Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
GRAY's GRADUATES.
The Gray School Turns Out Nine
Graduates. A Very Successful
Affair.

Last Friday night the public schools of the
town OF Gray graduated their first class. II
consisted of nine members, Wilson Swaney
Elmer Il. Audas. Jay Lancelot, Howard Kettel
Fanny Welty, Grace Swaney, Ella Forsbeck
Milton Swaney and Mollie Barger. The class
is fairly representative of the best young stu
dents of the high schools of our state. In schol
arship they rank high. Several of them are
preparing to follow teaching as a profession
The principal OF the Gray schools and their
high school teacher has been Prof. w. II. Ian.
celot, young man who loves his work Of teach.
ing and who is achieving excelenC success
He is held in very high esteem at Gray where
| he has grown up from bOyhood and where he
has taught several terms. The patrons OF the
schools and the pupils greatly regret his deter
mination to go elsewhere next year, which lie
| will do because he is offered material increase
in wages.
The graduating exercises Friday night were
held in the NJ Il. church which was suitably
| decorated. The room was crowded to it's ut
| most capacity by people from town and country
| The exercises commenced by Il song by three
little girls, Stella Hepp, Clio Beers and Oracle
Lahcelot which was pretty and full of harmony
The first Grafton was that of
WILSON swAHEY
| The speaker showed originality i'm the cboica
! OF subjects choosing 81 equal to the acceera-
alton multiplied by the square of the timen II
was treated with ingenuity and ability and con-
siderable philosophic thought was shown. l.
! represents the distance traversed by any body
in specified time when acted upon by con
slant force. The moving body is the human
race. In the physical world l. equals one half
OF the HppplpratiOn m hyf Ito -
the time. Applying the same law to the spirit
ual world we find that the acceleration is due to
two forces acting IN conjunction. That the hui
man race IS and has ever been steadily rising is
not at first apparent, owing to the fact that per-
lodS OF enlightenment seem always to have been
followed by the settling down of pail of deep.
dense darkness. "The contemplation Of the
eclipse of oldtime greatness by the dark orb of
barbarism may well fill the mind with a melon
choly doubt respecting the future of the hnman
race" But the eye of philosophy sees in it all,
progress, slow, steady, sure. This is due to the
action of two forces The first is an unsuitable
eyer-increasing demand for still more" 1t !
manifests itself in every life in endeavor to re-
allie the ideal. SIT acts like powerful but ev-
er-retreatng magnet" Upon the second force |
was bestowed the appeation, ''thoughten- |
SiSy' II, "AIlC hlSI IOICt uTdWS us on |
ward, holds us steadily in the path to be travel
ed. That new era is dawning upon us is indi |
Gated by an unprecedented condition of fiuidity |
OF opinions, theories and doctrines generally |
There will be wars and rumors of wars and |
other manifestations of animalism before the |
human consciousness is generally developed up
on the higher plane" THE potential Kingdom
of heaven is within man.
ELMER E. AUDAS
chose for his subject "the march of the ma
tious." He briefly sketched the progress and
conditions Of the great modern nations He
gave Britain the first place of Importance in
point of territory, population, size of navy,
wealth. Although irresistible on sea she is not
equal to some other nations on land The his
tory of the United States was glanced at and
her growth and proud place noted. Our wars
with Great Britain in 1912, and the Mexican
war showed the United States was powerful as
with other nations. But the war of
the rebellion showed best the great energy and
ability OF her people. ''Someone has truly
said that none but Americans could have made
that charge LPickettS charge at Gettysburgl
and none but Americans could have repulsed
it," Russia shows herself great and powerful
on land and rich in resources. Germany the
new nation. the handiwOrk of Emperor Will
liam. Bismarck and Won Motke, is one of the
leading nations. She is second in commerce.
second in naval strength and has the best drill
ed army i'll the world But she seems to be
making herself an enemy to Russia, England
and the United States, The speaker recoc-
nized France as declining, and Spain as totter-
ing to her fall The strong nations, England.
Russia and the United states will be the nations
Of the future. OF these the United States
proudly floats the banner OF the free.
At this pOinta beautfulcOlor drill by thirteen
little children was presented. Marching to the
music of the martial band they wove the colors
of the flag, long strips OF red, white and blue.
around pole as they circled about it. 1t seemed
they were in confusion but there was order in it
all.
JAY LANCELOT
followed speaking on "Blots." By blOts he
meant the events that have stained the history