The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
GRADUATES OF WEBER SCHOOLS
CLOSING EXERCISES WERE
HELD AT OGDEN YESTERDA-
Fine Programme Rendered, Includ-
ing Address By President Tanner
of Agricultural College.

The closing exercises of the Weber
county public schools occurred yester-
day morning and the widespread inter
est manifested augurs well for the
cause of education in Weber. The tab
ernacle was crowded to the very doors
with people, most of whom had come
from five to twenty-three miles and
| were on hand at 10 o'clock in the morn
| ing for the opening number. A most
| interesting feature of the occasion was
the address by Professor ]. NJ. Tanner
| of the Agricultural college. President
| Tanner was on the programme for an
address to the graduates. but his re-
marks were directed as much or even
more to the parents than to the gradu-
ates themselves.
Mr.. Tanner argued with much force
and with convincing logic for higher
| education and deprecated the entire
lack of anything corresponding TO a
high school education in the county
school system. He opposed the view
| that education is finished when the pu-
pill gets an eighth grade certificate or
any other certificate. Education should
| continue as long as life itself. Pupils
should be educated not merely up to
the standard of their surroundings, but
to the standard of the whole outside
world.
The exercises began with the invo-
cation by Professor l.. +. Moench, and
were followed by "Grander Than All the
Banners" given by graduates of the
Hooper school. Miss Flora L. Wheeler
gave a most acceptable solo, Tit For
Tat" An exercise of much merit was
the recitation of "Gray's Elegy" by
Ruby Nav of Plain City. The speaker
gave the selection with much dramatic
effect, and in a way to bring out the
beauties of the piece. Mary Christen-
sen of Hooper followed with a piano
selection in which she showed I'M
doubted talent.
Emma Ipsen of Wilson recited Little
FRANC very cleYerly and Isaac c.
Grow of Huntsville gave the students
Lesson in manner most effective.
'Life's Dream" by graduates of Eden
followed and then came a recitation
of humorous nature on the subject
of expansion by Wealthy Lake of Har-
risville.
The class poem composed by Mary
Christensen of Hooper, was read by
Miss Lena Wadsworth also of Hooper.
piano solo by Emily Woodfeld of
North Ogden was followed by a we'll
written Yaledictory by Maggie McCloy
of Hooper. superintendent w. b. Will
son then presented the diplomas, pre-
facing the action with a few compli-
dress by President Tanner and the
song Flag Without a Stain by pupils
of North Ogden.
Ammon Green delivered the benedic-
ton.
The certificates awarded were as fol-
lows:
Wilson-Charles E. Nav, principal:
Daisy Thompson, Emma Ipsen.
Riverdale-R. w. Cain, principal:
John H. Russell, Joseph H. Simpson.
Tayior-Z. W. Jacobs, principal:
Minnie Stevenson. Mary Larson.
Marriott-Lorene Bridges. principal:
Florence Powell, Blanche Wright, Pearl
Terry
HarrisviIIe-C. e. Smith, principal:
Wealthy Lake, Ellen Agren, Lucy
Dabb.
Plain City-A. H. Rogers. principal:
Mary Skeen, Ruby Nav, Ella Stewart,
Clara Skeen.
Uintah-C. Mabel Rogers, principal:
Jessie Warner, Claude Stewart, Cora
Warner, Jennie Anderson.
Slaterville-O. K. Wilbur, principal:
Amelia Manning. Belva Slater, Eph
rain Manning, Flora E. Wheeler, Els
Their Wardle
West Weber-Ammon Green, jr.,
principal: Emma Green, Almira Hes
lop Annie Gibson, Robert Penman, Ida
Mcfarland, Susie Alvord.
Huntsville-W. II. Jones, principal:
Amelia Nelson, Mary Emerson, Will
liam II. Bingham, James c. Mckay,
Isaac c. Grow
Eden-E. n. Quinn, principal: Will
liam Walker, Margaret J. Stallings.
Mary C. Stallings, James Fackrell, May
o. Lindsay, Clyde w. Lindsay, Eliza
Bel Walker.
North Ogden-R. n. Ames, principal:
Harriet Brown, Mary f. Jones, Nettie
Gibson, Jennie Jones, William NJ. AL
word, Emily ]. Woodield, Della l..
Waldram. Maud Berrett, Pearl Jones.
Hooper-W. Fl. Walton, principal:
Maggie NJ. McCloy. Lena Wadsworth.
Myrtle Belnap, Libbie Hooper, Efie
Mitchell, Eva Soule, Victor Oleson.
Effie Manning, Florence Flinders, Anna
Hooper, Charlotte Lowe, Mary Chris
Jensen, Samuel Oleson, Lizzie McDon-
aid.
Miss Amelia Manning of Statewide,
who passed with the highest average,
So, of this years class, has been award
ed the free state scholarship from We
Der county in consideration of her pro-
ficiency.