The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-17
GIVEN DIPLOMAS
At ST, JOSEPH S.
Commencement Exercises OF the
Academy Attract large
Audience.
IoTHER NEWS OF PETERSBURG
Former Policeman Charged With
Larceny, and Father With
Cruelty.
OTHER NEWS OF PETERSBURG
Timcs.Dispatch Bureau.
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Petersburg, Va June 16.s
The Academy Of Music presented 81
beautiful scene at the annual COM
mencement OF st. Joseph's Academy at
5 o'clock this afternoon. A big au.
dience greeted the students and gradu-
ating class members on the stage,
which was bright with many colors,
and soon became bower OF flowers
as the many punches of roses AMI other
blooms We're presented to young ladies
who took part in the exercises. The
OConnor. Miss NJ. Nellie Killnartin.
Miss Marguerite Genevieve Collins.
Miss Louise Imclda Clements, Miss
Julia Farrell Reagan and Mr.. Walter
r. Dalton. Miss O'Connor was vale
dictorian OF the class. The following
program won enthusiastic applause:
Quartet. "Valse Lorraine" Miss
Jeanne Dalton, Miss Frances
Schneider. Miss Marguerite Kilmartin
Miss Donna Mobiles.
Mandolins-N1iss Annie Dolan, James
T. Powers.
Song and drill. Little Drum Majors
| a. vernon). boys.
Quartet Uavignac,, Miss Julia
Francis, Miss Jeanne Dalton. Miss
Madeline Burke. Miss Mary Roduff.
Recitation, Give Us Men, James
T. Powers.
Vocal. Judith (concone), Miss
Louise Clements.
Trio. "Mazurette," Caprice Brilliant
Miss Helen Schneider. Miss Annie
O'Connor. Miss Louise Clements.
Trio. Come Where the Lilies
Bloom" (Thompson). chorus-seniors.
Quartet. "Galop de Concert" Miss
Nellie Kilmartn, Miss Margaret
Moran. Miss Agnes Moran. Miss Alice
| Dolan.
Cantata-Fairiess of the Seasons
Queen of Fairies, Miss Nellie Powers
Summer Fairies chorus. seniors; Spring
Fairies. intermediate class; trio (Mo-
zart). Miss Nellie Powers. Miss Mar
guerite, Collins, Miss Julia Reagan.
Recitation. Soul of the Violin"
i (pano accompanimenD, Miss Louise
Clements.
"Jewel Song from Faust" (Gounod)
Miss Nellie Powers.
] Novelette,, Dance of the Teddy
Bears,"Aooys.
Recitation, "Laska," Miss Marguerite
Collins.
Honors-valedictory, Launching
Miss Annie O'Connor.
Vocal, whispering Hope" tHaw.
thorne), graduates.
Duo, Sonata. Op (Beethoven). Miss
Essay, Education. Apart from
Study" Walter Z. Dalton.
Vocal solo, "'Till We Meet Again
Galley, graduates.
Former Policemen Sent On.
| Two cases of unusual interest were
heard in the Mayors Court to-day. M
| ]. Beck, a former well-known po-
liceman of this city, who has been
in the employ of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad as detective, was sent
on to the grand jury charged with
stealing SGT from the person Of Cliff
ton a. Hudgins in the waitng-roon
at the Union Station about oclocF
this morning Beck and Hudgins hac
been together for several hours, and
the accused man claims that he tool
the money from his companions peck
ct for safe-keeping The alleged thief
was seen by Policeman Evans ant
Ticket Agent Yates.
| ChAged with attempting to give
i away his twelve-year-old son ant
i cruel treatment OF the little boy, EN-
nett Anderson, formerly Of Allegheny
Va, was sent to jail for thirty days
/ Though literally in rags and latter
and apparently ialf-starved the chi
Loyalty refused to answer any ques
lions as to his fathers ill-trea tmen
i He was taken in charge by Chief o
i Police Ragland, and a home Will b
found for him. Mayor Jones yester
day refused an application by Ander
5lEson to send the child to reforma
tory.
Elks aud Rcd Men.
i Ton delegates from Petersbur,