Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30

at corner of Oxford and Franklin streets.
yesterday forenoon. Grade /, Miss Edith
Stone, teacher, and Grades ii and ILL.,
Miss Marguerite Buckley. teacher, met to-
getEcr in the first grade room for exer-
ciscs from 1000 to 1890 o'clock. There was
Il good attendance of parents and citizens.
The room was prcttily decorated with
flags aud flowers. The program of their
exercises was:
Decoration Day." School
''Our Fallen Heroes" Ernest Pcmerleau
"Arbor Day Song, Grade ].
Our Flag. Grade Ill.
Flag Raising-Song, Grade |.
Soldiers in Blue, Grade II.
Little Tin Soldier" Grade l.
"A Tribute to the Soldiers
Starry Flag''-Song, Nine Girls
PLANTING Seeds, Grade I.
Flag Song" Grades H. &, III
Flower Offering, Grade l.
"Dear Native Land" Grades III andIIi
Robins Secret Vera Day
Flower Exercise. Grade Iii.
SinEiDg-"America," AL
Miss Sadie Concannons pupils of grades
". V. and VI. held their exercises from
1O45 to Ills o'clock. The room was appro-
priately trimmed with flags, bunting and
n profusion of flowers. The program be
gan with a pledge of loyalty to the flag,
and closed with singing the national
hymn, the numbers being as follows:
Flag Salute. School
Origin of Memorial Day."
Decoration Hymn" School
Our Duty" Syle Strickland
Scatter the Flowers Miid ed Carey
American Flag Dialogue. We're Chase.
Edith Strickland. Evangclin f. Paqu n
Remembrance, Gladys Cross
"Hail Columbia (Song), School
I'm One Grave. Arthur Tetrcaut
I'VE Deck Your Graves. Lila Fish
Annie Burrow. Grace Grady
"DecOration Day" Dora Pcllctior
Bring Flowers, Gertrude Burrow
Blue and Gray Evangelne Paqui
Flag of Our Country School
Sipging-"America," All
At the close of the exercises. school
closed for the forenoon. the children
marching out of the schoolhouse by two
to the drum beat by Master Peter Lam
bert.
The William r. Smith school exercis-
es were held in the assembly room from
200 to 300 o'clock in the afternoon.
There was a large attendance of citi-
Zens. The room had been beautifully
decorated for the occasion, with flags,
bunting and flowers, the central feat
ure of the decoration being a large
stuffed eagle perched above the rostrum
and holding the national flag in his
beak Children of all grades from l to
y took part in the exercises, which
were of a nigh order of merit. The
program was:
Song-"Old Glory. We Love Thee"
Grades VII VIII, TX, X
Ruby Bush, Grade
Declamation-"Me Day
Frank Babbitt, Grade
Song-"The Chiidren's Offering" Grade
Recitation-"For Me and You"
katherine Daily, Grade III
Song-'Decoration Day Grade /
Dcclamation-"The Meaning of Our Flag
Lawrence Morton, Grade VT
Song of Memorial. Grade Ill
Recita tion-"A Heroine of Tennessee,
Bernice Bates; Grade \
Song-"Little Workers" Grades |, ii, III
Flag Exercise and Speaking.
Cecil Beane, l.. Fletcher e. Froebergec
song-"The Blue and the Gray Grade II
Which General?"
Walter .Stamm, Grade IL
Grades VII, VIII, IN, Y
Recitaton-"The Nations Dead"
Susan Downing, Grade VIII
Song-'Thc Brave and the True
Grade VII
Recitation-"rhe Meaning of Memorial
Song Soldiers Rest Grade VII
Dialogue-"We Bring the Sweetest Flow
erS," Grade ~
Song-"Again Your Bugles Blow
Recitaton-"M Memorial Day"
Song-"A Memorial Grade X
Rccitation-"Cover Them Over with Beau
tiful Flowers" and presentation of flow
Acceptance of Flowers,
Lewis Selling, Adjutant of Williams Post,