The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-06-15
CLOSING DAYS NEAR
KEMPER HALL COMMENCEMENT is
AGAIN THE ABSORBING TOPIC.
LITTLE COMMENCEMENT TODAY
Large crowd Gathers at Armitage Hall
to Hear the Closing Exercises of the
Preparatory Department-Many
Visitors Present.

The annual week of commencement
at Kemper Hall, with it's hosts of pretty
girls arrayed in their beautiful gowns
and great crowds of visitors, which
always attend the annual event, is
again upon us and this afternoon the
first exercises of Commencement were
held in Armitage Hall.
The school work proper closed yes
terday and in many ways the year has
been one of the most successful in the
history of the school. The attendance
has been larger than ever before and
the quality of the work done has been
above the standard set by the Sisters
of St. Mary.
The many Commencement visitors,
who always throng the city at this
time, have already begun to arrive and
many of the parents of the girls were
present at the exercises this afternoon.
The beautiful Kemper Hall grounds
are in festival attire and never present.
ed more beautiful appearance. Many
of the alumna of the school are already
here and a great many social events
are being planned in their honor.
Kenosha is proud of Kemper Hall and
the return of the girls of other days is
always hailed with delight.
The Commencement exercises, which
will close with the presentations of
diplomas to the seniors next Wednes-
day, opened this afternoon with the
preparatory school exercises. The
exercises were held in Armitage Hall
and large number of people from the
city attended. To many Little Com
mencement is regarded as one of the
most interesting features of the week.
The program this afternoon was no
exception to the rule. There were
twenty five speakers and besides this
many exercises were given by groups
of the girls who ale completing the
work of the preparatory department.
The program was as follows:
Chorus-Over the Meadow .Gatty
The Forms
Recitation-The Swallow and l. M Douglas
Ruth Kimball, Mary Fleet Thompson.
Piano-Mazurkar ........................L ichner
Aline Snow. -~~
Recitation-A Man Man for a. That. Burns
Marjorie White.
ecitation-DiscOn ....... oliver Herford
Susie Bradley Ada Bonney.
Chorus-Rockway. .................T rumbull
The Forms, Pauline Morton, Violin obligato.
Recitation-Malbroug .............. Weikerlin
Primary French Glass
Piano-L Avalanche. .................St. Heller
Evelyn Douglas.
d. I a. Pegasus in Pound -. LOngfellOW
A'oo b. The O'Lincoln Family. WilsO nFlagg
Ruth Kimball.
Recitation Sharps and Flats. ..s..
Pauline Bonney, Ruth Collins, Hortense
Calker, Ruth and Margaret Stayner,
Mary Fleet Thompson.
nue., $500 a. Cadet Rousselle. 49,.
PioAion 0onsS b. Trempe ton Pain Marie,
The Forms.
RecitatiOn-French.. ...................M aimOn
Estelle Champagne, Pauline Morton.
Quartette-Military March go. 49,. Schubert
Aline Snow, Marjorie White, Eugenia Roddin,
Evelyn Douglas.
PART II
Recitation-The Fairies. William Alltngham
Rachel Bond.
Rec.-German-Di Wandernde Glocke Goethe
Helen St. George.
Chorus-Germans Songs Pie Rs sebWa1ne
The Forms
Rec.-"The Way Do 1t" 49,. Mary M. Dodge
Portia Baker.
Chorus-The Sneeze. ...............S. G. Pratt
The Forms.
Rec.-The FeteDay of the Flowers. S. Baker
The Fourth Form.
Violin a Air Melodieux, ....,.... Carl Bohn
' kuiaW1ak, $3.50. W1enlaWSk1
Josephine JacOby.
Rec.-The Kings Tragedy ............. Rossetti
Helen ST. George,
Piano-Die Muhle. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Jensen
Eugenia Roddin.
Good-By to the Forms-Through aField Glass
Estelle Champagne.
Chorus-We are Merry Children. Scott
The Forms.
Wee Fan Drill. ................ ......
The Fourth Form.
Procession to Lawn .........., .......... -.
Presentation of Bird Fauntain from Sixth
Form. ............ Ruth Willets
Song-'Our Friends the Birds .....,.......
The Sixth Form
The Baccalaureate sermon will be
preached tomorrow morning at the
Chapel by the Rev. Griffin, of Louis
vile, who was formerly chaplain of the
school.
On Monday will be held the annual
field sports, and in the evening the
Kemper Hall Dramatic club will give
production of Shakespeare's " Twelfth
Night" The remainder of the pro-
gram for the commencement will be
announced next week.
Truths TerseIy Told.
Foley's Kidney Cure is a safe, sure