Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-06-07

CLASS OF 1901.
Four Persons Receive Their Diplomas
on Friday: Evening. Last.
The seventh .annual commence
ment Of the Devils Lake high
school, occurred at Wineman's
opera shouse on Friday, evening,
May 3lst. The hall was neatly
decorated in the class colors Of
purple and yellow while the stage
was decidedly pretty in its burden
of palms, ferns and beautiful house
plants. Cut flowers were also
plentifully used to give the stage
its finishing touches. Above the
center of the stage. in letters of
yellow on a back ground of purple
boldly hung the class motto
"Gradatim.' 1t was amid these
pleasant surroundings that the
class of 1901 of the local high
school bid farewell to school days
in Devils Lake. The program was
an unusually interesting and en-
joyable one and the applause of
the house in which standing room
was at a premium, verified the
pleasure with which each number
was received. Four persons we're
graduated: Miss Annie L. Fur
long, in the English course; and
Misses Ruth M. Roberts and Ethel
Thompson, and William A. Ruth
erford in the1 Classical course.
Rev. z. James, of the M. E. church,
of this city opened the program
with the invocation, asking the
blessing of the Father for the
school, the city's people and the
audience, and more particularly
for the class of 1901, which was
about to go into the world. Miss
Ethel Thompson's essay "Value of
Women's Clubs was an original
discourse of a decidedly interesting
nature. Miss Thompson stated
that the general opinion of
women's clubs was that obtained
from cartoons in the daily papers,
which did great injustice to the
women. She told Of the great
amount of good these clubs do to
women and the world in general
Here the line Of religion and
wealth, as we'll, is ban1shed; the
club members may improve their
education at the meetings and
those who have received no college
training, are. assisted very ma
terially. Women's clubs build
libraries, establish funds which do
great good, the speaker said.
Miss Annie L. Furlong's oration
"Our State was an address full
of merit. It showed that the
speaker spared neither time nor
study in the preparation of the
Grafton and the vast assembly who
listened to the interesting grafton,
learned much from the efforts of
Miss Furlong, who entered deeply
into the history of the state. She
said that only SO years ago, did
the United States government
come into possession of the terri
tory now forming North Dakota;
this state was part of the Louisi-
ana purchase. Until 1861 the
name of the territory was SO often
changed that it was wonder
Uncle Sam kept track of it. The
orator told in pleasing tones, Of
the fight in 1889 between the
northern and southern part of
what was then Dakota Territory:
how each wanted the name Of Da-
kota and how this discussion was
finally ended by the states adopt
ing the names they now possess.
Constitutional prohibition, Miss
Furlong stated, caused hard
fight, but it was an honor to the
state to know that this article was
part of the states constitution.
Who knows but that in this CEN
tury, some president of the United
States will claim as his home the
glorious state of North Dakota.
The essay of Miss Ruth Roberts
on ''True Nobility was a learned
discussion and showed deep
thought and study. In a voice
clear and distinct, Miss Roberts
explained what true nobility really
is, that it is the high ideal we
should all strive to gain. She
cited Gladstone. Sydney and
others as possessing this blessing.
The unyeiling of the Grant monu-
ment was a great event, but this
monument of stone. was not to be
compared with the monument this
great hero and statesman has
built in the hearts of his country
men. Turkey had most over
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