The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-06-28
THE COUNTY GRADUATES.
Seventy Diplomas Presented at Nc
Curdy Park Saturday.

Seventy Diplomas Presented at Nc.
Curdy Park Saturday.
The first annual county school rally
and eighth grade graduation for Shia,
wassee county was held according to
the published program in Hugh Nc.
Curdy Park in the county seat Saturday
and was greater success than any of
the teachers or school patrons had even
dared hope for.
The day appeared little threatening
in the early morning but evidently not
enough so to keep many people away
from the scene of the rally. Before
many OF the MOI ming hours had passed
the streets of both Corunna and Owosso
showed that there were people who had
been astir for hours getting their morn
ings work out of the way in time for the
all days picnic which they were to have
in the park. Covered carriages, sur.
reys, and big farm wagons with large
loads came in, large number of the
former coming to this city where they
put out their teams and later took the
street cars for Corunna and the Park.
1he forenoon program consisted of
the athletic sports which were carried
out under the direction of committee
consisting of Prin. Il. p. Shorts of the
Laingsburg schools; Hugh Conklin, of
this city; and Prin. j. F. Selick, of the
Durand schools. All of the members
of the committee worked hard for the
success of the games and the contests
were well carried out. Prin. Shorts
was in measure the best repaid for he
had the satisfaction of seeing his school
make more points in the contest than
any of the others, the Laingsburg school
winning 81 points to Corunna's IL, and
Durand's s.
In the afternoon the program was
carried out in the pavilion in the park
but the wind which was blowing added
much to the difficulty of hearing and
Commissioner Bristol wisely eliminated
everything Of speaking nature from
the program except the address by Hon.
H r. Pattengill, of Lansing. The heat
in the pavilion was something intense
in spite of the breeze which disturbed
the ease of hearing and beyond the
rows of those who were seated it was
impossible for the mass of people who
were standing to hear much of what
was being said. The Owosso Light In.
fantry Band proved to be just the right
thing for the musical part of the pro.
gram in such place where any vocal
music would not have been appreciated
by mere than the very few imm ediately
in the front rows of the audience. The
music the band furnished was good
and it was heartily enjoyed Another
feature of the program was enjoyed be-
cause there was no need of listening to
it and that was the Indian club drill by
a class of boys and girls who had been
drilled by Prin. j. F. Selick, of Du.
rand The class took places on the
stage while Mr. Sellick stood in front
OF them on the floor below, Mrs. Sellick
accompanied the class on the piano.
The drill took several minutes and the
motions were graceful and pretty and
conducted with scarcely break of any
kind on the part of the pupils. 1t was
one of the prettiest parts of the pro
gram.
After the address of Mr.. Pattengill,
the members of the graduating class,
which numbered seventy, and of whom
.sixty.four were actually on the stage,
stood and received their diplomas with
out undue formalities of any kind from
the hands of Commissioner Bristol
The different townships of the county
were represented as follows in the num-
Der of graduates who were given di-
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