The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-23
|0R DAY CEREMONIES
,,ve Number of Trees Planted
throughout the City
Yesterday.
resting Exercises by the Children
at the Opera
House.

ot Falls than Tuesday, but it is
htful whether an Italian sky and tie
n breath of the gentle chinook
Id have brought out greater numbers
dies and children than were seen
n the streets of the city and at the
"a house during the hours of tree
ting and the afternoon celebration.
the appointed time the pupils of
public schools met at their respec
rooms and under the direction of
r teachers set out trees upon the
lunds surrounding the buildings, after
Oh they returned to their homes to
mare for the ceremonies at the opera
se. Many trees were sci out during
day by the more enterprlsing prop
| owners in the city, all Of whom. it is
ned. may live to see each become IA
pg of beauty and a JOY forever.
me little ones, however, looked for
Id to the ceremonies at the opera
Use with the greater interest, and as
time approached for their assembling
w could be seen coming by tives and
Is from every direction. Where they
came from puzzled the "oldest inhab-
nt." They seemed to spring from the
bund like grasshoppers. There were
ldren to the right and children to the
and children at the front, charging
4 the famous six hundred. not through
ain of bullets, but before the admiring
nces of the middle aged and the old
70 heaved a sigh of regret that there
Re no arbor days when they were
nng.
me spacious opera house was soon
ed with eager. %expectant little ones
4 proud mothers, who, like the Spar
dame, counted her greatest treasures
her offsprings. And when the great
bp curtain rolled up what a sight was
esented to the view. Fully five hun
ID sweet, innocent, bright, little girls
bows we're revealed, each with spark
Q ewes and rosy cheeks, nodding and
fling as the face of a loving mother
q fond brother or sister was recognized
The vast assembly before them. 1t
s a beautiful picture and the beholder
like eXclaiming:
t# All! what would the world be to us,
IL the children were no more.
<rH We should dread the desert behind us
EW Worse than the dark before.
Ii. AS Milton wrote, The childhood
ovs the man as morning shows the
N" the exercises which followed de
Dnstrated that the destiny of Great
al 1.-N1 anI oh nod IN
brthy hands when the present genera
bn of men and women who now lnhabl'
shall have passed away. But righ'
re a tribute of praise should be paid t.
pse who had charge of and who taugh'
d drilled the little ones to appear a
ch pleasing advantage even to colo
d critical eye We mean the patient
firing. accomplishing teachers of gu
bblic schools. For please remcmbe
Ting parents. that it is to the teacher
your children you will W much, l
bt all, of that success which may crow
(eir efforts through life.
sThe exercises opened with music b.
Ae opera house orchestra led by MI
f%ppengale. This was followed by tn
n bening song by the 800 young voice
bon the stage, controlled by the sway
"A g baton of Prof. banks. The grovern
s proclamation was then read Dy on
the male pupils, after which Mayor
ect Webster delivered a short address
|Hx Mr.. Webster confessed to some surpris
seeing his name upon the program
one of the active participants az In
pera house, and Furthermore coptasse
bat he prepared no speech for the occa
y lOn. but the presence OF such Il vas
nmber OF the pupils of the city school
tould inspire the tongue Of the dunn
bic gentleman referred to the lmpor'
nee Of the day which called them all t.
\ ether and said that if each pupil woul
" liant a tree each year the city would, |
y b. course of a few years, present
eene as beautiful as it would be pleasin
bid grateful to the eye. Morally, mel
lily and physically the due observanc
Arbor dav would prove a success. II
blurred all sacrediy to fulfill those obi
Rtion which the day: imposed upon a
pr citizens. The speaker was hear!i
pplauded at the conclusion OF his III
fomptu address. The following pr
FAMINE was then carried out;
eadinp History Of Arbor Da.
Wallace Hoffman.
eadinp .'.,,. Extracts from Lette
Helen Parker. IN
bng. swinging Meath the Oh Apple Ire
School. -
e~citation "'' Little Acorl
Ass Exercise. Historical Trees, Told in
{XT Rhym
-4X ncitatinp
HxX Under the Washington Elm, 'alhpfius
tHX Harold Cary.
VA png A.. THE Monarch Of the WOOD
UE School. .,
e~citation ........"H 10y to Make a Whist
Eddie Jones.
4ecitation THE Gingerbread IRE
~ Erickson.
}ER When the Green Gets Back on the Tre'
at& Jessie Herring.
recitation ....... MIR Springs Conce
iz& Dolly Barnard.
Ping We Have Been Rambling, Wanderir
%E school.
becitation -. Legend of the Asp,
XXX, Helen Lewis.
n Elass Recitation, Marriage of the Flowe
y ecitation NM" Pine Tree Acaden
|MN Fred Gilchrist.
IXB QUOTATIONS. .. . . ..... ......,.. '''...'..'',
|W Sixth Grade. .
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