Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-05
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Of the Martins Ferry High School,
List Evening.
The Programme Was Rendered at
the Opera House, Which Was
Crowded-The Graduates Ten in
Number An Outline of the Papers
Read by the Graduates Present
alton of Diplomas.

The commencement exercises Of the
Glass of SO of the Martins Ferry High
School took place last evening in the
new Opera House, and was attended by
nearly nine hundred people.
The interior of the opera house was
decorated in very tasteful manner for
the occasion. The stage was handsome
II trimmed in the class colors. blue and
silver. A penrant, made Of blue and
white silk, bearing the inscription
Glass of SO" in gold letters, hung in
the rear of the sage, giving it very
line appearance.
The graduates numbered ten and
were as follows: Charles Bartholomew,
EsS.e w. Boyd, Gertrude McCord, Ida
Kathoyn Roberts. Frank H. Stewart,
Alice Janet Morris, M. Martha STeen-
ey. George Helling, Alice L. Wood and
Carl P. Lash.
The exercises were opened by song,
Watch on the Rhine" rendered by the
entire high school under the leadership
of Prof. ]. Schcheld. Rev. j. w. Rob-
ms then delivered the invocation, which
was followed by selection by the
Wheeling Opera House orchestra, which
had been engaged for the OCCASION.
The programme proper was then open
ed with an Grafton on Curves by Charles
Bartholomew, in which the subject was
treated in practical manner He used
the subject as the notifications which
all social. moral, and religious matters
have undergone since the beginning of
the worlds history. down TO the pres
ent age, the different courses which ma
lions had pursued, and the changes
wrought in religions, also the different
courses which man pursues in life, were
all compared 10 the curves over which
they have Travelled.
Miss Ess;e Boyd followed with an in
teresting paper on the Beauties Of
Nature" in which Americas most
beautiful natural scenery along the
Hudson river, in the Adirondack noun
tain. az Yellowstone Park, Yosemite
Valley. and other places, were describ-
ed in a most realistic and able manner,
which disclosed the fact that ii was the
production of careful study.
After an excellent selection was rem
dered by the orchestra, Gertrude Nc
Cord occupied the attention of the aud
fence with an essay on Monument"
il which the pyramids of ancient
Egypt, and the mounds throughout
Ohio ,ef; by prehistoric race, were
spoken of, and compared to the works
Of men who have died leaving some
thing in common for the mass of people
such as inventions, colleges,
writings and such like, which would
stand forever as monuments to their
name.
Ida Kathoyn Roberts came next with
an grafton on the subject Of American
Love of Titles" She pictured the eager
ness with which people from tine i'm
memorial had sought after titles, not
only men but women. Titles such as
professor. colonel, major and others, she
said were at one time rare but of late
years a person who had the least bit
OF knowledge on any one subject was
called professor while al Kentuckians
wanted the title of colonel prefixed TO
their rames and the people of Arkansas
sought as eagerly after the title OF
major.
She was followed by Frank H. Stew
art with paper on "Truancy,' in
which the harm of truaney in school
life was shown, also its horrors. The
truancy of man in labor was taken up
and handled in a very able manner. He
spoke of how man, some time in his
life. was needed at the front TO do his
duties, shirked them ard consequently
was a truant in life. and to Withstand
being drawn down in the whirlpool Of
life ne must spurn truancy and cling TO
his duties.
This was followed with a selection by
the orchestra, after which Alice Janet
Morris delivered an excellent grafton
on the subject: There were Giants in
Those Days" She spoke of the giants
in intellect rather than stature in an
cient and modern times. The giants
that tower above their fellow-men are
those who grasp the central idea OF the
age and study it with greatest care I'M
tll buNs nave J44SAANA 10 aim
Giants of this sort, she said, have sue
ceeded in doing things which heretofore
seemed impossible.
THE Irish was the subject Of paper
by Martha NJ. Sweeney, in which she
told of the beginning of the Irish race
and Of their entrance TO the land which
they now occupied. His home in his
native land and his characteristic traits
were spoken OF also, his love of which
was illustrated with a few examples.
The prominent ranks of man are filled
with Irish and their descendants, she
stated. although they were looked on
by some as being an ignorant class.
Carl p. Lash then favored the audience
with a baritone solo, which was well
received. George Helling followed
with an Grafton on the subject: Where
Are We At?" in which the financial, ed
ucational. religious and scientific
changes which the country is constantly
undergoing at present and has under
gone in times gone by, was discussed.
The Grafton was a very interesting one.
and was handled in very able man
ner.
Alice L. Wood followed with a novel
cite entitled: THE Mystery of Mr..
Bum" The story treated Of mys-
te-ious gentleman who made his home