Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-06-09

tell Dy MISS Ifetcnon DelalOyQe ana
delivered at the Grammar Room Com
exercises, Thursday even
ing, June 2, 1898:
Progression.
If It's true that poets are born, not bred,
As birds not to walk. but to fly instead,
Then an arduous task was given. 1 find.
H Mhen the Class Poem to me was assigned,
IS always to do the best that we can.
And if our efforts will not compare
With those of Tennyson, or Voltaire,
They may be classed without any harm
To Longfellow's :. Turnip Behind the Barn"
And, like Longfellow. we may in time
Soar to heights grand and sublime.
And as we believe in the law of progression,
We must study to win fame worth possessing.
| will try to inform you how and why
We will ascend these ladders to the sky.
Even old Superstitions twill now be seen
Are reversed, and the unlucky number thirteen
Should now be considered the luckiest of ALL
For our class numbers thirteen at every roll
call,
And on the thirteenth of last December
| was Just thirteen years old. you ii remember
Now, never again tbs plain to be seen.
Should be called unlucky the number thirteen.
And now for the future.-Let me hope
70 cast the class's Horoscopes
The stars suspicious seem to state
We all be wise. and rich, and great
For onward. upward, is our cry,
We've " Hitched Our Wagon to the Sky
In this new and future state.
According to the stars portent-
Miss Matte will be president.
And bright on bistoryS future page
Will shine Miss Flosse McAninch
And signs untailing indicate
Glenn May will be poet Laureate.
And Maud Bowen. but few years hence,
Will thrill the world with eloquence
And Robert Fulton-of ancient fame
Will have added laurels by Hattie's name
And Lille Hunt-unlike Darius Green
Will invent a perfect flying machines
And with Ina Anders, some fine June,
Will take trip up to the moon;
And If old Sol lets down the bars
And Nette Sickes will insist
On being tirst-class journalist;
And with her income-I'll be frank
She'll found trst-class National bank.
And George Guernsey, what of him
The horoscope again III skim
70 see if the fates his skein has spun,
\ tirstclass boarding house he will run,
Famous pies and cakes he will bake,
And fry the tender boarding house steak:
And by economy and constant striving
He'll manage to exc out very good living.
And Otto Born what of him. Let's sec
a kindergarten teacher he will be,
And patrons of the school will tell
He taught the children very well.
In a stylish city-well in Audubon,
Right in the swim of the bon.ton
Is Earl kilworth, the milliner of renown,
Is really the Beau Brummel of the town.
but the most useful person in the land
Is Hal Ammons-iou will find him on hand
As head manager of the consolidated desc
Grated, moderated, wash boardless, labor
saving laundry, hard at work.
He never was known his duty to shirk,
He irons as we'll as Chnaman can,
He is the go-ahead, up-to-date, Mclean man.
And the thirteenth of the Grammar grade
Shall be left entirely in the shade?
II read the stars right it will be my role
'Tis not frigid land of ice and snow now '''''
Nor waste OF waters where north winds blow.
But beautiful land of fruit and flowers
And wonderful things will there be found
An opening wide and deep in the ground,
From which appears the luminous light
OF the earth's center to the brightness of day,
And sends its shafts of light far away
Through the aperture and reflects on the sky,
And hence we know the how and why
Of the electric display, or northern light
We often see on a wlntry night.
And further research will fully reveal,
What in the first place was meant to conceal.
That the earth's center is kind of prison
Where persons are kept until they are for
given
When placed in position or favored by birth.
For duty seems plain when reforms are
started
To move forward, not backward, chicken.
hearted.
We noticed host doing penance down there;
But all of them seemed fully aware
They deserved their sentence. But who would
have thought
Of our 90 Legislature over half should vote
Against woman's suffrage; but such was the
case.
;And to think that the most prominent one
Was our Thomas Kelley, from Audubon
Who had a chance to distinguish himself;
But moving backward, was laid on the shelf.
me II wheels OF progress move on. let me state,
In spite OF our Legislature of Ninety Eight:
Woman will find her sphere at last
And equal with man. her vote she'll cast.
Then. noting vacancy, we made bold to in.
Quire
Who had recently vacated, or gone up higher?
Why that, said my guide. is the chosen
Reserved for school boards sent to this place
Who oppose new methods, such as MUSIC. and
as Iule
Check the car of progress in the public school,"
The fact was noticed on this occasion
None of the board We're of female persuasion.
An our dear teacher, so good and so true
The fateS will have been propitious to you:
us with much sorrow our class leaves this
For under your guidance much progress we've
made.
For you have taught our minds to aspire
The consequences is, We'll rank grade higher.
For onward and upward; and true to the line,
Your motto " Excelsior, It's plain to divine.
Some fortunate man will gain high rank
AS husband of the talented Miss Jessie -,
But feeling of sadness a sense of regret.
Fills our hearts with sorrow we can't forget:
We had anticipated if we should pass,
That Professor johnson would teach our
class
Our feelings on this point a re hard to restrain
But we know that our loss, will be some
bodys gain.
And now dear teacher aud scholars all,
We must bid You adieu both great and small
And after this nights graduation,
Well have our long looked for, summer vaca.
ton.
Carl Spangler and Will Merrill, of
Greeley, have gone to Des Moines to
enlist in the United States Army.
Will Andrews has pretty new cart,
mounted on springs, and will begin
delivering his large strawberry crop
the first of next week.
TAKEN UP: On my place in Sec.
p, Audubon township, black sow.
Owner may have same by proving
and pay charges.
CHRIS BAIER.
Letters from Mr.. BRENNAN and
Austin Guernsey at ColtaX, state that
NY ~.