The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-06-04
SIX SWEET GRADUATES.
The Redwood Falls High School
Adds to its Alumni.

Without salutatorian or valedic-
torian six young men and women said
farewell to the Redwood Falls high
school before large crowd of admir-
ers at the opera house last Tuesday
evening. The six were
James L. Beecher, Alice M. Gasman,
Addle Z. Blgham. Carrie M. Isham
Lula M Crouley, 10y M. Pugh.
The opera house was profusely
decorated for the occasion. The stage
had been extended and on either side
OF the extension were huge racks of
potted plants. At the foot there we're
numerous dainty baskets of flowers,
offerings of admiring friends and low
ing relatives. A center table at the
foot OF the stage was covered with
these offerings. Over the proscenium
the class motto had been wrought in
evergreens and roses.
1t was 8:55 before the curtain went
up and the final picture, in which the
members of the class ST '96 we're to be
the chief posers, was presented to a
critical audience for inspection. It
was a beautiful picture. The four
young ladies, in gowns of white, with
corsage bouquets, occupying center
seats, with the two young men at
either end. Directly back of them
we're Supt. Race, President Mckay of
the school board, Rev. Sinclair, the
Misses Stevens and Peterson of the
high school. On either side piano
lamps, with variegated colored shades,
sent out the prismatic rays, and con-
tributed wonderfully to the beautiful
effect of the picture.
Prof. Torrens corrected the pro-
gramme in one or two cases, requested
the ladies to take off their hats, and
then the farewell scene was on in
earnest. There was piano duet by
Meseames johnson and Cooper, a
prayer by Rev. John Sinclair, and
then 10y Pugh delivered his Grafton
on the "Buttoned Up Man." Dickens
Barnacle was the basis of his text, and
the speaker applied it to all types of
life. It was locked up in the egotist,
in social life it was in the exclusive
man, and in politics it was found in
the man who was working for the adj
vancement of his party, rather than
for the spirit of patriotism.
Miss Alice NJ. Gasman responded
to "The Hours Perish and are Laid
to our Charge" The speaker dwelt
on the value of time and what could
be done in a lifetime. She pointed to
ignorance as darkness of civilization.
She commended that American citizen
ship has been offered too cheap in the
past and that foreigners we're too soon
clothed with citizenship. Americans
would soon learn that an ignorant
voter was more dangerous than fool
with bayonet.
Mesdames Patterson, Pease, and
Kenney and Miss Beecher sang a
peasant wedding march and re-
sponded to an encore after which Lula
Crouley delivered an Grafton on "For
To-Day or For Tomorrow" She
dwelt on the perpetuation of matter,
touched on the work of building the
pyramids, of erecting some of the
famed structures of Europe and the
material growth of the United States.
She reviewed the progress of inventive
genius during the past 100 years, of
education, and wondered what the
future would bring forth. She thought
there was an element of danger in the
speed, aud termed the American peo-
pie restless, discontinued, impatient
people who crowded the work of a
lifetime in a few years.
Miss Addie G.. Bigham responded
to Might Brings out the Stars Out