The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-06-27
Senior Class of the High School Holds
It's Class Day Exercises at the
Rhode Opera House.
A NIGHT FOR MANY MEMENTOEs.
Great crowd Gathers at the opera House
and Applauds-Class Poem spoken
by Miss Mabel Windsor

The class of 1901 of the Kenosha
High school held Class Day exercises
at the Rhode opera house THURSDAY
evening, and the entertainment pro-
vided was one of the best ever given
by any graduating class IN kenosha'
The friends of the members OF the
class were out in force and the efforts
of the young ladies and gentlemen
were greeted with great applause.
The hall was prettily decorated for
the occasion with an abundance OF
palms and flags and over the front or
the stage, done ia roses and ever
green's, was the class motto, "Boulou
Kratein' Strive to VIM.
The program opened with pretty
instrumental duet by Misses Bessie q.
Whitcher and Mary E. Bacon which
was very pleasing to the audience.
Following the duet James Charles, Jr',
president of the class, delivered the
address of welcome. Ia welcoming
the company President Charles stated
that commencementm meant much to the
graduates. It was the parting OF the
ways-the last meeting of the mem
bers as boys and girls.
He declared that the class was proud.
of their record. The beginning had
been a propitious one and he urged the
mem bers of the class to strive to win
by honest methods. He urged the class
not only to recognize what the world
owed them, but as we'll what the mem
bers Of the class owed the world.
The presidents address was well
prepared and we'll delivered and merited
the applause it received.
Mementoes of the Past.
Following President Charles Miss
Tessie Jackson, in very charming
manner, presented mementoes to the
members Of the class with a dainty
and natty reference for each member.
For President Charles there was
guiding starr For Miss Bacon there
was a piano. Miss Windsor received
a ''Method for Talking" With other
pleasant take offs Robert Allen re-
ceived a horn and Miss Whltcher
"bi1l." With parody on the Raven"
Lottie Hannahs was presented with
box of "Char1es' XXI Soap" For
Miss DerbYshire there was the lucky
emblem, the horseshoe. For Russell
Bu1lamore there was new code OF
commandments for the college boy,
and with this Miss Jackson closed her
part of the entertainment
Russell Bu1lamore presented some
more mementoes. There was great
record for Ada Malm and Fred Smith
received the top round of the ladder.
Celia Pirsch was given a beautiful
song. "Put Me Off at Buffalo" Tessie
Jackson received a pair of stills to
help her to rise in the world, Rose
Ryan received rose and Ben Robin
son had to be satisfied with chi1d's
hoe.
Still more mementoes were presented
by Fred Smith. There was bottle
for Edna Ho1derness, the "baby" of
the class, a recipe for making goo-goo
eyes for Elsie de Deimar, whip for
Minnie Werve, a butterfly net for
Ellen Epson and the last memento was
for Mamie Denton, who got "some-
thing to draw full house."
Il GLOWING lL4S presentation "a IAN
nementoes Miss Minnie Eme1ie Werve
told in a charming manner Francis
Hopkinson Smiths story of "The
Water Logged Town" The piece was
detained in a splendid manner and
was greeted with continued applause.
The class Prophecy.
No class day would be complete
without prophecy, and 1901 looked
forward into the future through the
eyes of two of it's fairest members,
Misses Celia Pirsch and Elsie de
Deimar. The stage was set to repre-
sent the camp of gypsy fortune teller
and in the foreground was fire and
great iron kettle from which the two
gypsies fair took out a fortune for each
boy and girl, reading them to show the
splendid fortune that had been mapped
out for the class.
The Glass Poem.
Miss Mabel Windsor recited the class
poem, creating great deal of merri-
nent among the students and their
friends. The poem follows:
It's shame, that's fact, it's pitifll case.
Won't any Kind classmate get up in my place:
You are all of you guilty for bringing me here,
IT would be only fair to make you feel as queer.
To think of me, poet" the thought is absurd
And the funniest thing ever have heard
For poets and authors should be thoughtful
and wise,
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