause to feel graf
flied at the admirable exhibition of
their careful and thorough training as
shown by their pupils Tuesday evening.
The program was as follows, each
number being rendered in a pleasing
and highly creditable manner:
PARTI.
LIGHTHEART's PILGRIMAGE--AN ALLEaORY.
Lighthetrt, the Pilgrim,
Miss Pat Lou Jones.
Conscience, the Guide,
Miss Kate Dean.
Frivolity, Queen of the Valley OF Pleasure,
Miss Daisy Stephens.
Mirth, Sport, Folly, Falsehood, Shame
and other jewellers in the valley.
Celesta, Guardian of theHeights of Wisdom,
Miss Annie Richards.
Reason, Religion and other other
jewellers on the Heights.
PART II.
Duet, La Voix du Ciel, A. B. Neldy
Misses Pinkston and Written.
Recitation. Little Turncoats,
Duet, Parlor Waltz, VIM. j. Smith.
Misses Robards and Turner.
Vocal Solo, For You, Sidney Smith.
Miss Lizzie Pinkston.
Duet. First Steps ;s,.o. ,rr;n Bellak'
instrumental Solo, Valse Ch-om'que,
B. GODDARD.
Miss Daisy Stephens.
Recitation, Disturbing the Meeting,
Miss Zene Lassiter.
Instrumental Solo, Shadows on the
SWannanO2, MearoS.
Miss Isabel Horner.
Vocal Solo, Comrades, Felix McGleonon.
Miss Lucy Written.
Instrumental Solo, Grand Polka de
Concert, Wallace.
Miss Kate Dean.
Recitation,
Misses Richards, Beacon, Boyd, O'Neil,
Stephens, Richards, Jones.
~ Mears,
Miss Lizzie Pinkston.
Song and Chorus, Stay in Carolina, Holt.
School.
Three medals were awarded, one for
proficiency in music, to Miss Lizzie
Pinkston, and two scholarship medals
to Misses Zene Lassiter and Susie Rob-
ards. The medals were presented by
Rev. r. Van Deventer, his remarks
being quite felicitous and appropriate,
showing him to be as apt and ready a
speaker on occasions of this kind as he
is in the pulpit.
Wool.
Bring us your wool. We have an
order for all we can buy and will pay
| highest prices.
w. D. BURwELL & Co.
The CoIored People and the Southern
| Exposition.
AS heretofore announced the coloreG
people of the South will have special
exhibit at the Interstate Exposition
at Raleigh this fall. A circular before
us reads as follows:
The colored people Of the Southern
States are determined to unite with the
better class of the white people for the
upbuilding of the South. They declare
to the world at large that there is NO
race problem to solve; that there is not
that the white and colored people can
and will live together in peace and
quietude; that this section is destined
| to be the most prosperous and thickly
settled section of the Union and there
| fore the most powerful.
The colored people will join the
white people in their efforts to have in
the City of Raleigh n. c., Southern
Exposition during October and Novem-
Der of the present year. The exhibit
of the colored people of the South will
be most complete il all particulars.
They will cover more than fifteen
thousand feet with their exhibit.
For the purpose Of working up public
interest in the matter. John II. Will
liams, Secretary of the North Carolina
Industrial Association, will be in Hen
derson to-day Thursday and address
the people in behalf of this object. The
public cordially invited to hear him.
Time and place of speaking not an
nounced.
At the meeting a permanent county
organization will be effected and the
colored people will therefore tu.n out
so as to vote for their choice as to who
shall compose the officers of the Comfy
Association.
There will be a President, Secretary,
and one Executive Committeeman fol
each township in the county, elected
at the meeting.