The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-06-25
Commencement.
Successful Exercises of the Junior aud
Senior Classes of stowhegan High
school and Bloomfield Academy

Successful Exercises of the Junior and
Senior Glasses of skowhegan High
school and Bloomfield Academy.
With each recurring year the fact is
made evident that the Commencement
exercises of Skowhegan high school and
Bloomfield academy are of great interest
to large majority of Skowhegan
citizens. They always call out large
audiences, and this year was no excep-
ton. Commencement is the GROWING
portant not only to the pupils aud
teachers who have labored so faithfully
to make it stand for success, but to all
who have the welfare of our schools and
likewise our town at heart.
Sunday, the members of the senior
class assembled at Bethany Baptist
church, to listen TO au able sermon
preached by Rev. Dir. {. V Hanson the
pastor of that church. DR.. Hanson took
as his text the thirteenth verse of the
fourth chapter of 2nd Timothy and
HUN 1t SaNN u hlSNouI 81 iiidl was Ill
every way appropriate. 1t was practi-
cal, interesting aud helpful. The
thoughts most prominent were concern.
ing the eonsecrated scholar and that
progress of character is the only true
progress. Pulpit and platform were
tastefully decorated with ferns and
large audience was in attendance.
CLASS OF '97.
The exercises of the junior class oe-
Cured, Tuesday evening, at Coburn Hall.
The stage of the hall was made "A
beautiful bower of ferns, plants in
BLOSSOM aud cut flowers, while above all,
in letters of red was suspended. without
any visible means of support the class
motto; " FWcU qW 81 0jacU'' The pro
gram was as follows, prayer being offer
ed by Rev II. w. kimball:
Music.
MUSIC PRAYER MrstC
Abraham Lincoln, Fowler
Fred Leon Gage.
Daniel Portions Ride, Tourgee
Lucy Bigelow
Flash-The Freman'S Story, Carleton
Basil Randall Jordan.
The Light ON Deadman's Bar, Rexford
Mary Eldena Pratt.
MUSIC.
Mine Shyeethelrdt's Brudder Hans
William James Whittemore.
Legend of the Organ Builder. Dow
Sara Louise Jewett.
My First Recital, Eaton
Lorenzo Everett Thompson.
The Blind Flower-Girl of Pompeii, MatChett
Ethel Luella Morrill,.
Bessies First Party, Locke
Jennie MAY I.ewia.
Ancient and Modern Oratory. Wyman
William Allen Clough
Hagar
Annie Rhoades Maddocks.
The Red Jacket, Baker
Ethel Stewart Walton.
Music.
Presentation Exercises.
MUSIC.
without exception the selections were
well rendered and given with ease and
finish. Seldom is such an exhibition so
uniformly good from beginning to end.
Mr. Leon Gage was spokesman for the
class in the presentation exercises. The
gift of 81, to the school was a bust Of
Sir. Walter Scott, which was accepted
with few well chosen remarks by Hon.
{. A. Marstou, chairman of the school
board
CLASS or 90
The class of 90 contains twenty-four
members, and 10 larger class has ever
been graduated from our high school.
though one, a few years since. was
equally large. Their exercises occurred
Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Draperies of green and pink the class
colors, were gracefully festooned above
the stage, the class motto, $40 bc
rather Hau TO SCENT" being suspended
just beneath them, while an abundance
of ferns and flowers banked about the
stage, made fitting back ground and
frame for the daintily gowned young
ladies ana manly young gentlemen as
they came before tie audience.
The program of the exercises follows:
AFTERNOON.
MtStc. PRAYER. Ht SIC.
Rev. Geo. T.. Leighton.
"a Latin Salatatory,
| 90 Anlna.ism in Civilization,
Fred Walter Turner
After School.-Whato Arre Lena Pratt
The Bard of Ayrshire, Charles Rufus Niles
| ESSe Guam Pideri, Fannie Scott Stevens
MISIc.
| The Qualities That Win. Angie Ella Smith
| A Plea for Armenia, John Howard WyInau
Ana'sthetics. Mary Elyira Das"Ombe
| pOem-14g1, William Dana Lawrence
Women OF the War, Mary Elizabeth Wentworth
a Gypsy story, Vivian Rowell Graves
Business qualifications. Edward Patrick Barr.
Annaes, Sadie Maud knight
MUSIC
EVENING.
MUSIC. PRAYER. NU~It.
Rev. b. c. Wentworth
Obedience to Public Opinion,
Harold John Phillips
Woman's WORK, Blanche fairlene Clarke
Gymnasiums for Secondary schools
Maurice Earle Pratt
The influence of Flowers Ellen Maria White
MUSIC
The Advantage of Difficulties, Sarah May swain
Ought the Electoral College TO be Abolished"
Wilbur Davis Palmer
Sef-Relianee, Susie Ethel Deane
After Twenty Years Prophecy
Charles Wesley Grover
Music
The Little Cod. Chester Horace Mills
Defense OF the "Doodle-Bug Poet,
Stella Louise Jones
The Resources of Maine John Albert Ayore
tu) Not for school, but for Life,
b. ValedictorY.
Eva Maude Nelson
MUSIC