The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-27
TWO COMMANDMENTS
Over the River last Night open the
Local Season.
BRIDGEPORT AND MARTINS FERRY.
Schools Each sond Another Glass out
into tho world... Interesting and
Creditnblc Exercises Mt both Places.
Tho Graduates and their Perform.
nnccs.,

, The twonty.sccond annual commence
mont Of tho Martins Ferry high school
last night filed tho opera house to over.
flowing. Many persons wcro present
from tho nciThboring towns and cities.
The stage was beautifully decorated
with plants, flowers and tho class colors.
1t was occupied by tho five graduates,
superintendent, teachers andpupils, and
presented a fine appearance.
Miss Blanche Gillespie presided at
tho piano. The graduating class consis.
ted Of Misses Clcod Anthony, Vein
Clark, Gertie Cow, Maggie Moore and
Howard Montgomery. Tho class had
no motto. The colors were white and
gold. The girls were dressed in white and
wore flowers. The class selected Its own
representatives, as a literary society
would its officers, and tho teachers had
nothing 10 do with this. The graduates
who represented the class OF '92 we're
Howard Montgomery and Miss Gertio
Cow, and they did 1t very cfeditably
and to tho satisfaction OF all present.
Tho programme occupied only two
hours, while under tho old plan COM
mencemcnts lasted much longer. The
largo audience enjoyed the exercises
and pronounced tho new plan q decided
improvement upon tho old.
The exercises were opened with mn
invocation by Rev. A. L. Brownlee,
pastor OF the UP. church. This was
followed by tho "song OF Welcome" by
the high school chorus, a good one, OF
fifty voices, under the direction OF Miss
Mcdonald. The essay OF Miss Gertio
Cow vas a splendid one, pretty from a
rhetorical standpoint, and was highly
appreciated as evinced by the applause.
The subject was, "rhe Roots Of the
Present Lie Deep in the Past" The
civilization OF to-day when compared 10
that Of the ancients shows thu sc arc
largely borrowers. In literature We are
not ahead OF the Greeks OF three thous-
and years ago. In sculpture We are lar
inferior to the school OF Phidias. In
architecture We are not ahead OF Jul
ancestors. Even our own form Of gov
eminent is not new. for Athens was
more democratic than either the re-
publics of the United States or Switzer-
land. Many, yes, nearly all, OF our adj
vantages are the results OF tho labors OF
our ancestors.
There was less gush in both essays
than usual, and they were more like the
productions of students going from an
academy than n high school.
"Wiegenlied" was we'll rendered by
the chorus, in which Miss Carrie Cross
ley sang a solo very sweetly.
INVISIBLE WORLDS"
the essay Of Howard Montgomery, was
an able and very interesting one, scion
tifc and we'll written, and was well re-
ceived. He said that mans nature
compels him to 20 from the known to
the unknown. He is constantly reach
ing for new facts. Yet he ncvor attains
the perfect. The telescope revolution
lied the astronomical theories. The
microscope brought Invisible Worlds
to mans vision. 1t showed him the
impurities Of nature. 1t led to the dis
covery of the disease germs and opened
up vast fields for future investigation.
Just as the atmosphere teens with myr-
lads Of bacteria, SO does mans moral
nature swarm with those germs which
lead him from the paths OF rectitude.
The next on the programme was the
singing Of "The Dawn Of Day" by the
chorus, which was done very nicely.
The address by President W.. H.
Scott, LII D., OF the Ohio State Uniyer-
sity, was a very mastery one. He took
for his subject Action" and showed
that youngxmen and women in the fu.
ture must DO advanced work ii they
wish to become something. The address
was highly interesting and instructive,
was listened to with intense interest,
and elected much applause.
The address was followed by the pre-
sentation of diplomas, very neatly, by
Superintendent j. Z. Mannix.
Next came the singing OF "Fairie
Voices" by the chorus, which was fol.
lowed by the bencdiction by Rev. A. L.
Brownlee.
The commencement was a perfect sue
cess. The applause was enthusiastic.
Each OF the graduates received nu-
merous presents and all sorts OF nice
things were said to them after the exer-
ciscs were over.
II BANQUET
Of the High school alumni in Com
mercial hail after the commencement
was a very enjoyable affair. Only mem
beers Of the association and their wives
and husbands and the speakers were
present, in all numbering about seven
ty-tive. Mr.. Charles Morrison was
toast-master, and responses were made
by Dr.. Scott, .Supt. Mannix, J. W. Bow.
nocker, A. W. Harris, Miss Maggie Raj
ston and Mrs. Nj. F. carp, and a'poem
was read by Jesse Jones.
THE RRInGEPoRT SCHonLs