The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-06-29
GO OUT INTO LIFE.
A CLASS OF TWENTY-FIVE GRADU-
ATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL.
GREAT CROWD IN ATTENDANCE
All the Young People on the Program
Make Good Impression and Win
Well Deserved Plaudits From
Their Friends.


cises OF the Kenosha High school we're
held at the Rhode opera house Friday
evening, and surrounded by a great
concourse of their friends and relatives
and hidden away in a perfect mass OF
flowers and palms, the class OF '99
passed into history.
When the large audience arrived
scene of beauty greeted their eyes.
Great banks of palms completely hid
the front part of the stage and inter-
mingled with them were pretty ar
rangements of the class colors and
bright flowers. Over the stage wrought
in smiIax was hung the class motto,
" Ad astra, per Aspera." When the
curtain went up the stage revealed a
scene of beauty. Seated about the
rear were the members of the Board OF
Education, in front of which were
seated the class of twenty two mem
bers, nineteen girls and three boys.
The young ladies clad in their pretty
dresses of white made pretty fore
ground, while the young gentlemen in
the conventional black were just
numerous enough to produce a charm
ing contrast.
The class is not only the largest
which ever graduated, but it is only
right to say that it was the most
handsome class that ever greeted the
large audience on Commencement
evening. All the ladies, including the
teachers, were dressed in white, and
all of the dresses were exceedingly
pretty. Many beautiful gifts were
brought in by friends of the boys and
girls, and the right hand box was
loaded down with flowers sent in the
way of congratulations to the class.
Misses Mamie Denton, Rose Ryan,
Mamie Bacon, Viola Huck and Stella
Goodenrow, members of the Sophmore,
acted as flower girls, and as each young
lady appeared on the program she was
generously remembered with flowers
by the dainty little flower girls.
Prof Wiswall acted as master of
ceremonies, and after the invocation by
Rev. Naylor Miss Blanche Adamson
delivered the salutatory. She chose as
her subject The American 1deal.'
Her delivery was forceful and her Ian
guage was we'll selected. She spoke of
the growth of education il America
and it's influence on the American
ideal. Libraries were also one of the
things which had been responsible for
the advancement of the American type
of civilization. She spoke of Hon. 2,
G.. Simmons in connection with the
library movement and said that the
schools Of Kenosha would ever remem
Der him with esteem and appreciation.
She spoke of the free school as the
ideal of Americanism and found In it
the preserver of American institutions.
In closing she addressed the class and
said that it was their duty to assist in
making the American ideal greater and
better. "Quit ye like men, be strong"
The world demands fidelity. We must
be true Gods creation is true and
real and we must live and make our
nation true and real. We are too
strong to be defeated save by ourselves.
May we adopt the truth of life and may
we never leave it, and thus only will
the world be made better by our living,
thus only will we ever reach the stars
Following the salutatory Miss Edna
Markham delivered the class poem.
She started out with apologies to
James Whitcomb Riley in the we'll
known stanza Of" That Old Sweetheart
of Nine"
LAS one who cons at evening DER an album all
alone.
And muses. DER the faces of the friends that he
has known,
So turn the leaves of fancy till in shadowy
design,
I see the smiling features of the class of 49,"
With this splendid introduction Miss
Markham continued with personal
notice of every member of the class.
All of the sayings were appropriate
and some created considerable merri-
ment among the students and their
friends. A selection from the orches-
ira followed, after which Miss Ethel
Baker recited " A Royal Princess, by
Rosetti. The young lady did exceed
ingly we'll and made a splendid i'm
preston on the audience. Henry
Kleifeld was the next member of the
class to appear and delivered an ora
ton on the subject Why Manila was
Won". He found in the battle of Ma
Mia the greatest triumph in the history
of the world and said that the battle |
was won because typical American
hero, with crew of typical American
sailors manned the American ships.
1t was courage without skill pitted |
against courage with skill and the
latter wins every time. The Grafton
was we'll written and delivered in such
a manner that great things are ex-
pected OF the young man in the realm
of oratory. Following came the vale