Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1900-04-27
CLOSE OF SCHOOL.
Exercises Of Ksytssvills High
School a Great Success Thirteen
Graduates by Prof.
&. Clay Harvey.

Last Saturday night was a gala oc-
casion for Keytesville and marked an
important epoch in the lives of seven
young ladies and six young men, who
graduated from the Keytesville High
school The graduating exercises
were held at the opera house and
were highly entertaining and greatly
by large audience.
The stage was beautifully draped in
blue and white bunting, the class COL
ors, caught by punches of evergreen,
and potted plants here and there also
lent pleasing effect, but the greatest
ornamental ton to the stage was, of
course, the seven sweet girls and the
six gallant youths, who had completed
the course of study prescribed by the
Keytesville village school, and grace
fully occupied seats on the rear Of
the rostrum.
The exercises were opened with a
well-rendered march on the piano, by
Miss Maud Mann, to the swelling
strains of which the IS graduates
marched down the main aisle of the
opera house and took their seats on
the stage.
Next came the regular program, as
follows:
Invocation. .... Rev. J. R, Finley
Music (Labitzky), Military Gallop'
.Zou Anderson and Emma Stacy
Essay, "A School Girls Essay"
Margaret Clotilde Wallace
Music (Hunten) Emerald Waltz" "
........... Julia Willis Anderson
Grafton, The Demand of Our
Age. j. H. Robertson
Essay, "Punctuality", Ernestine Smith
Music (Mendelssohn), Caprice"
.......... Jane Anderson
Grafton, Death Unto Life. -.
..............J Willie Stacy
Essay, "Our Associate" ........
....... Katherine S. Walter
Music (Ryder), Polka EIegante"
........ Ernestine Smith
Grafton. The True Meaning of
Success ...... John D. Taylor
Essay, What Looks Dark in the
Distance Brightens as We Draw
Near. f.. Emma Courtney Stacy
Music, vocal, Miss Bootsey Grlnstead
Grafton, development OF Char
acter in the School of Labor and
Self Culture, Roy H. Williams
Essay. IAN Uncrowned Queen.
................ Lizzie B. Taylor
Music dorm, III Travatore"
Emma Chapman
Grafton, Progress of Civilization.
90. B. Anderson, Jr.
Essay, Learn to Labor and to
Wait" :. >. Dell Bosworth Crawley
Music (Schuber0, March Hero
ique''. .Zou and Jane Anderson
Grafton, I'VE Reap as We Have
Sown" "....R Roy J. Taylor
Essay, The Mill Can Never Grind
with the Water that is Passed..
Pearle Wells
Address and presentation of di-
plomas. Prof H. Clay Harvey,
Glasgow, Mo.
We shall not attempt to make dis
tinctions by commenting on the
individual merits of each essay and
Grafton for fear that We might
leave unsald something nice we
ought to say. Suffice to say that
all did well, very well, and their
productions were made all the more
appreciative on account of their
brevity and unusual originality.
Lovely floral offerings were show
cred on most of the graduates, and in
some cases nice books were presented
to members of the class, and O. B.
Anderson, Jr, was the delighted re-
cipient of fine gold ring and $Io-
gold piece.
The address, delivered to the class
by Prof. H. Clay Harvey, a member
'of the faculty of Pritchett college at
Glasgow, was a masterpiece of elo-
quence in which was embodied many
practical and timely suggestions and
ro,,cb 1yboIeson,e advice which IF fol.