The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-03
Graduating Exercises Were
Held Last Evening at the
Congregational Church.
The High School Pupils Acquit
Themselves in q Manner
Pleasing to All.
TRAINING SCHOOL GRADUATES.
Installation Of Officers-Laylng OF the Corner
Stone OF Sacred Heart Convent-Lady's
Day at Forest CIub--Local Notes.

The annual graduating exercises OF the
Central Falls High School were held last
evening in the Congregational church'
There was large attendance of the parents
and friends of the young people who are
about to launch upon the world, either 10
seek a higher education or to take their
places in the ranks allotted to them. The
exercises were held in the main audience
room, the other portions OF the building
being used for the reception OF the guests.
The program was well selected and each
number was given In manner to please
the audience, and show at the same time
the remarkable progress OF the students
The orations and essays displayed ability,
care and thought. The other portions OF
the program were In keeping with the
whole, and that can be summarized by
saying that the graduating class OF 'T Is
one which any corps Of instructors can be-
proud of. The following was the program
in detail:
Piano solo, impromptu, "Mazurka,"
Maude Alice Weldon; singing "Lord,
When My Raptured Thought Surveys"
prayer, Rev. j. III. Newland; singing,
"Come, Gracious Spirit" Cherubini;
grafton, "The Intellectual Life of the
American People," James Alphonso Fitz
Simon: essay, "The Symbolism OF the
Seasons" Nettie Eleanor Walmsley;
singing, ''Softly Treading," Meyerbeer;
grafton, eThe Civil Service as Career;"
Wilfred Doloff Whittemore; singing,
ssBattle Song" from "Arminius;" essay,
ssThe Record of Noble Life" Nora Louise
Snow; singing, 'Song of the Sea-" decla-
nation, ''Toussaint's Last Struggle for
Hayti," Arthur Crawford Wyman; sing
ing, "Hail to This Mansion;" oration,
'0The Duty of Public Spirit" Ernest Trow-
bridge Paine; singing, go, Holy Father;"
At the conclusion of the program the
diplomas were presented by School Com
mitteeman Elmer e. Lent.
The graduates who received diplomas
were: Bertha Margaret Fitz Simon, James
Alphonso Fitz Simon, Ernest Trow bridge
Paine, Nettie Eleanor Walmsley and Will
fred Doloff Whittemore in the classical
course; Myrtle Tingley Dexter, Frank
Maynard Leach, Elizabeth Ellen Northup
Alice Hattie Simmons and Nora Louise
Snow in the English course.
The graduates of the Training School
for teachers are: Annie Florence Bowker
and Annie Davenport. The honor pupils
are: Ernest Trowbridge Paine and Nettie
Eleanor Walmsley, first grade, and Will
fred Doloff Whittemore, James Alphonzo
Fitz Simon and Bertha Margaret Fitz
Simon, second grade.
The class motto is "Possumus quia
posse videmur."
The following graduates from the High
School in former years received diplomas
las evening;
1S93-James +. Powers and Warren S.
Wiimarth.
1S9l-Edith S. Martin, Annie +. Bow
ker and Myron Charles Fish.
1S9s-Eva l.. j. Riley, Annie E. Arnold
and Annie Davenport.
1S96-George B. Bailey.
Fireworks Display.
All arrangem ents for the band concert
and fireworks on the evening of July
9th have been completed by the committee.
The place selected, rear of the Garfield
street school house, Is well adapted for the
occasion. The committee has caused an
electric light to be placed upon the grounds
for the benefit Of the people who will at
tend. Seats will be provided for the mem
bers of the city government and invited
guests. The following is the program to
by the Philharmonic band, E. Viau, leader:
March-"El Capitan"...... ......... ....Sousa
Overturc-"Poet and Peasant" t".........s suppe
Cornet solo-"Concert Polka. Brooks
Albert Richards.
GA Jolly Night"-Popular Airs.... .....B Beyer
Fantasia-"Amcrican Beauty. Boyer
Redowa-"B "Butteriy's Ball" ........... Reeves
Baritone Solo-"Air Varie"..... .....Liebert
A. Phaneuf.
ntcrmezzo-"Twilght Whispers.
.......................... Laurendeau
Selection of popular airs (new). Boyer
Moroccan Charactcristiquc... ..Laurendeau
American Meuley Brooks
"Yankce Doodle" and "Amerjca"......
Will Celebrate the Fourth.
The summer hop which was to have been
held Saturday evening at Temperance Hall
under the auspices OF the Sacred Heart
Temperance Society, has been postponed
to Monday evening on account of the ex-
cursion OF the Central Falls Cadets. The
hop will be continuation OF the mid
summer carnival and promises to be an
enjoyable affair. Martin Il. O'Gara and
William Donohue have been elected chair
man and secretary OF the committee and
they will be assisted In the management OF
II by Messrs. James McCaffrey, Thomas
Ryan, Thomas Carney, Thomas McAlevey
and John McAlice.
Trouble Over the Cannons.
quiet fight is going on at present be-
tween Ballou Post, q. A. X. and II. Il.
Johnston, former Secretary OF the Mo-
shassuck Cemetery Association, over the
proposed cannon for the q. A. II. lot In
the cemetery. MIR. johnson In n personal
friend OF Representative Capron, and his
kind offer to assist the Post has been re-