The herald., 1896-02-23
THEY TALK FOR A MEDAL
The DemoreSt Contest Held at
Long Beach
NEW SETTLERS BUILDING
Patriotic Exercises by the Children of
the Public Schools
Ray Grips Awarded the Silver Medal in the
oratorlcaI Contcst-concert at the Col-
gregationaI Church-A Dance

LONG BEACH, Feb. 22.--It is wonder
full how we grow down in this section.
The extent Of the improvements is as
varied as they are numerous. and the
kind of people who are making their
homes here are the very cream Of the
large well-to-do middle class OF farmers
and artisans. They are mostly from
the blizzsrd-swept and frost-nippsd
north middle states, and bring with
them all the refinement of the east, &C.
companied by the never-failing and in
domitable pluck and energy of the
great west.
Your correspondent found in a
drive over the magnificent mesa, on
which Alamitos Beach townsite ia
situated, succession Of new houses in
course of construction, from those just
newly started to some already we'll un-
der way toward completion, all of them
being good substantial structures of
the better class, lacki ng not in beauty
of design or finish. The majority of
the settlers are people moderately
wsll-to-do, who own from one acre up
to twenty or more, on which they are
expending their time and energy in max
ing them productive as we'll as beautiful
by planting in fruit trees of the differ
ent varieties, as we'll as berries and
garden truck. Everybody seemed to
be busy, either at work on the new
houses that we're going up or were
ploughing, while the greater number of
those in view were hard at it, putting
out fruit trees. The olive was appar-
emily the variety most in demand, the
sidewalks even for whole squares be-
ing set out with olives as shade trees
apractical blending of the useful and
ornamental on the part of these good
Samaritans of beautiful Alamitos.
wAsHINaTON's BIRTHDAY IN THE SCHOOL
Washington's birthday was cele-
brated in the public schools by exer-
cises in which patriotic sentiment pre-
dominated. The pupils by their clever
work reflected great credit on their
painstaking and efficient instructors,
who, besides attending to their regular
routine of school labor, managed dur
ing recess and after regular hours to
impart the training necessary to a
proper presentation of scenes con-
nected with the life of the father of his
country. The rooms we're tastefully
adorned, the green foliage and flowers
blending nicely with the bright coun-
tenances of the well-dressed and hand
some children. The order of exercises
was: Seventh and eighth grades, Mrs.
Hattie Mason Willard. teacher and
principal, America, school; recitation.
Washington, Addie Stanfield; Our
Flag, song, eighth grade; recitation,
Boys Poem on Washington, Marie
Morrison; The Flag of '76, seventh
grade; acrostic, ten girls, patriotic
Songs; recitation, Mary Dodd; charade,
Memorable Words of Washington; five
girls; tableaux, scenes from Washing
toms life; anniversary thoughts, twelve
girls, Wreathing Washington.
In the fifth and sixth grades, Miss
Lena Lightburn, teacher, the exercises
we're: Welcome, school; recitation,
Greeting to Washington, Arthur Grips;
recitations, A Boys Resolution, Willie
Moore; Little Cook, Claudine Stevens;
A Race, Isla lawson; song, Union,
Dixie Madison Benedict; recitation,
Guilty or Not Guilty, Grace Durham;
OAOIOl6Cs uA6hlbS ouUbCI, LdlbA ol0ys
Edith Hall, Hattie Williams, Ethel
Baker and Lottie Coy; recitation,
Dolly's Lesson. Nino Brown; reading,
A Letter from Washington, Clara
Mort; organ solo, Louise Freebe; reci-
tations, Nobody's Kitty, Beatrice Ste
vens; Blue and Gray, Nellie Cotton;
Miss Lily's Party, Belle Rec; song,
Star Spangled Banner, school; exer-
else, The New Year and His Friends,
fourteen pupils vocal duet, Ethel
Bake and Louise Freebe; recitation,
My Choice, Maude Gotten; flag drill,
twelve boys and girls; recitation, Wash
ington and /, Pearl Sitter; organ solo,
Clara Mort; tableau, Rial captured by
Washington, seven boys; recitation,
The New Bonnet, Edith Hill; tableau,
Surrender of CORVALLIS, eight boys;
organ solo, Mary Kendrick; tableau,
Mary and Martha Washington, Lily
Kinman and Nellie Gotten.
In the intermediate department, Miss
Jane +. Harnett, teacher, were: Recita-
tion, Greeting. Ethel Teel; song, Ode
to Washington School; recitation, The
Fox and the Peasant, Marcus Serrot;
What Did He Look Like? Mildred
White; What Was It? Clarence Dun
ham; song, My Brother, school; recita-
tions, Our Girls; Marinda Martin;
Home from the War, Jessie Kinman;
song, The Hen, Edna Masters; recita-
tions, The Thing You Do, Walter White
sides; A New Mary's Lamb, Myrtle
Stanfield; song, America, school; dia-
logue, Washingt> five boys; recita-
tion, Washington, Myrtle Mort; A
Hero, Engway Shoenberger; dialogue,
Washington, by seven girls; recita-
tions, Washington, Evangeline Ken
dali; Little Miss Etfie, Leah; Cana.
dian Boat Song, school; recitations.
Baby's Tiny Shoe, Rowena Reynolds;
The Little Hatchet Story, Howard
Clewitt; Kitty's Wars, Elsie Sanford;
acrostic, Washington, ten boys; Good
Night, song, school.
The primary department, Miss Belle
Townsend, teacher, had the following:
Song, Washington Our Hero, school;
saluting flag; song, Our Flag, school;
recitations, Washington. Willie Blount;
Three Little Sisters, Viola Stevens;
Our Country, Wallace Pollard; flag ex-
ercises, six little girls; Nobody's Kitty,
Sadie Hough; solo, Baby's Playthings,
Cecil PAUL; A House to Rent, Lucille
Haworth; recitations by ten little girls
with dolls; solo, Birdie Dear, Lucille
Douglas; recitations, The Fairy, George
Bigelow; My Kitty, Lizzie Hawkins;
song, Our Dollies, three girls; recita-
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