The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-03-27
JUNIOR EXHIBITION.
Decided Success, Financially and
Otherwise.

A Decided Success, Financially and
Otherwise.
The junior class Of the Wellington
high school gave an exhibition in the
opera house Friday evening, March %,
to large and attentive audience. Ow-
ing to an accident to the curtain the
beginning was somewhat deferred.
The first selection, the class song,
Victoria" was very creditably rendered
and well received. Miss Gertrude Watts
was sick and unable to read her essay on
''NeighbOrs." Miss Lulu Vincent opened
the individual part of the program by a
recitation, "Me and Maize" Giles Gard
ner followed and demonstrated clearly,
by means Of blackboard, the positive
superiority of the phoenix Feline At
tachment," for sewing machines, over
the old fOOt-pOwer method.
"a Study in Black and White" was a
novel departure from the usual groove of
exhibition programs. Miss May HoIlen-
bach was black and Miss Orrie Foote
white.
Arthur MasOn's grafton, "Uuniversal
Peace" was an able production and was
well delivered, evoking much applause.
The junior girls greeted the audience
with vocal trio, "a Meadow Song"
and won well-merited applause.
Miss Bessie Halls recitation, "The
Professor Learns to dance" did full JUS
tice to selection. The audience were
carried along through the various phases
Of the peice by the superior manner of
rendering and the vivid illustrations of
the professors determined efforts to
master the intricacies Of the may
whirl. She was roundly applauded.
'The house that Jack built was a
very able Illustration of this tragical,
blood-curdliDg rhyme of Mother Goose.
Jack Gardner was on hand and everyone
that took part in the proceedings seemed
desirious of making him the architect
Of this fabled house.
The curtain rose on the second part
without any chance by those of the audi
ence to admire the Trilby-like peda
extremities of the performers.
The wOrkman-like swing Of the six
"Jolly Blacksmiths" was good repro.
ductiOn of the movement of the ordinary
smith. Their song, accompanied by the
shrill ring ST the anvil, was also good.
Misses Fern Smith and Alice Laundon pre-.
sided at the piano and played an accom-
piament in the shape of duet.
Misses Ethel Herrick and Lola Bab-
cock debated the question, Resolved,
that the characteristic properties of mat
ter are more desirable attributes OF
human character than the universal
properties" Inertia, indestructibilty
and inpenetrability were taken up by
the negative and ductility, maleability
and brittleness were taken up by the
affirmative. The debate was concise and
to the point.
'The. McWilliams family and the
membraneOus Group" a recitation by
Harley Horr, was thrilling description
of that narrowing experience which has
led SO many husbands to threaten to
apply for divorce. This selection was
well suited to the style of the speaker.
In the Burial of the guns" Arthur
Sprague found defamation just suited
to his temperament and threw himselfin-
to it with zeal that gives him a right
to the nickname, senator" The
scenes portrayed, in the selection were
characteristic Of the close of our late
civil war. The rendering was excellent.
The last selection, "The Ruggles in
vited out, was given by eight of the
class, one being absent. The dramatis
personae was as follows: Gertrude Holt,
Mrs. Ruggles; Kate Brumby, Fern Smith,
Vinna Peters. Gerald Williams, Ford
Hall, Claude Lebeck, Clarence Warren,
and James Condor, the Ruggles children.
This took the best of anything Of the
evening, especially among the juvenile
portion of the audience. NJ
All of the selections were given very
satisfactorily, rejecting honor upon the
class and upon the persevering work Of
their faithful teachers.
There were two hours of good enter
taiment and the audience went away
feeling Justly proud Of this representa-
tiOn Of the work done in our schools.
The gross receipts were $102.60.