The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1901-06-14
GOT THEIR DIPLOMAS
Graduating Exercises Of Mitchell High
School We're Held at Corn Palace
Last Friday Evening.
The Building Was Crowded to the Doors
to Hear the Fifteen Graduates De-
liver Their OrationS.
A. 4. Belts, kOYing Here From AleXan-
dria, Met With Several Mislaps the
Day He Started.
FIFTEEN GOT DIPLOMAS.
They Have Completed the Four Years
Course of the Mitchell High
school Satisfactorily.


The announcement of the high school
commencement exercises to take place
Friday evening, served to bring out
magnificent audiance at the corn pail
acc where the exercises were held.
Ihere was not vacant seal in the
large auditorium aud many stood
throughout the long program
The stage was preJtily decorated
with flowers and palms, while across
the arch wss draped the class colors.
blue and orange, with the motto sus-
pended from the middle bearing these
words: 1--WE hope for better things"
The entire class was seated on the stage
and the members presented an attrac-
| tive group. 1t was little after 8
O'Clock when the exercises began ana
We're opened with the invocation by
Rev. I. 81. Youngman. A Welcome
chorus was sung, by. the young ladies
of the high schuol department. and it
was asplendid number. The following
is the program that was rendered:
| Invocation. n.......-............... REV. YoUNGMAN
1
Salutatory and Grafton. ETHEL A. JEwETT
Grafton "Intemperance' $1,000. DAVID E. JONES
Oration-'A ancient and Modern Oratory,'
CLARA MAE RIERsoN
Oration-'Wm. Mckinley. ........ ORA B. WELLS
Music-Violin solo, with accompaniment. 49,
| .-.................... REX AND Ross RATHBUN
Oration-"The Battlefor Success ...........
| ............ LULA MAE PERRY
Oration-''The Comparative Stability Of Re
1 nj NJ ~.
i .-....................... FRED G. ADAMS
4 Oration-"Class Poem''
| CARRIE Cook
Oration."Chara,te Superior to Appear
ance" e.; HATTIE GOODWIN
oration-ss National Per ,etulty'; MINNIE LEWIS
oratlon-"ollVer romWellp -
oration.;The Value Of Preparatonn at u
Power ....n =. o'ssMAIA
Musc."iairy Land Waltz =. o'A..A =. IL
oratlon-"J julius Cesar . JOSEPH ". CoUGAL1N
Grafton Emancipation OF woman o.n1a |, pr:or,,
oration-'.Is Our. Civilization Permanent?"
Valedlcto1F.. JULIA LAFoRTUNE
| The salutatory was given by Miss
| Ethel Je@etf, who welcomed the people
to the exercises in a very hearty man
ner. The valedictory was given by
Miss Julia LaF'ortune, and in this she
made a splendid impression, and in bid
ding classmates, schoolmates and teach
ers goodbs e she very feelingly referred
to the strong bond of love and friend
ship which existed between the class
and Superintendent Quigley, in which
the speaker paid the superintendent a
high con- piiment for the interest he
had shown in the graduates, and it caa
we'll be said that the compliment was
| fully merited. Miss LaFortune also
| thanked the board of education for
its part in seeirg them through the
| years that they have been in the
schools. In place of her GRAFTON Miss
Carrie Cooke gave the class poem that
was recited by her on claes day exer.
cises and il showed quite an aptitude
on the part of the young lady in the
poetical vein. instead of he oration
Joseph Coughlin gave his.argument in
the debate held recently at the high
school in the discussion of the Phil
ippine question.
During the program Misses McCor-
mick and Williams played piano duet
and the Misses Wilkomm, Mccormick
and Beckwith sang trio that WAS a
perfect gem. Their voices harmonized
SO nicely and they sang with such good
effect that the number was particularly
|enjoyable. The girls chorus also sang
another selection that was quite accept
able.
|
The orations by the members of the
class were productions that rejected the
ability of the class and there was not q
one .out what was better than the
average. The students showed that
they had spent much time in the prep
aration of their orations, which we're a
credit to the earnestness of The class in
trying to avoid the commonplace in
their work. The numbers were we'll
delivered in nearly every instance, and
except for the noise of the going and
coming OF the people in the rear of the
room the words could be heard quite
distinctly. The class has worked hard
during the last year and the mem bers