Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-06-17
SPRINGFIELD.

SfRlNGFlELD.
f. b. Cook returned from Boston Saturday.
Miss Jennie Heald returned from Boston
Monday.
Frank Sheldon of Charlestown was in town
tuesday.
Miss Katie Wells of Walpole is visiting
Frank Watkins and wife.
Miss Mamie Currans of North Adams,
Mass, is visiting in town.
#. M Shanks, editor of the Londonderry
Sitter, was in town Monday.
Mrs. James Sullivan and child of Bellows
Falls is visiting her parents.
Edward O'Brien has gone to Newport, r.
l., where he will work for the summer.
Miss Ethelyn Gould of Boston School of
Oratory is visiting her sister, Mrs. Reed.
yohn and Neal Cane of Boston are home to
attend the marriage of their sister, Miss Mary
Cane.
The tickets for the graduating exercises
have been on sale at Wheeler's since Monday
and the demand has been very great.
Roland Andrews and Albert Allen came up
from Ieominster, distance of so miles, on
their bicycles Saturday, returning Monday.
The following program of the S. H. S.
class Of '96 will be given at the town hall,
june IL, afternoon and evening. The first
at P. NJ. The class is the largest in number
that has ever been graduated in town, and
much interest is manifested in the partici-
pants.
AFTERNOON
Music, clark the merry Drum Krugh
Quartet
Prayer
Salutatory, Edna I. Lockwood
Grafton, Holidays" Walter R. Whitney
A r
MUSIC, "Ben Bolt Kneass
Quartet
Grafton, "Coast Defences''
Frederick W. Wheeler
Essay, "Etiqnette' MayI. Richmond
Grafton, "a Business Education
Guy H. Robinson
Essay, professional Training for Teachers -
Lillian E. Stickney
Duet, piano, Misses Pierce and Wright
ESSAY, eugene Field Anna j. Lawrence
Music, .Simon the Cellarer'' Hatton
oFation. .sour Next President =
Claude NJ. Richmond
Essay, Bidding the Sun Good Night
Fannie L. Baker
Music, "From By-gone Day. Folk Song
Quartet
EVENING.
Music, tMazurka' Polish Air
Quartet
Essay, "The seach for Happiness"
Edna l. Lockwood
Grafton, "Black River" Albert N. Howe
Recitation, "The Diver" Schiller
Mary j. Perkins
Solo, "Adieu Marie" Adams
49,, F. w. Bancroft
Essay, "The Saxon in History
Jessie B. Pierce
Grafton, "Vermont''
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Duet, piano, Misses Richmond and LovelanC
Essay, "Joan of Arc Gertrude L, Perr,
Recitation, can Order for Picture" CAREY
Bernice M. Cool
Music, '1n Picardie" Osgood, Ouarte
Grafton, '"The United States Senate
Edward E. Spafforc
valedlctory Jessie H. Wrigh
Glass Song
Award of Diplomas
Music, "Lead Kindly Light Quartz
Benediction.
The town schools close Thursday and som,
districts are on the ragged edge of despai
| lest they cannot muster children enough t,
maintain school another year.
The last week. rain was gratefully receive,
everywhere. The mountain towns seem t,
| have suffered less from drought then those OF
| the river, but rain was welcome everywhere
| DcSlueS school leNafn1lllu1OllS ana eXn1D1u1On
| this week we have bicycle and other races,
dance, a picnic and possibly some othe
amusements advertised. 1t is feared tina
| business will be at a stand still.
| The senior class of the high school to tn
! remotest degree of relationship apparently
attended the Universalist church last Sunda
where the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Perry, preache
the baccalaureate sermon. When all the un
/ reserved seats were occupied the senior
marched in two by two and very nicely the
looked. 1t seems to be an unwritten law G
the school that the young men wear their ne,
suits and the girls wear such appropriat
gowns and hats as their wardrobe contains
while the graduating dresses wait in mysteri
Gus seclusion till the final exercise, perhap
because the girls look pretty enough in any
thing and are generous enough to give tn
boys for one day that advantage. The churc
was handsomely trimmed and the sermon wa
exceedingly helpful and practical and so in
teresting that, though of considerable length
some of the graduates declared they though
it short. The graduating exercises occur FIR
day afternoon and evening. A limited nun
Der of invitations for parents and other friend
of the graduates, are accompanied by a
"admit one' ticket, others will be charge
the small sum of 10 cents admission fee. Thi
is said to be to prevent the wild scramble fo
seats which has often characterized the grat
uating exercises heretofore and to shut OF
the small boy, who comes simply to help o
the cheering at a free show.
Riding through Andover l stopped fror
curiosity at a little cemetery by the roadwa,
possibly in the edge of Windham. None
, these stones were very old but l copied tw
epitaphs which struck me as very curiou
The first was on a slate stone erected in men
ory of Rev. Nathan Bangs, who died Decen
Der 8, 1908. Beneath the names are thes
lines:
'.Look here and view Affections favorite sol
Misfortune sore through all my life has run
Hard prosecutions iron yoak l bore,
I'LL had seen of gloomy years three score.
Now shout in vain ye prosecuting throng,
m far beyond the poison of your song,
Live and live happy while my grave you view
. This tongue now cold in death has ofte
prayed for you.''
copy and punctuate exactly. One can bt
| query as to the prosecutions. The other W:
OH marble slab of later time and under ii
; name and date were these touching lines:
PrIssilla Mare Is my name,
English Is my nation,
Andover is my dwelling place,
, And Christ Is my salvation.
When | am dead and under ground,
And all my bones are rotten,
Remember me when this Won see,
That may not be forgotten.
On reading the first verse one would s.
that the town, if not the state of the dead wi
settled, but the last verse Is confusing to tn
assurance.
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