The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-22
FAIR HAVEN NOTES.


 the graduation exercises of the class of 07 Strong school and Granniss hall, was crowded to its greatest capacity yesterday afternoon. Decorations were most appropriate and dressed the hall in a holiday-like attire that was most pleasing to the eye Radiating in fes- tocns from the ceiling were bands of green and white, the class colors. Con- spicuous over the stage was the class motto, Work and Win" and the gift of statuary of the class to the school, two bas renefs. was in evidence. Palms, ferns, daisies and other blooms were prettily arranged in making up the effective decorations
 The exercises were in accordance with the program, which has been given in this paper. The address of welcome 1 was we'll given by the class president | Charles R. Foster Principal sherman I. Graves conferred the Granniss medal which was established by the late Colonel George w. Grannis, for whom the school hall was named. The pre- sertaion of the class gift was by Mar ion l.. Phillips and Mir. Graves gave the address of acceptance. The address and conferring of diplomas was by Principal Graves
 Mr. Graves in his address said that the secret of the success of the class was work, which was embodied in the class motto The graduates, whether
 trey took higher course of instruc-
 +t.x ,, ,,,4 ,,rore ,,ov,y r,oi,,o. oi,t into thf
 world as citizens He desired that they
 should remember the principles whicl
 had been inculcated at Strong schoo
 and that their watchword would stil
 be, work.
 Mn Graves called attention to the
 savings bank plan which has been in
 stalled among the pupils of Strong dis
 trict eigheen months ago. He said ht
 believed it had its origin in room IA
 JJr to one year ago there were A bank
 CTS and about $10O had been deposited
 At present there are 3S2 depositors an( there is a total of s1,S04.04 on deposi
 En one of the city savings banks. Thi was now earning S52 year. He sai' that but for this system of say iAgs he had no doubt that s10O
 ot this amount would have gone int
 tile slot machines, which were aroun ini the neighborhood of the schoo , Some time ago he became aware that , large number of pupils were patroniz ; ind the slot machines and that in on
 day from one room $1.90 was wasted i these machines. He then gave the pu
 pils some instructions on this vast 3 and now not so very much money wa wasted by the pupils in this manner
 He also became aware that a consid l erable amount was being expended flo I candy and that one street peddler too in $1,50 per day from the pupils. Fl , said this was Q great waste and nov
 much of this money was being save and deposited in bank. This idea wa also worth vast amount to the pupil l in establishing habits of saving an thrift.
 { He said that 1t was absolutely ridicu } lous for pupils to patronize the slo t machines, and it also created an appe , tite for gambling. There is a laN r against these machines and they shoul 7 not be tolerated in this community fol ) he said, they were curse, Room . had led in the banking with 40 ban 3 books and over $10O deposited. He sai
 he had no doubt that the system woul 3 grow so that there would be total C : $4, ,O0O deposited in one year. ' MT. Graves then awarded the homo z diplomas and those to the remainder ( 3 the class with few words of good ad vice.
 There were also songs by the clas 3 the members of which were seated o e the platform and the exercises through 3 out were most successful and credit able.